VENTINOVA MEDICAL - Key Persons

Prof. Dr. med. Dietmar Enk is affiliated with the University of Münster (Germany), where he also completed his training in the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital Münster (UKM). He was board-certified in 1996 and became a consultant anesthesiologist in 1999. From 2006 to 2017 D. Enk worked in the Department of Anesthesiology at the Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC) in Maastricht (The Netherlands) with a clinical focus on pediatric anesthesia. Over the last 25 years his scientific work has had a strong focus on regional anesthesia and airway management. His ambition to optimize current techniques and to improve every-day procedures has led to the development and optimization of several novel products in close cooperation with different companies. D. Enk has more than a dozen granted patents together with a number of peer-reviewed scientific papers. His work has also been acknowledged with several scientific and academic awards. Currently, he works as an independent medical consultant for those companies which bring his ideas and inventions to clinical practice.

Job Titles:

• Fellow of the Institute of Physics

Tom Barnes is a physicist by training. He was awarded a Personal Chair in Physics by the University of Auckland in 2000 and subsequently became Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) there in 2001. In 2008 he became Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Greenwich. In 2015 he returned to physics and developed additional interests in physiology, ventilation, and anaesthesia - working with university and industry colleagues internationally as a researcher and consultant. Tom works in fluid dynamics, ventilation, lung mechanics and related physiology, sensing and measurement systems, and optics. Tom is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.