Dr. Marcus D. Lance, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Qatar University,
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology-Weill-Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Senior Consultant Anesthesia & SICU-Hamad General Hospital
Head of Research
Vice Chair Department of Anesthesiology, ICU & Perioperative Medicine
Hamad Medical Corporation
After studying medicine at the Berlin Free University Medical School and the Charité (1991to1997), Germany, Dr. Marcus Lancé specialized in Anesthesiology at the Kliniken Maria-Hilf, Mönchengladbach, and the RWTH-Aachen University Hospital (1997 to 2001). Directly hereafter, he continued with an ICU fellowship.
In 2004, Dr. Lancé moved to Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and gained a high degree of experience in cardiac anesthesiology. In 2006, he went to Maastricht University Medical Center where he became head of the sub-department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia.
Since 2010, Dr. Lancé has developed his research in the field of coagulation and hemostasis. The use of laboratory assays for optimization of patient treatment algorithms was covered in his PhD thesis which he defended in 2013.
In addition to several diagnostic tests, his group developed a mock circulation model which investigated coagulation patterns during extracorporeal circulation.
In January 2017, Dr. Lancé became head of research and vice chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar and Associate Professor at Well-Cornell-Medicine, Qatar. Since January 2020, he is a full Clinical Professor for Anesthesiology at Qatar University.
Dr. Lancé has co-authored more than 70 scientific papers including the European guideline on perioperative bleeding, the European guideline on perioperative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis and the Dutch guidelines on management of anticoagulation during regional anesthesia.
