Where healthcare professionals build tomorrow’s standard of care.

About Us

Scientific Advisory board

Lars Asmis, MD, Privatdozent der Universität Zürich, Hematology and Internal Medicine FMH, Hematology FAMH, Center for perioperative Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Zurich, Switzerland

Serdar Gunaydin

Serdar Gunaydin, MD, Professor in Cardiovascular Surgery Director of Cardiovascular Surgery at Numune Training Research Hospital, Ankara,Turkey.

Berrin Gunaydin

Berrin Gunaydin, MD Professor of Anesthesiology at the Department of Anesthesiology in Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Bronwyn Pearse

Bronwyn Pearse, Ph.D Clinical Nurse Consultant (Blood Management), The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.

Thorsten Haas

Thorsten Haas, MD Professor of Anesthesiology Department of Pediatric Anesthesia Zurich University Children’s Hospital

Alicia Vilaseca

Alicia Vilaseca, MD Head, Hematology Department, San Camilo Private Surgery Clinic, Buenos Aires, Argentina

giganode.org.org is an empowerment network developed by an independent, non-partisan, patient centric group of healthcare professionals, and conceived by the “Verein zur Förderung der Perioperativen Medizin” (VFPM), a not-for profit organization with its seat in Switzerland.

The VFPM and giganode.org team has been providing professional education of HCPs for more than 15 years.

giganode.org was founded with the following aims:

- to help healthcare professionals advance standard of care
- to generate and maintain a network across the world
- to make global knowledge locally applicable
- to share local experience across a global community
- to implement an interdisciplinary approach
- to nurture the healthcare leaders of tomorrow

giganode.org is a developing community of Healthcare Professionals. The diverse interactive conversations are being organised into groups, related to clinical areas of unmet need, which we are calling "Areas of Care". Each area will be provide a place for dynamic interchange between members, with an expert forum, live chat exchange, a dynamic news feed and a live broadcasting portal for webinar events and discussions. To ensure the quality and validity of the content, experts in the corresponding area of care are delegated (on a rotating basis) to the verification and moderation of the medical content contributed to the area.

what healthcare professionals recognise and hope for

feedback from our community

"The overall concept and development of this global network that will coordinate dissemination of important and salient healthcare information is obviously a wonderful and lofty goal that we all agree with, and should be commended. "

Jim LittlejohnAnaesthesiologist, USA

“Well done! Looking forward to seeing this develop and working together!”

Visiting Clinician, USA

"…[what giganode.org provides] is a big opportunity for me, to learn and change experience with Lars and other colleagues from all over the world. This is priceless. This experience developed a lot of “new abilities” for me: - [from] preparing a lecture and holding a live discussion in English … and carrying out a thorough review of the technical content and literature, as well as discussions to which I could bring my expertise. I gained a lot from this!"

Fernanda Paes, MDAnaesthesiologist, São Paulo, Brazil

The quality of the organization of the webinars should be emphasized, including the themes, the speakers, the formatting, the objectivity, the universality, since it is done in the different languages around the world, but also the plurality, since it aims to reach the different professionals and specialists from all over the world.

Tomaz CrochemoreAnaesthesiologist, Sao Paulo