Joerg Ender has been the Director of Department for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Heart Center, Leipzig since 2005. He is the Secretary of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI). Since 2014, Joerg has been a member of the Directory Board of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiologists (EACTA) and in April this year, he was appointed Secretary General. His areas of interest are fast track treatment, echocardiography and transcatheter valve implantation.