The International Society of Anaesthetic Pharmacology (ISAP), will present Thomas Schnider, MD the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award on October 10, 2025 at the ISAP Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, USA.  Dr. Schnider is the is the former Head of Anesthesiology at Kantonsspital, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Thomas Schnider received his MD degree from the University of Bern in Switzerland in 1984. Dr. Schnider worked as a Research Fellow at the Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California in clinical pharmacology.  His main research interests are in pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling and feedback control in anesthesia. He is the author or co-author of over 70 original publications, review articles, case reports and and book chapters.

Nominations for the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award can be submitted on the ISAP website.