Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, is a Department Chair, Anesthesiology and Professor of Anesthesiology at UCLA, California.

He is also the Director, Centre for Perioperative Medicine (CPMed), American Society of Anesthesiology.

His research activity focuses on non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring, perioperative hemodynamic optimization, and new technologies applied to anesthesia and to the intensive care unit.