Live from the NWAC 2012 Convention in Istanbul, Turkey. Roman Zuercher, an alumnus of the University of Basel, is a senior physician of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. As the former medical head of the orthopedic, obstetric and gynecological operating theaters, he has established ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia in the recent years as a standard practice. At the moment he is the co-director of the resident program in regional anesthesia at the University Hospital in Basel. He is particularly interested in the advancement of continuous nerve block techniques for postoperative pain control and concepts to reduce chronic pain following surgical interventions as well as new concepts for anesthesia in cancer surgery. Roman is a dedicated clinical anesthesiologist with a keen interest in promoting and teaching regional anesthesia. His extracurricular interests include family outings with his wife Corinne and his two children in the mountains of his Swiss homeland and in the deserts of the Australian Outback.