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Claudio Ronco
Djillali Annane
Mervyn Singer
Jean-Jacques Rouby
Dimitrios Matamis
Jean-Louis Vincent
David Michael Linton


Claudio Ronco

 

Claudio Ronco

Claudio Ronco is Professor of Clinical Nephrology and Medicine and Director, Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Programs, St. Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy. His special interests include renal replacement therapy and dialysis therapy in chronic patients and in acute patients in intensive care, cardiac surgery, and transplant surgery. Dr. Ronco was instrumental in introducing continuous hemofiltration and high-flux dialysis in Europe. He has published 47 books on nephrology and dialysis, has written or co-authored more than 800 scientific articles, and has delivered more than 400 lectures at international meetings and universities. Dr. Ronco is Chairman of the Membership Committee for the International Society of Nephrology and President of the International Society of Hemodialysis. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Artificial Organ, Blood Purifications and of the book series Contributions to Nephrology. Dr. Ronco is also a member of the editorial boards of 12 scientific journals, including Kidney International and Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and is a Research Editor for Critical Care. After Dr. Ronco received his medical degree from the University of Padua, Italy, he completed a residency at the Division of Internal Medicine, St. Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza. He did postgraduate training as a Visiting Fellow and Visiting Physician at the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Nephrology Division of the George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.
 
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Djillali Annane

 

Djillali Annane

Djillali Annane is the vice president of the University of Versailles SQY and the head of the critical care department (46 beds) at Raymond Poincare University Hospital (AP-HP) in Garches. He is a professor in medicine, has completed MD in 1991, and a PhD in pharmacology in 1995, both at Paris 5 University. His main area of research is the neuroendocrine response to sepsis with a particular interest in the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis and vasopressin. He has published more than hundred scientific papers including original peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
 
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Mervyn Singer

 

Mervyn Singer

Mervyn Singer is an international jet setter, man of mystery, bon vivant, modern-day Heracles and role model for Austin Powers wannabees all rolled into one. His mundane cover identity is an intensivist at University College London, UK where no-one remotely suspects his alternate existence. He pits his sleuthing skills, superhuman energy and licence-to-kill in the battles against sepsis and multi-organ failure, shock, inadequate monitoring, dogma and bad practice. The shadowy paymasters who fund his various battles against the Evil Bacteria and the Enemies Within include the Wellcome Trust and UK Medical Research Council. He's published a number of short stories (primarily romantic medical detective genre with either happy or inconclusive endings) and some (almost) bestselling novels on critical care.

 
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Jean-Jacques Rouby, MD, PhD

Dr Jean-Jacques ROUBY, MD, PhD, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit of Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). Currently he is the director of the Experimental Intensive Care Unit and Vice-Dean of the University School of Medecine La Pitie-Salpetriere. He has published more than 100 clinical and experimental studies focusing on 5 different topics: Mechanical Ventilation and New Technologies, Ventilator-associated pneumonia, Lung morphology in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Inhaled Nitic Oxide and Antibiotic Neb ulization during Mechanical Ventilation. Dr Rouby belongs to the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Medicine, Anesthesiology and Critical Care and reviews for other Journals such as Intensive Care Medicine, JAMA, Chest and British Journal of Anaesthesia.

 
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Dimitrios Matamis, MD

Head of the Papageorgiou Hospital ICU, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Dr Matamis has a broad experience with bedside echocardiography in the ICU. He has presented his experience in several international medical meetings and he is known to be an excellent teacher and a skilled bedside clinician. His case studies are unique in demonstrating the exceptional role echocardiography can play in the ICU. Dr Matamis is actively using bedside echocardiography in his ICU and plays an active role in education and research.
 
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Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD, FCCM

Dr Jean-Louis Vincent is Professor of Intensive Care at the Free University of Brussels and is the Head of the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital.
He has authored or co-authored more than 600 peer-reviewed publications, more than 70 books, and more than 870 chapters, letters and abstracts.
He is editor-in-chief of Critical Care, Current Opinion in Critical Care and ICU Management, and member of more than 30 editorial boards, including Critical Care Medicine (senior-editor), PLoS Medicine,  Intensive Care Medicine, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Chest, Shock, PLOS Medicine and Journal of Critical Care.
He is a Past President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the European Shock Society and the International Sepsis Forum.
He has delivered hundreds of presentations nationally and internationally. Dr Vincent has received several awards (the Foundation Andre Loicq award in 1986, the Foundation De Kerckheer award in 2000, the Distinguished Investigator award of the Society of Critical Care Medicine in 2001, the College Medialist award of the American College of Chest Physicians in 2003, and he was the Recipient of the Americal College of Clinical Pharmacy "Therapeutic Frontiers Lecture" in 2007.

 
 
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David Michael Linton

David Michael Linton, is a South African born and trained Anaesthesiologist and Intensivist. He was previously the Director of the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit at the Groote Schuur University Hospital in Cape Town Cape. He is currently appointed as Associate Clinical Professor at the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem where he is Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit in the Department of Medicine. His main intensive care research interests have been in the fields of neurological disease, automated closed loop mechanical ventilation, negative pressure ventilation and ventilation support in cardiac and respiratory failure. He is particularly devoted to the practice of cost-effective noninvasive intensive care and particularly the use of early noninvasive neurological, cardiac and respiratory monitoring to achieve early diagnosis and accelerate recovery. Prof Linton holds a commercial pilot license with ratings on a range of light aircraft including business jets and in his spare time loves to fly fast aircraft on life saving air ambulance missions.
 
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