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.

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.

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.

Steve Hollenberg is a professor of medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/UMDNJ and director of the coronary care unit at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ. He was educated at Amherst College and Emory University School of Medicine, and then training in internal medicine at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College, in critical care medicine at the National Institutes of Health, and in cardiovascular diseases at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Research interests relate to microvascular and myocardial function, with emphasis on the pathophysiology of septic shock. Clinical interests include septic and cardiogenic shock. Clinical investigations include assessment of endothelial dysfunction and vascular compliance and use of sidestream darkfield (SDF) imaging to evaluate sublingual microvascular flow in shock states.

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.

Michael Kuiper made a career switch in 1998, and left the field of neurodegenerative diseases to become the first Dutch neurologist to complete a certified fellowship in Intensive Care medicine. For years he was medical director of the ICU in Leeuwarden; now he is directing ICU research. He founded and chairs the Netherlands Workgroup for Neuro-Intensive Care. He is a member of the scientific council of the Dutch Resuscitation Council. Besides neurology, his interests are in ventilation, sepsis, organization, safety, end-of-life, ethics, resuscitation, hypothermia, critical illness polyneuromyopathy, delirium, family, music, sports, internet, and books. He co-founded a non-profit foundation called "HERMES Critical Care Group", which goal is to promote multicentre Critical Care research in the Netherlands.

Dr. Angus is Professor and Chair of the Department of Critical Care Medicine and Director of the CRISMA (Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness) Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  He trained at both the University of Glasgow and University of Pittsburgh, including spending a year in Hong Kong with Medicins Sans Frontieres.
Dr. Angus' main research interests have focused on clinical, epidemiologic, and translational issues relating to sepsis, pneumonia, acute lung injury and multisystem organ failure and on health services delivery issues relating to critical care. Dr. Angus completed a sabbatical at the Cochin Hospital / University of Paris V in the Department of Critical Care Medicine in June 2007.. He had the pleasure of working with Jean-Francois Dhainaut, who is also President of the University, and also with Jean­Daniel Chiche and Jean-Paul Mira, all of whom are interested in conducting translational and clinical research related to sepsis and critical care. 
Recently, Dr. Angus received $ 8.4 M from the National Institutes of Health  to fund the ProCESS (Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock) study focusing on how to best treat sepsis. In addition, he has led three large NIH multicenter studies in the critically ill - GenIMS (Genetic and Inflammatory Markers of Sepsis), EA-PAC (Economic Analysis of the Pulmonary Artery Catheter), and PrONOx (Prolonged Outcomes after Nitric Oxide for Premature Ventilated Babies. 
Dr. Angus has published extensively and is Contract Editor for JAMA with a focus on pulmonary and critical care medicine.

Thomas P. Bleck MD FCCM is professor of neurology, neurosurgery, medicine, and anesthesiology at Rush University Medical Center, where he is the associate chief medical offi-cer for critical care research and quality. He serves on the boards of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Neurocritical Care Society, and is neuroscience editor of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Bleck was the founding president of the Neurocritical Care Society. His research interests include head injury, status epilepticus, infections, stroke, and neuromuscular respiratory failure. He has published over 100 papers and 130 books and book chapters, and served more than international 200 visiting appointments and lectureships.