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Professor Geert Meyfroidt graduated as an MD in 1996, has a board certification in anesthesiology (2001) and intensive care medicine (2004), is clinically active as Senior Consultant at the Department of Intensive Care Medicine of the University Hospitals Leuven, and has an academic appointment as Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. In 2010, he finished his PhD, entitled, “Computerized data management in the intensive care unit: predictive modelling, time series analysis, and opportunities for support of care”. He is funded by the Flemish Government (Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)), as Senior Clinical Researcher (2012-2017: 1843113N and 2017-2022: 1843118N) and has project funding from the KU Leuven (KU Leuven C2 project (C24/17/072): A Neuromonitor for the 21st century). Current research projects include: data mining and predictive modeling in neuro-intensive care and acute kidney injury; cerebrovascular autoregulation; brain injury and ketamine. He is promotor and co-promotor of 5 PhD students, has authored and co-authored more than 85 medical journal articles, and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences. As of 2019, he serves as Associate Editor in the editorial board of Intensive Care Medicine. Professor Meyfroidt was country representative for Belgium at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)(2012-2015) and was recently elected as the next Neuro-Intensive Care section chair of ESICM. In 2019, he became president of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ). He received the Established Investigator Award from ESICM (20K €) in 2016. 

In this podcast, he discusses various challenges and shares his thoughts on the future of neurointensive care.

Dr. Michael Pinsky is a Professor of Critical Care Medicine (primary), Bioengineering, Cardiovascular Diseases, Clinical & Translational Science, and Anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh.  He is also Docteur Honoris Casusa at the Universite Rene Descartes Paris V, School of Medicine in Paris, France.  Dr. Pinsky is currently an Emeritus (Honorary) Attending at Presbyterian and Magee Hospitals UPMC as well as a faculty member of the Center for Critical Care Nephrology at Pitt.

Dr. Pinsky received his MD from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  Dr. Pinsky completed his post-graduate internal medicine residency training and pulmonary fellowship training at Stanford University, Stanford, California; Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, Florida; and advanced physiological training at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland.

Currently, Dr. Pinsky serves as the Principal Investigator of two R01 “Using biological time series analysis to identify cardiorespiratory insufficiency” in ICU patients (MLADI) and during emergency air transport (ADMIT), and Co-Principal Investigator of another R01 on “Predicting patient instability noninvasively for nursing care (PPINNC)” and scientific PI on a DoD contract “Trauma Care in A Rucksack” (TRACIR). He is also a Co-I on a related R01 on assessing instability in patients during surgery (MLORD). He has been the Director of the Cardiopulmonary Research Laboratory for the past 38 years. Dr. Pinsky was the program director for an NIH National Research Service Award entitled "Experimental Therapeutics in Critical Illness" until last month, a program he directed for the last 20 years. He was part of the inaugural group to receive Masters of Critical Care Medicine (MCCM) from the SCCM, part of the first North Americans to receive “Honorary membership” in ESICM, and is a Fellow of the American Physiological Society and the American College of Chest Physicians.

Dr. Pinsky has edited 27 Medical Textbooks, authored >380 peer-reviewed publications, >250 chapter and supported >400 abstract presentations.  Dr. Pinsky is the Editor-in-Chief of MedScape’s Critical Care Medicine section.  Dr. Pinsky is on the editorial boards of the Critical Care, Journal of Critical Care, Current Opinion in Critical Care, the International Journal of Critical Care, the Annals of Critical Care, and Intensive Care Medicine.  He is an ad hoc reviewer for NHLBI K and R awards annually. He also provides journal referring for numerous publications.

View a list of Dr. Pinsky’s publications here [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22pinsky%2C%20michael%20r%22].

In this podcast, he talks about current challenges, his approach of managing patients with shock using dynamic parameters and suggests to remind ourselves the reason why we joined the intensive care.

Professor David Krishna Menon is Professor and Head of the Division of Anaesthesia, and Professorial Fellow in Medicine at Queens’ College, Cambridge.  He is Principal Investigator at the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre and at the John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair in Cambridge, and Co-Chairs the Acute Brain Injury Program at the University of Cambridge. He is Chair of the European Brain Injury Consortium and serves on the Executive of the International Neuro Trauma Society. He currently acts as Vice-Coordinator of the CENTER-TBI project, a €30 million FP7 European multicentre study of precision medicine and comparative effectiveness research in traumatic brain injury, and as Joint Director of the Cambridge NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma. He has over a three hundred publications in peer-reviewed journals, with a ‘h’ index of over 60, has contributed to major textbooks, and is one of two lead authors on a Commissioned Issue of the Lancet Neurology on Traumatic Brain Injury which was released at the European Parliament on the 7th of November 2017, and which has been used as a basis for briefing UK MPs in the All Party Parliamentary Group on Acquired Brain Injury. 

In this podcast, he dives deeper into his research and talks about the need for change in the current approach of treating Traumatic Brain Injury patients.

Jean-Louis VINCENT, MD, PhD

Professor of intensive care medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.

Professor Vincent obtained his medical degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and completed specialty training in internal medicine and intensive care medicine, including two years at the University of Southern California, before obtaining his PhD degree in cardiovascular physiology. He is currently Professor of intensive care medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels - he was Head of the Department from 1996-2014.

He is a Past-President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Shock Society (ESS), the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ), and the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine and was made a Baron by the King of Belgium in 2013.

Professor Vincent has signed over 1000 peer-reviewed articles, 400 book chapters and 1000 abstracts. He has edited more than 100 books, including the "Textbook of Critical Care" (Elsevier Saunders, 5th Edition) and the “Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine” (Springer).

He is the editor-in-chief of Critical Care, Current Opinion in Critical Care, and ICU Management & Practice and member of the editorial boards of about 30 other journals, including Critical Care Medicine (senior editor), American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM), "PLoS Medicine", "Lancet Respiratory Medicine", "Intensive Care Medicine", "Shock" "Journal of Critical Care" and “The Annals of Intensive Care”.

Prof. Vincent has received several awards including the College Medalist Award of the American College of Chest Physicians, the Society Medal (lifetime award) of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the Distinguished Investigator Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the prestigious Belgian scientific award of the FRS-FNRS (Prix Scientifique Joseph Maisin-Sciences biomédicales cliniques), he was awarded the title of Baron by the King of Belgium.

His name appears more than 1200 times in Pubmed, and his work has been cited more than 170,000 times; his H-index is 169.

In this podcast, he challenges various dogmas in intensive care and shares his opinions on many topics, including sepsis and Brussels bombings.

Dr Conway- Morris is an academic intensivist with interest in immune dysfunction in critical illness and nosocomial infection.

He is Senior Research Associate, Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellow at Cambridge University and works as an honorary Intensive care consultant at Cambridge University Hospitals.

He is currently Deputy Chair of Infection Section at European Society of Intensive Care Medicine - ESICM.

His current projects include human trials of treatments for immune dysfunction, developing clinically relevant markers of immune dysfunction and rapid diagnostics in nosocomial infection.

In this podcast, he talks about the role of immune function in sepsis and shares his insights into CARS (compensatory anti-inflammatory response syndrome). Also, he urges to consider antibiotics as Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and warns against their overzealous use in intensive care.

Dr Angus is Distinguished Professor and Mitchell P. Fink Chair of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is also physician director of the UPMC ICU Service Center, responsible for critical care services across the 40-plus hospital system. Dr Angus’ research interests include translational, clinical and health services research in the fields of sepsis, pneumonia, and multisystem organ failure, as well as optimal critical care delivery. He has a particular interest in novel trial designs for precision medicine and the learning health system. Dr Angus led several large NIH-funded multicenter studies, published several hundred papers, and received numerous awards for his work. He is also the critical care editor for JAMA.

In this podcast, he talks about current challenges in Intensive care along with his research interests and advises younger intensivists to be Intensive but Not Invasive.

Professor Tim Walsh is a professor of critical care and leads for the Edinburgh Critical Care Research Group. His main interests are pragmatic clinical trials, epidemiology, and quality improvement research. He currently leads three major research programmes in the areas of blood and blood product transfusion, recovery following critical illness, and sedation management in the ICU.

Professor Walsh has key strategic roles with the National Institute of Healthcare Research (Chair of UK Critical Care Specialty Group), Chief Scientists Office (Critical Care Specialty Group lead and member of the Research Strategy Oversight Group), and through national professional societies (Chairman, Scottish Critical Care Trials Group; Member of UK Intensive Care Society Research Committee). He is a strong believer in collaborative national and international research and the importance of research networks.

His vision is to lead a world-class multidisciplinary group undertaking bench to bedside research, always keeping patient-centred outcomes as the central focus of the group’s activities.