International Advisory Board
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DR. MAURIZIO CECCONI
Current Position(s):
Consultant and honorary Reader in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine
Affiliations:
Clinical Director of Adult Critical Care at St George's and the Clinical Lead for critical care at Epsom and St Helier's hospital.
Other highligts:
He is the author of more than 100 publications (articles, abstracts, book chapters) and has participated as a speaker at many national and international meetings.
His main fields of research are haemodynamic monitoring, haemodynamic optimisation, physiology of the critically ill patient. Since 2011 he has been the Research Lead for the Adult Critical Care Directorate and is the Current Clinical Director. He is the chair of Editorial and Publishing Committee for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and an associate editor for the journal 'Intensive Care Medicine'.
Dr. Solomon Tshimong Rataemane
Prof. Solomon Tshimong Rataemane, President of the African Psychiatric Association and Allied Professions (2014 - 2017).
He is head of Department of Psychiatry, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in South Africa; World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Board member and WPA Representative Zone 14 (2008 - 2014); Chair of the WPA Section on Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution (2011 - 2018).
He has special interest in addiction medicine and has served as deputy chairperson and chairperson of the Central Drug Authority of South Africa from 1995 to 2005. He is the Secretary General of the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation; the American Psychiatric Association (International Fellow); the South African Society of Psychiatrists (Chair International Relations Division); the International Council on Alcohol and Addictions.
He is a Chairperson of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Mental Health in South Africa.
Dr. Saud Anwar
Dr. Saud Anwar is a physician who specializes in Lung Diseases and Critical Care Medicine. Currently, he serves as Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine of Eastern CT Health Network. He is currently serving as Mayor of the Town of South Windsor, CT.
Dr. Anwar is involved in humanitarian and peace initiatives nationally and internationally. He is frequently invited to consult for our government and has organized medical missions for disaster relief. His efforts have been recognized at the state and federal levels and by several professional organizations.
Consultant- British Department of Communities and Local Government
Recognition by the American Red Cross for September 11th response
-Recipient of the Director FBI-Robert Mueller III Award for Community Leadership and Alliance Building.
-Anti Defamation League Torch of Liberty Award
-Human Relations Award- National Council of Community and Justice
-Community Service Award - United States Department of Justice
- US Attorney's Office
-Trailblazer Award- South Asian Bar Association of CT
Dr. Khalid Shukri
Dr. Khalid Shukri, Secretary-General International Pan-Arab Critical Care Medicine Society (IPACCMS), Chair Neurocritical Care society-MENA chapter (NCS-MENA) President Transcontinental Elite Alliance for Intensive Care Excellence (TEA 4 ICE), Saudi Arabia
Dr. Maher Al Bahrani
Dr. Maher Al Bahrani is an Associate Program Director at Oman Medical Specialty Board based in Muscat.
Senior Consultant -Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman
Dr. Michael O'Leary
Prof. Michael O'Leary is former President of the Australian & New Zealand Intensive Care Society and a Senior Specialist in Intensive Care in Sydney, working at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and St George Private Hospital.
He is Clinical Associate Professor at Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, and Co-State Medical Director of the New South Wales Organ and Tissue Donation Service. Michael trained in anaesthesia in the United Kingdom and holds a Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA). His intensive care training commenced in the UK in Cambridge and continued in Sydney where he achieved Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (FCICM).
Michael was a Research Fellow at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK where he completed his MD degree with studies into the metabolic response to sepsis and use of glutamine and growth hormone in the amelioration of catabolism.
In recent years his main interests have been in end-of-life care and organ donation in the ICU.
Dr. Quirino Piacevoli
Prof Quirino Piacevoli, President, World Society of Total Intra Venous Anaesthesia, AAROI EMAC Foreign Office Representative, Italian Resuscitative Anesthesiologists Association, Director, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive, San Filippo Neri Hospital, Rome, Italy Visiting Associate Professor, University Saint Cyrill and Methonio, Rome, Italy Member of many Scientific Boards and Committees of different countries, Member of the Board of the FEDERATION EUROPEEN des MEDICINE- BRUXELLES
Dr. Lilanthi Subasinghe
Dr. Lilanthi Subasinghe Consultant in Critical Care Medicine, National Hospital of Sri Lanka - Colombo MBBS (Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) MD Medicine (Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka MRCP (United Kingdom)
Dr. ROOPEN ARYA
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
He is Professor of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, King's College Hospital London Director, King's Thrombosis Centre & Lead for Thrombosis and Haemostasis at KCH Clinical Lead for the National VTE Prevention Programme at NHS England
Director of the National VTE Exemplar Centres Network Network Strategic Development Lead for the Southern Haemophilia Network Honorary Clinical Director for Thrombosis at NHS, London
Dr. Reena Shah
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
Prof. Reena Shah is Associate Professor, Consultant Physician and Specialist in Infectious Diseases, in the Department of Medicine at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. (AKUHN). She is also director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at AKUHN.
Prof. Shah completed her MMBS at the University of Southampton, UK and has been a member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) London since 2000. She obtained a Diploma in Infectious Diseases from University of London as well as a Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Following this she obtained a Masters in Infectious Diseases from the University of London.
Prof. Shah was awarded Fellowship for the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh FRCPE in 2014. Her Clinical research interest is primarily in the area of HIV/AIDS, TB, hepatitis B and hospital acquired infections. She was the chair of the antibiotic sub-committee of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and has spearheaded the Antibiotic Stewardship program in AKUHN. She is also Vice-chair of the Kenya HIV Clinicians Association and member of the British HIV Association.
Dr. Jos Latour
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
He is a Professor in Clinical Nursing and Associate Head of School (Research). He is also a Professor in Paediatric Nursing at Hunan Children's Hospital, Changsha, China.
Jos serves in the University Senate which is the most senior academic decision-making body of the University.
Jos has published widely in peer-reviewed journals. He is an associate-editor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and international editorial board member of several other international peer-reviewed journals.
Internationally, Professor Jos Latour holds several visiting professorships including Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA and at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
Member of Chair Committee of Global Alliance for Newborn Care (GLANCE) Member of the Education Committee of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS)
Member Scientific Board European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI) Member Board of Professors and PhD Programme, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy
Dr. Mohammad Omar Faruq
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Omar Faruq
Chief Consultant, General Intensive Care Unit ( G-ICU) & Emergency, United Hospital as Consultant General ICU, Dhaka
Prof Omar Faruq is the pioneer in Critical Care Medicine in Bangladesh who has started the first MD course in Critical Care Medicine in BIRDEM.
He received his training in Medicine and allied branches in the US in mid 1970s. He passed American Board of Internal Medicine exams in 1982. He also passed American Board of Emergency Medicine in 1990. He was re-certified in American Board of Emergency Medicine in 2001.He did his FCPS in Medicine in 2006.
Before joining United Hospital as Consultant General ICU, since 1996 he had been working at BIRDEM General Hospital, Dhaka.
Dr. Jorge Hidalgo
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
He is Professor of Critical Care and Head of the Division of Critical Care at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize City, Belize and Secretary-General, World Federation Of Intensive And Critical Care.
He is Founder and Associate Editor of the Belize Journal of Medicine. In ompliance with the Conflict of Interest Policy adopted in 2019.
Dr. Hidalgo was invited to establish critical care medicine in the State of Belize and has subsequently used his expertise and regional influence to found several societies including the Belize Society of Critical Care, the Belize Society of Internal Medicine and COCECATI (Central America and the Caribbean Consortium of Intensive Care).
Dr. Hidalgo was awarded with the highest recognition the American College of Physician offers to his members in 2012: "Master of the American College of Physician". In 2016, he also was awarded with the Master of the American College of Critical Care, been the first Latin American Intensivist to got this prestigious recognition.
Dr. Hidalgo is a well-known and respected speaker locally and internationally and a regular contributor to chapters and books on critical care medicine.
Dr. Hussain Al Rahma
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
Dr. Hussain Al Rahma is Consultant Emergency Medicine - Head of Critical Care & Emergency Medicine, Associate Professor of Medicine and senior examiner - Dubai Medical College for women.
He established the first multidisciplinary independent ICU with fully trained intensivist in UAE. Founded the Department of Emergency and Critical care in 2002.
Heworked on the development of ambulance department and initiated the training and certifying the Dubai ambulance and within 2 years, and took part in establishing the paramedic program in the Dubai College of Technology and appointed as the medical director for the program.
In 2002 achieved the award as the employee of excellence in the health sector for the Dubai program of excellence.
He was appointed as a member of the Dubai higher authority of Disaster management and Chairman of the active disaster teams.
In 2003 established the sports events emergency teams, which started covering the Auto-drome car- racing events, Dubai horse racing events, Dubai Swimming Championship.
In 2006 joined the Arab Board for medical sciences committee to improve and develop the critical care chapter in UAE.
In 2005 started the CME program at the international level and initiated the Emirates critical care conference in Dubai.
Dr. Fernando Suprarregi Dias
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
Dr. Fernando Suprarregi Dias is Head of the Department of Critical Care at the Hospital Pompéia in Caxias do Sul, Brazil.
He was Director, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) of the Cardiac Surgical Unit from 1989 to 1997 and of the General Intensive Care Unit from 1992 to 2013 and was president of Critical Care Society of Rio Grande do Sul (SOTIRGS) in 1995/1996 and President of AMIB in 2014/2015.
Dr Dias has extensive experience in medicine, focusing on intensive care but with specific interests in hemodynamic monitoring, sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, shock and multiple dysfunction organs and systems and, genetics in critical illness.
He is Editor of books on shock and monitoring in critical care and has published in the fields of hemodynamic monitoring, sepsis and genetics in critical illness
Dr. Subhash P Acharya
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
Prof. Dr. Subhash P Acharya MD, FACC, FCCP, FECMO Consultant Intensivist and Head of Critical Care Medicine Unit at TU Teaching Hospital & Grande International Hospital
Head, Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Grande International Hospital
Professor in Anesthesiology, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University President, Nepal Critical Care Development Foundation (NCCDF)
Prof. Acharya is also the founding executive member of Nepalese Society of Critical Care Medicine (NSCCM), Thoracic Society of Nepal (TSN) and Nepal Transplantation Society (NTS). Prof. Acharya is also the Founder/President of the Nepal Critical Care Development Foundation (NCCDF) which is a not for profit charitable organization which is supporting to develop Critical Care in Nepal through education and trainings.
Prof. Acharya has also contributed to formulate the Guidelines for Anesthesia Service in Nepal, ICU Protocols in TU Teaching Hospital and Nepalese Society of Critical Care Medicine. Prof. Acharya has various publications in National and International Journals contributed to many book chapters.
Dr. Daniel De Backer
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
Prof. Daniel De Backer is Professor of Intensive Care at the Universitè Libre de Bruxelles and is Head of Intensive Care Departments of CHIREC hospitals (Brussels and Braine l'Alleud-Waterloo).
He became fully specialized in internal medicine in 1991 and in intensive care medicine in 1992 (both at Universitè Libre de Bruxelles). In 1996, Dr. De Backer obtained the title of "Agrègè de l'Enseignement Supèrieur" (PhD) at the Universitè Libre de Bruxelles.
Prof. De Backer is course director of several courses on echocardiography in Brussels, Sao Paulo and at the American Thoracic Society annual meeting.
Prof. De Backer has signed more than 200 original articles (most in the English language), 30 editorials, more than 30 book chapters and review articles, and 250 original abstracts.
He presented more than 700 invited lectures and often served as moderator at various international meetings.
Dr. CHARLES SPRUNG
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
Charles Sprung is the Director emeritus of the General Intensive care unit in the department of Anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Hadassah Hebrew university medical center in Jerusalem, Israel where he worked for last 20 years.
Director - Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, Veterans Administration Medical Center and University of Miami School of Medicine Chairman, Multidisciplinary Critical Care Committee, Veterans Administration Medical Center Chairman, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Subcommittee, Veterans Administration Medical Center Chairman, Professional Standards Board for Respiratory Therapists, Veterans Administration Medical Center Member, Ethics Committee, Veterans Administration Medical Center
He was a member of the ACCP/SCCM consensus conference on definitions of sepsis in 1991.
Dr. John C. Marshall
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
John Marshall is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto, a critical care physician at St. Michael's Hospital, and a Senior Investigator in the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science. He holds the Unity Health Chair in Trauma Research. He is current co-Chair of a WHO Working Group on the Clinical Characterization and Management of COVID-19.
He is the Canadian principle investigator for REMAP-CAP, a global platform trial of treatments for COVID-19.
He has published more than 500 manuscripts and book chapters, and has been cited more than 117,000 times. He is the founding chair of the International Forum of Acute Care Trialists (InFACT) - a global network of 37 investigator-led critical care clinical research groups.
He is past-chair of the International Sepsis Forum, past-President of the Surgical Infection Society, past Secretary-General of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, and past-chair of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.
Dr. Ross Freebairn
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
He is a Intensive Care Consultant at Hawke's Bay Hospital, in Hastings, New Zealand, and currently President of the Asia Pacific Association Of Critical Care Medicine, and Past President College of Intensive Care Medicine.
He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Medical Director for NZ Air Ambulance Services.
Professor Freebairn is the Associate Dean, ( Hawke's Bay Campus ) University of Otago Medical School and a member of the BASIC steering group and, is involved in courses running in NZ, Australia. Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Pacific and Europe.
DR. MITCHELL M LEVY
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
Chief, Division of Critical Care, Pulmonary, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Professor of Medicine -The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Medical Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
HIGHLIGHTS:
Dr. Levy is a founding member (2002) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, a global initiative to improve the care of patients with severe sepsis.
Dr. Levy is Past-President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (2009).
He has authored over 130 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is the co-director of the Ocean State Clinical Coordinating Center, which manages large, international, multi-center clinical trials in sepsis.
Dr. Levy is very active in the field of quality and safety. He continues to serve as the representative to the National Quality Forum for SCCM and also serves on the advisory committees on Quality for the Blue Distinction program of Blue Cross Blue Shield of America.
DR. MASSIMO ANTONELLI
DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION:
Intensive Care and Anesthesiology Professor; Director, Department of Emergency, Intensive Care Medicine and Anesthesiology of the Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli University Hospital IRCCS - Catholic University, Rome, (IT). Former ESICM President
HIGHLIGHTS:
A very active member of ESICM, Professor Massimo Antonelli was the Italian representative of the ESICM Council between the years 1997-1999 and a member "ex-officio" of the Executive Committee from 2007 to 2012.
Associate Editor of Intensive Care Medicine from 2000 to 2007 and later, from 2007 to 2013 as Editor in Chief of the Intensive Care Medicine
President of the Italian Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (SIAARTI).
A prolific author, with more than 250 papers with almost 7000 citations and an H index of 40, he is an established researcher, mainly in the fields of non-invasive Ventilation, ARDS, Shock and Sepsis.
Dr. Youn Suck Koh
Dr. YounSuck Koh, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, 138-736 South Korea