23^rd

International
Symposium on
infections in the
criticaly ill
patient

Dublin
15TH-16TH FEBRUARY 2018

About Us

Welcome to the
23rd International Symposium on Infections in the Critically Ill Patient

The aim of this two-day symposium is to review current concepts, technology and present advances in infections in critically ill patients.
Sepsis, Pulmonary Infections, Basic Research, Pulmonary Infections Treatmentand Prophylaxis Therapy of severe infections will be the topics of the main sessions presented by experts who will review and update the new advances on infections in the critically ill patient. At the end of each session a Clinical Controversy, Pannel Discussion or Case Report Discussion will be organized.

Organized by

Antonio Artigas, MD

Critical Care Center, Sabadell Hospital, University Institute Parc Taulí, Autonomous
University of Barcelona, Ciberes, Spain

Jean Carlet, MD

Consultant, President of the World Alliance Against Antibiotic Resistance (WAAR)

Ignacio Martin-Loeches, MD

ST. James’s Hospital. Trinity Centre for Health Sciences. HRB-Welcome Trust St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Michael Niederman, MD

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA

Antoni Torres, MD

Pulmonology Department, Clinic Hospital of Barcelona, Ciberes, Spain.

Advisory board

M. Antonelli, MD
Rome, Italy

E. Bouza, MD
Madrid, Spain

T. Calandra, MD
Lausanne, Switzerland

J. Chastre, MD
Paris, France

R. Ferrer, MD
Barcelona, Spain

J. Garnacho, MD
Sevilla, Spain

H. Gerlach, MD
Berlin, Germany

C. Martin, MD
Marseille, France

I. Martin-Loeches, MD
Dublin, Ireland

J. Pugin, MD
Geneva, Switzerland

M. Schultz, MD
Bangkok, Thailand

J.L. Teboul, MD
Paris, France

J.A. Paiva, MD
Porto, Portugal

T. Welte, MD
Hannover, Germany

Speakers

Massimo Antonelli, MD
Rome, Italy
Chair, Dept. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
Catholic University- A. Gemelli University Hospital

Matteo Bassetti, MD
Udine, Italy
Head Infectious Diseases Clinic,
Department of Medicine University of Udine, Santa Maria Misericordia Hospital

Emilio Bouza, MD
Madrid, Spain
Chief Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology
Department
Full Professor of Medicine (Microbiology)

Thierry Calandra, MD
Lausanne, Switzerland
Head of Service of infectious diseases
University hospital

Maurizio Cecconi, MD
London, UK
Reader and Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care medicine
Clinical Director the Adult Critical Care Department, St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Augustine M.K. Choi, MD
New York, NY USA
Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

Stephan Ehrmann, MD
Tours, France
Professor of critical care medicine.
Intensive care unit of Tours university hospital and medical school, François Rabelais University and Aerosoltherapy and pulmonary biotherapies, team III of the Research Centre for Respiratory Disease. UMR 1100 – Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche biomédicale.

José Garnacho-Montero, MD
Seville, Spain
Director of the Intensive Care Unit
Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena

Vida Hamilton, MD
Dublin/Waterford, Ireland
National Clinical Lead – Sepsis
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospital Waterford
Health Service Executive

Steven W. Kerrigan, MD
Dublin, Ireland
Associate Professor
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Ignacio Martin-Loeches, MD
Dublin, Ireland
Vice-Director, Research lead.
Intensive Care Medicine & National Burns Unit
St James's University Hospital.
Senior Clinical Lecturer Trinity Centre for Health Sciences
HRB-Welcome Trust St James's Hospital

Kingston Mills, MD
Dublin, Ireland
Professor of Experimental Immunology
Trinity College Dublin

Saad Nseir, MD, PhD
Lille, France
CHU de Lille

Prof. Frédéric Pène, MD. PhD.
Paris, France
Professor of critical care medicine
Medical ICU
Cochin hospital, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris

Thomas R Rogers DMed
Dublin, Ireland
Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin, & Consultant Microbiologist,
St James’s Hospital Campus,

Mervyn Singer, MD
London, UK
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine
University College London

Antoni Torres, MD
Barcelona Spain
Professor of Medicine
University of Barcelona

Christian J Wiedermann, M.D.
Bolzano (BZ), Italy
Professor of Internal Medicine
College of Health Professions ``Claudiana``

Antonio Artigas, MD
Sabadell, Spain
Emerit Director and Senior Consultant of Critical Care Center,
Corporación Sanitaria Universitaria Parc Taulí,
Professor of Apply Physiology at University Institute Parc Taulí,
Autonomous University of Barcelona

Lieuwe Bos, MD
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Pietro Caironi, MD
Orbassano, Italy
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Head of the Department
S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital
University of Turin,

Jean Carlet, MD
Paris, France

Jean Chastre, MD
Paris, France
Consulting Professor, University Paris 6 Pierre-et-Marie Curie
Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière

Ger Curley, MD
Dublin, Ireland

Ricard Ferrer, MD
Barcelona, Spain
Department Head of Intensive Care. Vall d’Hebron University hospital. Barcelona
Head of Group SODIR, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research

Massimo Girardis, MD
Modena, Italy
Head of the ICU Department,
ICU Department, University Hospital of Modena

Joseph Keane, MD
Dublin, Ireland

Claude Martin, MD
Marseille, France
Head ICU and Trauma Center
Nord University Hospital

Maria Luisa Martínez González, MD
Barcelona, Spain
Medical Doctor
Critical Care Center, Hospital Universitario General de Cataluña

Michael S. Niederman, MD
New York, USA
Clinical Director , Associate Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College

José-Artur Paiva, MD
Porto, Portugal
Medical Director and Associate Professor
Centro Hospitalar Sao Joao and Faculty of Medicine

Konrad Reinhart, MD
Jena, Germany
Senior Professor Chair Global Sepsis Alliance
Jena University Hospital

Marcus Josephus Schultz, MD
Bangkok, Thailand
Professor
Mahidol Oxford Research Unit, Mahidol University

Jean-Louis Teboul, MD
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Professor of Therapeutics and Critical Care Medicine
Bicetre hospital, APHP, University Paris-South

Jean Louis Vincent, MD Brussels, Belgium
Professor of Intensive Care,
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Consultant, Hôpital Universitaire Erasme
Erasme University Hospital, Dept of Intensive Care

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