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Ms. Alexandra Ferguson
Australia

Ms. Alexandra Ferguson (Australia)

Alexandra (Ali) Ferguson is an advanced physiotherapist who has worked in Paediatric Intensive Care for 19 years. Ali is the Allied Health lead for implementation of the PICUStars Liberation strategy at Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH) and led the development and implementation of the Early Mobilisation program in PICU at QCH. In 2018 Ali developed the Children’s Chelsea Critical Care Physical Assessment tool, which is a tool to measure physical function of children in critical care. Ali has a strong interest in education and coordinates the Statewide Simulated Learning In Paediatric Allied Health (SLiPAH) program. Ali is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Queensland, and a member of the World Federation of Paediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS) Board of Directors. Ali is the Allied Health Co-Chair of WFPICCS ISC, and Chair of Allied Health Committee. Ali has a keen interest in long-term outcome of PICU survivors and is a member of the PICOLO Network team.

Fun fact: Competes regularly in equestrian showjumping!

Adj. Asst. Prof. Andrew Li
Singapore

Adj. Asst. Prof. Andrew Li (Singapore)

Andrew is currently works in Woodlands Health and National Healthcare group, with specific sub-interests in sepsis, nutrition, ICU collaborations and ILD. He is currently undertaking a PhD in ILD, while concurrently pursuing his ICU collaborations. He is more than keen to meet with people to look at opportunities to collaborate!

Dr. Anuradha P Menon
Singapore

Dr. Anuradha P Menon (Singapore)

Anu is a Consultant Paediatric Intensivist at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH). Following her training in Paediatric Critical Care locally, she completed a sub-specialty fellowship in Paediatric Cardiac Critical care at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, from 2016-2018. Her areas of interest include mechanical circulatory support in children, and she is actively involved in the growth of KKH’s Paediatric ECMO and VAD programmes.

A/Prof. Ashwin Subramaniam
Australia

A/Prof. Ashwin Subramaniam (Australia)

Associate Professor Ashwin Subramaniam completed his postgraduate training in Intensive Care Medicine in 2013 and achieved his PhD in 2023, focusing on Quantifying the impact of frailty in critically ill patients. His clinical interests include clinical frailty, big data research, managing Clinical Deterioration, early goals of care, COVID-19, and initiatives aimed at quality improvement. Currently, he is a Senior Intensivist at Dandenong and Frankston Hospitals and Director of Intensive Care at The Bays Private Hospital. Ashwin is also a Fellow of the RACP and was the inaugural lead the Acute Admission & Assessment Unit, showcasing his leadership and clinical acumen. He also works as a peri-operative physician for more than 10 years in The Bays Hospital. A passionate educator, he has held significant roles such as the Chair of the VICEN and the Medical Lead for Simulation at Peninsula Health . He is also the formal project assessor for the College of Intensive Care Medicine. Additionally, he was the co-founder and convener of The Critical STEPS Courses, contributing to medical education both in Australia and internationally. He lives with his wife and 14-year-old son in the Mornington Peninsula.

Fun fact: Ashwin has been playing high level league cricket for more than 15 years in Australia.

A/Prof. Charlene Liew
Singapore

A/Prof. Charlene Liew (Singapore)

A/Prof Charlene Liew is the Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Changi General Hospital and Director of innovation for Radiology, SingHealth. She has held numerous leadership positions in local and international professional bodies, and is the founding chair for the Singapore Radiological Society’s AI subsection. She co-chairs the National AI- enabled medical imaging platform, also known as “AimSG” and is the founding chairperson for this project.

Fun fact: When she was an undergraduate medical student Dr Liew undertook research in computer science and the neurological correlates of consciousness of the human brain under Professor Adam Zeman (author of “Consciousness- A user’s guide”). Her work was featured in a chapter in his ensuing book.

Ms. Charlotte Lin
Singapore

Ms. Charlotte Lin (Singapore)

Charlotte graduated with a Master of Nutrition and Dietetics from Flinders University in 2008. She started her career at the National University Hospital (NUH) in November 2008 as a dietitian. In 2013, Charlotte furthered her studies by pursuing a Master of Advanced Professional Practice in Paediatric Dietetics through the MOH AMDA award, which she completed in 2015.

Over the past 10 years, Charlotte has gained extensive experience as a paediatric dietitian at NUH. She has worked extensively at the paediatric intensive care unit, establishing a protocol with the medical team to ensure early establishment of feeding for this vulnerable group of patients. She has also been a key member of the multidisciplinary feeding team since its establishment in 2012. The feeding team manages children with feeding issues stemming from complex medical conditions, behavioural challenges, picky eating and delayed feeding skills and this multidisciplinary approach ensures holistic care to support each child’s growth and development.

Charlotte is currently the Head and Principal Dietitian at NUH Dietetics Department. She is also an active member of the NUHS community of practice for Dietetics and serves on the Ministry of Health’s Dietitian Panel. Through her passion, expertise and leadership, Charlotte continues to make valuable contributions to the field of paediatric nutrition and dietetics.

Clin. Asst. Prof. David Teo Choon Liang
Singapore

Clin. Asst. Prof. David Teo Choon Liang (Singapore)

Dr David Teo is a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist with the Department of Psychological Medicine and Department of Sleep Medicine Surgery and Science at Changi General Hospital. He heads CGH’s Health Wellness Programme (ASCAT CGH) and Medical Humanities team. His subspecialty interests are in treating mental health conditions in youth and the medically ill and psychodynamic psychotherapy. He also has a special interest in the interface of spirituality and medicine. As a psychiatrist and psychodynamic psychotherapist, he is experienced in combining medications and psychotherapy in the holistic treatment of a broad range of mental disorders across the lifespan.

Outside of clinical work, Dr Teo has a keen interest in occupational mental wellness. He has worked with like-minded colleagues to facilitate ground up initiatives to combat burnout and enhance professional satisfaction. Passionate about health professions education, he serves as teaching faculty with various medical schools and graduate medical education programmes. He serves as an advisor on various national mental health initiatives and enjoys going out to the community to engage partners and increase awareness about mental health.

Prof. Edward Holmes
Australia

Prof. Edward Holmes (Australia)

Edward (Eddie) Holmes is a National Health and Medical Research Council Leadership Fellow and Professor of Virology at the University of Sydney, Australia. Eddie received his undergraduate degree from the University of London (1986) and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (1990). Following that, he performed postdoctoral research at the Universities of California (Davis), Edinburgh and Oxford. Between 1993-2004 he held various positions at the University of Oxford, including University Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology and Fellow of New College. Between 2005 and 2012 he was a Professor at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, before moving to Sydney. His research focuses on understanding the nature of global virus diversity – the virosphere – and the major mechanisms of virus evolution, with a special emphasis on revealing the ecology, evolution, and emergence of RNA viruses. In 2003 he was awarded the Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2015 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017. In 2021 he received the (Australian) Prime Minister’s Prize for Science.

A/Prof. Emma Ridley
Australia

A/Prof. Emma Ridley (Australia)

A/Prof Emma Ridley, ANZIC-RC, Monash University and Alfred Health

Emma is a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Fellow and heads the Nutrition Program at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. With 19 years of clinical dietetic experience, including as a senior dietitian in the ICU at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, she completed her PhD in 2018. Emma focuses on long-term nutrition interventions for the critically ill and is internationally recognized for her expertise (ranked in the top 1% on Expertscape for multiple critical care and clinical nutrition topics). She has over 110 peer-reviewed publications and has secured over $10 million in research funding, including $4.2 million as CIA. Emma is the CI-A on the recently completed INTENT trial and was awarded a $1.49 million MRFF 2022 grant titled “A national platform for improving quality of nutrition care for critically ill adults and children”.

Dr. Geetha Kayambu
Singapore

Dr. Geetha Kayumbu (Singapore)

Dr Geetha Kayambu is a principal physiotherapist, specializing in critical care research at the National University Hospital. She obtained her PhD at School of Medicine, University of Queensland in 2015 from Australia and was awarded the Allied Health Excellence Award in NUHS last year. She has served as a clinician for 20 years and as Director of Research, Department of Rehabilitation, National University Hospital from 2015-2019. She has been instrumental in conducting critical care preceptorship and promoting research interest amongst physiotherapists in NUH and overseeing the direction of potentially high-impact research in physiotherapy and motivates local and overseas research collaborations. She has authored and peer reviewed several publications and has been invited speaker at several national and international conferences and webinars. She mentors staff clinically and in research and supervises students in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit. Her research interests include novel rehabilitation in intensive care, point of care ultrasound and early mobilisation of critical care patients.

Dr. Gordon Choi
Hong Kong

Dr. Gordon Choi (Hong Kong)

Dr Gordon Choi is an Intensive specialist and Honorary Assistant Professor at the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently the Deputy Chief of Service of the department and Head of the Intensive Care Unit.

He received his degree in medicine and surgery from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1995. After graduation, he obtained his dual Fellowships in both Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine with The Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthesia and the College of Intensive Care Medicine, Australia and New Zealand (CICM).

He is currently employed as a full time clinician and has a special interest in education and clinical research. He is currently an examiner of The Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists and The College of Intensive Care Medicine, Australia and New Zealand (CICM). He has been elected as the Chairman of the Regional Committee for Hong Kong for the CICM.

He is an advocate of life-long learning and after his fellowship exams he obtained a Master degree in Health Services Management (MHSM) with the University of New South Wales and successfully passed the Examination of Special Competence in Adult Echocardiography (ASCeXAM) of the National Board of Echocardiography, United State of America in 2009. He is currently involved in the administration and running of the BASIC Nephrology and BASIC transthoracic course under the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also involved in the development of the Hong Kong version of the Australasian Donor Awareness Program (ADAPT) and the “Management in Intensive Care” course program which has been endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and CICM.

He has particular interests in antibiotic pharmacokinetics, renal replacement therapy venous thromboembolism and management of intensive care.

Prof. Jan De Waele
Belgium

Prof. Jan De Waele

Jan De Waele is a surgical intensivist at the department of Critical Care Medicine of the Ghent University Hospital, full professor of Medicine at Ghent University and Senior Clinical Investigator with the Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium. His research activities currently deal with optimizing antibiotic therapy in severely ill infected patients to improve outcome and combat resistance development, with specific interest in PK/PD, therapeutic drug monitoring of antibiotics as well as antimicrobial stewardship. Clinical interests also include abdominal infections, source control and sepsis management. Jan has extensive experience in organizing clinical studies and is involved in many national and international studies and guideline committees. He is the past chairman of the ESICM Research Committee (2018-2021), and the 2022-2024 ESICM President-Elect.

Prof. John Fraser
Australia

Prof. John Fraser (Australia)

Professor John F Fraser MB ChB PhD FRCP(Glas) FFARCSI FCICM FELSO is Founder/Director of the Critical Care Research Group at The University of Queensland, Director of Intensive Care at St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and Immediate Past President of the Asia Pacific Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (APELSO).

Consisting of a world-leading collaborative of clinicians, engineers and scientists, the Critical Care Research Group (CCRG) is Australia’s largest multidisciplinary medical research groups. It boasts 8 purpose-built labs including the largest preclinical ICU in the southern hemisphere with connections across all major international cardiothoracic hospitals.He and the team completed a five-year body of work to assess machine perfusion in optimising conditioning of donor hearts. This pre-clinical work led to an international clinical trial that has revolutionised the practice of heart transplantation by allowing hearts to remain outside the body for up to 9 hours. This practice has been adopted worldwide.

Professor Fraser developed an “inhalable epipen” equivalent for treatment of anaphylaxis (https://demotucordis.com/), co-founded the BiVACOR total artificial heart company with Dr Daniel Timms, the device’s inventor, and in 2020 established the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium with CCRG colleagues A/Prof Gianluigi Li Bassi and Dr Jacky Suen. The Consortium has created what is now widely regarded as the world’s largest and most in-depth COVID-19 ICU database spanning >460 hospitals in 64 countries resulting on over 35 manuscripts and treatment changing discoveries.

John has five professorships, over 650 publications many in peer-reviewed journals, has received more than AUD 90 million in competitive grants, and co-wrote and edited the most comprehensive textbook on mechanical circulatory support. Idiotically he’s just agreed to edit the second version and wishes he hadn’t!

He is proud father of five great childre: Ben, Dominic, Nicholas, Lucy and Tommy.

Ms. Kate Masterton
Australia

Ms. Kate Masterton (Australia)

Kate Masterson is an experienced paediatric intensive care nurse with a passion for advancing healthcare through research. With extensive experience in paediatric critical care, she is involved with research in many aspects including providing education, offering mentorship to researchers and coordinating clinical trials in PICU. She also leads the consumer engagement group for ANZICS PSG, ensuring that patient perspectives are central to research initiatives.

Currently pursuing her PhD exploring lived experiences of nurses during the initiation of long-term ventilation in a PICU. Her research aims to explore the voice of the nurse at this point of care as part of the international TechChild project. Prior to this, she explored the parental experiences during interhospital transfers, highlighting the complexity of care provision during this process. She has an interest in multi-disciplinary collaborative research aiming to improve experience and outcomes for critically ill children and their families.

Prof. Laurent Brochard
Canada

Prof. Laurent Brochard

Pr. Laurent Brochard is Intensivist, Clinician Scientist, St. Michael’s Hospital (Unity Health Toronto) and Director of the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada, since 2014. He holds the Keenan Chair in Critical Care and Acute Respiratory failure.

He trained in respirology and critical care, obtained his MD degree, University of Paris, and worked in Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris (Hopital Henri Mondor, Creteil) until he moved to Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland (2010-2013) before being recruited in Toronto.

He has been Editor-in-Chief of Intensive Care Medicine, is currently Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

He created a clinical research network on mechanical ventilation REVA. He leads an international group on respiratory physiology (PLUG) and leads the Centre of Excellence in Mechanical Ventilation in Toronto (CoEMV).

He mentored and directed numerous trainees, many of whom are leaders in Critical Care. He published over > 700 peer-reviewed publications (H-index 125).

Dr. Lee Jan Hau
Singapore

Dr. Lee Jan Hau (Singapore)

Dr. Lee Jan Hau is a senior consultant in the Children’s Intensive Care Unit in KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore. He is an associate professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. His research interests include pediatric critical care epidemiology, pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome and critical care nutrition. He is founding chairperson of the Pediatric Acute & Critical Care Medicine Asian Network (PACCMAN).

Dr. Lisa Higgins
Australia

Dr. Lisa Higgins (Australia)

Dr Lisa Higgins is an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow and Lead of the Health Economics Program for the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre at Monash University. She is also an honorary Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health, a member of the Australasian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) Health Economics Alongside Trials (HEAT) Group, and a member of Research Australia’s Health Economics Working Group. She has qualifications in public health, biostatistics, health economics and physiotherapy.

Lisa has been a key member of the REMAP CAP adaptive platform trial since its inception 10 years ago, is a member of the International Trial Steering Committee and leads the global health economics working group. As a Chief Investigator, she is currently leading the economic evaluations of >15 NHMRC or MRFF funded trials in trauma, sepsis, oxygen therapy, transfusion, ECMO and early rehabilitation research. Lisa also leads the Health Economics Stream for the Blood Synergy (2020-2024), funded by the top ranked NHMRC Synergy grant for 2019 on which she was a chief investigator.

Dr. Lowell Ling
Hong Kong

Dr. Lowell Ling (Hong Kong)

Lowell Ling is an Assistant Professor at The Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is an intensivist with special interest in critical care, sepsis and organ dysfunction. He completed his undergraduate medical training from University of London and obtained a MPhil from University of Cambridge. He completed his intensive care training at Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong SAR, China. His research uses epidemiological, clinical and genomic approaches to understand sepsis.

Prof. Markus B Skrifvars
Finland

Prof. Markus B Skrifvars

Professor, MD, PhD, EDIC, FCICM Markus B Skrifvars

Department of Emergency Care and Services, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Finland

Markus Skrifvars is Staff Specialist in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care and professor of Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine. He has trained in Finland and Australia and completed both the European Diploma of Intensive Care as well as the Fellowship of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM). He has published over 250 scientific publications and supervised seven PhDs focusing on emergency and intensive care of cardiac arrest and traumatic brain injury. He was a member of the steering group of the TTH48 trial and the principal investigator of the COMACARE trial. His research group focuses on both experimental and clinical studies in the field of cardiac arrest and traumatic brain injury. He is one of the lead investigator of the STEP CARE (Sedation, TEmperature and Pressure after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation) that will enroll 3500 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated in the intensive care unit with different treatments for blood pressure, temperature management and sedation.

Fun fact: Markus Skifvars used to play the banjo in a celtic rock band in the 1990s recording three albums and playing hundreds gigs in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Ireland. If you search for “The Scrapes” on Youtube you may even found some proof of this.

Dr. Nhi Nguyen
Australia

Dr. Nhi Nguyen (Australia)

Nhi is an intensive care specialist from Nepean Hospital in Sydney. She is the Clinical Director of Intensive Care NSW at the Agency for Clinical Innovation and elected member of the CICM Board and Censor. She has a clinical interest in obstetric medicine and how organisations are structured to support staff to do the best they can to fulfil their roles in serving the community. She gets joy from all aspects of her professional and personal life, which includes travelling with her family, teaching in Vietnam and getting her buoyancy right whilst diving with the whale sharks.

Ms. Norazlina Bte Shakih Ibrahim Mattar
Singapore

Ms. Norazlina Bte Shakih Ibrahim Mattar (Singapore)

Norazlina embarked on her nursing journey with a specialization in Neuroscience Nursing, subsequently advancing to Neuroscience ICU. In 2019, she attained a Master’s in Clinical Leadership from Curtin University, augmenting her expertise. Currently, as Assistant Director of Nursing at Singapore General Hospital, she oversees ICU operations, drawing on over 25 years of experience. Notably, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Norazlina leadership was instrumental in preparing for Isolation ICU care and supporting staff well-being. She has implemented standardized ICU practices to enhance crisis adaptability and has led various quality improvement projects. Additionally, Norazlina actively contributes to ICU governance bodies, ensuring effective decision-making and response planning. Her role in the Hospital’s Business Continuity committee underscores her commitment to crisis management and operational resilience. Furthermore, she serves as a Nursing representative on the Hospital’s Medication Safety Advisory Committee, advocating for medication safety protocols and policy enhancements. Through her leadership, Norazlina is dedicated to inspiring and empowering nurses, emphasizing the maintenance of high care standards while prioritizing staff wellness in healthcare settings.

Dr. Qian Xing
China

Dr. Qian Xing (China)

Dr Xing is an attending physician from the ICU dept of Fudan University, Shanghai Cancer Center, China. She received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in clinical medicine from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. As a member of Cancer Intensive Care Professional Committee from Anti-Cancer Association of China, Dr Xing has been innovating in the field of cancer related critical care medicine, including the immune status, nutritional status and weakness of cancer patients with severe infections, as well as severe immune related adverse events (irAEs) after immunotherapy.

Prof. Simon Sin Wai Ching
Hong Kong

Prof. Simon Sin Wai Ching (Hong Kong)

Prof. Simon Sin Wai Ching
MBBS (HK), MRCP (UK), FHKCP (HK) FHKAM (HK), FRCP (Edinburgh)

Affiliations:
1) Director, Critical Care Medicine Unit, School of Clinical Medicine. Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong
2) Service Director of Critical Care Unit, Gleneagles Hospital, Hong Kong
3) Director of American Heart Association International Training Center, the University of Hong Kong
4) Honorary Consultant of Department of Adult Intensive Care, Queen Mary Hospital

Specialist in Critical Care Medicine
Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine (2008), Cardiology (2012), Advance Internal Medicine (2009) (Hong Kong College of Physicians)

Expert in ECMO and ECMO education
1) Education Co-Chair and Steering Committee of the Extra-corporeal Life Support Organization Asia-Pacific Chapter (APELSO)
2) Leading Queen Mary Hospital ECMO program awarded Center of Excellence (Gold level ) by the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) in 2017, 2022

Dr. Soojin Park
United States of America

Dr. Soojin Park (United States of America)

Dr. Soojin Park is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. She is the former Fellowship Program Director at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia/Cornell). She now directs the Program for Hospital and Intensive Care Informatics at Columbia, and is the Medical Director of Critical Care Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She is an Associate Editor for Neurocritical Care, and a Board Trustee of the Neurocritical Care Foundation as well as the Society for Complex Acute Illness. Her research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, where she is the PI of awards focused on artificial intelligence in neurocritical care. Her work focuses on the development and clinical evaluation of predictive models to improve timeliness and precision of management in neurocritical care, using physiologic monitors and digitized medical record data.

Prof. Yasuhiro Kuroda
Japan

Prof. Yasuhiro Kuroda (Japan)

Yasuhiro Kuroda, M.D., Ph.D., FNCS
Professor and Chairman, Department of Emergency, Disaster, and Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University

Education and Training
1984 Completion of Medical Course, Yamaguchi University, School of Medicine
1988 Completion of Doctoral Course, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine (Neuroanesthesia and neurointensive care, Prof. Hiroshi Takeshita)

Postdoctoral Training / Experience
1988-1990 Department of Anesthesiology, Kokura Memorial Hospital, Japan
1990-1991 Research fellow, Department of Neurosurgery, Glasgow University (Mr. Mm Ross Bullock)
1991-1994 Assistant, Critical Care Medical Center, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Japan
1994-1995 Department of Anesthesiology, Yamaguchi Rosai Hospital, Japan
1995-1999 Department of Anesthesiology, Himeji National Hospital, Japan
1999-2000 Instructor, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Tokushima University Hospital, Japan
2000-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tokushima University Hospital, Japan
2007-2008 Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kagawa University Hospital, Japan
2009- present post

Membership in Scientific, Honorary and Professional Societies
2011- Directors of the board, Chairman of neuro-intensive care committee, The Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine
2024- the 6th President of the Board of Directors, The Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine

Specialized area
Post cardiac arrest, neurointensive care.

Prof. Yugeesh Lankadeva
Australia

Prof. Yugeesh Lankadeva (Australia)

Professor Yugeesh Lankadeva is a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader (Level 2) Fellow and a National Heart Foundation Future Leader (Level 2) Fellow and leads the Translational Cardiovascular and Renal Research Group at The Florey. His research aims to understand the pathophysiology of brain and kidney injury arising from sepsis, cardiac surgery, and heart failure with the goal of developing novel diagnostics, medical devices, and therapeutics to improve patient-centred health outcomes. Professor Lankadeva has over 70 publications in medical journals (Circulation, Anaesthesia, Br J Anaesth; Am J Resp Crit Care Med; Intensive Care Med; Crit Care Med; Kidney Int). His work has been acknowledged by the award of over $18 million of research funding. His discoveries have translated to 8 clinical trials across Australia, Europe, USA, and Asia. He is an inventor on 3 patents and has received over 25 prestigious career awards from the Australian Institute of Policy and Science, National Heart Foundation of Australia, Hypertension Australia, and Microcirculation Societies. He holds appointments as the Head of Florey’s Systems Neuroscience Theme and is a Principal Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Anaesthesia (Austin Hospital) and at the Department of Critical Care (University of Melbourne).

Dr. Zudin Puthucheary
United Kingdom

Dr. Zudin Puthucheary (United Kingdom)

Dr Zudin Puthucheary is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine at the William Harvey Institute, Queen Mary, University of London, and a Consultant at the Royal London Hospital Adult Intensive Care Unit. He graduated from Nottingham University in 1997, and moved to London post MRCP in 2000. His research focusses on acquired functional disability, and the use of nutritional and exercise interventions to prevent and treat muscle and has published over 150 papers and has a H-index of 39. Zudin is a nationally elected Council member of the Intensive Care Society (UK). He was the inaugural chair of the UK National Post-Intensive Care Rehabilitation Collaborative, a multi-professional cross-disciplinary group focussing on rehabilitation and restitution of critical illness survivors. His work on acute muscle wasting has won awards from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, European Society of Anesthesia, the British Thoracic Society, the Intensive Care Society, The American Society of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition and Zudin was named a Global Rising Star by the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society.