Scientific Programme

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

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

Short biography professor Markus Skrifvars

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.