Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2016

Dr Vincent is Professor of intensive care at the Universityof Brussels, and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at ErasmeUniversity Hospital in Brussels. He is President of the World Federation ofSocieties of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) and aPast-President of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ), theEuropean Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Shock Society(ESS), and the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He is a member of the RoyalMedical Academy of Belgium. Dr. Vincent has signed more than 850 originalarticles, some 400 book chapters and review articles, 930 original abstracts,and has edited 99 books. He is co-editor of the Textbook of Critical Care(Elsevier Saunders, 7th Edition) and the Encyclopedia of IntensiveCare Medicine (Springer). He is editor-in-chief of Critical Care,Current Opinion in Critical Care, and ICU Managementand member of the editorial boards of about 30 journals. For 36 years, Dr Vincent has been chairman of theInternational Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, the largestinternational meeting in this field, which gathers more than 6000 participantsevery year in Brussels.He has received several awards, including the DistinguishedInvestigator Award of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the CollegeMedalist Award of the American College of Chest Physicians He is a recipient ofthe Society Medal (lifetime award) of the European Society of IntensiveCare Medicine and has received the prestigious Belgian scientific award of theFRS-FNRS (Prix Scientifique Joseph Maisin-Sciences biomédicales cliniques).