Professor John Myburgh MBBCh (Wits), DA(SA), PhD, FANZCA, FCICM, is Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Director of the Division of Critical Care and Trauma at the George Institute for International Health and Senior Physician in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at The St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia and Vice-President of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand.  He is a foundation member and immediate Past-Chairman of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (CTG). He has published extensively on catecholamine pharmacology and traumatic brain injury and was a Chief Investigator of the SAFE, SAFE TBI, NICE-SUGAR and RENAL studies.

Stephen Lapinsky is Director of the Intensive Care Unit at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand and completed a postgraduate training in Internal Medicine, Pulmonology and Critical Care in Johannesburg, followed by a Critical Care fellowship in Toronto. His clinical practice currently involves Critical Care and Respirology, with a specific interest in the management of critical illness and respiratory diseases in pregnancy. His research interests include the application of information and communication technology in medicine, ventilator management of respiratory failure and renal replacement therapy in the ICU. He has published over 120 original articles, reviews and book chapters.

Kathleen is a Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Educator and Consultant. Ms. Vollman has published & lectured throughout North & South America and overseas on a variety of pulmonary, critical care & professional nursing topics. She earned her nursing degree from Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan and her Master’s in Critical Care Nursing from California State University in Long Beach. From 1989 to 2003 she functioned in the role of Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Medical Critical Care Area at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit Michigan. Currently her company, ADVANCING NURSING LLC, is focused on creating empowered work environments for nurses through the acquisition of greater skills and knowledge. Kathleen received the Florence Nightingale award for Clinical Practice in 1996. In addition she designed & developed the Vollman Prone Positioner, which is available worldwide. Ms. Vollman is listed in Who’s Who of American Inventors.

Professor Alan Conlan qualified as a Doctor at the University College Cork Medical School in 1967. In addition to doing postgraduate work in London and at the Mayo Clinic in the US, he also spent time at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town and at the Johannesburg Hospital. Professor Conlan is currently the Emeritus Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, at the Massachusetts Medical School, University Mass Medical Center in the US. His speciality is that of general thoracic surgery, in which he has a number of interests. In addition to membership of a number of international societies he is also holds an Honorary Life Fellowship of the South African Thoracic Society.

Professor Jindal is Head of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India. His field of specialization is Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Tuberculosis. Professor Jindal received the International Award for Scientific Contributions, International Union against Tuberculosis & Lung Disease, Paris, France in 1994 and The Chest Foundation Award from the American College of Chest Physicians in 2001. He is a member of numerous International Editorial Boards and is the Associate Editor of Chest USA.

BSc MBChB FCP(CMSA) FCCP FRCPC

Internist & Pulmonologist from South Africa Presently an Associate Professor at McMaster University and Staff Physician at Hamilton Health Sciences. Founder and Head of the Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic at the Hamilton General Hospital. Member of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association of Canada and Member of Canadian Thoracic Society. Presently a member of the guideline committee for the CTS for Chronic Thrombo-Embolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) as well as on the National Task-Force on End-of-Life care for patients with end-stage COPD. Also an Attending Physician for the Thrombosis Service at the Hamilton General Hospital.

Dr. Carcillo is an Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and works in the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He has chaired the American College of Critical Care Medicine Taskforce on Hemodynamic Support of Newborns and Children with Septic Shock since 1998. He has studied and lectured on Pediatric Septic Shock and Multiple Organ Failure since 1987. The work in septic shock has reported the role of early aggressive fluid resuscitation in the emergency setting, the preponderance of low cardiac output and high systemic vascular resistance in children who do not respond to fluids and dopamine, the 20 % incidence of absolute adrenal insufficiency in children with septic shock, and the time sensitive effects of PALS/APLS resuscitation. The work in MOF has described the role of acquired immune depression and vWF multimer thrombotic microangiopathy syndromes in pediatric sepsis. Dr. Carcillo attended Wesleyan University where he received his BA 1976 and then George Washington University where he received his MD 1982. Dr. Carcillo was trained at the Children’s National Medical Center in Pediatrics 1985 and then in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 1987. He then served in the National Health Service Corps until 1992 when he joined the staff in Pittsburgh. Dr Carcillo has over 130 peer review manuscripts.

Semih Halezeroglu, MD, FETCS
Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Graduated (MD) from Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine in 1987. After completion of thoracic surgery residency programme in 1992, he worked as a head-resident and staff surgeon in Heybeliada and Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Teaching and Investigation Hospitals in Istanbul until 2003 and, as a medical director and chief of thoracic surgery department between 2003 and 2008 in Istanbul Sureyyapasa Teaching Hospital. Between 2003 and 2005 he was the chief of thoracic surgery department of Istanbul American Hospital. He became an associated professor in 2001 and professor in thoracic surgery in 2008. Currently, he is working as a professor of thoracic surgery Istanbul Acibadem University Faculty of Medicine. He was the in the council of European Society of Thoracic Surgeons as a councillor (2000-2004) and President Elect, President and Past President (2004-2008). He has been the Director of European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Antalya School of Thoracic Surgery since 2006.

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Richard Wunderink is a Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, faculty in the Northwestern University Center for Genetic Medicine, and Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago IL. He was previously Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee, Memphis in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division and faculty member in the College of Graduate Health Sciences.

Dr. Wunderink co-chaired the 2007 Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Consensus Committee guidelines updating the management of community-acquired pneumonia. He was also a member of the previous ATS/IDSA HAP, VAP and HCAP statement and the 1994 ATS Guidelines for the initial management of adults with hospital-acquired pneumonia.

John A. Kellum, MD, FACP, FCCM
Dr. Kellum is a Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine, Bioengineering, and Clinical and Translational Science. He is Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Critical Care Medicine and Director of the molecular core for the CRISMA laboratory (Clinical Research Investigation and Systems Modeling of Acute illness) at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Kellum is the principal investigator and co-investigator on several NIH-funded studies in both clinical and basic science research. His research interests span various aspects of Critical Care Medicine, but center in critical care nephrology (including acid-base, acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapy), sepsis and multi-organ failure, brain death and organ donor management and translational research. He has authored more than 250 publications and has won several awards for teaching. He lectures widely and has given more than 400 seminars and invited lectures related to his research.

Professor Gavin Joynt
Hong Kong

Gavin Joynt is Professor in the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published over 80 peer reviewed publications and several book chapters and acts as a reviewer for several international medical journals. Professor Joynt is also a supervisor of various undergraduate and post-graduate intensive care courses and is the editor of a number of local regional medical journals.