Events

Chairpersons
Dr Shirish Prayag
Prof Jean-Louis Vincent

Co – Chairpersons
Dr Ajit Yadav
Dr P K Joshi

Organizing Secretary : Dr Kapil Zirpe

Jt Organizing Secretary : Dr Subhal Dixit

Chairman Scientific Committee : Dr Sameer Jog

Co Chairman Scientific Committee : Prof Daniel DeBacker

Members:
Dr Abhijit Deshmukh
Dr Ajit Kulkarni
Dr Anand Tiwari
Dr Arvind Bhome
Dr Balasaheb Bande
Dr Balasaheb Pawar
Dr Bhushan Kinolkar
Dr Deepak Salunke
Dr Jayant Shelgaonkar
Dr Jignesh Shah
Dr Jyoti Shendge
Dr Kapil Borawake
Dr Kayanoosh Kadapatti
Dr Khatib Khalid
Dr Pradeep D’costa
Dr Prasad Rajhans
Dr Sachin Jagdale
Dr Sandhya Talekar
Dr Shivkumar Iyer
Dr Sunita Varghese
Dr Sushma Patil Gurav
Dr Tushar Yadav
Dr Urvi Shukla

Manager: Ms Veronique De Vlaeminck – Brussels

Baron Jean-Louis Vincent is Professor of intensive care medicine at the Université libre de Bruxelles and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels. Specialist in Internal Medicine. He obtained his PhD degree at the University of Brussels in 1982.
Dr Vincent has signed more than 900 original articles, some 400 book chapters and review articles, and more than 1000 original abstracts, and has edited 102 books. Jean-Louis Vincent is the editor-in-chief of “Critical Care”, “Current Opinion in Critical Care”, and “ICU Management and Practice”. He is member of the Editorial Boards of about 30 journals

For 40 years he has organized an International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine which is held every March in Brussels. His name appears more than 1200 times in Pubmed, and his work has been cited more than 200,000 times; his H-index is 183. He was awarded the title of Baron by King Albert II of Belgium in 2013.

Prof Daniel DeBacker is currently Head of the Intensive Care department of the CHIREC Hospitals (Brussels and Braine l’Alleud-Waterloo) and Professor of Intensive Care at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels) His main fields of investigation are sepsis, organ dysfunction and support, circulatory failure, hemodynamic monitoring (including echocardiography), hepato-splanchnic circulation and microcirculatory disorders. Daniel De Backer has signed more than 300 articles.

His name is linked to some of the most important research in the field of shock, sepsis and microcirculation. One of his most important studies regarding the role of Norepinephrine in patients with Shock changed practice worldwide.

Professor Alain Combes, MD, PhD is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Paris, Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6 and senior intensivist at the Service de Réanimation Médicale Institut de Cardiologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris.

His main research interests are: Care of the critically ill cardiac patient (cardiogenic shock, acute myocardial infarction, complicated heart surgery and heart transplantation) Mechanical circulatory assistance and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Rescue therapies for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome, including ECMO & Pulmonary infection in mechanically ventilated ICU patients

Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Zarbock is senior staff member of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Germany. He studied medicine at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and graduated in 2003. In May 2003 he began his clinical training in the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Germany.
His scientific work focuses on the molecular mechanisms of leukocyte activation and recruitment in the context of systemic inflammatory diseases and acute kidney injury. His scientific work resulted in several peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Zarbock received several national and international awards.

Prof Alexandre Joosten is Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
Hôpital De Bicêtre. Paris, France. He worked as a leading member of a research team on goal directed therapy strategies and how to implement this concept at the bedside. His others interests include noninvasive cardiac output monitoring devices, fluid therapy, and many other novel perioperative technologies.

Dr. Joos-ten’s main research currently focuses on testing the impact of perioperative hemodynamic optimization using closed-loop automated fluid management system on postoperative outcome of patients undergoing high risk surgery.

Prof Annika Reintam Blaser, MD, PhD in Critcal Care & emergency Medicine, Researcher Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia, Intensivist Center of Intensive Care Medicine Lucerne Cantonal Hospital Lucerne, Switzerland. The main topic of her research is gastrointestinal dysfunction in intensive care patients.

She is a Chair of the Working Group on Gastrointestinal Function in Section of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and a member of Executive Committee of the Abdominal Compartment Society.

Prof Saugel is a Full Professor of Anesthesiology and Vice Chair in the Department of Anesthesiology, Center of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Hamburg), Germany .He has published more than 190 original articles and didactic reviews in peer-reviewed journals and serves as Associate Editor (Cardiovascular) of the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing and as Section Editor (Cardiovascular) of the Journal of Critical Care.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            His main field of research is the hemodynamic management of high-risk patients having surgery and critically ill patients. He especially focuses on concepts of “personalized hemodynamic management” using advanced innovative hemodynamic monitoring methods in perioperative and intensive care medicine

Prof Craig M. Coopersmith, MD, FACS, FCCM, is professor and vice chair of research in the Department of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine. He serves as director of the Emory Critical Care Center, a national leader in designing, testing, and implementing innovations in critical care. Prof. Coopersmith is a member of the Cancer Immunology research program at Winship Cancer Institute. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Surgical Association. He has served as president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. In 2020, he was inducted as a Master of Critical Care Medicine of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.

A board certified surgeon, he specializes in surgical critical care, and in the surgical treatment of sepsis and multiple organ failure.

Prof Elie Azoulay MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine, Specialty Pulmonary Medicine and Critical and Intensive Care, at the University of Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité and Faculty of Medicine at the Saint Louis Hospital, Paris. Prof Elie is, at present, Director of the Medical-ICU of the Saint-Louis Teaching Hospital in Paris, Elie has served the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine with exemplary dedication and passion. His work for the Intensive Care Medicine Journal has been incredibly successful.

His main fields of research are focused on Acute Respiratory Failure in immunocompromised patients, Hematological Malignancies in the ICU, Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation, severe infections, organ dysfunction in patients with connective tissue diseases, Systemic Vasculitis, Thrombotic Microangiopathies, Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis, Tumour Lysis Syndrome, and other hematological emergencies.

Prof Evangelos Giamarellos–Bourboulis is Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens since 2018. He was trained in the Immunology of Infections at the Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease of Radboud University in the Netherlands. His main research contribution is immunomodulation in sepsis and in auto-inflammatory disorders for which he was awarded the Young Investigator Research Award by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He has 379 publications in international peer-reviewed journals with 15,440 citations and h-index 64. He currently serves as the President of the European Shock Society and the Chair of the European Sepsis Alliance.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was the first to publish the complex immune dysregulation of severe patients and he is running four clinical trials on treatment and vaccination.

Professor in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care. Head of the Neurosurgical and Surgical Intensive Care Unit of of Bicêtre Hospital University Paris XI, Paris, Service d’Anesthésie-Réanimation, Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire Bicêtre, Kremlin Bicêtre.

His research focuses are on Assessment of tissue perfusion and oxygenation in critically ill patients (especially brain and kidney). Management of trauma patients. Management of brain injured patients, he has a number of ongoing translational research programs in these areas, involving collaborative partnerships throughout France and Europe. In his laboratory he has developed animals models of trauma brain injury, hemorrhagic and septic shock with powerful means for analysing tissue oxygenation.

Prof Jan Bakker, MD PhD FCCP, Editorial Board Member since 2013, United States | ICU / Critical Care & Emergency Medicine. Jan Bakker is Professor of Medicine and Vice-chair of the Department of Intensive Care Adults at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is Visiting Professor at Columbia University – New York Presbyterian, U.S. and a Visiting Professor at the University Hospital Pontificia Católica de Chile. His research interests include blood lactate, ethics and end-of-life care.
His clinical specialties are intensive care, haemodynamics, tissue perfusion, tissue oxygenation, early goal-directed therapy, infection prevention and end-of-life care. His management specialities are change management, costs and quality of care. He is a Scientific Advisor for the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. His key areas of interest and research are, tissue oxygenation and lactate levels, haemodynamic monitoring, ethics and end-of-life-care.

Prof Jan J. DE WAELE, MD, PhD Specialty: Surgery, Intensive Care Institute: Ghent University Hospital Department: Dept. of Critical Care Medicine City: Ghent Country: Belgium. His Scientific focus is on Optimizing antibiotic use in critically ill, he works ss an intensivist at the surgical ICU of the Dept. of Critical Care Medicine of the Ghent University Hospital.

His research activities currently focus on 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, and trauma – in line with his rather unusual background of general surgery.

Prof Jean-Charles Preiser MD, PhD is currently Professor in the Department of Intensive Care of Erasme University Hospital in Brussels. Medical director for Biomedical Research and Clinical Teaching, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels. He has long been involved in clinical research focusing on the metabolic and nutritional aspects of critical illness. Professor Preiser is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (JPEN), Critical Care, and the Annals of Intensive Care and is involved in international and national education programs on nutrition. He has published about 200 peer-reviewed articles, guidelines, and book chapters. He has presented 150 lectures at international scientific congress, and published 168 original articles in national and international journals as well as 100 abstracts.

His area of interests are in the metabolic aspects of critical illness, and its consequences in terms of nutritional needs, hyperglycaemia and long-term outcomes.

Prof Jean-damien Ricard is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine is at Hôpital Louis Mourier in Colombes, France. . His clinical research consists of co-authoring 160 peer reviewed articles and participating in 9 clinical trials in the past 15 years.

Dr. Ricard is highly rated in 7 conditions. His top areas of expertise are Pneumonia, Cerebral Hypoxia, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and Pulmonary Edema

Dr Manu Shankar-Hari Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and NIHR Clinician Scientist. He is the chairman of the Sepsis Quality Improvement Project in the hospital. Dr Manu’s research focuses on lymphocyte biology and epidemiology of sepsis. Manu was awarded the prestigious NIHR Clinician Scientist Award in 2016. Dr Manu was recognised for his contributions to sepsis research with the ANZICS Intensive Care Global rising star award in 2017 and International Sepsis Forum Lowry Fink Fellowship in 2019.Currently

Dr Manu’s research explores ways to improve outcomes in adult critically ill patients with sepsis and with ARDS, by linking the illness immunobiology to interventional trial design.

Prof Marc Leone, MD, PhD is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, He is the Chair of Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hôpital Nord, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille France. Prof Marc Leone has signed around 255 publications including major journals, book chapters, guidelines.He edited 4 books. He assumes the board member of the French Society of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. He is involved in the European Society of Anesthesiology and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

His expertise field includes sepsis and trauma in the critically ill patient. He works with different laboratories in the field of sepsis.

Prof Markus Skrifvars, MD, PhD, FCICM, EDIC is Prof of Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care & Paine Medicine at Helsinki University Hospital, Finland. He has many 170 plus publications in international peer-reviewed journals with 5,000 plus citations.

His Special Skills & areas of interest are in Critical Care & Emergency medicine, Resuscitation, Anaesthesiology, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation & Cardiac Arrest

Prof Marlies Ostermann, MD, PhD is a Consultant in Critical Care & Nephrology at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Foundation Trust, London and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. Following medical school in Goettingen (Germany), she completed her postgraduate training in the United Kingdom and Canada. She is an active member of the European Society of Intensive Care and Deputy Chair of the AKI working group. She is also actively involved in the Renal Association and the Intensive Care Society UK and is a fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

Her clinical and research interests include acute kidney injury in the critically ill, including biomarkers and long-term complications, and all aspects related to acute renal replacement therapy.

Prof Massimo Girardis is Director of the Anesthesia and Intensive Care Department of Modena University Hospital University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and University Hospital of Modena, Modena (Italy)

Prof Massimo Girardis has numerous assignments and study and work experiences also abroad, as well as a rich corpus of publications and scientific activities. He also holds the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Surgery, Medicine, Dentistry and Morphological Sciences with interest in Transplantation, Oncology and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Prof Mervyn Singer MB BS MD FRCP(Lon) FRCP(Edin) FFICM, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Director, Centre for Intensive Care Medicine Department of Medicine & Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research University College London.He has authored various papers and textbooks including the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care, was a Senior Investigator of the National Institute for Health Research and Founding Editor-in-Chief of Intensive Care Medicine Experimental.He has developed an oesophageal Doppler haemodynamic monitor that is now in widespread use and has authored various papers and textbooks including the Oxford Handbook of Critical Care.
His primary research interests are sepsis and multi-organ failure, infection, shock, and haemodynamic monitoring

Dr. Niall Ferguson is Head of Critical Care Medicine at the University Health Network and Sinai Health System, and full Professor in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto, with appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Physiology, and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. He is a Senior Scientist in the Toronto General Research Institute, and the Critical Care Lead for the Toronto-Central Local Health Integration Network. Dr. Ferguson is the Scientific Programme Chair for Critical Care Canada Forum, Canada’s premier critical care conference. He is a frequent invited-speaker at national and international meetings, having given over 300 such talks.
Dr. Ferguson’s research, which is supported by local, provincial, and national granting agencies, focuses on: (1) mechanical ventilation (epidemiology; weaning and liberation; extubation and tracheostomy); (2) acute respiratory distress syndrome (definitions; ventilatory management; trial design); and (3) novel modes of mechanical ventilation, including extra-corporeal life support.

Prof Nino Stocchetti is Full professor Anaesthesia Intensive Care, Milan University, & Director of the post-graduated school of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Milan University Italy. He has many Publications & Author and co-author of 263 paper listed in Scopus, plus 27 book chapters. Quotations: 9158, h-Index  48.
His fields of Interest are mainly in Physiopathology of secondary cerebral damage, Intracranial pressure monitoring and control, Coupling of cerebral blood flow and metabolism in head trauma, Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, Guidelines development, Computer-based data acquisition and analysis, Data Base design and implementation for head injury.

Prof Oriol Roca MD, PhD is Prof at VHIR Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, Bacelona Spain
He has published 28 originals of which 26 are indexed, with a cumulative impact factor of XXX and a
factor h 12. Author of 8 chapters of scientific books in the field of critical patients. Director of 3 doctoral theses in progress on biomarkers in respiratory distress syndrome acute, biomarkers in the burn patient and on high-flow oxygen therapy in insufficiency acute respiratory
With Special Skills and Expertise is in Intensive Care Medicine, Pulmonology, Emergency Medicine,Mechanical Ventilation, Intubation & Lung

Prof Pierre Singer MD, is Prof Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Dr. Singer has over 30 years of clinical and academic experience. He currently maintains appointments as the Director of the General Intensive Care department, head of the Institute of Nutrition Research (2006-present) at Rabin Medical Center, and director of the Metabolism laboratory at the Medical Center. He was the chairman of the Israel Society for Clinical Nutrition (ISCN) from 2005-2009, and Chairman of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) (2010-2014).

Dr Singer has supervised more than 50 clinical and academic research theses. His area of interest is Emergency Medicine, Nutrition and Diabetes Expert

Prof  Tobias Welte is Professor of Pulmonary Medicine and Director of the Department of Pulmonary and Infectious Diseases at Hannover University School of Medicine, Hannover, Germany. He received his doctorate in respiratory medicine from Hannover University in 1994 and his habilitation in 2000. Previously, Professor Welte held the position of Professor of Pneumology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Magdeburg, Germany, and was also a specialist in infectious diseases at that institution.

Professor Welte leads a multicentre research group focusing on the epidemiology, diagnosis and management of respiratory infections and the pathophysiology and treatment of obstructive airway disease. He has published around 600 papers in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to chapters in over 100 books

Prof Valentin Fuhrmann PhD is Prof at Clinic for Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany He has 500 publications in international peer-reviewed journals with 5,440 citations. He is a Specialist in internal medicine and gastroenterology & Additional training in special internal intensive care medicine.

His Main areas of activities are namely in Liver failure, Extracorporeal therapies, Organ interactions and multiple organ failure & Pharmacokinetics

Prof Vito Marco Ranieri is full professor & Chair at the University of Bologna, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, former Full Professor of Anesthesia and Director of the Specialization School in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Turin and La Sapienza University of Rome.He headed the Anesthesia department of the Molinette (Turin) and Umberto I (Rome) hospitals. He carries out his research in the field of intensive care. The research interests are aimed in particular at the treatment of the different forms of acute respiratory failure.

He currently coordinates randomized and controlled clinical trials on the efficacy of mechanical ventilation and extra-corporeal circulation, and on efficacy of pharmacological interventions for the treatment of ARDS. Study the biological mechanisms of mechanical ventilation damage.

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Dear Friends,

On behalf of ISCCM Pune Branch, we are pleased to invite you for the 8th Annual “BEST OF BRUSSELS” Symposium to be held on 13th to 14th November 2021. We have till date hosted 7 editions of very successful BOB symposiums which have received an overwhelming response always. The high quality of scientific content and discussion is well appreciated by the delegates & the industry

This will be a Virtual conference, and will be open to all practicing physicians and health professionals with an interest in critical care & emergency medicine. This year we have a galaxy of 35 + international speakers from across the globe who have done pioneering work in the field of critical care medicine, we have raised the bar for ourselves to take the meeting to the next level in terms of the scientific content

We have always taken up the challenges of such conferences owing to faith that we have in our relationships with the industry, which has helped us not only in providing standard therapy for our patients evolved through stringent research but has also supported academic ventures of such a stature. Your company has been in the forefront in our endeavors, and you have always shown a willingness to partner with us in our efforts to create an academic awareness.

We are also open to newer ideas, suggestions & opportunities to collaborate with you Attached are the various sponsorship options for you to choose from Let us join hands friends, towards making this conference a mega event.

Thanking You
Sincerely
Team, BOB 2021

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LEENA MOUDGILL – 9657746584
SURAJ BHOSALE – 8805849676

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