Professor Richard Albert, University of Denver, USA
Richard K. Albert, MD, is Chief of the Department of Medicine at Denver Health Medical Center, Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and Adjunct Professor of Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of Denver. He was an AOA graduate from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He did his Internal Medicine residency at the University of Colorado and the University of Washington, and his Pulmonary fellowship at the University of Colorado. Dr Albert is currently the Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and is on the Editorial Board of The Merck Manual. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of Professors of Medicine and is currently funded by two NIH grants. Among his honors are the being named Outstanding Instructor in Internal Medicine by the University of Colorado School of Medicine and being listed in The Best Doctors in America for the last sixteen years. Dr Albert has co-authored more than 130 journal articles, has authored or co-authored more than 40 book chapters, and has co-edited 6 books, one of which won first prize in the British Medical Association Medical Book Competition.
Professor Lluis Blanch, University of Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Lluis Blanch is Senior Intensivist and Consultant at the Critical Care Center of Hospital de Sabadell in Spain. He is Scientific Director of the Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí and Director of the University Institute Fundació Parc Taulí at Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, Spain.
Dr. Blanch’s research interests involve study of lung injury in patients receiving mechanical ventilation, experimental models of ventilator induced lung injury and on line data monitoring. He has been member of the Executive Committee of The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, President of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Society of Critical Care and President of the Catalan Critical Care Society. Dr. Blanch is a member of the board of several journals and reviewer of the top journals in the respiratory and critical care fields. He has received more than 30 grants from public or non profit organizations and has been distinguished with several awards and honorable mentions conferred by scientific societies. He has published over 250 articles and chapters and has been editor of several books.
Professor Andres Esteban, Getafe University, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Andres Esteban is Director of Critical Care & Burn Medicine in Getafe University Hospital , associated with the European University . He is also Director of Research in the same hospital. He has had a long experience in the management of general critically ill and burned patients. He has also worked over many years in experimental and clinical research. He has championed a network for the study of ARDS, and is pr es ently part of a nationwide network for the study of r es piratory disease. He has published more than 120 original articl es in peer-reviewed journals, being some of them landmark articles on weaning, ARDS and epidemiology of mechanical ventilation. He has also authored several Critical Care Medicine books, some of them translated into several languag es , as well as numerous book chapters in both spanish and english. He has given a large number of lectur es in the ATS, ESICCM and many European, American and Asian Critical Care societies.
He has actively participated in consensus conferences in areas such as weaning, limitation of therapeutic effort and experimental acute lung injury. His areas of interest in basic research include ARDS and VILI, and renal dysfunction in sepsis.
He is part of the Editorial Board of Intnesive Care Mediicne, Critical Care Illness, and Medicina Intensiva, and collaborates as a reviewer in many other Journals. Ha has been a member of the World Federation of Critical Care Societies , and has been President of the Spanish Society of Critical Care Medicine and Director of Critical Care Training Programs in Spain .
He has published more than 120 original articl es in peer-reviewed journals, being some of them landmark articl es on weaning, ARDS and epidemiology of mechanical ventilation. He has also authored several Critical Care Medicine books, some of them translated into several languages , as well as numerous book chapters in both spanish and english. He has given a large number of lectures in the ATS, ESICCM and many European, American and Asian Critical Care societies .
He has actively participated in consensus conferences in areas such as weaning, limitation of therapeutic effort and experimental acute lung injury. His areas of inter es t in basic r es earch include ARDS and VILI, and renal dysfunction in sepsis.
