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Our keynote speakers have been carefully selected by the scientific committee, to ensure the delivery of the latest key research and expertise in their individual chosen fields.
Professor Derek Angus
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA. Derek Angus is Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine and Health Policy and Management, and Director of the CRISMA (Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness) Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He earned his medical degree and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, United Kingdom. Subsequently, he completed his Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine, combined with a Masters in Public Health degree at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr Carol Ball
Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom. Carol has worked in the speciality of critical care since 1976, attaining her doctorate in 2000. Currently she is a Consultant Nurse in Critical Care at the Royal Free Hospital, London. This post expands across the three levels of critical care, including intensive care, high dependency and outreach services. She has academic links with Kings College and is an Honorary Research Fellow at City University, London. Recent research and publications include an evaluation of the critical care outreach service at the Royal Free Hospital and the preliminary development of a tool to evaluate the work of nurses in intensive care. Her doctoral thesis created a model for advanced nursing practice in critical care. Currently she is one of the lead investigators in a UK Government funded research study reviewing the effectiveness of Critical Care Outreach Services.
Professor Laurent Brochard
Medical Intensive Care Unit, Henri Mondor Hospital, Paris, France. Laurent Brochard is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Paris and co-director of the Medical ICU at the Henri Mondor Hospital. He is currently Medical Director of the hospital. He is an expert in the field of respiratory failure, and has a special interest in acute respiratory distress syndrome and non-invasive ventilation. He has authored more than 160 papers in the most prestigious journals. He is currently Editor-in Chief of the journal Intensive Care Medicine.
Professor Tim Flannery
Recently named as the 2005 Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies, for his ongoing efforts to present science from a humanistic perspective.
Office of Sustainability, Adelaide, Australia. Tim Flannery has made contributions of international significance to the fields of palaeontology, mammalogy and conservation and to the understanding of science in the broader community. His work, which includes a number of major discoveries, has received international acclaim from both peers and professionals. He spent a year as Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University, where he drew international attention to Australia and its unique biodiversity, character and history. Dr Flannery publishes prolifically, having written 9 books and over 90 refereed papers. His book, The Future Eaters (1994), concerns the evolution of Australasian environments and is the first of its kind. Dr Flannery’s expertise is sought by national environmental committees and educational bodies. He is Chair of the Premier's Round Table on Sustainability and the Science and Research Council.
Professor Peter Gluckman
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Peter Gluckman is currently University Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Biology, Director, Liggins Institute for Medical Research and Director, National Research Centre for Growth and Development. He is also a panel member of the James Cook Research Fellowship, The Royal Society of New Zealand, Chair, WHO Technical Consultation on Optimising Pregnancy Outcomes and Chair, National Institutes of Health (USA) working group on research strategies to improve the outcomes of pregnancy. His research has spanned perinatal neuroscience, neuroprotection, the regulation of fetal and postnatal growth and other aspects of fetal physiology. He has a particular interest in the evolutionary origins of and the mechanisms underpinning the latter consequences of an adverse intrauterine environment. He is co-author of The Fetal Matrix, a book which explains these concepts, published by Cambridge University Press in late 2004. He has published over 500 refereed papers and reviews
Dr Jamie Hutchison
Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. Dr Hutchison is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and a Paediatric Intensive Care Physician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He is also Co-chair of the Paediatric Interest Group of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. This group is currently leading 8 multi-centre PICUstudies. He is principal investigator of the Hypothermia Paediatric Head Injury Trial (HyP-HIT) and the Hypothermia for Cardiac Arrest in Paediatrics (HypCAP) study and also principal investigator of several studies of molecular mechanisms of brain injury in laboratory models.
Ms Ellen McDonald
St Joseph’s Hospital, Hamilton, Canada. During her 20 years of nursing in critical care, Ellen has worked at the bedside in the Middle East and Canada. Most recently she has been working as an ICU research coordinator for McMaster University. Ellen had been working on a land-based Transport Team and now is enjoying aero medical nursing.
Professor Rui Moreno
Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos (Hospitais Civis de Lisboa (Central), Lisbon, Portugal. Rui Moreno is currently working as Director of the Intensive Care Unit at the Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos (Hospitais Civis de Lisboa (Central). He graduated in medicine in 1985 and completed his specialty training in Internal Medicine in 1993. He has been a Consultant in Internal Medicine since 1994 and was certified in Intensive Care Medicine in 1999 by the Portuguese National Medical Association and by the Panamerican and Iberic Federation of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. He is currently principal investigator, and is responsible for Portugal and Spain, for the CORTICUS study (Corticosteroid Therapy of Sepsis and Septic Shock). His other research activities include ICU coordinator of the Enhance (Extended Evaluation of Recombinant Human Activated Protein C) study, ICU coordinator and member of the Steering Group of the SOAP (Sepsis Occurrence in the Acutely Ill Patient) study, participant in the BASIC (Bacteraemia Study in Intensive Care) study and Project Coordinator of the SAPS III project since 1999. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Sepsis Project, the Scientific Committee of the European Consortium for Intensive Care Data and the methodological group of EURICUS I, EURICUS II and EURICUS III projects.
Ms Judy Rashotte
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada. Judy Rashotte is currently pursuing her PhD in nursing at the University of Alberta. She is a popular speaker, published author and respected leader in pediatric critical care. Her passion for critical care nursing is being pursued from her new position as Director, Nursing Research at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa. Her research on the grief experience of critical care nurses is one example of her profound respect for, and commitment to, her peers. In addition to holding a joint appointment with the School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, she is the Canadian representative for the Pediatric Critical Care World Federation and a member of the Editorial Review Board for Dynamics, the Official Journal of the Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses.
Professor Tom Stewart
Critical Care Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada. Professor Stewart is Director of Critical Care Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University Health Network (Toronto General, Toronto Western and Princess Margaret Hospitals). Dr. Stewart currently is a physician co-lead on the transformation of critical care medicine in the province of Ontario. He is director of the International Collaboration for Excellence in Critical Care Medicine which is focused on teaching leadership and management skills to clinicians. Dr. Stewart’s research interests are varied but most noted for conducting clinical trials related to lung protective forms of mechanical ventilation.
Professor Jean-Louis Vincent
Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium. Jean-Louis Vincent is Head of the Department of Intensive Care at the Erasme University Hospital in Brussels and Professor of Intensive Care at the University of Brussels. He is a member of the Editorial Board of more than 30 international journals, including Critical Care Medicine (senior editor), American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Chest, Shock, and Journal of Critical Care, and has signed more than 500 original articles.
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