SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Prof. DDr. Kai Zacharowski
Frankfurt, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board
Frankfurt, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. Kai Zacharowski is Director of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine & Pain Therapy at the University Hospital Frankfurt, and is currently president of the European Society of Anaesthesiology. His main research focus is on the complex interaction between immune system and coagulation, sepsis and Patient Blood Management. He has developed an evidence-based blood management system which allows a more stringent use of blood transfusions which has an inherent risk of patients to develop severe complications (e.g. myocardial infarction, kidney failure, lung failure, pneumonia).
Dr. Nicolas Bréchot
Paris
Dr. Nicolas Bréchot, MD, PhD is Doctor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Paris, Pierre et Marie Curie, and is a senior intensivist in the ICU department at the Institut de Cardiologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris. His main research focus is on the care of critically ill cardiac patient (cardiogenic shock, acute myocardial infarction, complicated heart surgery and heart transplantation), rescue therapies for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and inflammatory disorders.
Prof. Dr. Seiji Kojima
Nagoya
Prof Dr. Seiji Kojima is Professor emeritus and prior Chairman of Department of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Cancer Center at the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. He is a pioneer of therapy for childhood aplastic anemia (AA) in Japan. He has been Chairperson of the Japan Childhood AA Study Group since 1992 and Chairperson of the AA Working Party of the Asia Pacific Bone Marrow Transplantation Group since 2009.
Prof. Dr. Patrick Meybohm
Würzburg
Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Patrick Meybohm is Director of the Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Germany. Before, he was Deputy Director of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine & Pain Therapy at the University Hospital Frankfurt. His research focus is on Patient Blood Management (preoperative anaemia, perioperative haemotherapy) and he has headed 10 studies as principal investigator and more than 40 studies as deputy investigator in clinical trials in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care medicine.
Prof. Dr. Peter Petzelbauer
Vienna
Prof. Dr. Peter Petzelbauer is Head of Skin & Endothelium Research Division (SERD), Medical University Vienna, Austria. His research focus is on vascular barrier function in inflammation and cancer and he was the first person describing the function of peptide Bß15-42 now dubbed FX06.
Prof. Dr. Roman Ullrich
Vienna
Professor Dr. Roman Ullrich leads an intensive care unit in the Department of Anaesthesiology and an intensive care of the University Hospital (AKH) in Vienna, Austria, and is responsible for the management of the critical care units of the department.