ISF Steering Committee Bios...
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Stephen F. Lowry, M.D.
Dr.
Stephen Lowry is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School and Senior Associate Dean for Education. Dr. Lowry, a native of
Ohio received his undergraduate degree, Magna Cum Laude from Ohio Wesleyan
University. He went on to graduate from the University of Michigan School of
Medicine, having been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Society. Dr. Lowry
completed his surgical residency at the University of Utah and during this
period he spent three years at the National Cancer Institute. Following
completion of his general surgery training, he spent a year as a surgical fellow
at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Lowry was
appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at the New York Hospital-Cornell
University Medical Center as well as Assistant Attending Surgeon at the Memorial
Cancer Center and a Visiting Associate Physician at the Rockefeller University
of New York. He rose through the ranks to become Professor of Surgery at
Cornell and Assistant Dean for Clinical Research. During this period he became
recognized not only for his expertise and nutritional and cytokine research, but
for his development of many of our current day stars in the surgical arena.
Further, he was awarded the prestigious Samuel D. Gross Prize in Surgical
Research by the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery.
In l997, Dr. Lowry was appointed
to his current post, where he has succeeded in developing an outstanding
department. His early research efforts
served as a basis for the evolution of biologic response modification therapies
for patients with severe infection and shock. These studies have continued
during his tenure at UMDNJ-RWJMS and have resulted in receipt of an NIH MERIT
award that recognizes the continual performance of outstanding research.
Dr. Lowry is certified in
General Surgery and has served or is serving on the Editorial Board of eight
prestigious journals of surgery and nutrition and has contributed heavily to the
literature as author or co-author of over 200 articles, over 100 abstracts, 120
book chapters as well as being Associate Editor of two books on Surgery and
Surgical Research.
He is the 2003 recipient of
the Flance-Karl Award presented by the American Surgical Association to an
American Surgeon whose work has contributed substantially to the advancement of
clinical surgery and is cited by the Institute for Scientific Information –
highly cited list in the field of Immunology. In 2005, Dr. Lowry was inducted
(honorary) into the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In 2006, Dr.
Lowry received his M.B.A. from the Auburn University.
Simon Finfer,
MB BS (London) FRCP (UK) FRCA FJFICM
Dr Finfer is a Senior Staff
Specialist in Intensive Care at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia,
a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sydney and at The
George Institute for International Health in Sydney. He is a founding
member and past-chair of the the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care
Research Centre in Melbourne. His postgraduate qualifications include
Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom, Fellowship
of the Royal College of Anaesthetics of the United Kingdom and Fellowship of the
Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of the Royal Austrailasian College of
Physicians and Austrailian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.Professor
Finfer's major academic interest is the design and conduct of large scale
randomized controlled trials in critical care. He was the lead
investigator for the 697 patient SAFE study (N Engl J Med 2004 May
27-350:247-56) and is the lead investigator and study Chair for the recently
completed 6104 patient NICE-SUGAR study.
Jean-Francois Dhainaut, MD
Professor Jean-Francois Dhainaut is the Dean of Cochin Port-Royal University and the Professor of
Critical Care Medicine. He is also the Chairman of the Department of Critical
Care Medicine at Cochin Hospital. Prof Dhainaut serves on several intensive
care committees and is on the editorial board of many international and national
intensive care journals. He is a member of a number of professional societies
including, the American Thoracic Society, the European Respiratory Society and
the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine. Prof Dhainaut is an eminent
clinical researcher and has been the principle investigator on several key
sepsis trials.
He is extremely well published in the sepsis area and other areas of interest to
intensive care health professionals.
Derek C. Angus,
MD, MPH, FRCP, FCCM, FCCP
Dr. Derek Angus is Professor and Vice
Chair of Research in the Department of Critical Care Medicine with secondary
appointments in 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 Angus is a Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians and is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and the
American College of Critical Care Medicine. He specializes in the epidemiologic,
economic and health services research aspects of critical illness and ICU
organization and delivery. He has studied the development and application of
cost-effectiveness analysis in critical care, the capability and impact of
alternative ICU organizational models, traditional and novel ICU risk prediction
tools, and the incidence, cost and short- and long-term outcomes of critical
illnesses such as sepsis and respiratory failure.
Dr Angus has attracted
considerable research funding for these studies, authored or co-authored more
than 350 publications, including more than 90 peer-reviewed articles, and
lectured at scientific congresses nationally and internationally. Dr. Angus is
currently leading three large NIH multicenter studies in the critically ill―GenIMS
(Genetic and Inflammatory Markers of Sepsis), EA-PAC (Economic Analysis of the
Pulmonary Artery Catheter), and ProNOx (Prolonged Outcomes in Neonatal
Respiratory Failure after Nitric Oxide)
John C. Marshall, MD, FRCS(C), FACS
Dr Marshall is professor of surgery at the University of Toronto and attending
surgeon at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. He is also a
practicing intensivist who serves as Director of Research Inter-departmental
Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto. He received his MD from the University of Toronto and his
fellowship in general surgery at Dalhousie University. Subsequent to this, he
pursued a fellowship in critical care and surgical immunobiology at McGill
University.
He has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and textbook chapters. He is
formerly editor in chief of the journal Sepsis and serves on the editorial boards
of Critical Care, Current Opinion in Critical Care, and Shock. He
is a member of a number of professional societies in surgery, critical care
medicine, and the basic science of inflammation. He is councilor of the Shock Society, and a member of the executive board of the Canadian
Critical Care Trials Group.
Dr Marshall’s research
interests include the basic and clinical biology of inflammation and the
mechanisms of its resolution through programmed cell death, as well as the
epidemiology and natural history of sepsis and the multiple organ dysfunction
syndrome. He has been an active basic and clinical investigator in these areas
and has lectured widely on inflammation and its role in the pathogenesis of the
morbidity of critical illness.
Stephen Opal, MD
Dr Opal is Professor of Medicine at Brown Medical School, and the Director of
the Infectious Disease Division at the Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island,
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA. He performed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center, Denver, CO
and was a fellow in Infectious Diseases at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center,
Washington, DC. He undertook tropical medicine training at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Walter
Reed Army Institute, in Washington DC.
Dr Opal is a member of many
professional societies including the American Society for Microbiology, American
Medical Association, Society for Critical care, International Immunocompromised
Host Society, International Endotoxin Society, Infectious Disease Society of
America, Shock Society, International Cytokine Society and the International
Society of Infectious Diseases.He serves on the editorial
boards of Sepsis, Shock, Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Forum and
Advances in Sepsis.Dr Opal has
also edited three text books- The Sepsis Text (along with J-L Vincent and
J. Carlet), Endotoxin: Its Role in Health and Disease (along with S.
Vogel, D. Morrison and H, Braude) and was the section editor for Special
Problems in Infectious Disease Practice in Armstrong and Cohen's Infectious
Diseases, first and second editions.
He has served in many roles on various committees and research boards such as NIH
Study Section for Microbiology and Mycology and General Clinical Research grant
awards committee, the Medical Research Counsel (MRC) Review Section for
Meningitis Research Foundation of the MRC, The British Society of Antimicrobial
Chemotherapy as an external reviewer of research proposal for novel
anti-inflammatory agents-Basic science division, and has been a medical writer
of National Examinations.
Tom van der Poll, MD
Tom van der Poll received his MD degree from the Faculty of
Medicine of the University of Amsterdam in 1986 and his PhD degree from the same
University in 1991. In 1991 Tom van der Poll was board certified in the
Netherlands in Internal Medicine, and in 2000 in Infectious Diseases. From 1995
to 2000 he was a fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003
he was appointed Professor of Medicine in the University of Amsterdam.From 1993 to 1995 Tom van der Poll worked as a postdoctoral
fellow in Cornell University Medical College in New York. After his return to
Amsterdam, Tom van der Poll started his own research group within the Academic
Medical Center which focuses on innate immune responses to bacterial and
mycobacterial infection. He is an internationally recognized expert in the
immunology of sepsis and has served as a member of Data Safety and Clinical
Monitoring Boards of several pivotal phase III sepsis trials evaluating
immunomodulatory agents.
At present, Tom van der Poll is co-chair of the Laboratory of Experimental Internal Medicine and a staff member
in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine & AIDS, in the
Academic Medical Center (University of Amsterdam), Amsterdam. He is a board
member of the AMC Institute for Science Education for young investigators and
vice-chair of the AMC Research Institute for Infectious Diseases. In his current
position, Tom van der Poll commits his time both to clinical care of patients
with infectious diseases, in particular HIV infected patients, and to research.
Konrad Reinhart, MD
Professor Reinhart is the Vice–Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the Friedrich Schiller University of
Jena, Germany. He is active in many societies - he is chairman of the section
Intensive Care of the European Society of Anaesthesiologists (ESA); member of
the section Sepsis of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
and chairman of the section Intensive Care Medicine of the German Society of
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI). In November 2002,
Professor Reinhart became the Founding President of the German Sepsis Society.
He is extremely well published in the intensive care and sepsisi areas.
Prof Reinhart is an eminent clinical researcher and has been the principle
investigator on several key sepsis trials.
Jean-Paul Mira, MD
Prof Mira received
his medical degree from Reims Medical School in 1990 and since then has
developed his career in medicine and research both in France and in the USA
where he spent 3 years at the Scripps Research Institute in California.
His research interests are genetic predisposition to sepsis, cellular responses
to micro-organisms, membrane dynamics, Toll-like Receptor signaling, functional
genomics and sepsis-induced immune-suppression. Jean-Paul is well published in
the fields of immunology and critical care.
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