Sepsis 2024 will be held as a joint meeting with the Canadian Critical Care Forum in Toronto, Canada, November 17-20 2024. Registration is now open: Click Here for Registration
Abstract Submission is now open: Click Here for Abstract Submission
We are sorry to announce that Sepsis 2023 has been canceled due to the ongoing situation in Israel.
Sepsis 2022 joined with the International Symposium on Infections in the Critically Ill Patient on 13 & 14 October 2022 in Barcelona Spain.
A virtual joint meeting with the International Sepsis Forum (ISF), the African Sepsis Alliance (ASA) and the Rwandan Emergency Care Association (RECA).
Sepsis 2021- Day 1: Welcome Ernest Nahayo,, Emmanuel Nsutebu, Thierry Calandra, and plenary : The Viewpoint from Africa
Sepsis 2021- Day 1: Session 1: The Challenges we Face Chair- Thierry Calandra, Switzerland.
Sepsis 2021- Day 1: Session 2: Epidemiology of Sepsis in Resource-variable Settings– Chair- Kathy Rowan, UK
Sepsis 2021- Day 1- Session 3: Tackling Some of the Pathogens Contributing to Sepsis in Africa, Chair- Joost Wiersinga
Sepsis 2021- Day 1- Session 4: Recognizing and Managing Sepsis. Chair- Flavia Machado, Brazil.
Sepsis 2021- Day 1- Plenary Lecture 3: The Many Faces of Sepsis-Niranjan “Tex” Kissoon
Sepsis 2021- Day 2: Session 5: Early Identification, Triage, and Diagnosis of Sepsis. Chair: Nate Shapiro, USA
Sepsis 2021- Day 2: Session 6: Early Resuscitation and Stabilization
Chair: Mervyn Singer, UK
Sepsis 2021- Day 2: Session 7: Clinical Challenges of Treating Maternal, Pediatric and Neonatal Sepsis in Africa
Chair: Adrienne Randolph, USA
Sepsis 2021- Day 2: Session 8: Prevention and Pre-hospital Care of Sepsis in Africa
Chair: Shevin Jacob, Uganda
Sepsis 2021- Day 2: Session 9: Improving Long-term Morbidity and Mortality
Chair: Hallie Prescott, USA
Sepsis 2020 was a 2-day virtual meeting.
Program Chairs were John Marshall, Canada and Christopher Seymour, USA.
Sepsis 2020- Day 1: Welcome Mervyn Singer, and plenary : Maladaptive host response in sepsis and COVID-19 Kenneth Baillie
Sepsis 2020- Day 1: Topic 1: Sepsis Now: what to do first? Chair- Christopher Seymour, US. Speakers- Matthieu Komorowski, UK, Nathan Shapiro, US & Erin McCreary, US
Sepsis 2020- Day 1: Topic 2: Around the World– Chair- Flavia Machado, Brazil; Speakers- Kristina Rudd, US, Jorge Salluh, Brazil, Emmanuel Nsutebu, UK
Sepsis 2020- Day 1- Topic 3: Back to basics, Chair- John Marshall, talks by Glenn Hernandez, Chile, Michael Bauer, Germany, Matteo Bassetti, Italy and Erin McCreary, US
Sepsis 2020- Day 1- Topic 4: New Science in Sepsis: what clinicians need to know. Chair- Mervyn Singer, UK. Speakers: Also Fox-Robichaud, Canada, Bas Haak, Netherlands & Robert Dickson, US
Sepsis 2020-Day 1: Topic 5: Harnessing the immune system for good. Chair- Manu Shakar-Hari, UK. Speakers- Fabienne Venet, France, Tom van der Poll, Netherlands, Sarah Sasson, Australia
Sepsis 2020 -Day 1- Topic 6: Fixing sepsis takes a team.
Chair- Nathan Shapiro. Speakers- Orlaith Staunton, US, Jeremy Kahn, US, Deena Costa, US & Robert Quinn, US
Sepsis 2020- Day 1- Topic 7: Sepsis myths:don’t believe everything you learned.
Chair: Christopher Seymour, US. Speakers: Brendon Scicluna, Netherlands, Thierry Calandra, Switzerland & Toe Coe, US
Sepsis 2020- day 2: Welcome and plenary: Living with COVID: A view from the Campus
Speaker: Preeti Malani, US
Sepsis 2020 Day 2: Topic 1: Insights from genetics and epidemiology
Chair: Kenneth Baillie. Speakers: Mervyn Singer, UK, Kenneth Baillie, UK, Maurizio Cecconi, Italy & Flavia Machado, Brazil
Sepsis 2020 Day 2- Topic 2: COVID treatment: Old, new, or somewhere in between?
Chair Joost Wiersinga, Netherlands. Speakers: Hallie Prescott, US, Joost Wiersinga, Netherlands, Anthony Gordon, UK & Bryan McVerry, US
Sepsis 2020 Day 2: Topic 3: COVID outside the lung
Chair: Michael Bauer, Germany, Speakers: Sherry Chou, US, Frank van de Veerdonk, Netherlands, Ryan Zarychanski, Canada & Adrienne Randolph, US
Sepsis 2020 Day 2: Topic 4: Corticosteroids for COVID: Who, what, and what and when?
Speakers: Kenneth Bailie, UK, Srinvas Murthy, Canada, Lennie Derde, Netherlands
Sepsis 2020 Day 2: Topic 5: A failed stress test?
Chair: Fernando Zampieri, Barzil. Speakers Petra Dickmann, Germany & Paul Young, New Zealand
Sepsis 2020- day 2: Topic 6 and Closing Remarks: Lessons learned from 6 months of COVID science Speakers: Christopher Seymour, US, Howard Bauchner, US & Steve Webb, Australia
Named in honor of our esteemed colleague Stephen F. Lowry who passed in 2011, these annual colloquia focus on key topics in the sepsis field and are designed to be highly discussive and thought provoking.
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1st International Sepsis Forum on Sepsis in Infants and Children:This closed meeting was organized by the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigative (PALISI) network and the ISF. It was sponsored by the Mannion Family Fund, The Center for the Critically Ill Child, Division of Critical Care Network, Children’s Hospital Boston, The Palisi Network and the ISF. September 2004. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2005 Vol.6/no.3.S1-S164. Click here for downloadable articles.
Shock Society/ISF Symposium: A closed symposium jointly sponsored by the Shock Society and the ISF on the Translation Biology of Acute Illness: Pre-Clinical Models of Shock, Trauma & Sepsis. The meeting was held at Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2004. Shock Vol. 24, Supplement 1, 2005
Consensus Conference on Infection Definitions in the ICU
Program Chairs: Jonathan Cohen, UK and Thierry Calandra, CH. This closed conference was held in Coral Gables, FL. Click here to view the program in PDF format. Consensus Conference Critical Care Medicine 2005, Vol.33/no.7. 1538/1548
ATS 2000,96th International Conference, Toronto, “Symposium: The Heart in Sepsis.”
American Thoracic Society (ATS) Critical Care Assembly Project, “Expert Workshop on Appropriate Use of Colloids in Medical Critical Illness.”
UK Medical Research Council International Workshop on Clinical Trial Design, February 2000, London, “How should we be designing clinical trials in sepsis in the critically ill?”
21st International Congress of Chemotherapy workshop 1999, “Trials and Serious Sepsis.”
UK Medical Research Council International Workshop on Severe Sepsis, 1999.
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The ISF best abstract awardee 2024 at ESICM is Bieke Tack from Leuven Belgium.
For the Abstract on: World Health Organization’s clinical criteria orienting hospital referral and diagnosis of serious bacterial infections in children under-five perform poorly
The ISF best abstract awardee 2022 at ESICM is Niels Van Mourik (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
For the abstract on Blood Transcriptomic Endotypes and the Response to Treatment Modalities in Sepsis: A Prospective Cohort Study
The ISF awarded the 2021 Sepsis Best Abstract to: 
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