Activities
Day 1
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
Day 2
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 Videos
Sepsis 2020 was a 2-day virtual meeting.
Program Chairs were John Marshall, Canada and Christopher Seymour, USA.
Day 1
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
Day 2
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
Stephen F. Lowry Colloquia
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.
- 2022: 18th Colloquium: on RETHINKING THE IMMUNOBIOLOGY OF SEPSIS
- 2019: 17th Colloquium: on TARGET, TRAJECTORIES AND TREATABLE TRAITS..A ROADMAP FOR DEEP PHENOTYPING IN SEPSIS
- 2018: 16th Colloquium: on UNDERSTANDING AND ENHANCING SEPSIS SURVIVORSHIP
- 2016: 15th Colloquium: on SEPSIS AND THE CHALLENGE OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE.
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2015: 14th Colloquium, in conjunction with the Critical Care Canada Forum on the topic: PRECISION MEDICINE IN SEPSIS: PAID DIAGNOSIS AND TARGETED THERAPY.
2015: 13th Colloquium in conjunction with the ISICEM Roundtable on REDUCING THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF SEPSIS: DEVELOPING A ROADMAP
2014: 12th Colloquium on THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN VIRULENCE AND ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN THE ICU
2013: 11th Colloquium on InFACT AN INAUGURAL MEETING in Conjunction with the ISF
2012: 10th Colloquium on BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD: A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION PROCESS IN SEPSIS
2011: 9th Colloquium on THE SYSTEMS BIOLOGY OF SEPSIS, GENOMICS AND BEYOND
2009: 8th Colloquium on DIVERGENCES AND CONVERGENCES OF THE SEPTIC PHENOTYPE
2008: 7th Colloquium on SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS IN SEPSIS
2007: 6th Colloquium on SEPSIS AFTERMATH: REPAIR, RECOVERY AND REHABILITATION
2006: 5th Colloquium on THE HOST- PATHOGEN RESPONSE IN SEPSIS
2005: 4th Colloquium on DESIGN AND REPORTING OF CLINICAL TRIALS IN SEVERE INFECTION AND ACUTE LUNG INJURY
2004: 3rd Colloquium on PREDISPOSING FACTORS IN SEPSIS
2003: 2nd Colloquium on MANAGING OUTCOMES IN SEPSIS RESEARCH
2002: 1st Colloquium on GENETIC MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BASIS OF INNATE IMMUNITY AND SEPSIS
Additional Colloquia
2005:ISF Colloquium on Biomarkers in Sepsis. October 28-30 in Toronto, Canada.
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Other ISF Events
- SCCM (Society of Critical Care Medicine)- 1999-2010
- ESCMID (European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases)- 2002-2021
- ESICM (European Society of Intensive Care Medicine)- 2005-2021
- ICS (Intensive Care Society) – 2010-2018
- LASI (Latin American Sepsis Institute) – 2015
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ISF Session at the 9th World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, August 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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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ISF Awards
The ISF awarded the 2021 Sepsis Best Abstract to: 
