Contribution

Attending physician at the Health Sciences Centre and St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Appointed as an Associate Professor of Medicine (Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases) at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey

Publications

Published over 350 original research manuscripts, reviews/chapters and abstracts.
He has a translational research interests in sepsis and life-threatening infections

Areas Of Interest

Critical Care Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Sepsis and septic shock, Nosocomial infections

Board Certification(s)

1998, American Board of Internal Medicine
2004, American Board of Internal Medicine in Infectious Diseases

Memberships & Affiliation

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University of British Columbia
Fellow American College of Physicians
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons

I believe...

Treat the patient, not just the disease.

Contribution

Director of Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory, of the Public Health Laboratory Service (now Public Health England).
Member of the Government’s Antimicrobial Resistance & Healthcare Associated Infection Advisory Committee
Chief Medical Officer for England’s 2011 Annual Report.

Publications

Has a long track record of research and publication on the evolution and epidemiology of antibiotic resistance, particularly β-lactamases.
Edited for several journals, including the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Contribution

Chair of Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group [SAPG] - Scottish Government Stewardship programme
President ESGAP
Chair of BSAC National OPAT working party
National Speciality Adviser for Infectious Diseases to the Scottish Government Health Department

Instructor & Faculty

Faculty at various International conferences

Publications

Authored more than 225 peer reviewed publications

Author in Books

Contributed to chapters on antibiotic treatment
Steawardship and OPAT in prestigious textbooks
Involved in 20 national, including SIGN, BTS, BSAC national and international infection guidelines or statements

Areas Of Interest

Antibiotic Stewardship and Gram-positive Sepsis

Contribution

Dr. Boyer is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Department of Emergency Medicine. He is the director of Toxicology and former Director of the Toxicology Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine. was the Chief of the Division of Medical Toxicology at UMass-Memorial Medical Center from 2002-2016

Publications

Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Citation Award (2015)
MIT Media Lab’s Health and Wellness Innovations Best User Experience (2013)
The American College of Medical Toxicology National Research Award (2011)

Contribution

President of the International Society Anti-infective Pharmacology (ISAP, 2002-4)
Founding members of the ESCMID Pharmacology of Antimicrobials Study Group (EPASG 2010).
Chair of the Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy, member of the Dutch expert committee on the use of antimicrobials in animals (SDa)
Steering committee member of the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST).

Publications

He has (co)-authored over 250 scientific publications and book chapters.

Contribution

Former foundation Dean of Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Universities of Brighton and Sussex.
President, International Society for Infectious Diseases.
Former President for the 2012 ECCMID
Served on the Medical Research Council Infection & Inflammation Board and on the RAE 2008 Infection and Immunity panel

Publications

Over more than 200 papers in the field of pathogenesis and treatment of severe bacterial infections (septic shock)

Instructor & Faculty

Visiting Professor in Infectious Diseases, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London.

Areas Of Expertise

Sepsis and septic shock- encompassing studies of both basic pathogenesis & clinical trials of novel therapies

Contribution

Chairman of the Sepsis Quality Improvement Project in the hospital.
Faculty teaching in performing observational research course at the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London since 2011.

Publications

Authored over 41 scientific publications

Achievements & Awards

NIHR Clinician Scientist Award in 2017
2017 ANZICS Intensive Care Global Rising Star

Areas Of Expertise

Clinical epidemiology
Knowledge transfer
Health policy.

Contribution

He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Chest Physicians. He is also a member of the American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine, American Association for Respiratory Care, and American Society of Clinical Investigation.

He has served as chairman for the Academy of Infection Management (2003-present), Member of the ATS/IDSA Nosocomial Pneumonia Guidelines committee (2004-2005), and is the current American College of Chest Physicians/Eli Lilly and Company Distinguished Scholar in Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Kollef has published extensively on nosocomial infections, including ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Contribution

He developed an oesophageal Doppler haemodynamic monitor that is now in widespread use worldwide.

Achievements & Awards

He was the first UK intensivist to be awarded Senior Investigator status by the National Institute for Health Research, and to be invited to give plenary lectures at the European and US Intensive Care Congresses.

Publications

He has led on a number of important multi-centre trials in critical care.
He has authored various papers and textbooks including the Oxford Handbook of Critical Care, now in its 3rd Edition, and is a Council member of the International Sepsis Forum.

Areas Of Interest

Sepsis and multi-organ failure, infection, shock and haemodynamic monitoring

Contribution

Dr. Niederman’s interests include respiratory tract infections, including mechanisms of airway colonization, the management of community and hospital-acquired pneumonia, the role of guidelines for pneumonia, and the impact of antibiotic resistance on the management and outcomes of respiratory tract infections.

Contribution

Chief of Neurocritical Care
University of Maryland Medical Center who specialize in Neurology

Areas Of Interest

Neuro Critical Care

Achievements & Awards

Educational Scholarship Award
Inducted as Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine
(FCCM) Inducted, Fellow of the American Neurological Association

Publications

53 publications. Both in National and International journals.
85+ peer-reviewed journals

Contribution

He is also affiliated with Virtua West Jersey Health System Inc, Cape Regional Medical Center, Inc, Kennedy University Hospital Inc, Atlanticare Regional Medical Center

Editorial Positions

Reviewer, Critical Care Medicine, 2010-2015

Areas Of Interest

Point-of-care ultrasound, mechanical circulatory support, medical education

Ramesh was highly regarded by his peers and the staff at Knox Private Hospital and will be fondly remembered and sadly missed. Those who have worked closely with him would say that it was a privilege to have worked with him and to have known him. His caring, compassion and genuine approach to his medicine touched the lives of many patients and families. A gentle person who was the epitome of kindness and professionalism.

Dr Ramesh Nagappan was the Director of Medicine & Director of Physician Education at Maroondah Hospital, Melbourne and an ICU Specialist at Epworth Eastern Hospital, Melbourne. He was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Monash University.

Among his many career accomplishments he at the time of his untimely death at the age of 56 years was, a member of the National Examining Panel, and Victorian State Examinations Coordinator, Royal Australasian College of Physicians as well as a National Examiner, Board of Examinations, for the College of Intensive Care Medicine Australia & New Zealand.

Contribution

He is also Director - Coronary Care Unit
Program Director - Cardiovascular Diseases
Director - Vascular Physiology Research Laboratory
Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ

Areas Of Interest

Vascular and myocardial function

Instructor & Faculty

Faculty at various International conferences

Honors & Achievements

William Christian Award for Outstanding Research by the American Federation of clinical Research
The Excellence in Teaching & Award, Brown University School (2011)

Publications

224 Peer Reviewed Research Papers
62 Invited Editorials, Senior Editor of Cohen, Powderly and Opal's Infectious Diseases (4th Edition, Elsevier Publishers)

Author in Books

77 Books Chapters

Areas Of Interest

Infectious deseases, International Health, Biodefense, Septic Shock and Emerging Pathogens

Summary

He qualified from Guy’s and St Thomas Hospitals Medical School, with postgraduate training at Guy’s, King’s College, Royal Brompton, Chelsea and Westminster and Charing Cross Hospitals, London.

His PhD into mechanisms of microvascular dysfunction in sepsis at the National Heart and Lung Institute, London and further subspecialty training (sleep medicine, ventilation, interstitial lung disease, and advanced bronchoscopy) in Respiratory medicine were at the Royal Brompton Hospital between 1996 and 2002.

Clinical and research interests include sleep disordered breathing, non invasive ventilation, diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy in Lung Cancer, COPD, Asthma and Intensive care. He is Director of the Adult Sleep Medicine Service and Respiratory Physician to the Bariatric Service at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London.

His research interests within Intensive Care Medicine include the use of bronchoscopic sampling modalities for prognostic markers in Burns inhalation injury and Ventilator associated pneumonia, mechanisms of reducing infection in the critically ill, and translational research in the effectiveness of information technology on service provision within Intensive Care Medicine.

He has over 30 peer reviewed publications, including papers, reviews, edited books and chapter authorship. He is currently co-editor of Medicine international Respiratory section. He has had numerous international and national presentations in the USA, UK, Europe and India. He is a speaker at the British Thoracic Society winter meetings, Intensive Care Society, faculty member of the Indian Society of Intensive Care Medicine annual congress, Criticare Chennai Feb 2006, and Guest Speaker at the national Sleep Medicine conference SleepChennai in July 2006/Apr2009 and the Hellenic Society of Trauma and Emergency Medicine 2007.

He has been a dedicated Clinical Teacher for undergraduate and postgraduate medicine, and multidisciplinary healthcare professionals for over 15years, reflecting a desire and pleasure in imparting acquired knowledge, experience and practical skills to others.

He is Director of Clinical Studies (Undergraduate) at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital campus of Imperial College, London, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine Tutor and Examiner, MRCP PACES Examiner for the Royal College of Physicians, London, Educational Training Supervisor in Intensive Care Medicine (Imperial College/London Deanery), recent Secretary of the British Thoracic Society Interventional Pulmonology Special Advisory Group and Member of the Respiratory Critical Care Special Advisory Group, Scientific faculty of the annual International Advanced Bronchoscopy Meeting (Royal Brompton Hospital/NHLI) and Chair of the previous Royal College approved-Pastest Advanced Medicine (Respiratory section) course.

He has close working relationships within the Academic departments of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, and Immunology at Imperial College. He also collaborates in multi-centre studies both nationally and internationally.

Awards

Imperial College Award for Teaching Excellence for NHS Teachers 2013, Imperial College London. 31 May 2013.

Publications

Vutipongsatorn K, Fujitake E, Singh S, 2019, Tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica in a patient requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a case report., Clin Med (lond), Vol:19, Pages:33-34

Vutipongsatorn K, Fujitake E, Singh S, 2019, Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in life-threatening asthma unresponsive to mechanical ventilation: a comparison of patient demographics and outcomes between a large London-based intensive care unit and an international registry., Clin Med (lond), Vol:19

Garner JL, Garner SD, Hardie RJ, et al., 2019, Evaluation of a re-useable bronchoscopy biosimulator with ventilated lungs, Erj Open Research, Vol:5, ISSN:2312-0541

Elliot ER, Wang X, Singh S, et al., 2019, Increased dolutegravir peak concentrations in people living with HIV aged 60 and over and analysis of sleep quality and cognition, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vol:68, ISSN:1058-4838, Pages:87-95

Conference

Ark R, Mandalia S, Moore L, et al., Evaluating the long-term impact of an antimicrobial stewardship programme in a central London mixed medical and surgical intensive care unit, European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases.

Contribution

Previously, Dr. Erickson served as the Director for the UIC Center for Global Health and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Erickson also served as the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Graduate Medical Education, and Continuing Medical Education at the UIC College of Medicine.

Expertise

Environmental Toxicology and crisis in climate change.

Publications

Published in over 120 original journal articles and book chapters as well as editing 4 major textbooks.

Faculty

He has presented over 100 national and international invited lectures related to emergency medicine, toxicology, humanitarian global health & wilderness/expedition medicine.