Speakers
Professor Mervyn Singer
Professor Susanna Price
Dr Andrew Breen
Research
We’re thrilled to introduce brand-new SOA26 content in collaboration with UK Critical Care Research Group (UKCCRG).
Across four compelling sessions on Day 2, leading experts will spotlight landmark recent publications, unpack the underpinning science, and bring the evidence to life by exploring its real-world clinical impact.
This is a must-attend series for anyone passionate about staying at the forefront of critical care research and practice. Featured studies include MARCH, BICARICU-2, Andromeda Shock 2, and iRehab.
ANDROMEDA Shock 2 Learning objectives:
Co-chairs: Andrew Breen and Susanna Price
Professor Susanna Price trained at King's College London, and continued training in cardiology and intensive care medicine at a number of centres, including St Thomas', St George's and Royal Brompton hospitals, London. During her cardiology training, she undertook a fellowship in echocardiography at the Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam and on completion of her training, she was awarded the Jill Dando GUCH fellowship, allowing her to train for a further two years in imaging and management of the critically ill grown-up congenital heart disease (GUCH) patients.
She has extensive expertise in critical care cardiology, including extracorporeal support and adult congenital heart disease, as well as echocardiography for valvular heart disease and intensive care/peri-procedural transoesophageal echocardiogram.
Professor Price is Chair of the Pan-London Cardiogenic Shock Board, NHS London, aiming to improve survival of patients with cardiogenic shock. She is Vice President of the European Society of Cardiology, sits on the on the global ELSO board of directors, is a member of ECMONet, as well as a WHO advisor for acute cardiovascular disease, and a Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal. She received Honorary Membership of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) for her exceptional contribution to the ESICM and the speciality of intensive care medicine over a prolonged period.
Andy is a consultant in ICM working in Leeds Teaching Hospitals, having been appointed in 2005. He is Clinical Director for Adult Critical Care in Leeds, and an elected the Intensive Care Society's Honorary Secretary. He graduated in Liverpool in 1995, where he completed his clinical training in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine.
Andy has strong interest in point-of-care ultrasound, having been a founding member of the FICE committee, current member of the FUSIC committee and co-author of a number of POCUS accreditation programmes. Other interests include ethical decision making and advance care planning, the science of quality improvement and IV fluids education.
Jan Bakker studied Medicine at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and has a PhD from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands (Prof. Erkelens MD PhD) combined with Erasmus University in Brussels, Belgium (Prof. Jean Louis Vincent MD PhD).
From 2004 to 2014 he was the first chair of Intensive Care at Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In 2005 he was appointed as the first professor of Intensive Care at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam where he currently still holds a part-time appointment as professor emeritus.
In 2013, he started as a visiting professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Medicina, Santiago, Chile, where he received the Medal of Honor for his contribution to the Department of Intensive Care and the Medical School in November 2019 and was appointed as adjunct professor in 2023.
From 2016-2024 he has been an adjunct professor of Intensive Care at Columbia University Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, New York, USA.
From 2021-2024 he was Clinical Professor of Intensive Care, New York University, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, New York, USA.
He is a fellow of the Society of Chest Physicians USA and the Society of Critical Care Medicine USA.
From 2012 to 2016, he was the Section Editor of Intensive Care Medicine. Since January 2018, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Critical Care.
He has successfully supervised 18 PhD projects and currently supervises 8 PhD students in the Netherlands, USA, and Chile.
He has more than 400 peer-reviewed publications, was the editor of 19 books, and has written 45 book chapters in Intensive Care.