FACULTY

Maggiore S.M.

Full Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, “Gabriele d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, SS. Annunziata Hospital, Chieti, Italy. He graduated in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (cum laude) from the University of Bari, Italy, and obtained a PhD in Respiratory Physiology (cum laude) at the Paris XII University. He worked first as a senior physician, then as Assistant Professor in the General ICU of the Agostino Gemelli Hospital, Catholic University of Rome, Italy. Since 2015, he was Associate Professor and, since 2018, Full Professor at the "Gabriele d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, working at the SS. Annunziata Hospital of Chieti, Italy. Since 2020, he is the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine of the same hospital. His professional career has been involved in several research programs focusing on acute respiratory failure, respiratory mechanics, invasive and non-invasive ventilatory support, the cardiovascular effects of mechanical ventilation, and ethics in intensive care. Dr. Maggiore published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, reviews, editorials and book chapters on these subjects. He has been honored with several awards from national and international Scientific Societies and is regularly invited at the main international meetings in Critical Care Medicine. He is a member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Society of Anesthesiology (ESA), and the Italian Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care (SIAARTI). He is the actual Chair of the Acute Respiratory Failure and Respiratory Support Section of SIAARTI, he has been a former Deputy Editor of the journal “Intensive Care Medicine”, and the Chair of the ESICM Editorial and Publishing Committee and member of the ESICM Executive Committee from 2011 to 2014.