FACULTY

Schultz M.

Prof. dr. Marcus J. Schultz completed his medical degree cum laude (with honor) and residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Amsterdam and the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He obtained his doctorate at the same university. Prof. Schultz is an intensivists and one of the Principal Investigators of the Academic Medical Center and professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University of Amsterdam. He is the chair of the ‘Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology’ (L·E·I·C·A), a university–based laboratory specialized in translational research in the filed of mechanical ventilation. He is a founding member of the ‘PROtective VEntilation Network’ (PROVE Net, www.provenet.eu), a worldwide collaboration of intensivists and anesthesiologist in ventilation research. Since 2014 Marcus Schultz works at the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit in Bangkok, Thailand. His main research interests are in the area of mechanical ventilation, lung injury, and pneumonia. He runs a large research group focused on translational, preclinical and clinical research in the fields of critical care, pneumonia, and ventilation. He has extensive experience in the coordination of multicentre trials of ventilation, and is currently running several randomized controlled trials of protective ventilation funded by the Dutch government and international societies of anaesthesiology and intensive care. Marcus Schultz initiated several national and international projects aiming at implementation of intensive care unit strategies in daily critical care practice in industrialized countries (in European countries) and in resource–poor ICUs in middle– and low–income countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Vietnam and Brazil).