FACULTY

Combes A.

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Sorbonne Université, Paris, and head of the ICU department at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris Professor Alain Combes, MD, PhD is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Sorbonne Université, Paris, and head of the ICU department at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, France. e-Mail: alain.combes@aphp.fr Main research interests: Care of the critically ill cardiac patient (cardiogenic shock, acute myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, complicated heart surgery and heart transplantation) Mechanical circulatory assistance and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Rescue therapies for severe respiratory failure, including ECMO and ECCO2R Infections in critically patients, such as pulmonary infections in mechanically ventilated ICU patients and endocarditis. Professor Combes is Member of The Société de Réanimation de Langue Française (SRLF) The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) Editor of Intensive Care Medicine The American Thoracic Society (ATS) The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) The Association for Acute CardioVascular Care, ESC-ACVC Board member of the ESC-ACVC The Extra Corporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), Past President of the EURO-ELSO The International ECMO network (ECMONet)