FACULTY

Marini J.J.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH John J. Marini, M.D. Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota (USA). Educated and trained at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and at the University of Washington. Presently a member of numerous editorial boards, an author and editor of 11 medical textbooks, and contributor to more than 350 scientific and educational articles. “Critical Care Medicine—The Essentials”, a text that has been translated into 5 languages, is now in its 5th edition (2019). Investigative work has always concentrated in understanding the cardiopulmonary physiology and management of acute respiratory failure, with an emphasis on defining the mechanisms underlying the patient-ventilator interactions which occur during critical illness. In the majority of that research, I have been positioned at the interface between basic physiology and clinical medicine so as to develop mechanistic insights that advance clinical practice. Refining our understanding of ventilator-induced lung injury is a theme currently pursued with collaborators at the bench, laboratory, and clinical levels.