About the Author

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Prof. Jean-Louis Vincent is Professor of intensive care medicine at the University of Brussels, and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels. He is Past-President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ), the European Shock Society (ESS), and the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He is a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.Prof. Vincent has signed more than 1000 articles, 400 book chapters and review articles, and 1000 original abstracts, and has edited more than 100 books. His h-index is 198. He is co-editor of the "Textbook of Critical Care" (Elsevier Saunders) and the "Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine" (Springer). He is editor-in-chief of "Critical Care", "Current Opinion in Critical Care", and "ICU Management & Practice" and member of the editorial boards of about 30 journals.Prof Vincent has received several awards, including the Distinguished Investigator and Lifetime Achievement Awards of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the College Medalist Award of the American College of Chest Physicians, the Society Medal (lifetime award) of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Presidential Award of the European Respiratory Society, and the prestigious Belgian scientific award of the FRS-FNRS. In recognition of these achievements, he was awarded the title of Baron by the King of Belgium.