Journal of Blood Disorders & Transfusion

Jean-Louis Vincent

Jean-Louis Vincent
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Biography

Dr. Vincent is Professor of intensive care at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Head of the Department of Intensive Care at the Erasme University Hospital in Brussels. He has authored or co-authored more than 750 peer-reviewed publications, about 90 books and more than 800 original abstracts. He is the editor-in-chief of "Critical Care", "Current Opinion in Critical Care", and "ICU Management" and member of the Editorial Boards of more than 30 journals including "Critical Care Medicine" (senior editor), "PLoS Medicine", "Lancet Infectious Diseases", “Anesthesiology”, "Intensive Care Medicine", "Chest", "Shock", and "Journal of Critical Care". He is presently Secretary General of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM), a Past-President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Shock Society (ESS), and Past-Chair of the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He received the Distinguished Investigator award of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the College Medalist Award of the American College of Chest Physicians, he was the Recipient of the "Society Medal”(lifetime award) of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and he received the prestigious Belgian scientific award of the FRS-FNRS (Prix Scientifique Joseph Maisin-Sciences biomédicales cliniques).

Research Interest

Anemia and transfusion in the acutely ill and Hemodynamic alterations in the acutely ill.