ALAIN COMBES

Professor Alain Combes, MD, PhD is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Sorbonne University, Paris, and head of the ICU department at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, France.

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 Francaise (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)