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Peter Andrews is Professor in the Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, from August 1, 2007. Research includes “Direct Brain Cooling” studies, the EUROTHERM3235Trial investigating the titrated use of hypothermia after TBI in patients with raised ICP, the TOPCAT study (http://www.topcatstudy.co.uk/). Prof Andrews is the Chief Investigator of the “SIGNET Trial”, the first UK non-commercial CT-IMP trial in critical care. PA also leads a laboratory research programme studying inflammation after brain injury. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Oscar Östberg Braun, MD, PhD, graduated from the Medical School at Lund University where he also got his PhD. His research has been mainly been focused on platelet pharmacology. He just returned to Sweden after a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Pharmacology at UCSD in La Jolla. He is currently doing his clinical residency at the Department of Cardiology at Lund University Hospital. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Guy L. Clifton, M.D. is Professor of Neurosurgery at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston where he was founding chairman and holds the Runnells Distinguished Chair in Neurosurgery. He has been principal investigator of two NIH/NINDS-funded multi-center clinical trials of hypothermia treatment for severe brain injury. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Frederick Colbourne, Ph.D is Professor of Psychology, University of Alberta
and Senior Medical Scholar of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Dalton W. Dietrich is Professor of Neurological Surgery, Neurology and Cell Biology and Anatomy at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
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Nicolas Deye, MD is senior cardiologist and intensivist in the Critical Care Department of Lariboisiere University Hospital in Paris, France. He is involved in clinical trials in the field of toxicology, regarding cardiotoxic poisonings and refractory cardiac arrests or shocks treated with extracorporeal life support. On behalf of Frederic Baud, he is the coordinator of a multicenter randomized trial evaluating endovascular versus external cooling after cardiac arrest (NCT00392639). He belongs to the European Resuscitation Council, the European Hypothermia Network, and the French societies of intensive medicine (SRLF, SFAR) playing an important role in their scientific life. He published nearly 50 scientific papers and book sections in English and French.
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Dr Ulrich Dirnagl. The research of Ulrich Dirnagl is focused on stroke, cerebral blood flow regulation, and brain imaging. In preclinical models as well as clinical trials he explores mechanisms by which brain ischemia leads to cell death, and develops novel methods to intercept mechanisms of damage in acute brain damage, as well as to foster regeneration and repair of the lesions.
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David Erlinge is professor in cardiology and interventional cardiologist at the HeartLung-division at Lund University Hospital, Sweden. His reasearch is focused on translational studies on the mechanisms and the practical use of hypothermia for acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic chock. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bertil Fredholm is Professor of Pharmacology at Karolinska Institutet since 1977. He has mostly worked on adenosine and adenosine receptors, in which area he has published close to 600 papers. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Guoyi Gao, M.D., Ph.D. is attending doctor of neurosurgery department, Renji hospital of shanghai Jiaotong university school of medicine. He has been the principle investigator of two China national science foundation grants. As a neurosurgeon for over 15 years, his clinical experience involves the treatment of severe traumatic brain injury, and the acute traumatic coma awakening project. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nariyuki Hayashi, M.D., D.S.Sc. is a Professor of Advanced Research Institute for Science and Humanities, Nihon University
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Janneke Horn, MD, PhD works as a neurologist-intensivist on the ICU of the Academical medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her main topic of research is treatment and prognostication in patients who remain in coma after CPR. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Edward Högestätt is a professor in Clinical Pharmacology at Lund University, where he also graduated from medical school 1987 and spent most of his research career. Over the years, his research interest has shifted from cardiovascular pharmacology to pain signaling with focus on the role of thermosensitive TRP ion channels in noxious chemical transduction. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Dr. Thomas Eric Jüttler was born on April 12th 1972 in Heidenheim an der Brenz, Germany. He visited school from 1978 to 1991. He studied Psychology (1992-1993) and Medicine (1993-2000) at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg and Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg. He was appointed medical doctor (MD) in 2000. From 08/2000 to 01/2009 he worked as fellow/resident in Neurology at the Department of Neurology at University of Heidelberg, with a clinical focus on neuro-intensive care, neurological emergency treatment, and neuroradiology. His main research interests are in clinical trials in stroke and neurointensive care medicine. Since 02/2009 he works as a junior professor at the Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB) at the Charité-University Medicine Berlin. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Karl B. Kern, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he is the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, and the Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship. Following his graduation from Brigham Young University (magna cum laude), he attended Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, where he graduated with honors as Alpha Omega Alpha in 1980. His postgraduate education and training, including his Cardiology Fellowship were at the University of Arizona.
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Laurence Katz, MD, FACEP is residency trained and board certified in Internal Medicine (Harvard) and Emergency Medicine (Pittsburgh) and completed a research Fellowship at the Safar Center under Dr. Safar’s direction. He is involved in bench, translational and clinical trials with a focus on pediatrics, near drowning, cerebral resuscitation and therapeutic hypothermia. Dr Katz is the co-director of the Carolina Resuscitation Research Group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Patrick M. Kochanek, MD is Professor and Vice Chairman of CCM and Director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research at the University of Pittsburgh. He has a track-record of investigation in traumatic and ischemic brain injury and neurointensive care and is funded by NIH, US Army, CDC, and Laerdal Foundation. He is co-investigator on the DARPA-funded PREVENT blast program. He is PI of a T-32 on “Pediatric Neurointensive Care.” He is Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. He received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the American College of Critical Care Medicine in 2007, the Critical Care Distinguished Career Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2008, and gave the Baaken Lecture at the Cleveland Clinic in 2008. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
PD Dr. med. Rainer Kollmar is Assistant Professor for Neurology in Erlangen, Germany. With a strong background in intensive care medicine and animal research, bench to bedside work has been done in different kinds of stroke treated by hypothermia. He is one of the founder members of a Pan European Stroke Network for Hypothermia. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Patrick D. Lyden, M.D., F.A.A.N., F.A.H.A received his medical training from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Following internship and neurology residency in San Diego, he started a 3-year research fellowship in stroke at UCSD. Since 1987 he has been a member of the Neurosciences faculty at UCSD and has directed the Stroke Research Center since 1994. His current positions include serving as staff physician at the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Chief of Neurology and Director of the Stroke Center at the UCSD Medical Center, and Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at UCSD.
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Professor Tsuyoshi Maekawa is Professor of the Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine and Dean of Advanced Medical Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Yamaguchi University Hospital ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stephan A. Mayer, MD, is Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neurological Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City, and is Director of the Neurological Intensive Care Unit at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia University Medical Center. He is a graduate of Brown University, received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York, and did his postgraduate medical training in neurology and neurological intensive care at the Neurological Institute of New York. Dr. Mayer has published more than 450 journal articles, books, case reports, book chapters, and abstracts. He was principal investigator of the FAST Trial, a worldwide multicenter clinical trial evaluating ultra-early hemostatic therapy for brain hemorrhage, and is principal investigator of the NIH-funded New York Presbyterian Hospital hub of the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials network. He also serves as director of the Columbia University Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Outcomes Project, and is active in research related to therapeutic hypothermia, neurocardiac injury, status epilepticus, and multimodality monitoring ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Marko Noc, MD, PhD is Director, CICU, Attending interventional cardiologist, University Medical Center, Professor of Medicine, Medical School, Ljubljana-Slovenia
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Mauro Oddo, MD is attending physician at the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland. He was research scientist at Columbia University, New York and at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He has published several studies on the role of therapeutic hypothermia and controlled normothermia in patients with coma after cardiac arrest and subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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Jesper Petersson is currently the Director of the Department of Neurology at Malmö University Hospital. He is founding member of the Swedish SITS – committee and vice-president of the European Stroke Research Network for Hypothermia ESRNH. The Malmö stroke unit is one of the largest in Sweden and treats 800 stroke patients per year. Dr Petersson was Steering Committee member for the NOCSS-trial (Nordic Cooling in Ischemic Stroke Study). He has designed and started the Malmö Acute Stroke COoling Trial (MASCOT) and is co-chair of the COOLAID ÖRESUND trial. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kees Polderman studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam and has worked as an intensivist at the Free University Hospital in Amsterdam and the Utrecht University Medical Center. He is currently working as director of adult Neurocritical care services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in the United States.
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Aurel Popa-Wagner. 1996-present: Director, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, University of Greifswald, Germany.
2004-present: Professor of Experimental Neurology, University of Greifswald, Germany
2008-present: Director, Advances in Neuroscience Programme, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, Germany.
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Professor Wusi QIU, Secretary of Department of Surgery, Hangzhou Normal University, has written 3 book chapters and published 30 medical papers since 1992. Focusing on the therapeutic hypothermia for brain injury, he is becoming an international expert in this field. He is a reviewer for journals as AMS and WJP.
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Sten Rubertsson, MD, PhD, EDIC, FCCM is Professor at the Dept. of Anesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, at Uppsala University and a
senior consultant at Uppsala University Hospital. He is Principal Investigator of the ongoing LINC multicenter trial and has more than 50 published peer reviewed articles mostly within CPR.
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Dr. Seetha Shankaran is Professor of Pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Director of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine at Children's Hospital of Michigan and Hutzel Women's Hospital. She is the PI of the first trial in the USA of neuroprotection with whole body hypothermia for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in term infants. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gary K Steinberg, MD, PhD is Professor of Neurosurgery and the Neurosciences, Director, Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences.
Dr. Steinberg’s experimental research investigates the pathophysiology and treatment of acute cerebral ischemia, as well as methods to restore function after stroke. His laboratory has studied the role of excitatory amino acids, oxidative stress, inflammation and gene expression on necrotic and apoptotic ischemic injury, and has explored various therapeutic and restorative strategies such as NMDA antagonists, anti-inflammatory agents, mild brain hypothermia, gene transfer therapy, stem cell transplantation, and enhanced neurogenesis. He has received numerous grants including the AANS Research Foundation Young Faculty Award, American Heart Association Grant-in-Aid, and NIH NINDS R01 and P01 grants, with continuous NIH funding as Principal Investigator since 1991.
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Fritz Sterz, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Vienna General Hospital of Austria. He has been involved in the field of emergency medicine since 1975, initially as an emergency medical technician in the ambulance service of Graz. He received his MD degree from the University of Graz in 1981, and after his residency was a research fellow at the International Resuscitation Research Center (currently named Safar Center for Resuscitation Research) under the tutelage of the late Dr. Peter Safar here at the University of Pittsburgh between 1987 and 1990—as a Fulbright Scholar. He returned to the University of Vienna where he earned his PhD in Resuscitation Medicine in 1992. Dr. Sterz joined the faculty of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Vienna in 1992 and now serves as the Vice Director of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Sterz has made a number of important contributions to the field of resuscitation medicine, and in 2002, published in the New England Journal of Medicine results of the landmark European Multi-center randomized controlled trial of therapeutic hypothermia for cardiac arrest in adults—a study that has changed guidelines world-wide and ultimately clinical practice. He has 130 refereed articles, has given 123 invited lectures, has played important roles on the development of resuscitation guidelines for the AHA, is currently on the editorial board of the journal Resuscitation, and received the Theodor Billroth Prize from the Medical Association of Vienna.
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Kjetil Sunde, MD, PhD is senior consultant in anaesthesiology at Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Norway and post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Ullevål, main supervisor of four PhD fellows. Chairman of the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Group in the Norwegian Resuscitation Council and co-chair of the ALS group in European Resuscitation Council.
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Marianne Thoresen is Professor of Neonatal Neuroscience, University of Bristol and Honorary Consultant Neonatologist, St Michaels Hospital, Bristol, UK.
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MICHAEL C. J. WANSCHER, MD, Ph.D. is Director of Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, Dept. of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care medicin at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark. ________________________________________________________________________________________________