Speakers

Giuseppe Citerio is a Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the School of Medicine and Surgery, Milano Bicocca University. He currently serves as the Director of the Department of Neuroscience at IRCSS San Gerardo dei Tintori in Monza. In the early 1990s, he established the Neurointensive and Neuroanesthesia service at San Gerardo Hospital in Monza, following his prior experience at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan.

Dr.Citerio is an active participant in several national and international research networks, including BrainIT and CenterTBI. He has been involved in several research protocols and drug trials, often serving as the principal investigator. His research is focused on TBI, subarachnoid hemorrhage, neuroanesthesia, neurointensive care, and brain death/organ donation. He has authored over 480 indexed articles, and his H-index is 59. Dr. Citerio has been instrumental in developing international guidelines for treating patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage and neuromonitoring. He has edited several books, including "Oxford Textbook of Neurocritical Care" and "Echography and Doppler of the Brain."

Dr. Citerio has designed more than 50 courses in Italy and Europe on Neurointensive Care topics. He also created a Summer School program at UNIMIB on NeuroIntensive Care, which took place for the first time in 2017. In 2019, Dr. Citerio became the Editor-in-Chief of the journal after years of editorial perience. He previously served as the Chair of the Division of Scientific Affairs of the European Society of Intensive Care (ESICM), an Executive Committee member of ESICM, and the Chair of the Annual Meeting ESICM and regional congresses.

School of Medicine, University of Milano-Bicocca and IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori Monza, NeuroIntensive Care Unit, Monza, Italy

Gianpaolo Basso is Associate Professor in Neuroradiology at University of Milano-Bicocca since 2017. 

Previously, research fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Baltimora (MD), USA (2003-2004) and visiting Associate Scientist in cognitive sciences and functional neuroimaging at Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH) - Cognitive Neuroscience Section del NINDS, Bethesda (MD), USA (1996-1998).

He obtained his Medical Degree at the School of Medicine at the University of Trieste, then a PhD degree in "Neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neuropsychology and functional neuroimaging" at the University of Parma, Italy. He has double specialization in Neurology and Radiology.

School of Medicine, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy

Carlo Giussani is Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca from 2015. Director of Neurosurgery of Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza, Italy an chief of the Residency Program in Neurosurgery at the Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca. From July 2017 affiliated he's Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery at the Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

PhD in Neuropsychology degree at the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, France, under the direction of Professor Franck-Emmanuel Roux and  Professor Jean François Dèmonet (2011).

Previous research Fellow at the Brain Tumor Laboratory  of the Department of Neurosurgery of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston under the direction of Professor Peter M. Black (2001-2002). Resident at the Dept. of Neurosurgery, Universite’ Paul Sabatier de Toulouse, France fellowship in Brain Tumor Surgery and Human Brain Mapping. Service de Neurochirurgie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Purpan, Toulouse, France under the direction of Professor Franck-Emmanuel Roux (2005-2006). Neuro-Oncology and Brain Mapping Fellow at the Division of Neurosurgery, Dept. of Neurological Sciences of the Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, IRCCS , Milano under the direction of Professor Sergio Maria Gaini (2007). Senior Fellow in Pediatric Neurosurgery, Dept. of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle WA under the direction of Professor Richard G. Ellenbogen (2008-2009).

The surgical activity is focused on adult and pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Brain Trauma, Hydrocephalus, Pediatric Neurosurgery (craniofaciostenosis and hydrocephalus) and Vascular Neurosurgery.

The research activity is focused on adult and pediatric translational neuro-oncology, human brain mapping and hydrocephalus.

Department of Neurosurgery, University of Milan-Bicocca, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy.

Dr. Claude Hemphill is Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco and Chief of Neurology and Director of Neurocritical Care at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. His research focuses on advanced neuromonitoring, informatics, and management of intracerebral hemorrhage. He is a founding director and Past-President of the Neurocritical Care Society and is a member of the editorial board of Neurocritical Care. His work has been previously funded by the National Institutes of Health through a K23 Career Development Award to study intracerebral hemorrhage and as PI of the San Francisco hub of the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials Network to conduct clinical trials for various neuroemergencies such as traumatic brain injury, status epilepticus, and stroke. He is the current co-chair of the Neurocritical Care Research Network and of the Curing Coma Campaign of the Neurocritical Care Society. He also served as chair of the writing groups for the 2015 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Guidelines for the Management of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage and the 2018 Clinical Performance Measures for Adults Hospitalized with Intracerebral Hemorrhage.

He is one of the leaders of the Curing Coma Campaign

University of California San Francisco, USA; Director of Neurocritical Care, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, USA

Geoffrey T. Manley, MD, PhD is the Chief of Neurosurgery at San Francisco General Hospital and Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He is a trauma neurosurgeon with clinical interests in brain injury, spinal cord injury and neurocritical critical care. His translational research interests span from the laboratory to the bedside.

Pr. Manley is a graduate of the Medical Scientist Training Program at Cornell University Medical College, where he earned his medical degree as well as his doctorate degree in Neuroscience. He completed his residency in Neurosurgery at UCSF and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Molecular Biophysics. Dr. Manley is also a faculty member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and the UCSF Center for Clinical and Translational Informatics.

Pr. Manley is an internationally recognized expert in neurotrauma. He has published over 120 manuscripts that reflect a wide range of research interests from molecular aspects of brain injury to the clinical care of head trauma patients. He has helped to define new molecular mechanisms of injury to the nervous system that may lead to new treatments for these devastating injuries. He is also considered a leader in the rapidly growing field of advanced neuromonitoring and clinical informatics for critical care. His many honors include the General Motors Trauma Research Award and the Trauma Research Award from the American College of Surgeons. He has served as a Consultant for the Prehospital Guidelines Committee for the World Health Organization and on a number of committees for the National Institutes of Health.

University of California San Francisco, USA

David Menon is Professor and Head of the Division of Anaesthesia, Principal Investigator in the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, and Co-Chair of the Acute Brain Injury Programme at the University of Cambridge. In 2013 he was re-appointed as NIHR Senior Investigator as one of the NIHR’s pre-eminent researchers.

He trained in Medicine, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Jawaharlal Institute in India, Leeds General Infirmary, The Royal Free Hospital and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and was an MRC Research Fellow at the Hammersmith Hospital prior to coming to Cambridge.

In 2006 he was appointed to the British Oxygen Professorship at the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He is Co-Chair of the Executive Board of the European Brain Injury Consortium, is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a Professorial Fellow in the Medical Sciences at Queens’ College, Cambridge.

He was the first Director of the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit (NCCU) at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, where he established the first recognised training programme for specialist neurocritical care in the UK. Protocols developed in the Addenbrooke’s NCCU have been shown to improve clinical outcome in severe head injury and rationalise the management of acute intracranial haemorrhage.

Professor Menon’s research interests include neurocritical care, secondary brain injury, neuroinflammation, and metabolic imaging of acute brain injury. He has also published on the physiology of coma and the vegetative state, and on mechanisms of anaesthetic action in the brain. In recent years he has represented the UK intensive care community in discussions regarding the impact of evolving legislative changes on research in critical care and emergency medicine.

University of Cambridge, Department of Medicine, Cambridge, UK

Virginia Newcombe is a consultant in Neurosciences and Trauma Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. She is a Royal College of Emergency Medicine Associate Professor and holds an Academy of Medical Sciences and Health Foundation Clinician Scientist Fellowship. Her main research interests focus on prognostication, neuroimaging and the use of biomarkers after traumatic brain injury.

University Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge, UK  

Claudio Sandroni is assistant professor of Intensive Care at the Medical Faculty of the Catholic University School of Medicine and Senior Consultant at Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, Italy.  He is responsible for post-cardiac arrest management in a 20-bed Intensive Care Unit.

As a researcher in the field of resuscitation, he focused on the epidemiology and treatment of in-hospital cardiac arrest, post-anoxic brain injury, and post-resuscitation care. In 2013, he conducted the first systematic review on predictors of neurological outcome in cardiac arrest. This evidence review informed the first edition of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) Guidelines on Post-Resuscitation Care (2015) in which he participated as a senior author.

Dr. Sandroni is Chair of the Trauma and Emergency Medicine (TEM) Section of ESICM and member of the Editorial Board of Intensive Care Medicine, Official ESICM Journal. He also serves as a member of the ERC Advanced Life Support (ALS) Working Group and as a member of the Editorial Board of Resuscitation, Official ERC Journal. He has been appointed ERC Fellow (FERC) in 2011. 

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli - Rome, Italy

Romain Sonneville is Professor of intensive care medicine at the Bichat Claude Bernard university hospital, APHP, université de Paris, France. He finished his training in neurology and intensive care medicine in 2007. He completed his PhD at the university of Leuven, Belgium. Currently, he is engaged in clinical care and research projects in the field of acute brain injury, sepsis, and neurologic complications of critical illness.

Université de Paris, INSERM UMR1148 and Médecine intensive – Réanimation, AP-HP, Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard, Paris, France

Fabio S. Taccone is Professor at the Department of Intensive Care of Hopital Erasme and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels (Belgium). He received his medical degree from the University of Naples, Italy (SUN) in 2000 and obtained post-graduate licenses in Internal Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine at ULB. He obtained in October 2014 his PhD doctoral degree with a thesis on cerebral microcirculation during sepsis. Pr. Taccone has a large area of interest in critical care medicine, with a particular research in antibiotic pharmacokinetics, brain injury, microcirculation during severe infections, therapeutic hypothermia as a neuro-protective strategy and ECMO. He has authored more than 220 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and is Section Editor of Minerva Anestesiologica and BMC Emergency Medicine. He is also Chair of the Neuro-Intensive Care section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) since 2016 and member of the Advisory Board of the International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) since 2011 as well of two different Working Groups at EuroELSO. 

Department of Intensive Care, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgium 

Mathieu van der Jagt is intensivist/neurointensivist/Associate Professor, working as fulltime clinical intensivist, caring for alll types of critically ill patients. He was originally trained as a neurologist, but he's now working as intensivist in Rotterdam Erasmus Medical Center since 2008, after training as intensivist. He got his European Diploma in Intensive Care in 2008.

Working in large academic hospital, which is the largest trauma/transplant center in The Netherlands he is involved in various research in the field of Neurointensive Care (mainly SAH, TBI and delirium).

He is member of the Editorial Board of Neurocritical Care and Journal of Critical care, Frontiers in Medicine and Section Editor Neurology for the Journal of Critical Care. Further, he is the Chair of Guideline Committee of the Dutch Society of Intensive Care.

Intensive care and Erasmus MC Stroke Center, Rotterdam, The  Netherlands