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Dr Vincent is Professor of intensive care at the University
of Brussels, and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme
University Hospital in Brussels. He is President of the World Federation of
Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) and a
Past-President of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ), the
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Shock Society
(ESS), and the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He is a member of the Royal
Medical Academy of Belgium.



Dr. Vincent has signed more than 850 original
articles, some 400 book chapters and review articles, 930 original abstracts,
and has edited 99 books. He is co-editor of the Textbook of Critical Care
(Elsevier Saunders, 7th Edition) and the "Encyclopedia of Intensive
Care Medicine" (Springer). He is editor-in-chief of "Critical Care",
"Current Opinion in Critical Care", and "ICU Management"
and member of the editorial boards of about 30 journals.

For 36 years, Dr Vincent has been chairman of the
International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, the largest
international meeting in this field, which gathers more than 6000 participants
every year in Brussels.

He has received several awards, including the Distinguished
Investigator Award of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the College
Medalist Award of the American College of Chest Physicians He is a recipient of
the "Society Medal" (lifetime award) of the European Society of Intensive
Care Medicine and has received the prestigious Belgian scientific award of the
FRS-FNRS (Prix Scientifique Joseph Maisin-Sciences biomédicales cliniques).