Programme

Matthias Lubnow

Senior Physician Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Deputy Head ICU 93, University of Regensburg, Germany
Research interests and publications include coagulation and factors associated with hemolysis during vv and va extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), long term ECMO, eCPR, acute renal failure during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and COVID 19.

Marcelo Gama de Abreu

Marcelo Gama de Abreu, MD, MSc, DESA, PhD is Visiting Professor of Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and Professor of Translational Research in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Dresden, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. He is Staff of the Department of Intensive Care and Resuscitation, and Department of Outcomes Research, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. With more than 1250 publications, Dr. Gama de Abreu has contributed importantly to advance knowledge in anesthesiology and intensive care. During the past 15 years, he conducted and coordinated multiple trials in Europe and the USA, and currently serves as German national coordinator of the PHOENICS trial, which addresses the safety of starches containing solutions in respect to renal function.

Justyna Swol

Justyna Swol, MD PhD is an intensivist with a surgical background, “ecmologist,” and clinician scientist, affiliated with the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergology and Sleep Medicine, University Hospital of Paracelsus Medical University in Nuremberg, Germany where she leads a research group dedicated to artificial lung. Her primary interests include the use of extracorporeal life support (ECLS) in trauma patients and enhanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR). Dr. Justyna Swol is a member of the Steering Committee of EuroELSO, the European Branch of Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) since 2015 and served as a coordinator for Educational Corner during the EuroELSO conferences. She represented EuroELSO, providing educational and society-related information on social media under her Twitter handle @ECMOdaily. Finally, Dr. Swol founded a working group Simulation and Artificial Intelligence in ECLS, as a collaboration between EuroELSO and ESAO (European Society of Artificial Organs), focused on simulation and artificial intelligence in ECLS. Dr. Swol has authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications, including conference abstracts and book chapters. She served for international journals as an Associate Editor for Artificial Organs, an Editorial Board Member for ASAIO, and an invited reviewer for many journals including Artificial Organs, Resuscitation, ASAIO and Perfusion.

Justyna Swol, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergology and Sleep Medicine, University Hospital of Paracelsus Medical University in Nuremberg, Germany
 

Gennaro Martucci, M.D.

Dr Gennaro Martucci, MD is a senior anesthesiologist and intensivist at ISMETT in Palermo, a part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center international network. He is currently a PhD fellow at Maastricht University. His main research fields are the coagulation, effects on haematology and patient blood management in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and liver transplantation. He is member of the Italian anaesthesiology society, ESICM and ELSO.