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Dr. van Zanten is the Chair of the Department of Intensive Care and ICU Research in Gelderse Vallei

Hospital in Ede and Professor at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands. His research focuses on critical care nutrition with particular interest in immune-modulating nutrition, protein needs and timing, mitochondrial dysfunction and refeeding syndrome. He has been a working member of ESICM, ESPEN and NESPEN, developing best practice guidelines. He has authored the Chapter on Critical Care Nutrition in the newest Textbook of Critical Care Medicine, has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and given over 400 lectures on the topics of critical care nutrition and sepsis.

University of Göttingen, Germany.

Professor Gattinoni  is world-renowned for inventing the “Extracorporeal CO₂ Removal” technique in acute respiratory failure, promoting the “baby lung” model of lung injury (1980’s) and identified mechanical power variables to assess risks of mechanical ventilation (2016). He has previously served as President for the Italian National Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, the European Society of Intensive Care, and the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine.

His research focuses on the pathophysiology and treatment of acute respiratory failure, sepsis, and acid base disorders. He has published more than 400 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is Honorary Member of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and was awarded with the Life Time Achievement Award by the American Society of Anesthesiology, the American Society of Critical Care Medicine and the European Society of Intensive Care and the French Society of Intensive Care.