Anesthesiology and critical care researchers

Gordon R. Bernard

Gordon R. Bernard is an American pulmonary and critical care physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who led the NIH ARDS Clinical Trials Network from 1994 to 2014.

Heather F. Pidcoke is an American transfusion-medicine and trauma-research scientist who worked at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, received a 2013 Presidential Early Career Award, and helped shape care of bleeding trauma patients.

Heinrich Braun

Heinrich Braun (1862–1934) was a German surgeon who made local anesthesia practical by adding adrenaline to cocaine, coined "conduction anesthesia", and led the Zwickau hospital.

Henning Pontoppidan

Henning Pontoppidan (1925–2017) was an American anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who established the nation's first respiratory intensive care unit in 1961 and pioneered mechanical ventilation research.

Henry R. Halperin

Henry R. Halperin is a cardiologist and biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, known for the 2017 study showing MRI is safe for patients with cardiac devices.

Holger K. Eltzschig

Holger K. Eltzschig is a German-trained anesthesiologist and physician-scientist who chairs anesthesiology at UTHealth Houston, known for NEJM reviews on hypoxia and inflammation and pharmacologic organ protection.

Hugh Montgomery (British physician)

Hugh Montgomery is a British physician, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, known for a 1998 Nature paper linking the ACE gene to fitness.

J.F. Pantridge

J.F. Pantridge, known as Frank Pantridge, was a Northern Irish cardiologist who built the first portable defibrillator and started the world's first prehospital cardiac care unit in Belfast in 1966.

Jean Chastre

Jean Chastre is a French intensivist and physician-scientist in critical care medicine at Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, known for research on ventilator-associated pneumonia, including a 2003 JAMA trial comparing 8 and 15 days of antibiotics.

Jean‐Louis Vincent

Jean-Louis Vincent is a Belgian professor of intensive care medicine at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Erasme Hospital, co-creator of the SOFA score used in defining sepsis.

John B. Glen

John B. (Iain) Glen is a British veterinarian and pharmacologist who discovered and developed propofol, the most widely used anesthetic, earning the 2018 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award.

John G. Laffey

John G. Laffey is an Irish anesthesiologist, Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Galway, known for research on carbon dioxide biology and ARDS.

John Hedley‐Whyte

John Hedley-Whyte (1933–2026) was a British-born anesthesiologist who built the academic discipline of anesthesia and respiratory intensive care at Harvard and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

John Myburgh

John Myburgh is an Australian intensive care physician and trialist at UNSW Sydney and The George Institute, known for the SAFE, CHEST, and ADRENAL trials.

John P. Kampine

John P. Kampine is an American anesthesiologist-scientist at the Medical College of Wisconsin whose laboratory explained how anesthetics affect the heart, including why propofol lowers blood pressure.

John P. Kress

John P. Kress is an American critical care physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, known for the 2000 trial establishing daily sedation interruption in ICUs.

Joseph P. Ornato

Joseph P. Ornato is an American emergency physician and resuscitation scientist, professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, who chaired the NIH Public Access Defibrillation trial and co-chaired the $50 million Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium.

Kathy Rowan

Kathy Rowan, also known as Kathryn M. Rowan, is a British critical care researcher who founded and led ICNARC from 1994 to 2023, known for the ProMISe trial.

Kevin Fong

Kevin Fong is a British consultant anaesthetist at University College London Hospitals, professor at UCL, and space-medicine researcher who founded its Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme environment physiology.

Lance B. Becker M.D.

Lance B. Becker, known as Lance Becker, is an American resuscitation scientist who chairs Emergency Medicine at Northwell Health and is known for cardiac arrest research.

Laurent Brochard

Laurent Brochard, born 1957, is a French-Canadian intensivist and researcher whose work on mechanical ventilation and ARDS shaped intensive care, including a landmark 1995 NEJM trial of noninvasive ventilation.

Leif Svensson

Leif Svensson is a Swedish cardiologist and resuscitation researcher who founded the Center for Cardiac Arrest Research at Karolinska Institutet and conceived the SMS lifesaver app.

Léon Binet

Léon Binet was a French physician and physiologist who held the chair of physiology at the Paris Faculté de médecine and served 17 years as its dean.

Leroy D. Vandam

Leroy D. Vandam (1914–2004) was an American anesthesiologist who led anesthesia at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1954 to 1979 and published over 250 papers.

Luciano Gattinoni

Luciano Gattinoni (published as L. Gattinoni; 1945-2024) was an Italian physician-scientist in anesthesia and intensive care medicine whose CT studies, baby lung concept, and prone positioning reshaped the treatment of ARDS.

Margaret S. Herridge

Margaret S. Herridge is a Canadian critical care physician-scientist at the University of Toronto and University Health Network who studies long-term outcomes for ICU survivors and their caregivers.

Marin H. Kollef

Marin H. Kollef is an American critical care physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine, where he directs intensive care research at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and studies ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Mark F. Newman

Mark F. Newman is an American anesthesiologist who chaired Duke Anesthesiology from 2001 to 2014 and is best known for research on cognitive decline after coronary artery bypass surgery.

Matthew W. Semler

Matthew W. Semler is a critical care physician and clinical researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who co-founded the Pragmatic Critical Care Research Group and leads large randomized trials of fluids, intubation, and oxygen targets.