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Max Harry Weil
Max Harry Weil, also known as Max H. Weil, was a Swiss-born American physician regarded as a father of critical care medicine, coining the specialty's name.
Mervyn Singer
Mervyn Singer is a British intensive care physician, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, known for the Sepsis-3 definitions and for inventing the esophageal Doppler monitor.
Mitchell M. Levy
Mitchell M. Levy is an American critical care physician at Brown University, known for the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and sepsis research, and president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine in 2009.
Nino Stocchetti
Nino Stocchetti is an Italian anesthesiologist at the University of Milan specializing in neurointensive care for acute brain injury, known for research on traumatic intracranial hypertension.
Oscar E. Suman
Oscar E. Suman is an American burn-injury researcher and professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch who received a 2015 Presidential Early Career Award.
Paul E. Marik
Paul E. Marik, also known as Paul Ellis Marik, is a South African–born critical care physician who created the HAT sepsis protocol and co-founded the FLCCC.
Paul S. Chan
Paul S. Chan is an American cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City who studies cardiac arrest outcomes and care quality.
Peter J. Pronovost
Peter J. Pronovost is an American critical care physician and patient-safety researcher known for a central-line checklist that sharply reduced Michigan ICU infections, earning a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.
Pratik P. Pandharipande
Pratik P. Pandharipande, also published as Pratik Pandharipande, is an anesthesiologist and critical care researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for research on ICU sedation and delirium.
Richard E. Kerber
Richard E. Kerber (1939–2016) was an American cardiologist at the University of Iowa for 45 years whose defibrillation research shaped the AHA's CPR guidelines and public access defibrillation.
Richard S. Hotchkiss
Richard S. Hotchkiss is an American physician-scientist, professor at Washington University in St. Louis, internationally known for showing that immune cell death, not inflammation alone, drives sepsis mortality.
Rinaldo Bellomo
Rinaldo Bellomo (1956–2025) was an Italian-born Australian intensivist who directed intensive care research at Austin Health in Melbourne and is regarded as a founding father of critical care nephrology.
Robert A. Berg
Robert A. Berg is a pediatric critical care physician and resuscitation scientist who was Chief of Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from 2008 to 2022.
Robert D. Truog
Robert D. Truog is a pediatric intensivist, anesthesiologist, and bioethicist who directs Harvard Medical School's Center for Bioethics and studies brain death and end-of-life care.
Robert Fowler (Canadian physician)
Robert A. Fowler is a Canadian critical care physician and epidemiologist who led studies of Ebola, SARS, and COVID-19 and treated patients in the 2014 Ebola epidemic.
Samir Jaber
Samir Jaber, born 1967, is a French anesthesiologist and intensivist, full professor since 2007 and head of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Saint-Eloi University Hospital, Montpellier.
Shelly P. Dev
Shelly P. Dev, also known as Shelly Dev, is a Canadian critical care physician and medical educator who has been a staff intensivist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto since 2006.
Sophie Wallace
Sophie Wallace, also known as Sophia Wallace, is an Australian anesthesiology researcher who manages the clinical trials program at The Alfred and Monash University in Melbourne, including the RELIEF trial.
Stavros Konstantinides
Stavros V. Konstantinides (Greek: Σταύρος Κωνσταντινίδης) is a Greek-born German cardiologist who has spent 35 years studying pulmonary embolism and designed the 2014 PEITHO trial.
Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff is an American anesthesiologist and University of Arizona professor, co-architect with Roger Penrose of the Orch OR theory that consciousness arises from quantum processes in microtubules.
Todd W. Rice
Todd W. Rice is an American pulmonary and critical care physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for the 2018 SMART trial of intravenous fluid choice in critically ill adults.
Warren M. Zapol
Warren M. Zapol (1942–2021) was an American anesthesiologist and critical-care physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, best known for demonstrating inhaled nitric oxide as a selective pulmonary vasodilator.
Yaseen M. Arabi
Yaseen M. Arabi, also known as Yaseen Arabi, is a Saudi intensive care physician and clinical trialist who chairs the ICU at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh.