Alain Cariou is Professor of intensive care medicine and therapeutics at University of Paris, senior physician in the Medical ICU of Cochin University Hospital (APHP) and medical director of the Emergency and Intensive Care Department in APHP.Centre in Paris, France. He is also associate researcher at INSERM, U970 in the Paris Cardiovascular Research Center (PARCC), in which he is involved in the Sudden Death Expertize Center. He is an expert in the field of post-resuscitation care as reflected by his past and present clinical research activities regarding early coronary reperfusion and targeted temperature management in this setting. He also recently leaded a research program focusing on pharmacological protective effect of erythropoietin analogs in post-cardiac arrest patients.