Professor Alain Combes, MD, PhD is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Sorbonne Université, Paris, and head of the ICU department at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, France.
e-Mail: alain.combes@aphp.fr
Main research interests:
- Care of the critically ill cardiac patient (cardiogenic shock, AMI, cardiac arrest, complicated heart surgery and heart transplantation)
- Mechanical circulatory assistance and ECMO
- Rescue therapies for severe respiratory failure, ECMO and ECCO2R
Professor Combes is Member of
- The Société de Réanimation de Langue Française (SRLF)
- The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
- Editor of Intensive Care Medicine
- The European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
- The Association for Acute CardioVascular Care, ESC-ACVC, Board member of the ESC-ACVC
- The American Thoracic Society (ATS)
- The ExtraCorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), PastPresident of the EURO-ELSO
- The International ECMO network (ECMONet)
