Professor Alain Combes

Professor Alain Combes

Pitie Salpetriere APHP University Hospital, Paris (France)

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)