Dr. Michele SALVAGNO works at the Intensive Care Experimental Laboratory, Department of Intensive Care, Université libre de Bruxelles and specializes in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine. His research keywords are intensive care and anesthesia and his expertise includes antioxidants, oxygen, and brain.
Simona Mrakic-Sposta is a Researcher at the Institute of Clinical Physiology IFC, Italian National Research Council (IFC-CNR Milan). She obtained a PhD in Molecular Medicine at the Department of Medical-Surgical and Transplant Pathophysiology, University of Milan. From 2020 to now, Università Telematica San Raffaele - Roma (UNIROMA 5), course of “Human Anatomy” (BIO-16). Member and Secretary of Italian Society of Mountain Medicine, SIMeM from October 2017 till now. Secretary of the society. Her skills and expertise include Parkinson's Disease, brain stimulation, neurodegenerative diseases, movement disorders, oxidative stress biomarkers, Alzheimer's disease, Reactive Oxygen Species, oxidative stress, inflammation, organ damage and neuroplasticity.
Ian James WELSBY is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine at Duke University. He obtained an M.B.B.S. at University College London (United Kingdom) in 1990. As a practicing cardiothoracic anesthesiologist, he has contributed to a better understanding of the management and perioperative thrombosis (particularly HIT). This has been as a Duke site PI for the Rare Thrombotic Diseases Consortium led by Dr. T.L Ortel and a clinical collaborator with the basic and translational science approach to HIT led by Dr G. Arepally. He has also championed novel approaches to dealing with perioperative HIT such as plasmapheresis. Similarly, he has been a local leader in establishing the management of transfusion approaches to major cardiac surgery including the novel introduction of autologous plateletpheresis to limit exposure to allogeneic platelet transfusions in this highly transfused population, identifying the transfusion requirements during thoracic aortic reconstruction and promoting the use of a lower dose of rFVIIa use in this population, changing established clinical practice. His research interests focus on perioperative transfusion and hematology concerns. In summary, he has dedicated his research career to improving the outcome of patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery, understanding perioperative coagulopathy, and optimizing transfusion practice.
Costantino BALESTRA, Ph.D., started to study the neurophysiology of fatigue and then started studies on environmental physiology issues. He teaches physiology, biostatistics, research methodology, as well as other subjects. He Is the Director of the Integrative Physiology Laboratory and a full-time professor at the Haute Ecole Bruxelles-Brabant (Brussels). He is VP of DAN Europe for research and education and past President of the European Underwater and Baromedical Society. His research interests include environmental physiology; diving physiology; applied physiology; and environmental, occupational and aging physiology.
Fabio Silvio TACCONE, MD, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Intensive Care of Hospital Erasme in Brussels (Belgium). He received his medical degree from the University of Naples, Italy (SUN) in 2000 and moved to Belgium in 2001 to start a post-graduate license in Internal Medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (ULB). He finally became an intensivist in 2006 and immediately initiated a clinical fellowship with Prof JL Vincent. In 2009, he initiated a PhD doctorate (“Fondation Erasme” Award) and presented in October 2014 his thesis on cerebral perfusion during sepsis. Dr Taccone has a large area of research in critical care medicine, with particular interest in antibiotic pharmacokinetics, brain injury after cardiac arrest, cerebral perfusion and microcirculation during severe infections, and therapeutic hypothermia as a neuro-protective strategy. As one of the people involved in animal research in the “Laboratoire de Recherche Experimentale”, which is affiliated with the Dpt of Intensive Care in Brussels, Dr. Taccone helps with both clinical and experimental research for potential young physicians, especially with planning or conducting a research project, provide expert advise in critical care and assist in potential international projects using his large network of contacts.
