Trial Results Presenters
First presentations of major trials results
Christian Stoppe
Dr. Stoppe, a Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Würzburg University in Germany, leads several international clinical trials in the field of clinical nutrition. He has established a global clinical research group dedicated to interventional nutrition studies in collaboration with partners worldwide.
The recipient of numerous research grants—including awards from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and other third-party funders—Dr. Stoppe’s research spans nutrition studies, perioperative optimization, functional outcomes and risk assessment, guideline development, translational research, and organ protection. His work focuses particularly on cardiac surgery, severe burns, and critically ill patients.
With more than 290 publications to his name, Dr. Stoppe is a frequent speaker at international conferences. He serves as Section Chair of the Feeding, Rehabilitation, Endocrinology & Metabolism section within the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Additionally, he contributes to and coordinates several European, American, German, and Canadian guideline initiatives and holds a position on the executive board of the ERAS Cardiac Society.
Twitter: @CStoppe
Bram Rochwerg
Dr. Rochwerg is an intensivist and researcher based at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He leads multi-national randomized controlled trials in sepsis and acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. He is chair for the Internal Medicine Section at the Society of Critical Care Medicine and chair-elect for The Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. He is vice-chair for the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign, an Associate Editor at Critical Care Medicine and ACP Journal Club and serves on the editorial board at CHEST. In addition to this, he supports many national and international societies in developing clinical practice guidelines in the field of critical care.
Twitter: @Bram_Rochwerg
Lyvonne Tume
Lyvonne is a Professor of Critical Care Nursing at Edge Hill University and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool. She is an Associate Editor for Nursing in Critical Care and on the editorial board for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and the Journal of Parental and Enteral Nutrition. She is an intensive care nurse with over 35 years’ experience in Australia and in the UK. She has over 170 peer reviewed publications and has held several NIHR research grants. She is currently the chief investigator for the multicentre trial of no routine gastric residual volume measurement to guide enteral feeding in critically ill children (GASTRIC-PICU). She is a member of the NIHR HTA International funding panel. Her research interests focus mainly on improving nutrition in critically ill children, particularly around enteral feeding, but she also focuses on respiratory critical care: making endotracheal suctioning safer, weaning mechanical ventilation, and preventing extubation failure. She is also committed to implementing research evidence into clinical practice. Her research takes an ‘critical care across the lifespan’ approach with work in neonatal, paediatric, and adult intensive care. She is a visiting professor for the School of Health Sciences in Geneva. She was previously the Nursing president for the European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (RSPNIC) and is the elected deputy chair for the Paediatric Critical Care Society Study Group (PCCS-SG) and a member of the NIHR PCCS Research Incubator.
Twitter: @lyvonnetume
Lars Wiuff Andersen
Lars Wiuff Andersen is a clinician and professor with a focus on acute and critical care, with a primary interest in cardiac arrest. His research includes animal studies, large observational studies, and randomised clinical trials to test treatments and hopefully improve outcomes.
Twitter: @LarsWAndersen1
Asger Granfeldt
Asger Granfeldt a professor specializing in intensive care, with a particular focus on cardiac arrest research. His primary interest lies in utilizing experimental animal models to enhance our understanding of cardiac arrest pathophysiology and to evaluate novel treatments before they progress to clinical trials. Additionally, he is actively participating in several clinical trials related to cardiac arrest.
Twitter: @AsgerGranfeldt
Sandra Peake
Professor Peake (BM BS, BSc(Hons), PhD, FCICM) is a senior staff specialist and clinician researcher in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, a Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Adelaide and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, Melbourne. Professor Peake undertook her PhD at the University of Adelaide on immunotherapeutic strategies in septic shock. Her main research interest now is large scale clinical trials to improve patient outcomes for the critically ill. She led the multinational ARISE randomised trial of early goal-directed therapy in early septic shock (NEJM 2014) and the TARGET randomised trial of energy-dense enteral nutrition in mechanically ventilated patients (NEJM 2018). She is currently the chief investigator for the ARISE FLUIDS randomised trial evaluating a restrictive fluid strategy for early septic shock. Professor Peake is the Immediate Past Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group.
Twitter: @sandrapeake01
Paul Young
Paul Young’s primary research interest is in the design and conduct of large-scale multicentre randomised clinical trials in the field of Intensive Care Medicine. An active member of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS CTG), Paul is a leading member of the international intensive care research community.
Alongside his role at the MRINZ, Paul is the Medical Director of the Wakefield Hospital ICU and co-clinical leader of the Intensive Care Research Unit at Wellington Hospital. Paul is Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Critical Care, at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, and the acting co Editor-in-Chief for Critical Care and Resuscitation, the highest impact journal in the field of Intensive Care Medicine outside the US and Europe.
Involved in research collaborations with colleagues worldwide, Paul has published over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles, including numerous high impact publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Twitter: @DogICUma