Jean-Louis Vincent


Baron Jean-Louis Vincent is a Belgian physician and Professor of intensive care medicine at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Biography

Jean-Louis Vincent studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles where he obtained an MD in 1973. Jean-Louis Vincent trained in Internal Medicine and Critical Care at the Hôpital d'Ixelles and the Hôpital Universitaire St-Pierre in Brussels. He then spent two years training at the University of Southern California with Prof. Max Harry Weil. Jean-Louis Vincent earned his PhD in 1982 at the Université libre de Bruxelles studying electro-mechanical dissociation during cardiac arrest. Vincent joined the Department of Intensive Care of Erasmus Hospital in Brussels in 1979, serving as Head of Department from 1996-2014 and currently as a consultant intensivist.
Jean-Louis Vincent has published more than 1.300 original scientific manuscripts, 1000 review articles and editorials, 400 book chapters and has edited 123 books. His name appears more than 1300 times in PubMed, and his work has been cited more than 230,000 times with an H-index of 170. Jean-Louis Vincent is the editor-in-chief of Critical Care, Current Opinion in Critical Care, and ". Jean-Louis Vincent is past-President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, the , the European Shock Society, the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the . He was a Council member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine from 2011-2013. He is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine.
Since 1980, he has organized an International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine which is held every March in Brussels.
Jean-Louis Vincent has received several awards for his work with the critically ill: the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the College Medalist Award of the American College of Chest Physicians, the "Society Medal” of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and the prestigious Belgian scientific award of the FRS-FNRS.

Editor (non-exhaustive list)

  • Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
  • Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
  • Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
  • Sepsis Grave et Choc Septique...
  • Insuffisance Circulatoire Aiguë
  • Controversies in Acute Kidney Injury
  • Textbook of Critical Care
  • Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine
  • Terapia Intensiva

Selected bibliography

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