FACULTY

Combes A.

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, acute myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, complicated heart surgery and heart transplantation) - Mechanical circulatory assistance and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation - Rescue therapies for severe respiratory failure, including ECMO and ECCO2R - Infections in critically patients, such as pulmonary infections in mechanically ventilated ICU patients and endocarditis.