Jean-Louis Vincent

Prof. Jean-Louis Vincent
Prof. 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 degree in 1973. He trained in Internal Medicine and Critical Care at the Hôpital d'Ixelles and the Hôpital Universitaire St-Pierre in Brussels. Vincent then spent two years training at the University of Southern California with Prof. Max Harry Weil. He earned a PhD degree 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 (Université libre de Bruxelles) in 1979, serving as Head of Department from 1996 to 2014, and is currently as a consultant intensivist.

Vincent has published more than 1,300 original scientific manuscripts, 1,000 review articles and editorials, and 400 book chapters, and has edited 123 books. His name appears more than 1,300 times in PubMed, and his work has been cited more than 230,000 times with an H-index of 170. He is the editor-in-chief of Critical Care, Current Opinion in Critical Care, and ICU Management and Practice". Vincent is past-President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the European Shock Society, the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the International Sepsis Forum. He was a Council member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine from 2011 to 2013. He is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine.

Since 1980, he has organised an International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM), which is held every March in Brussels.

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” (lifetime award) of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and the prestigious Belgian scientific award of the FRS-FNRS (Prix Scientifique Joseph Maisin-Sciences biomédicales cliniques).

Editorial boards (non-exhaustive list)

Editor (non-exhaustive list)

Selected bibliography

  1. Dellinger, R P (2013). "Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, 2012". Intensive Care Medicine. 39 (2): 165–228. doi:10.1007/s00134-012-2769-8. PMC 7095153. PMID 23361625.
  2. Singer, M (2016). "The third international consensus definitions for sepsis and septic shock (Sepsis-3)". JAMA. 315 (8): 801–810. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.0287. PMC 4968574. PMID 26903338.
  3. Vincent, J-L (1996). "The SOFA (Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment) score to describe organ dysfunction/failure". Intensive Care Medicine. 92 (7): 707–710. doi:10.1007/BF01709751. PMID 8844239. S2CID 40396839.

References

  1. ↑ Vincent, Jean-Louis (2011-09-29). "Obituary: Dr Max Harry Weil". Critical Care. 15 (5): 192. doi:10.1186/cc10347. ISSN 1364-8535. PMC 3334731. PMID 22047780.
  2. ↑ Administrator. "Council". world-critical-care.org. Archived from the original on 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2015-07-06.
  3. ↑ "ISICEM 2022 - International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine". www.isicem.org. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  4. ↑ "Lauréats des prix quinquennaux du F.R.S.-FNRS depuis 1956" [Winners of the F.R.S.-FNRS five-yearly prizes since 1956] (PDF) (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-11.
  5. ↑ "Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine". Springer. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  6. ↑ Vincent, Jean-Louis (2009). Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-92276-6. OCLC 699854124.
  7. ↑ . doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73231-8. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)[page needed]
  8. ↑ Sepsis grave et choc septique... (in French). Springer. 2012. ISBN 978-2817800639.
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  10. ↑ Controversies in Acute Kidney Injury | Karger Book.
  11. ↑ "Textbook of Critical Care - 7th Edition". www.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  12. ↑ Vincent, Jean-Louis; Hall, Jesse B., eds. (2012). Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00418-6. ISBN 978-3-642-00417-9.
  13. ↑ Terapia intensiva (in Italian). United States: Elsevier. 2015.