Jean-Louis Vincent

Prof. Jean-Louis Vincent
Prof. Jean-Louis Vincent

Baron Jean-Louis Vincent is Professor of intensive care medicine at the Université libre de Bruxelles and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels. Specialist in Internal Medicine, he spent two years training at the University of Southern California with Prof. Max Harry Weil. He obtained his PhD degree at the University of Brussels in 1982.

Dr Vincent has signed more than 900 original articles, some 400 book chapters and review articles, and more than 1000 original abstracts, and has edited 102 books. He is co-editor of the "Textbook of Critical Care" (Elsevier Saunders, 7th Edition) and the “Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine” (Springer Science+Business Media).

Biography

Jean-Louis Vincent is the editor-in-chief of "Critical Care", "Current Opinion in Critical Care", and "ICU Management and Practice". He is member of the Editorial Boards of about 30 journals.

Dr Vincent is the immediate past-President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM).[1] He is a Past-President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Shock Society (ESS), the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ) and the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He was a Council member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) from 2011-2013. He is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine.

For 38 years he has organized an International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine which is held every March in Brussels.[2]

Dr Vincent has received several awards: 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).[3]

His name appears more than 1100 times in Pubmed, and his work has been cited more than 150,000 times; his H-index is 159. He was awarded the title of Baron by King Albert II of Belgium in 2013.

Editorial boards

• "Critical Care Medicine" (since 1990) - (Senior editor, since 1997) • "American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine” (AJRCCM) • "Intensive Care Medicine" • "Journal of Critical Care" (since 1990) • "Annals of Intensive Care" • “Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine” (since 2008) • "Shock" (since 1994) • “Journal of Intensive Care” (since 2013) • "The Lancet Infectious Diseases” (since 2000) • "PLoS Medicine" (since 2005) • “EBioMedicine” (since 2014) • "BMC Medicine" (since 2006) • “BMC Infection Control” (Senior Editor since 2011) • “Journal of Postgraduate Medicine” (since 2004) • “Postgraduate Medical Journal” (since 2007) • "Journal of Thoracic Disease” (since 2016) • “Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control (ARIC)” (Senior Editor since 2011) • “Indian journal of Anaesthesia” (since 2016) • “Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine” (since 1997) • “Spanish journal of Intensive Care Medicine” (since 2016) • “The Netherlands Journal of Medicine” (since 2009)

Editor

  • Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Springer-Verlag)
  • Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Springer-Verlag)
  • Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Springer Verlag)
  • Le point sur... : Editors J.L. Vincent & C. Martin
  • Insuffisance Circulatoire Aiguë. Eds C. Richard, J.L. Teboul & J.L. Vincent (Elsevier) 669 pages, 2009
  • Controversies in Acute Kidney Injury. Eds J. Kellum, C. Ronco & J.L. Vincent (series : Contributions to Nephrology, Vol 174, Ed. C. Ronco)(S Karger, Switzerland), 258 pages, 2011
  • Textbook of Critical Care 7th Edition. Eds J.L. Vincent, E. Abraham, F.A. Moore, P.M. Kochanek & M.P. Fink, (Elsevier) 1697 pages, 2011
  • Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine,[4] Eds J.L. Vincent & J.B. Hall (Springer) 2475 pages, 2012
  • Terapia Intensiva (quita edizione), Eds M.P. Fink, E. Abraham, J.L. Vincent & P.M. Kochanek (Elsevier Masson Milan) 2299 pages, 2012

Notes

  1. ↑ Administrator. "Council". world-critical-care.org.
  2. ↑ http://www.intensive.org
  3. ↑ http://www.fnrs.be/docs/Prix/FRS-FNRS_Laureats_Prix_quinquennaux.pdf
  4. ↑ "Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine". springerreference.com.

References

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