- Topic:
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Crystalloids and Severe Sepsis: The Current Evidence!
- Date:
- 24 April 2026
- Time:
- 1240 - 1320 hrs
- Venue:
- Plenary Room - Summit 2
- Lunch symposium by:
- Speaker:
- Simon FINFER
- He is a practicing critical care physician with an appointment as a Senior Staff Specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital and Director of Intensive Care at the Sydney Adventist Hospital, the largest private hospital in New South Wales.
Simon is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney Medical School, a past-Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Clinical Trials Group. He is a Council Member and Treasurer of the International Sepsis Forum and Council Member of the Global Sepsis Alliance, and a member of the World Sepsis Day Steering Committee. Simon Finfer is a Professorial Fellow in the Critical Care and Trauma Division at The George Institute for Global Health.
His postgraduate qualifications include Fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the College of Intensive Care Medicine. He was elected to the ANZICS Honour Roll in 2011 and in 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Medicine) by The Friedrich-Schiller University in Germany, an honour awarded once every 10 years.
Simon’s major research interest is the design and conduct of large scale randomised controlled trials in critical care. Simon is active in forging major international research collaborations that have conducted large scale clinical trials which have influenced the treatment of critically ill patients all over the world.
Simon is an Editor of The Oxford Textbook of Critical Care (2nd Ed.), the Critical Care Section Editor for The Oxford Textbook of Medicine (6th Ed.), and was a Critical Care guest editor for The New England Journal of Medicine from 2011 to 2014.