- Topic:
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Energy requirements & intake for the critically ill
- Date:
- 25 April 2026
- Time:
- 1240 - 1320 hrs
- Venue:
- Plenary Room - Summit 2
- Lunch symposium by:
- Speaker:
- Pierre SINGER
- Dr. Singer has over 30 years of clinical and academic experience. He was born in France and has made his medical school at the Louis Pasteur faculty of Medicine of Strasbourg (France). He is currently director of the General Intensive Care Department, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel (1995-present), head of the Institute of Nutrition Research (2006-present) at Rabin Medical Center, director of the Metabolism laboratory at the Felsenstein Medical Research Center and Clinical Full Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the Sackler school of medicine, Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Singer was President of the Israel Society of Intensive Care Medicine (2000-2004), Israel Society for Clinical Nutrition (ISCN) from 2005-2009., Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Sackler school of medicine, Tel Aviv University (2009-2013), and Chairman of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) (2010-2014). He maintains memberships in numerous scientific and professional associations as well as appointments in countless professional and administrative committees. He has been appointed as editor, associate editor, section editor or co editor in various journals such as Intensive Care medicine, Clinical Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition Experimental, Nutrition or JPEN. From 2002, he is the chairman of the annual Israel Nutrition Week. His research interests center around nutrition and metabolism, sepsis, respiratory disorders & technologies.
Dr. Singer has supervised more than 50 clinical and academic research theses. He has received numerous awards and grants throughout his career. He is co-author of the teaching modules on Nutrition in the ICU from ESPEN (LLL) and ESICM (PACT) as well as of the ESPEN 2009 Parenteral Nutrition in the ICU guidelines. Dr. Singer has presented over 350 lectures, and had more than 200 invited papers at scientific meetings. He has published more than 125 original articles, 30 review articles, 23 book chapters, and more than 300 abstracts. He has been cited more than 6,500 times and his index-h is 34. He is the editor of a recent book entitled: Nutrition in the ICU: beyond physiology (Karger). He was just appointed chairman of the ESPEN Guidelines editorial board (2014-2018).