We wish to acknowledge all our collaborators, experts and their respective collaborative centres of expertise in Intensive Care, who host annually the ESICM fellows or accommodate the development of immersive activities. Our heartfelt gratitude for their invaluable support and help with the development and delivery of Intensive Care training.
Fellowships reinforce what is being learned through bedside training. This is an opportunity for the participants who have achieved a sufficient level of both attendance and assessment performance to undertake fellowships in specific areas of intensive care, gaining bedside teaching from experts at globally renowned health sciences centres. Fellowships last 1 week and come with a bursary of 1000 EUR to support travel and accommodation at the site.
Immersive activities are regularly developed for education and training purposes to ensure application, simulation and integration of skills and behaviours.
Fellowships
Exciting news for 2025! The following fellowships have been approved so far:
- ARF & MV (more info on course pages)
- ECMO (more info on course pages)
- Haemodynamics (more info on course pages)
- Nutrition (more info on course pages)
- RRT (more info course pages)
- Severe Infections and Sepsis (more info on educational initiative pages)
Fellowship opportunities are enriching for fellows, tutors and hosting centres alike. A total of 115 fellowships were approved in 2024 and 76 in 2023.
We wish to thank them all as well as our sponsors for supporting us!
Stay tuned! More information coming soon!
Acute Respiratory Failure
Fellowship centres and mentors:
- Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain – Oriol ROCA and the local team
Antimicrobial Stewardship
Fellowship centres and mentors:
- Hospital de São Francisco Xavier, CHLO, Lisbon, Portugal – Pedro POVOA, Claudia MARTINS and the local team
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom & University Hospital Southampton, Southampton , United Kingdom – Cathrine MCKENZIE and the local team & Daniele GIUDICI and the local team
- University Hospital Carémeau Nimes, University Nimes, Nimes France – Claire ROGER and the local team
- University Hospital OWL, Evangelisches Klinikum Bielefeld, Bielefeld Germany – Hendrik BRACHT and the local team
Thanks to the unrestricted educational sponsorship from bioMérieux.
ECMO
Fellowship Centres & Mentors:
- Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom – Nicholas BARRETT & DE BACKER Daniel, and the local team
Patient safety
Fellowship centres and mentors:
- Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands & Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Dordrecht, The Netherlands – Ralph SO and the local team & Rutger VERHAGE and the local team
Thanks to the unrestricted educational sponsorship from PHILIPS.
Renal Replacement Therapy
Fellowship Centres & Mentors
- Santa Chiara Regional Hospital, APSS – University of Trento, Trento, Italy – Silvia DE ROSA and the local team
Transforming patient pathway, workflow & outcome
Fellowship Centres & Mentors :
- Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Firenze, Italy – Stefano ROMAGNOLI and the local team
- Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom – Iain GOODHART and the local team
- Clínico Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain & La Fe Hospital, Valencia, Spain – Rafael BADENES, Berta MONLEÓN LÓPEZ and the local team & Oscar DÍAZ-CAMBRONERO and the local team
- Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain – Ricard FERRER and the local team
Virtual Reality Experience (VRE) Projects
Advanced IC Echocardiography
- Virtual Reality Experience Centre: Dupuytren Teaching Hospital, Medical-surgical Intensive Care Unit, Limoges, France
- Local experts: Philippe VIGNON and his local team
- External expert: Antoine HERPAIN, Experimental Laboratory of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital – HUB, ULB, Department of Intensive Care, St-Pierre University Hospital, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Antimicrobial Stewardship
Virtual Reality Experience Centre: University Hospital Ghent, Belgium
Local experts:
- Jerina BOELENS
- Martha BORKOWSKA
- Veerle BOSSCHEM
- Kimberley CLAUS
- Liesbet DE BUS
- Natalie DE COOMAN
- Thomas DE CORTE
- Jan DE WAELE
- Isabel LEROUX-ROELS
- Matthijs OYAERT
- Nick VEROUGSTRAETE
External experts:
- Enrique CASTRO-SANCHEZ ~ Brunel University London; Imperial Colleg London, United Kingdom)
- Andrew CONWAY MORRIS ~ University of Cambridge; Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Nathan D NIELSEN ~ University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, United States
- Bryan O’FARRELL ~ Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Pharmacy Dept, London, United Kingdom
- Jeroen SCHOUTEN ~ Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
C19_Space
Virtual Reality Experience Centre: Humanitas Research Hospital & Mario Luzzatto Simulation Centre, Humanitas University, Rozzano (Milano), Italy
Local experts:
- Stefania BRUSA
- Giacomo COPPALINI
- Massimiliano GRECO
- Angelo MILANI
- Sofia SPANO
External expert:
- Marta Velia ANTONINI, ECMO Team – AUSL Romagna; Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
- Federico BARRA, “Maggiore della Carità” University Hospital; SIMNOVA Simulation Center, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
- Victoria Anne BENNETT, Queen Victoria Hospital, United Kingdom
- Carole BOULANGER, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
- Lennie DERDE, University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Jonathan DOWNHAM, United Hospitals Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Frantisek DUSKA, Charles University and FNKV University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
- Alessandro GALAZZI, Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
- Martina GASSNER, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
- Patricia MCCREADY, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
- Johannes MELLINGHOFF, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
- Stefan SCHALLER, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
ECMO
Virtual Reality Experience Centre: University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
Local experts:
- Local team
- Dieter DAUWE
- Leen VERCAEMST (EuroElso)
Fungal Sepsis
Virtual Reality Experience Centre: Hôpital Saint-Louis, APHP. Université de Paris, Paris, France
Local experts:
- Elie AZOULAY
- Julien LE ROY
- Virginie SOUPPART
External experts:
- Carole BOULANGER, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
- Liesbet DE BUS, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
- Cathy McKENZIE, Pharmacy and Critical Care, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton S016, London, United Kingdom
- David NORA, São Francisco Xavier Hospital, Centro Hospitalar De Lisboa Ocidental, Lisbon, Portugal; NOVA Medical School, CHRC, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
- Pedro POVOA, São Francisco Xavier Hospital, Centro Hospitalar De Lisboa Ocidental, Lisbon, Portugal, NOVA Medical School, CEDOC, New University of Lisbon, Portugal,
- Jeroen SCHOUTEN, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
General IC Ultrasound
Virtual Reality Experience Centre: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Germany
Local experts:
- Claudia SPIES
- Stefan SCHALLER
- Oliver HUNSICKER
- Agustin LIOTTA
- Frederike HARTMANN
External experts:
- Adrian WONG, King’s College Hospital, United Kingdom
- Ahmed ZAHER, Oxford University hospitals NHS foundation trust, United Kingdom
Haemodynamics
Virtual Reality Experience Centre: Medical Intensive Care Unit, Bicêtre Hospital, AP-HP | Paris-Saclay University, France
Local experts:
- Xavier MONNET
- Christopher LAI
- Local team
External experts:
- Karima ALOUAZEN, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Michelle CHEW, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden
- Antonio MESSINA, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center – IRCCS, Rozzano (Milano), Italy
Mechanical Ventilation
Virtual Reality Experience Centre: University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
Local expert: Greet HERMANS
External experts:
- Lise PIQUILLOUD IMBODEN, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
- Guillaume CARTEAUX, APHP – Henri Mondor University Hospital & Paris Est Créteil University, France
- Rémi COUDROY, CHU de Poitiers & Université de Poitiers, France
- Martin DRES, APHP. Sorbonne University & Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France
Renal replacement therapy
Virtual Reality Experience Centre: Bicêtre Hospital, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Paris-Saclay University Hospitals, France
External experts:
- Karima ALOUAZEN, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Silvia DE ROSA, Centre for Medical Sciences – CISMed, University of Trento, Italy
- Marlies OSTERMANN, Guy’s & St Thomas Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Thomas RIMMELÉ, Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France
- Antoine SCHNEIDER, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
