Structure
The Council members are:
- The national representatives of the members in the individual European countries
- The representatives of the international members
- The Chairpersons of each scientific section of the Society
- The members of the Executive Committee
- The Chairpersons of each Education Committee
The representatives of the members of the Society in individual countries should be elected by the Ordinary and Honorary members of these countries.
- Voting members are the President, the President Elect, the Treasurer, the Secretary and the Chairpersons of the Divisions of Scientific Affairs and Professional Development.
- The ex-officio members are invited to attend all Executive Committee meetings.
The main role of the Division of Scientific Affairs is to represent ESICM in the intensive care community, advance and develop ESICM’s scientific activities in relation to its Annual Congress, and foster research.
The Division of Scientific Affairs includes:
- The Congress Committee
- The Research Committee with its Sub committee:
- The Systematic Review Group
The Division of Professional Development (DPD) is in charge of advancing the Society’s activities with respect to education, training and publishing. It is responsible for the journal Intensive Care Medicine, as well as development of a comprehensive curriculum and training in Intensive Care Medicine and promotion of a European-wide competency based training programme. This division is also charged with organising and further developing the post graduate board exam (European Diploma in Intensive Care – EDIC).
The DPD is composed of:
- The Education and Training Committee with
- The Editorial & Publishing Committee
The Division of Administrative Affairs (DAA) is responsible for all administrative tasks, including the administration of the membership and management of the Brussels office.
Moreover, the DAA is responsible for the development and processing of strategies related to public relations and general communications.
The Division includes the following committees and sections:
- The ESICM Registry Committee
- The Financial Department
The Nurses and Allied Healthcare Professionals Committee is the representative body of ESICM nurse and AHP members.
The main objective of the Committee is to facilitate the integration of nurses and other allied healthcare professionals within all other ESICM Committees and to develop active participation at all levels of the Society.
The first Statutes of the Society were written in March 1982 at the foundation meeting held in Geneva at the WHO (World Health Organisation). The latest version is available here:
The Statutes are accompanied by the Standard Operating Procedures of the Society, which contain additional information, as well as Internal Operating Instructions: they describe in detail important information about the daily work of the Society and include descriptions of committees, positions and procedures.
ESICM’s permanent office is located in Brussels, Belgium.
The office is managed by a Chief Executive Officer, appointed by the Executive Committee and directed by the ESICM General Secretary.
The Brussels office staff are responsible for the daily work related to all the Society’s activities.
Rue Belliard, 19 – BE – 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 559 03 50 / Fax: +32 2 559 03 79
The Council
The number of representatives which can be elected are
- European countries:
- One national representative per European country with more than 25 ESICM Ordinary and Honorary members.
- One common representative for all European countries with less than 25 ESICM Ordinary and Honorary members.
- International members may elect one representative for each of the following five defined regions if they have 100 or more members (alphabetic order):
- Africa
- Asia-Pacific
- Central and South America
- Middle-East
- North America
- National and International representatives are elected for one term of three years, non-renewable.
- The definitions for the five regions are given in Appendix A of the ESICM General Standard Operating Procedures.
The duties of a Council member are
- To be responsible for mutual contacts between the Society and the country members, the local intensive care society and the health authorities
- To promote the Society in the country and to recruit members
- To attend the Council meetings twice a year. One is held in March in Brussels, and one in the Autumn, during the Annual Congress of the Society
- To vote on resolutions from the Executive Committee
- To present proposals to the Executive Committee
- To actively participate in the ESICM’s various activities and committees
- To help in the organisation of EDIC
- To ratify the Executive Committee changes in the SOPs
National Representatives
Austria | Thomas Hamp, Vienna | |
Belgium | Patrick Biston, Charleroi | |
Czech Republic | Jan Benes, Usti nad Labem | |
Denmark | Nicolai Rosenkrantz Segelcke Haase, Copenhagen | |
Finland | Matti Reinikainen, Kuopio | |
France | Antoine Vieillard-Baron, Boulogne-Billancourt | |
Germany | Roland Francis, Berlin | |
Greece | Vasileios Bekos, Athens | |
Hungary | Lorinc Zavorszky, Budapest | |
Ireland | Colman O’Loughlin, Dublin | |
Israel | Peter Van Heerden, Jerusalem | |
Italy | Katia Donadello, Verona | |
Lithuania | Jone Jackeviciute, Kaunas | |
The Netherlands | Rik Gerritsen, Leeuwarden | |
Norway | Nicholas Barlow, Oslo | |
Poland | Mariusz Piechota, Łódź | |
Portugal | Sofia Escorcio, Madere | |
Romania | Ioana Grintescu, Bucharest | |
Russia Federation | Sergey Petrikov, Saint-Petersburg | |
Slovenia | Anja Kramaric, Novo Mesto | |
Spain | José A. Lorente, Madrid | |
Sweden | Michelle Chew, Linköping | |
Switzerland | Matthias Hilty, Zurich | |
Turkey | Tughan Utku, Istanbul | |
United Kingdom | Julia A. Wendon, London |
Representative of the Countries counting <25 ordinary members: Dragana Loncar Stojilkovic, Serbia
International Members Representatives
Africa Representative | Assem Abdel-Razek, Egypt |
Asia-Pacific Representative | Tapas Sahoo, India |
Central & South American Representative | Flavio e. Nacul, Brazil |
Middle East Representative | Ashraf Al Tayar, Saudi Arabia |
North American Representative | Nathan Nielsen, USA |
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee
Secretary & Chair of the Division of Administrative Affairs: Lui Forni – Guildford, United Kingdom
Treasurer: Jean-Louis Teboul – Paris, France
Chair of the Division of Scientific Affairs: Armand R J Girbes – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chair of the Division of Professional Development: Frantisek Duska – Prague, Czech Republic
Ex-officio members
- Past-president: Jozef Kesecioglu – Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Chair of the Research Committee: Jan De Waele – Ghent, Belgium
- Chair of the Editorial & Publishing Committee: Adrian Wong – Guildford, United Kingdom
- Chair of the N&AHP Committee: Johannes Mellinghoff – London, United Kingdom
- Chair of the NEXT Committee: Stefan Schaller – Berlin, Germany
- Editor-in-Chief of the ICM journal: Giuseppe Citerio – Monza, Italy
- Chief Executive Officer: Joël Alexandre – Brussels, Belgium
Led by
Maurizio Cecconi (Italy)
ESICM President
Elie Azoulay (France)
ESICM President-Elect
Division of Scientific Affairs
The Congress Committee
The Congress Committee is composed of:
- The Chairperson of the Division of Scientific Affairs (Chairperson of the Committee)
- One representative from each Section
- The Chairperson of the Research Committee
- The Chairperson of the Education & Training Committee
- The NEXT Deputy
- One nominated NEXT Committee member
- A N&AHP representative
- Other Ex officio Committee Chairs or Officers
Aims and Missions
The Congress Committee is responsible for:
- the preparation and presentation of the ESICM Annual Congress
- coordinating the proposals and activities of the sections and their research groups
- the scientific design and content of meetings organised jointly with other associations, such as the LIVES Forum.
Led by
Armand R J Girbes (The Netherlands), the Chair of the Congress Committee, who is also the Chair of the Division of Scientific Affairs.
The Research Committee
The Research Committee is composed of:
- The Chairperson of the Division of Scientific Affairs (Chairperson of the Committee)
- One representative from each Section
- The Chairperson of the Research Committee
- The Chairperson of the Education & Training Committee
- The NEXT Deputy
- One nominated NEXT Committee member
- a N&AHP representative
- Other Ex officio Committee Chairs or Officers
Aims and Missions
The Research Committee is responsible for:
- Research awards
- Endorsement of surveys and projects
- coordinating trials
- The Systematic Review Group
The Systematic Review Group is composed of:
- The Chairperson of the SRG
- The Chairperson of the Editorial & Publishing Committee
- The Editor-in-Chief of Intensive Care Medicine, the Society’s journal
- The Chairperson of the Clinical Trials Group
- The NEXT representative
- The Chairperson of the DPD
- The Chairperson of the DSA
- The DPD Content Manager
- One co-opted member as appointed by the Chairperson of the group
Aims and Missions
To facilitate education, research and professional development within the Society. This unit has developed a strategy and system to commission, design and complete systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Led by
Jan De Waele (Belgium), the Chair of the Research Committee, who is also the Deputy Chair of the Division of Scientific Affairs.
Division of Professional Development
The Education and Training Committee
The members of the Education and Training Committee are:
- The Chairperson of the Division of Professional Development (Chairperson of the Committee)
- The Chairperson of the Congress Committee
- One representative from the N&AHP Committee
- The Chairperson from the three Committees: Examinations Committee, E-Learning Committee and Clinical Training Committee
- The Chairperson of the CoBaFaculty
- One nominated NEXT Committee
- Ex officio other Committee Chairs, Council members and co-opted members approved by the Executive Committee
Aims and Mission
The Education and Training Committee is in charge of developing and promoting the educational and training strategy of the ESICM and to implement the associated operational tasks.
Examinations Committee, composed of:
- An elected Chairperson
- Five elected members
- Five Nominated members
- One nominated NEXT Committee
Aims and Mission
The Examinations Committee is responsible for the organisation and delivery of the EDIC Part I and II exams, as well as other upcoming ESICM Diplomas.
E-Learning Committee, composed of:
- A selected Chairperson
- The Chairs of the Examinations Committee, of the Clinical Training Committee and of the CoBaFaculty
- 7 elected members
- 6 Nominated members
- Two nominated NEXT Committee members
Aims and Mission
To develop and maintain the Society’s e-learning platform that powers the educational activities of ESICM.
Clinical Training Committee, composed of:
- A Chairperson
- Up to six elected members
- Two nominated NEXT Committee members
Aims and Mission
To develop, maintain and promote training programmes for intensive care medicine.
CoBaFaculty, composed of:
- A Chairperson
- Up to six nominated members
- The Chairs of the Clinical Training Committee, E-learning Committee, Examinations Committee and the Systematic Review Group
Aims and Mission
To maintain, promote and develop the CoBaTrICE programmes on behalf of the Society.
CoBaForum, composed of:
- The Chairperson of the Division of Professional Development
- One representative of each National Training Organisation (NTO) that has an agreement with ESICM
- Observers approved by the Executive Committee
Aims and Mission
To advance the Society’s relationships and shared objectives with other National Training Organisations (NTO) and with other stakeholders related to education and training in intensive care medicine.
Led by
Frantisek Duska (Czech Republic), the Chairperson of the Education and Training Committee, who is also the Chairperson of the Division of Professional Development.
The Editorial & Publishing Committee
The members of the ESICM Editorial & Publishing Committee are:
- The Chairperson of the Editorial & Publishing Committee
- The past President
- The General Secretary
- One nominated representative of the Journal’s Board of Editors
- The Chairperson of the Division of Scientific Affairs
- The Chairperson of the Division of Professional Development
- Three nominated representatives of the NEXT Committee
- Ex officio other co-opted members, as appointed by the Chairperson of the Committee.
Aims and Mission
The Editorial & Publishing Committee is a component of the Division of Professional Development. Its specific objective is to advance the Society’s representation in any available media format, including web presence, social media, press coverage and external publications.
The Editorial & Publishing Committee objectives include the maintenance of the highest standards of excellence in the publishing and presentation of the activities of the Society.
Led by
Adrian Wong (United Kingdom), the Chairperson of the Editorial & Publishing Committee, who is also the Deputy Chairman of the Division of Professional Development.
He is also the ESICM ex officio member of the Board of Editors of the journal Intensive Care Medicine and an ex officio member of the Executive Committee and Council.
Division of Administrative Affairs
The ESICM Registry Committee
The Registry Committee consists of a board and members including:
- Chair of the Committee
- Chair of the Division of Administrative Affairs.
Members of the Committee are appointed by the Chair following application.
Aims and Missions
The European Registry of Intensive Care is a keystone project of ESICM which is intended to develop a broad registry of intensive care units and services throughout Europe.
Led by
Lui Forni (United Kingdom), the Chairperson of the Division of Administrative Affairs, who is also the Secretary of ESICM.
The ESICM Financial Department
The Treasurer is in charge of all financial activities, including the financial planning and management of the assets of the Society. He supervises the bookkeeping and accounts of the Society with the help of an expert accountant. He reports to the Executive Committee, the Council and the General Assembly. The Treasurer prepares the annual statement and a report on estimates for meetings.
Managed by
Jean-Louis Teboul (France), the Treasurer, who is also the Deputy Chair of the Division of Administrative Affairs.
Nursing
Nurses and Allied Healthcare Professionals
ESICM actively encourages membership from any health professionals working or strongly associated with intensive care. Currently, there are nurses and physiotherapist members from more than 15 European countries and opportunities to link and share practices and experience via the Annual Congress, as well as research projects.
N&AHP Committee Members
- Congress Committee: Margo Van Mol – The Netherlands
- Research Committee: Nikos Efsthathiou – United Kingdom
- Committee Members:
Anne-Sophie Debue – France
Marta Borowska – Belgium
Carole Boulanger – United Kingdom
Katerina Iliopoulou – United Kingdom
Aims and Strategy
- Raise the profile of intensive care nursing and allied healthcare professionals within the ESICM and among European nurses and AHP;
- Work to increase the opportunities for nurses and AHP across Europe to attend the congress and to be involved in pre-congress activities;
- Provide support for first time congress presenters, from abstract submission through to presentation;
- Develop networking opportunities for nurses and allied health professionals across Europe, both at the annual congress and via the ESICM N&AHP webpages;
- Provide opportunities for nurses and allied health professionals to get involved in collaborative research studies.
Next
Next Committee
NEXT is represented in the structures of ESICM by a Steering Committee that speaks on behalf of trainees and helps shape the future of the Society and of the discipline.
NEXT Committee Members
- NEXT Deputy Chair
Laura Galarza – Spain - Editorial & Publishing Committee
Andrea Ortiz Suñer – Spain
David Perez Torres – Spain
Massimiliano Greco – Italy - Research Committee
Laura Galarza – Spain
Mariangela Pellegrini – Sweden
George Karlis – Greece - Systematic Rewiew Group
Laura Borgstedt – Germany
Maria Vargas – Italy - Congress Committee
Stefan Schaller – Germany
Victoria Bennett – United Kingdom - Clinical Training Committee
Silvia De Rosa – Italy
Burcin Halacli – Turkey - CoBaTrICE Committee
Beatriz Lobo Valbuena – Spain - e-Learning Committee
Kristina Fuest – Germany
Maria Martinez Martinez, Spain - Examination Committee
Rahul Costa-Pinto – Australia
Mission and Objectives
- Connects trainees and young intensive care physicians across borders to shape the future of intensive care medicine through ESICM.
- Prepares the next generation of ICM leaders
- Connects with and represents the younger generation of intensive care professionals
- Enlarges the young community of ESICM
- Adapts educational resources and congress programmes to meet the needs of trainees and young intensivists
- Represents trainees and young intensive care professionals in all structures of ESICM
- Provides a platform for mobility and career development opportunities