2026 ESICM Elections
ESICM reflects the collective efforts of ICU professionals who drive this international society to shape the future of Intensive Care Medicine and support our mission to improve ICU patients’ and families’ lives. Elections provide members with the opportunity to deepen their connection with the Society, whether by applying as a candidate or by selecting the future leaders of the Society. Only members who paid their membership before the start of the ballots are eligible to vote.
The ballots are now closed.
Please find below the 2026 ESICM Elections calendar:
- Call for Candidates Opens: Tuesday 21 April (1.00 PM CEST)
- Call for Candidates Closes: Tuesday 5 May (9.00 AM CEST)
- Ballots Open: Tuesday 12 May (1.00 PM CEST)
- Ballots Closing : Tuesday 19 May (10.00 AM CEST)
2026 ELECTIONS – Results
Executive committee
Council country representatives
- National Representative Croatia
- Lenko Saric: 85 %
- Slavica Kvolik: 10 %
- Jasminka Persec: 5 %
- National Representative Czech Republic
- National Representative Denmark
- There is no candidate, we will organize a second call for candidates
- National Representative Estonia
- National Representative Finland
- National Representative Ireland
- National Representative Poland
- Mateusz Zawadka: 83,33 %
- Jacek Górka: 16.67 %
- National Representative Romania
- National Representative Sweden
- National Representative Switzerland
- Johannes Strehler: 77,78 %
- Nawfel Ben-Hamouda: 22,22 %
- National Representative European countries with less than 25 ESICM Members
- Srdjan Gavrilovic (Serbia)
- North America
- Joao Pedro Teixeira (United States)
Congress committee
Education and training committee
NEXT committee
- 11 Committee Members Elect
- Oana Branea (Romania): 8,77%
- Hannah Wozniak: 5,61%
- Annika Bald: 5,44%
- Andrea Brunati: 5,44%
- Birgul Dere: 5,26%
- Nur Panik: 4,74%
- Özkul Yılmaz Colak:4,74%
- Nils Daum: 4,04%
- Beatrice Brunoni: 4,04%
- Vera Karner: 4,04%
- Anna Scholze: 3,68%
- Tommaso Rosà: 3,51%
- Paweł Kutnik: 3,51%
- Mohamed Abdelgalil: 3,33%
- Guia Margherita Matronola: 3,33%
- Irene Cisterna: 3,33%
- Dominika Wójtowicz: 2,98%
- Davide Raimondi Cominesi: 2,63%
- Konrad Zuzda: 2,63%
- Francesc Xavier Pujol Calzón: 2,46%
- Francesco Zadek: 2,28%
- Ivan Dželalija: 2,28%
- Pedro David Wendel Garcia: 2,28%
- Alix Buhlmann: 2,11%
- Antonia Nompleggio: 2,11%
- Bruno Garcia: 1,75%
- Nicolò Sella: 1,40%
- Simon Corrado Serafini: 1,23%
- Philip Bastone: 1,05%
N&AHP committee
There is no election for the N&AHP Committee in 2026
Journals
- ICMx Journal
- Sascha David (Switzerland)
Past Elections Results
2025 – 2024 – 2023 – 2022
ESICM Structure & SOPs
Code of Conduct for ESICM Members
ESICM Elections Code of Conduct
All Job Descriptions
