Pierre-François Laterre

Pierre-François Laterre, MD, is professor of medicine and the Head of the medical-surgical intensive care unit at Saint Luc University Hospital at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. In 1990 he graduated in Internal Medicine and in 1991 in Intensive Care Medicine at Saint Luc University Hospital, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels: University Hospital Practionner at CHRU of Nancy (France) and Research Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, USA) in 93. He has dedicated most of his professional and scientific activity to the diagnosis, investigation and treatment of sepsis and especially its interaction with the coagulation cascade, inflammation and host response. Liver Failure and Transplantation, ARDS, Acute Renal Failure, Infectious Diseases are his topics of interest. He has a large experience in multicenter, randomized, double blind studies and he is Director of the Clinical Coordinating Center of the Compass trial (PAF inhibition in sepsis), CAPTIVATE, ACCESS, ART 123 trials. He is member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Society of CCM and of several advisory boards. He is currently president of the French Society of Critical Care.