Tom Van Der Poll

Tom van der Poll is Professor of Medicine in the Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is Head of the Center of Experimental and Molecular Medicine and Chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases in this institution. Van der Poll is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. His training included a postdoctoral research fellowship in Cornell University Medical College in New York (1993-1995). Van der Poll is a former Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995-2000). Van der Poll is council member of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA, www.globalsepsisalliance.org) and immediate past Chair of the International Sepsis Forum (ISF, www.internationalsepsisforum.org), an organization headed by a council of international experts and opinion leaders that focuses on improving the management of sepsis and septic shock. He is a member of the “International Task Force Committee for Sepsis Definitions” (installed by ESICM & SCCM) and the “Surviving Sepsis Guidelines Committee”. Van der Poll’s research focuses on the innate immune and procoagulant response during sepsis.