Our Team

Evangelos Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Greece

Evangelos is chair of the ESA. He is specialized in Internal Medicine and in Infectious Diseases. His main research contribution is immunomodulation in sepsis for which he was awarded the Young Investigator Research Award by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Currently, he is Professor of Internal Medicine at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has 476 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and h-index 80. He is chairing the Hellenic Sepsis Study Group.

Adam Linder, Sweden

Adam is Coordinator of the ESA Research Working Group. He is a professor for Infection Medicine and a specialist in Infectious Diseases with a position as a senior consultant and senior lecturer at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases at Lund University Hospital, Sweden. His research interest lies in epidemiology, early diagnostics, novel treatment options and long-term outcomes of sepsis. Adam is one of the initiators of Combatsepsis, a Swedish network for translational sepsis research and he is the founder of Sepsisfonden.

Aurica Pripa, Belgium

Aurica is an EU Public Affairs professional with experience in numerous sectors. She has co-chaired the European Sepsis Alliance’s Patient and Family Support Working Group since 2019.  Her commitment to join ESA was sparked by a personal story a few years ago, when her husband suddenly developed sepsis. Luckily he survived. Doctors explained he had had a septic shock, caused by pneumonia and bacterial infection, leading to multiple organ failure, including lungs, kidneys, and the heart, necessitating an ECMO treatment and intubation. This ultimately resulted in amputation and 8 months in hospital. It was the first time in her life she heard of sepsis, and she became increasingly familiar with the work of the health services. Since then, she is committed to raising awareness about sepsis as a condition requiring an emergency response.

DENNIS KREDLER, BELGIUM

Dennis is Coordinator of the ESA Policy and Stakeholder Engagement Working Group. He survived severe sepsis in 2016, suffering amputation of parts of his foot. He is now an advocate for better preventive sepsis policies throughout the European Union. In his professional life, he is Head of the Brussels Office with Dow. He holds Economics degrees from the College of Europe, Bruges (Belgium), the University of Sussex (UK), and the University of Grenoble (France).

Antonio Artigas, Spain

Antonio is Professor of Applied Physiology and Chair of Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Failure Research at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is director of the Intensive Care Medicine Department at Corporacion Sanitaria Universitaria Parc Tauli and Sagrado Corazon-General de Cataluña Hospitals and member of the advisory committee for sepsis to the Catalan Government. Antonio is a honorary member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and received the Educational Award of the European Respiratory Society.

Djillali Annane, France

Djillali is Dean of Medical School at University Paris Saclay and Head of ICU at Raymond Poincaré Hospital in Garches, is President-elect of French national council of medical schools Deans. He was Senior Counselor for the French Minister of Health, and was President of the French Society of Intensive Care Medicine. He has contributed to the medical literature with > 460 peer –reviewed articles (H-index 86; Google scholar), about 150 book chapters, and has given > 400 conferences.

LUREGN SCHLAPBACH, SWITZERLAND

Luregn is a pediatric intensivist and Head of the Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University Children’s Hospital Zürich in Switzerland. Luregn has been driving statewide and national pediatric sepsis quality improvement work through The University of Queensland and Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. His research has focused on improving our understanding of why some children become critically unwell because of infections, and in developing better approaches to allow early recognition and targeted treatment of sepsis in children.

Marvin Zick, Germany

Marvin is General Manager of the Global Sepsis Alliance and has a background in Business Administration. He is responsible for all communications, websites, World Sepsis Day, World Sepsis Congress, and more.

SIMONE MANCINI, ITALY

Simone has joined the Global Sepsis Alliance as Coordinator Regional Sepsis Alliances in October 2019. He has an extensive background in public affairs, external communications, and association management which he will put to good use to coordinate the work of the Regional Sepsis Alliances and the implementation of national sepsis strategies.

KATJA COUBALL, GERMANY

Katja is graphic designer and social media manager at the Global Sepsis Alliance. She is responsible for nearly all visuals you see - from the ESA logo to the World Sepsis Day Infographics.