Speakers ResusNL 2024

Professor Brabrand is a clinician-researcher in emergency medicine at the university hospital in Odense, Denmark. His primary research focus is on risk stratification of acutely admitted patients.

Douwe Dekker is a consultant in acute internal medicine and clinical pharmacology. Toxicology is his main field of interest. Apart from his role as head of the Emergency Department of the UMC Utrecht, he is also affiliated to the Dutch Nationale Poison Control Center.

Luciano Gattinoni is currently working as Gastprofessor at the University of Göttingen (Germany).
He invented the “Extracorporeal CO 2 Removal” and promoted the “baby lung” (1980’s) and mechanical power concepts (2016). He has previously served as President for the Italian National Society of Anesthesia, and Intensive Care, the European Society of Intensive Care, and the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. His research focuses on the pathophysiology and treatment of acute respiratory failure, sepsis and acid base disorders. He has published more than 400 research articles in peer reviewed journals. He is Honorary Member of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and was awarded with the Life Time Achievement Award by the American Society of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Weingart received his medical degree and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He then went on to fellowships in Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and ECMO at the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
He is currently an attending at Nassau University Medical Center. He is a professor of emergency medicine at Nassau University Medical Center and an adjunct professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
He is best known for his podcast on Resuscitation and ED Critical Care called the EMCrit Podcast; it currently is downloaded > 400,000 times per month.

Susan R. Wilcox, M.D. trained in Emergency Medicine in the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency. After residency, she completed an Anesthesia Critical Care fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has worked for Boston MedFlight since 2009, first as an Associate Medical Director, then in 2018, she became the Associate Chief Medical Officer. In addition to attending in the Emergency Department, she has attended in Surgical, Trauma, Medical, and Cardiac ICUs. In 2022, she joined Lahey Hospital as the Medical Director of the 5C Medical ICU. She has served as the Chair of the Critical Care Section for ACEP, co-chaired the Airway and Mechanical Ventilation and Critical Care Transport Taskforces for SCCM, and was a senior editor for the 10th Edition of Rosen’s Emergency Medicine. Her academic work focuses on improving the care of critically ill patients in transport and medical education at the intersection of emergency medicine and critical care.

Stephen is a consultant in emergency and aeromedical retrieval medicine based in Glasgow. His main interest is individual, team and organisational performance in high pressure situations. His book on this subject, Peak Performance, was published in 2019. Stephen provides training for high performance teams internationally. His website is www.CoreCognition.co.uk

Professor Gommers started his career as a researcher at the department of experimental Anesthesiology, where he did his PhD research on exogenous surfactant therapy in experimental ARDS. As a reacher, he was involved in different research topics, such as Xenon anesthesia, exogenous lung surfactant, liquid ventilation, high frequency oscillation, mechanical ventilation in ARDS and Electrical Impedance Tomography. Professor Gommers is working as an Intensivist and is a specialist in mechanical ventilation in severe ARDS. For the past ten years, he is the chairman of the Adult Intensive Care department; a 45-bed academic ICU in which both general and post-cardiac surgical patients are treated. This ICU is a center of excellence for the treatment of multi-trauma, arachnoid bleeding, ECMO and transplantation (liver, lung and heart). During the Covid period, he was the chairman of the Dutch Society of Intensive Care and was one of the leading members of the Outbreak Management Team (OMT). Erasmus Medical Center is the largest academic hospital in the Netherlands, with around 16,000 employees.

Ross is Honorary Professor in Paediatric Surgery at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, UK. He is lead for Surgical Oncology. He is Chairman of TARNlet, the national paediatric trauma database. Outside of the hospital his alter ego, ffolliet is an internationally renowned expert in presentation skills delivering keynote speeches and interactive workshops addressing the issue of presetnations within medical education. He cycles slower than you and supports Albion Rovers.

Evelien de Jong attended medical school at the Free University in Amsterdam in 1996. After becoming a registered internist-infectiologist in 2010 and spending a lot of time in the department of Intensive Care for research projects, she decided to start a combined fellowship and PhD candidate in the Intensive Care department. She was registered as an intensivist in 2013. Since 2014 Evelien works as an internist-intensivist at the Red Cross Hospital in Beverwijk. In October 2017 she finished her PhD thesis ‘Markers and indices of infection in critically ill patients’.
In 2018 she started the MIJS institute together with her colleague Jan Sinnige. Main goal of the Institute is to spread knowledge about the right use of antibiotics and vaccines. 

Melanie Gutteling-van der Heijden (1983) is a pulmonologist intensivist. She obtained her PhD and her medical degree from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She completed her training as a pulmonologist at the OLVG in Amsterdam and her training as an intensivist at the Amsterdam UMC. She is also a proud mother of 4 children.

Intensive Care is a technical profession that regularly requires decisions to be made at the cutting edge in order to keep patients alive. She maintains her large compassionate heart and recognizes the vulnerability of patients, families, colleagues and herself. Her opinion is that not everything that is technically possible is also good for the patient. She wants to prevent intensive care treatment from being an extension of dying instead of living, based on the Hippocratic Oath: “I will care for the sick, promote health and relieve suffering. … I will not harm the patient.”

She is an ambassador for “Zin in Zorg” and Compassion for Care based on her desire to pay more attention to both the person behind the patient and the person behind the doctor. She wrote several columns for “Arts and Auto” about how she works with her head and heart. As a coach, she supervises interns within the Match program of Erasmus University. Her view is that as a young doctor you can only really choose what you would like in the future if you know yourself well. In addition, she and her partner run a company in a completely different field than medical: British real estate. This is where she can express her creative and enterprising qualities.

Based on her own experiences from intensive care, coaching and training the young generation, Melanie Gutteling-van der Heijden takes the audience into the wonderful world of the intersection between technology and humanity in an inspiring and interactive way. Topics that can be explored in depth include appropriate care (not everything that is technically possible is good for the patient), (self) compassion, job satisfaction, vulnerability and making mistakes.

Lars Veldhuis is an resident anesthesiology at the ErasmusMC. He focuses on emergency and intensive care medicine. He uses ultrasound in his daily practice and is an DEUS instructor for several years. 

I am working as an Emergency Physician at Franciscus Hospital in Rotterdam. I am a true POCUS believer and I will absolutely to try to contaminate you as well with the ultrasound virus during ResusNL. I am also co-founder and course director of DEUS.

Jessica Workum is an intensivist / clinical pharmacologist at the Elisabeth-TweeSteden hospital in Tilburg. She lives and breathes AI: she is trained as a biomedical engineer and is currently pursuing a PhD in AI, both at the Eindhoven University of Technology. And she combines her clinical duties with working as an AI consultant at Pacmed, and with implementing Generative AI into the EHR.

Medical degree Universiteit van Amsterdam / AMC; Resident Surgery Medisch Centrum Alkmaar en VU Medisch Centrum. During my residency I jointed the MMT / Helicopter Team at the Lifeliner 1 and after a few other hospitals (Spaarne Hoofddorp, Zaandam en Amstelland), I returned to the VUmc at the Emergency Department. Now I’m medical head of the Emergency department of both locations of the Amsterdam UMC, Course director and medical chief of ATLS Netherlands and boardmember of ATLS Europe. Besides all this I love to sail, bike and cook, eat and drink champagne 🙂

Matthias Hilty is an internist and intensive care physician at University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests lie in the foundations of physiology, their application in clinical practice, and the use of advanced computational methods. His group is working on algorithms to analyze individual red blood cell paths in in-vivo dark field microscopy, as well as neuronal-network based methods to identify disease-specific alterations in the sublingual microcirculation of critically ill patients. Clinical and physiological (high-altitude) studies enable to test and validate tissue-based approaches. When not in the clinic or lab, he spends time with family and friends, enjoying rock/mixed climbing and ski touring in the Swiss Alps.