Julie Benbenishty

Senior Staff Nurse ICU & ED

Nurse Lecturer

Hadassah Medical Organization

Hebrew University

Hadassah Hospital Nursing school

Jerusalem

Israel

E-mail: Julie@hadassah.org.il

Biography

American born and living in Israel since 1974. Graduated nursing school and drafted into the Israeli defense forces as an army nurse. Working and researching intensive care arena for 34 years. Post graduate courses include intensive care, trauma, communications, management, and good clinical practice. Graduated MNS in 2009 completed a thesis dealing with the autonomy of end of life decisions in people experiencing a life threatening event. For the past 5 years teaching master degree nursing at the Hebrew University Hadassah Hospital Nursing school, working in ICU and trauma coordinator. Happily cohabiting with Miki, enjoying 3 children and 3 grand children.

Bernd W. Böttiger, M.D., D.E.A.A., F.E.S.C.

Chairman, European Resuscitation Council (ERC)

Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

University Hospital,

University of Cologne

Kerpener Straße 62

D-50937 Köln

Germany

E-mail: bernd.boettiger@uk-koeln.de

Biography

Dr. Böttiger holds many academic and research positions. He is a member of several scientific organizations including the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). Dr. Böttiger is the Chairman of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), he is the Chairman of the Scientific Subcommittee on Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine of the ESA, he is one of the European (ERC) delegates to the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) and he is the Principal Investigator of the international “Thrombolysis in Cardiac Arrest” (TROICA) trial. Dr. Böttiger is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Resuscitation, and he works as a reviewer for various leading international medical journals including Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Chest, Circulation, Neuroscience, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Anesthesiology and Resuscitation.

He has published extensively in the fields of emergency medicine, intensive care medicine and anaesthesiology. His current research interests are the induction and the use of therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest, reperfusion following cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, global cerebral ischaemia, myocardial ischaemia and health economics.

Dr Maureen Coombs MBE PhD RN

Consultant Nurse Critical Care

Cardiac Intensive Care

Southampton University Hospitals Trust

Senior Lecturer

University of Southampton

Southampton

United Kingdom

E-mail: Maureen.Coombs@suht.swest.nhs.uk

Biography

Maureen has developed her career almost entirely within the field of critical care. She has held senior posts in coronary care, cardiothoracic and general intensive care. Throughout her professional life, she has developed and maintained strong managerial and academic roles encompassed within a credible clinical practice base.

She took up appointment as Consultant in Critical Care at Southampton in 2000. Since then, she has led the implementation of the Critical Care Outreach Team, worked with the team on General Intensive Care, and is now working on Cardiac Intensive Care working with long term and end of life care patients. Her current role enables her to remain at the bedside, and use understanding of day to day challenges at this level to inform strategic direction of the clinical, educational and leadership components of critical care service delivery in the organisation and at a wider level/local health economy. She holds an active clinical academic portfolio and works with colleagues at the University of Southampton researching into end of life care in critical care.

Maureen has been past Chair of the BACCN and maintains her enthusiasm and commitment to critical care as evident in her publications and presentations at local, national and international level.

Dr. Monique van Dijk

Senior Researcher Quality of Care

Pediatric Surgery

Erasmus MC – Sophia Children's Hospital

PO BOX 2060

3000 CB Rotterdam

The Netherlands

E-mail: m.vandijk.3@erasmusmc.nl

Biography

Dr. Monique van Dijk (1958) worked as a registered nurse for 9 years and studied psychology. She obtained her Psychology degree in 1993 with a specialization in Methods and Statistics. In 2001 she was awarded a PhD degree for a doctoral on pain assessment in neonates and infants. Since then she worked as a senior researcher Quality of Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Sophia Children’s Hospital. She supervises medical, nursing and psychology PhD students. Her research areas are pain assessment, nonpharmacological pain treatment, sedation, withdrawal syndrome, follow-up after (neonatal) intensive care. She is a member of a committee set up to stimulate nursing research. Since 2005 she has a research collaboration with the Red Cross Children’s hospital in Cape Town, South Africa and supervised more than 20 Dutch medical students who did a research project over there. She has published more than 50 peer reviewed scientific articles. One of her main ambitions is to facilitate and motivate nurses to perform research and to implement the study results in clinical practice.

Ingrid Egerod, RN, MSN, PHD, associate professor

The University Hospitals Centre for Nursing and Care Research

Rigshospitalet

Blegdamsvej 9

2100 Copenhagen

Denmark

E-mail: ingrid.egerod@city.dk

Biography

Ingrid Egerod, RN, MSN, PHD, associate professor. I trained as a nurse at Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet in 1980-1983. My hands-on ICU experience was in Copenhagen, Honolulu and San Francisco, working in general, cardiac, thoracic, neuro, burns, and respiratory intensive care units. I completed my Master of Science in Nursing at the University of Aarhus in 1996, and my Ph.D. in Health Sciences at the University of Copenhagen in 2003. My main areas of research have been sedation, mechanical ventilation, intensive care diaries, and fast-track regimes. I am co-founder and chair of the Nordic Association for Intensive Care Nursing Research (NOFI).

Paul Fulbrook RN, FEfCCNA; PhD, MSc, PGDipEduc, BSc(Hons)

Professor of Nursing

School of Nursing and Midwifery,

Faculty of Health Sciences,

Australian Catholic University,

Brisbane,

Australia

E-mail: P.Fulbrook@mcauley.acu.edu.au

Biography

Paul Fulbrook RN, FEfCCNA; PhD, MSc, PGDipEduc, BSc(Hons) is Professor of Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Australia. He also holds the post of Deputy Director of the Faculty’s National Centre for Clinical Outcomes Research. He is based full time at The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane within the Nursing Research and Practice Development Centre, where he holds the post of Nursing Director. Paul has been working in critical care since 1986, and was a founder member of EfCCNa; he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of EfCCNa in 2008. He is a past executive member and Fellow of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses and a current executive member of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses. His critical care research interests are broad and he has collaborated with EfCCNa on several international surveys in the areas of: family witnessed resuscitation, enteral feeding, end-of-life care, and most recently, nurses’ knowledge levels.

Sissel Lisa Storli

Associate Professor

Department of Health and Care Sciences

University of Tromsø

Norway

E-mail: sissel.l.storli@uit.no

Biography

Sissel Lisa Storli is an intensive care nurse who has a special interest in exploring the patient perspective in intensive care. Her PhD dissertation was titled: “Living with experiences and memories from being in intensive care – a lifeworld perspective”. She has also been involved in developing follow-up offers for intensive care patients and is currently in charge of developing national guidelines for patient diaries.

She is Associate Professor at the University of Tromsø in Northern Norway, teaching and supervising students of intensive care nursing as well as nurses and other health care professionals at the master and doctoral levels. She is also Research Group Leader in Nursing Research at the University and Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Nordic Association for Intensive Care Nursing Research.