Eddy Fan is an Associate Professor in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and a Staff Intensivist at the University Health Network/Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Fan received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto, his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario and a PhD in Clinical Investigation from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently the Medical Director of the Extracorporeal Life Support Program at the Toronto General Hospital. Dr. Fan’s research has focused on advanced life support for acute respiratory failure and patient outcomes from critical illness.

Prof. Schmidt is a Specialist in Intensive Care at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris. This ICU department is considered one of the largest ECMO centers worldwide. His research interests span the fields of cardiogenic shock, mechanical circulatory assistance, rescue therapies for severe ARDS, including ECMO, and mechanical ventilation. He is the investigator for multiple ongoing studies, including randomized controlled trials in the ECMO field, and is the author of more than 220 scientific publications and numerous book chapters. He is an active member of the ECMOnet (international ECMO network) and the past chair of the scientific committee of the EuroELSO.

Professor Alain Combes, MD, PhD is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Sorbonne Université, Paris, and head of the ICU department at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, France.

Dr. Ahmed Labib Shehatta, MBBCh (Hons), FRCA (UK), FFICM (UK), CCT (UK), EDIC, MSc (Anaesth) is a Senior Consultant in Critical Care in the Medicine Department at Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha-Qatar. Dr. Labib is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at WCM-Q.

Dr. Al-Fares graduated from the University of Birmingham Medical School, UK in 2003, and then pursued training in Internal Medicine and Critical Care, where he obtained MRCP UK in 2011, followed by a residency in Internal medicine in McGill 2012, Critical Care at the University of Toronto in 2015 and obtained ABIM and FRCPC in Internal Medicine and Critical care in 2016 and 2017, respectively. He then pursued further training in Extracorporeal Life Support and Critical Care Echocardiography at the University of Toronto and obtain certification from the National Board of Echocardiography. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine and Pain Medicine and the Director of Kuwait Extracorporeal Life Support Program, Al-Amiri Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait.