44th
ISICEM

International symposium on intensive care & emergency medicine

March 18-21, 2025

Brussels Congress Center, Brussels

faculty

  • Sumera Ahmad

  • Marcelo Amato

  • Karin Amrein

  • Djillali Annane

  • Filippo Annoni

  • Massimo Antonelli

  • Elie Azoulay

  • Jan Bakker

  • Michael Bauer

  • Jeremy Beitler

  • Rinaldo Bellomo

  • Azra Bihorac

  • Yelena Bodien

  • Lieuwe  Bos

  • Gabriella Bottari

  • Pierre Bouzat

  • Laurent Brochard

  • Katharina Busl

  • Thierry Calandra

  • Carolyn S Calfee

  • Luigi Camporota

  • Michaël Casaer

  • Leo Anthony Celi

  • Cherylee WJ Chang

  • Michelle Chew

  • Giuseppe Citerio

  • Jan Claassen

  • Francesca Collino

  • Craig M Coopersmith

  • Gustavo Cortes Puentes

  • Daniel  De Backer

  • Liesbet De Bus

  • Audrey De Jong

  • Elisabeth De Waele

  • Jan De Waele

  • Lennie Derde

  • Jose Dianti

  • Martin Dres

  • Jacques  Duranteau

  • Sharon Einav

  • Paul Elbers

  • Ari Ercole

  • Niall  Ferguson

  • Ricard Ferrer

  • Baldassare Ferro

  • Lui Forni

  • Bruno François

  • Dietmar Fries

  • Tomoko Fujii

  • Nicolas Gaspard

  • Stéphane Gaudry

  • Mathias Gelderblom

  • Hayley B Gershengorn

  • Evangelos Giamarellos–Bourboulis

  • Massimo Girardis

  • Michelle N Gong

  • Elisa Gouvea Bogossian

  • Giacomo Grasselli

  • Massimiliano Greco

  • Pierre-Grégoire  Guinot

  • Jan Gunst

  • Deepak Kumar Gupta

  • Raimund Helbok

  • Julie Helms

  • Vitaly Herasevich

  • Leo Heunks

  • Matthias Hilty

  • Maya  Hites

  • Patrick Honoré

  • Nicole Hunfeld

  • Beverley Hunt

  • Matthieu Jabaudon

  • Nicole Juffermans

  • Andre Kalil

  • Lioudmila Karnatovskaia

  • Jason Katz

  • Ashish K Khanna

  • Matthieu Komorowski

  • Katarzyna Kotfis

  • Matthieu Legrand

  • Marc  Maegele

  • John J Marini

  • John C Marshall

  • Greg Martin

  • Tommaso  Mauri

  • Paul H Mayo

  • Melanie Meersch-Dini

  • Armand  Mekontso Dessap

  • Victoria Metaxa

  • Geert  Meyfroidt

  • Frederic Michard

  • Marek Mirski

  • Zsolt Molnar

  • Xavier Monnet

  • Ari Moskowitz

  • Raghavan Murugan

  • Sheila N Myatra

  • Axel Nierhaus

  • Peter Nydahl

  • Marlies Ostermann

  • Stephen M Pastores

  • Peter Pickkers

  • Michael R Pinsky

  • Lise  Piquilloud

  • Romain Pirracchio

  • Jean-Charles  Preiser

  • Niels Rahe-Meyer

  • Michael Reade

  • Annika  Reintam Blaser

  • Thomas Rimmelé

  • Chiara Robba

  • Oriol Roca

  • Patricia Rocco

  • Gloria Rodriguez-Vega

  • Antoine Roquilly

  • Bernd Saugel

  • Edward Schenck

  • Luregn Schlapbach

  • Matthieu Schmidt

  • Emily J See

  • Ary Serpa Neto

  • Christopher Seymour

  • Manu Shankar–Hari

  • Yahya Shehabi

  • Andrew  Shorr

  • Mervyn Singer

  • Markus Skrifvars

  • Michel  Slama

  • Joanna L Stollings

  • Christian Stoppe

  • Fabio S Taccone

  • Daniel Talmor

  • Shaurya Taran

  • Jean-Louis Teboul

  • Arnaud Thille

  • Ashita Tolwani

  • Antoni  Torres

  • Alexis Turgeon

  • Greet Van den Berghe

  • Tom van der Poll

  • Frank van Haren

  • Michel Van Putten

  • Arthur van Zanten

  • Jean-Louis Vincent

  • Alexander Vlaar

  • Sarah Wahlster

  • Julia  Wendon

  • Junlai Zhao

Scientific Advisors

Chairperson

  • JL VINCENT (Brussels, Belgium)
    No COI declared

Vice-Chairperson

  • Fabio S Taccone (Brussels, Belgium)
    COI: BD, Eurosets, Neuroptics, Nihon Kohden, Zoll

Scientific advisors

  • Jan Bakker (Santiago, Chile)
    COI: Abbott, Amira, Bayer AG, Daxor, Emerja, Mespere, Nihon Kohden, Pharmazz, Philips, Photonics, Retia
  • Rinaldo Bellomo (Melbourne, Australia)
    COI: Baxter, CSL Behring, Fresenius, Innoviva, Viatris
  • Laurent Brochard (Toronto, Canada)
    COI: Air Liquide, Cerebra Health, Fisher Paykel, Medtronic, Sentec, Stimit
  • Carolyn Calfee (San Francisco, USA)
    COI: Aerogen, Arrowhead, Calcimedica, Cellenkos, EnliTISA, Fisher-Paykel, Gen1e Life Sciences, Matisse, Merck, Novartis, Roche-Genentech, Vasomune
  • Jan De Waele (Gent, Belgium)
    COI: Research Foundation Flanders, Biomerieux, Menarini, MSD, Pfizer, Roche Diagnostics, ThermoFisher, Viatris
  • Jacques Duranteau (Paris, France)
    COI: Edwards, LFB, Octapharma
  • Tomoko  Fujii (Tokyo, Japan)
    No COI declared
  • Hailey B Gershengorn (Miami, USA)
    No COI declared
  • Michelle Gong (New York, USA)
    COI: Novartis, Philips, Regeneron
  • Giacomo Grasselli (Milan, Italy)
    COI: Draeger, Fisher&Paykel, Getinge, GSK, Jafron, MSD, Mundipharma, Pfizer, Viatris
  • Leo Heunks (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
    COI: Liberate Medical, Mindray
  • Sameer Jog (Pune, India)
    No COI declared
  • Nicole Juffermans (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
    COI: Bayer, Octapharma
  • Flavia Machado (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
    COI: Baxter, Biomerieux, Multipharma
  • John Marshall (Toronto, Canada)
    COI: AM Pharma, Matisse Pharmaceuticals
  • Xavier Monnet (Paris, France)
    COI:AOP Health, Baxter Healthcare, Getinge, Masimo
  • Marlies Ostermann (London, UK)
    COI: Baxter, Biomerieux
  • Michael R Pinsky (Pittsburgh, USA)
    COI: Edwards Lifesciences
  • Luregn Schlapbach (Zürich, Switzerland)
    No COI declared
  • Mervyn Singer (London, UK)
    COI: AOP Pharma, Aptarion, Biotest, deePull, Deltex, Gentian, Matisse, Roche, Sanofi, Volition
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Local Committee (Brussels)

  • Filippo Annoni (Brussels, Belgium)
    COI: Viatris
  • Daniel De Backer (Brussels, Belgium)
    COI: Edwards Lifesciences, Pharmazz, Viatris
  • Vincent Labbé (Brussels, Belgium)
    COI: AOP Health, LEO Pharma
  • Jean-Charles Preiser (Brussels, Belgium)
    COI: Nestlé Healthsciences

Pre-symposium courses

Artificial Intelligence (17/3/2025)

Location: Rue Ravenstein 2 - Square - Brussels Meeting Center

Chairperson(s): Azra Bihorac & Leo A Celi

Date(s): 17/3/2025

Price per participant: 400 Eur

 

Artificial Intelligence


Monday, March 17, 2025

Chairpersons: Azra Bihorac (Gainesville, USA) & Leo A Celi (Cambridge, USA)

8.30-10.30

Introduction to Machine Learning

This is a primer on machine learning concepts including but not limited to cross-validation, data leakage, benchmarks, performance metrics, and fairness evaluation. Publicly available high-resolution ICU datasets (not registries) will be introduced: MIMIC (US), eICU-CRD (US), AmsterdamUMCdb (Netherlands), HiRID (Switzerland), SICdb (Austria).

Matthieu Komorowski (London, UK), Dominic Marshall (London, UK), Teresa Rincon (Worcester, USA)

10.30-10.45

BREAK

10.45-12.45


Bias-athon

The Bias-athon is designed to address and mitigate biases in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This workshop will leverage interdisciplinarity to identify, understand, and develop strategies to understand biases in clinical AI datasets. Participants will engage in hands-on sessions where they explore various types of biases, such as measurement bias, and variation in the degree of monitoring from social determinants of care, and their impact on AI performance.

Azra Bihorac (Gainesville, USA), Leo A Celi (Cambridge, USA), João Matos (Porto, Portugal)

10.30-10.45

LUNCH

13.30-14.30


Language Model Prompt-athon

A prompt-athon is focused on enhancing the effectiveness and reducing the bias of large language models. This workshop is designed for clinicians who are already or who are thinking of using these tools for summarizing patient course, drafting content for progress notes and letters to other providers and to the patients, and soliciting differential diagnoses, treatment recommendations and prognostication. Participants will be introduced to various prompt engineering techniques that can leverage the power of this technology. Through collaborative exercises, attendees will experiment with different types of prompts, analyze the outputs, and refine their strategies to achieve better results. The event will also include discussions on the challenges of prompt design, such as avoiding ambiguity and ensuring context-appropriateness.

Sharon Einav (Tel Aviv, Israel), Vitaly Herasevich (Rochester, USA), David Restrepo (Jacksonville, USA)

14.30-15.00

BREAK

15.00-17.00


Policy Workshop

The Policy Workshop is organized to explore the regulatory and ethical frameworks surrounding the use of AI technologies. Sessions will cover a range of topics, including transparency and accountability, power structures and the political economy that drives the impact of AI. Participants will engage in brainstorming and dialogue and propose solutions to complex policy issues. The goal is to engender a systems thinking mindset among developers and users of AI to improve population health.

Massimiliano Greco (Milan, Italy), Mary Lough (Stanford, USA), Lama Nazer (Amman, Jordan)

SIMULATION CENTER (exhibition area)

Sim' Challenge: FULL-SCALE SIMULATION IN INTENSIVE CARE & EMERGENCY MEDICINE

COMING SOON !

 

Associated Meetings

Artificial Intelligence (17/3/2025)

Location: Rue Ravenstein 2 - Square - Brussels Meeting Center

Chairperson(s): Azra Bihorac & Leo A Celi

Date(s): 17/3/2025

Price per participant: 400 Eur

 

Artificial Intelligence


Monday, March 17, 2025

Chairpersons: Azra Bihorac (Gainesville, USA) & Leo A Celi (Cambridge, USA)

8.30-10.30

Introduction to Machine Learning

This is a primer on machine learning concepts including but not limited to cross-validation, data leakage, benchmarks, performance metrics, and fairness evaluation. Publicly available high-resolution ICU datasets (not registries) will be introduced: MIMIC (US), eICU-CRD (US), AmsterdamUMCdb (Netherlands), HiRID (Switzerland), SICdb (Austria).

Matthieu Komorowski (London, UK), Dominic Marshall (London, UK), Teresa Rincon (Worcester, USA)

10.30-10.45

BREAK

10.45-12.45


Bias-athon

The Bias-athon is designed to address and mitigate biases in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This workshop will leverage interdisciplinarity to identify, understand, and develop strategies to understand biases in clinical AI datasets. Participants will engage in hands-on sessions where they explore various types of biases, such as measurement bias, and variation in the degree of monitoring from social determinants of care, and their impact on AI performance.

Azra Bihorac (Gainesville, USA), Leo A Celi (Cambridge, USA), João Matos (Porto, Portugal)

10.30-10.45

LUNCH

13.30-14.30


Language Model Prompt-athon

A prompt-athon is focused on enhancing the effectiveness and reducing the bias of large language models. This workshop is designed for clinicians who are already or who are thinking of using these tools for summarizing patient course, drafting content for progress notes and letters to other providers and to the patients, and soliciting differential diagnoses, treatment recommendations and prognostication. Participants will be introduced to various prompt engineering techniques that can leverage the power of this technology. Through collaborative exercises, attendees will experiment with different types of prompts, analyze the outputs, and refine their strategies to achieve better results. The event will also include discussions on the challenges of prompt design, such as avoiding ambiguity and ensuring context-appropriateness.

Sharon Einav (Tel Aviv, Israel), Vitaly Herasevich (Rochester, USA), David Restrepo (Jacksonville, USA)

14.30-15.00

BREAK

15.00-17.00


Policy Workshop

The Policy Workshop is organized to explore the regulatory and ethical frameworks surrounding the use of AI technologies. Sessions will cover a range of topics, including transparency and accountability, power structures and the political economy that drives the impact of AI. Participants will engage in brainstorming and dialogue and propose solutions to complex policy issues. The goal is to engender a systems thinking mindset among developers and users of AI to improve population health.

Massimiliano Greco (Milan, Italy), Mary Lough (Stanford, USA), Lama Nazer (Amman, Jordan)