SSC Executive Committee

Representatives from the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine provide direction for the Surviving Sepsis Campaign.

Campaign Cochair

Elie Azoulay, MD, PhD

President, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Critical Care
Head Department, Critical Care
Saint-Louis Hospital
University of Paris
Paris, France

Campaign Co-Vice Chair

Jan J. De Waele, MD, PhD

President-Elect, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Ghent University
Intensivist, Department of Intensive Care Medicine
Ghent University Hospital
Ghent, Belgium

Andrew Rhodes, FRCP, FRCA, FFICM

Steering Committee Cochair
Clinical Director of Critical Care
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust
London, England

Campaign Cochair

Lauren R. Sorce, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC/PC, FCCM

Founders Board Nurse Scientist, Associate Director, Nursing Research, Pediatric Critical Care Nurse Practitioner
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Campaign Co-Vice Chair

Jose L. Pascual, MD, PhD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM

President-Elect, Society of Critical Care Medicine
Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery
Clinical Associate, School of Nursing
SICU Co-Medical Director, Patient Safety Officer
Associate Director, Office of Life Support Education
Trauma, Emergency Surgery, Surgical and Neurocritical Care
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Craig M. Coopersmith, MD, FACS, MCCM

Steering Committee Cochair
Director, Emory Critical Care Center
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia, USA