Respiratory medicine in the intensive care unit

Professor Schultz (1965) began his professional career when he joined the Department of Intensive Care in 2000 after completing a fellowship in Critical Care at the Amsterdam UMC (location AMC). Widely known and admired for his scientific productivity, he is one of the most highly cited Critical Care researchers in the world.

He is a founding member of the ‘PROVE Network’, a group of international experts that perform highly cited international multicentre randomized clinical trials of invasive ventilation, in surgery patients in the OR, and in critically ill patients in the ICU, and of ‘CRIT CARE ASIA’, a group of international experts that perform studies in ICUs in resource-limited settings.

As a faculty member in the Department of Intensive Care at the Amsterdam UMC (‘AMC’), he is extensively sponsored by the ‘Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development’ (NWO, ZonMw) since 2005. In 2006 he established the 'Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care & Anaesthesiology' (L·E·I·C·A).

Dr Schultz holds the Endowed Chair in Experimental Intensive Care at the University of Amsterdam since 2008.

Dr Sani Aliyu is a Consultant in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and Caldicott Guardian at Cambridge University Hospitals, United Kingdom. He is also an affiliated Assistant Professor at Cambridge University School of Medicine. He has an impressive track record of leading national pandemic responses on HIV and COVID-19 abroad. He is currently a commissioner on the African Union Commission on COVID-19 and also sits on a number of scientific advisory boards including CEPI, the WHO Emergency Pandemic Response (EPR) TAG for the African region and the WHO Foundation. Locally, Dr Aliyu leads the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough system-wide Antimicrobial Stewardship Network. In 2022, Dr Aliyu was awarded the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger in recognition of his work on HIV and COVID-19 in Nigeria. He is a co-author on 81 peer reviewed publications and four book chapters. His areas of interest include pandemic response preparedness, health system improvement and antimicrobial stewardship. 

Caroline trained in Anaesthesia and Critical Care in London and the Midlands and has been a Consultant at Glenfield Hospital since 2014. Alongside general, cardiac and ECMO intensive care duties, she forms part of the Glenfield Adult ECMO team, providing 24/7 advice to intensive care units on the management of Severe Acute Respiratory Failure (SARF) and retrieving patients with SARF both conventionally and using mobile ECMO within the Glenfield ECMO catchment area. Her specialist interests lie in SARF and Adult ECMO alongside medical education and critical care follow-up. She is currently the deputy director for Adult ECMO at Glenfield Hospital and runs the ECMO follow up clinics.