Professor Marcus Schultz
Internist-intensivist, Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Speaker's biography
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.
