Our Team

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Arjen Dondorp, Thailand

Arjen holds a ‘Doctoral’ in Medicine from University of Amsterdam, and a Ph.D. from University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since November 2000, Professor Dondorp has joined the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, and currently is Deputy Director and Head of the Malaria and Critical Illness Department. He is also a Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford. His main research interests include the pathophysiology and treatment of severe malaria, antimalarial drug resistance (in particular artemisinin and multidrug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum) and the improvement of intensive care practice in developing countries. Professor Dondorp has been chairing the Technical Expert Group on Antimalarial Drug Resistance and Containment (now renamed Drug Efficacy and Response) for the WHO Global Malaria Program in Geneva since 2012. He is also a member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) working group on the development of Intensive Care Medicine in resource-poor countries.

Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, India

Bharath has a post graduate degree in Anesthesiology from the prestigious Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. He completed this with Honors and was awarded the Bronze Medal for academic excellence by PGI. He subsequently went on to complete Fellowships in Critical Care from National University Hospital, Singapore and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto. He has also completed the European Diploma in Intensive Care and is currently working as Consultant at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. He is pursuing a MSc in Clinical Trials from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is deeply passionate about research in lower middle-income countries (LMICs). Specifically, he is interested in the establishment and development of research networks for critical care in LMICs and the epidemiology of critical illness in resource limited settings. He is also the lead for the Indian Registry of Intensive Care, a cloud-based registry of critical care units in India.

Brett Abbenbroek, Australia

Brett is the Australian Sepsis Network Program Manager and has extensive emergency and critical care clinical, education and management experience. He has worked in Nepal, Vanuatu, China and Croatia to establish cardiac surgical and critical care programs. Concurrently, Brett has held a range of health policy, planning, project management, digital health and clinical safety advisory roles. A health service planning and management consultancy business followed, leading to project manager roles on a series of national eHealth and electronic medication safety programs.

Lowell Ling, Hong Kong

Lowell is a Clinical Lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and currently works as an Intensivist at Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong. He has a research interest in sepsis and is working on projects on epidemiology and genomic approaches to sepsis.

Naomi Hammond, Australia

Naomi is the Operations Lead and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Critical Care Division at The George Institute. She also works part-time as the Intensive Care Clinical Research Manager at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. Naomi holds an appointment as a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, is the Vice-Chair of the ANZICS-CTG Intensive Care Research Coordinator Interest Group, An Editorial Board Member for Australian Critical Care Journal, and sits on the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN) National Research Advisory Panel.

Naomi is an early career researcher with a strong academic record that includes over 40 publications, numerous scholarships and awards, and funding totaling over 6Million AUD. Naomi’s Ph.D. examined knowledge translation of fluid resuscitation research into critical care practice. Naomi’s main research interests include fluid resuscitation, fever management, TRIPS, health economics, sepsis, and long-term outcomes post-critical illness. Naomi has experience supervising and mentoring medical trainees, nursing staff, Ph.D., Masters and medical students in both the clinical and academic environment.

Rashan Haniffa, Sri Lanka

Rashan completed his doctoral training at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford on a “methodology for evaluating acute and critical care services in resource-limited settings”. He is completing his advanced training in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia in the London Deanery alongside his appointment as a NIHR Clinical Lecturer in intensive care medicine at University College London. He co- founded a national intensive care registry and emergency bed system in South Asia. He is a founding trustee and director of the Network for Improving Critical care Systems and Training (NICST), a UK based charity collaborating with the Intensive Care Society (UK) to build global health and critical care capacity in lower and middle-income countries by fusing surveillance, research, training, and clinical quality improvement methodologies.

Ratapum Champunot, Thailand

Ratapum is Consultant physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit in Bangkok Hospital, Phitsanulok, Thailand. Ratapum specialises in pulmonary and critical care, with a particular interest in sepsis and rapid response systems. In 2016, he was one of two winners in the Individuals category at the Global Sepsis Awards, recognizing his achievements in line with the aims of the World Sepsis Declaration and World Sepsis Day Movement.

Tan Toh Leong, Malaysia

Tan is a Associate Professor and Consultant Emergency Physician currently working at the Department of Emergency Medicine, National University of Malaysia. His research interest is in Sepsis, Infection, Emergency Critical Care, Translational Research, Point-of-care test, Molecular Biology, and Antibiotic stewardship. He is also the current President for Malaysian Sepsis Alliance.

Simon Finfer, Australia

Simon is Professorial Fellow in the Critical Care and Trauma Division at The George Institute in Sydney, Australia. He is a practicing critical care physician with an appointment as a Senior Staff Specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital and Director of Intensive Care at the Sydney Adventist Hospital. Simon is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney Medical School and Editor of The Oxford Textbook of Critical Care (2nd Ed.), the Critical Care Section Editor for The Oxford Textbook of Medicine (6th Ed.)

Brett Abbenbroek, Australia

Brett is the Australian Sepsis Network Program Manager and has extensive emergency and critical care clinical, education and management experience. He has worked in Nepal, Vanuatu, China and Croatia to establish cardiac surgical and critical care programs. Concurrently, Brett has held a range of health policy, planning, project management, digital health and clinical safety advisory roles. A health service planning and management consultancy business followed, leading to project manager roles on a series of national eHealth and electronic medication safety programs.

Naomi Hammond, Australia

Naomi is the Operations Lead and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Critical Care Division at The George Institute for Global Health. She also works part-time as the Intensive Care Clinical Research Manager at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. Naomi holds an appointment as a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, is the Vice-Chair of the ANZICS-CTG Intensive Care Research Coordinator Interest Group, An Editorial Board Member for Australian Critical Care Journal, and sits on the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN) National Research Advisory Panel.

Naomi is an early career researcher with a strong academic record that includes over 40 publications, numerous scholarships and awards, and funding totaling over 6Million AUD. Naomi’s Ph.D. examined knowledge translation of fluid resuscitation research into critical care practice. Naomi’s main research interests include fluid resuscitation, fever management, TRIPS, health economics, sepsis, and long-term outcomes post-critical illness. Naomi has experience supervising and mentoring medical trainees, nursing staff, Ph.D., Masters and medical students in both the clinical and academic environment.

KATJA COUBALL, GERMANY

Katja is graphic designer and social media manager at the Global Sepsis Alliance. She is responsible for nearly all visuals you see - from the APSA logo to the World Sepsis Day Infographics.

Marvin Zick, Germany

Marvin is General Manager of the Global Sepsis Alliance and has a background in Business Administration. He is responsible for all communications, websites, World Sepsis Day, World Sepsis Congress, and more.

SIMONE MANCINI, ITALY

Simone has joined the Global Sepsis Alliance as Coordinator Regional Sepsis Alliances in October 2019. He has an extensive background in public affairs, external communications, and project management which he will put to good use to coordinate the work of the Regional Sepsis Alliances and the implementation of national sepsis strategies.