Professor of Medicine, Specialty Pulmonary Medicine and Critical care

Director of the Medical-ICU of the Saint-Louis Teaching Hospital, Paris, France

Director of the research group on the management of acute respiratory failure and outcomes in critically ill immunocompromised patients (GRR-OH, created in 2005, 33 centers). Nine-I investigators (68 ICUs in 16 countries in the US and Canada).

Director of the French FAMIREA study group (1996, 100 centers throughout France): a multicenter collaborative multidisciplinary group aimed at improving effectiveness of communication with family members of ICU-patients. This group is funded by the Ministry of Health and the French Society for Critical Care (SRLF)

Past Chairman of the ethics section: European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)

Past Editor in chief of Intensive Care Medicine (2012-2018), Impact factor 19

Member of the executive committee of the ESICM (2012-2018)

President of the staffing committee of the Lariboisière-St-Louis hospital (2014-2019)

President of the National University College (appointment of professors) since 2019

President Elect of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). 2020