Prof John Fraser is the Director of the Intensive Care Unit at St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital and is a pre-eminent intensivist at The Prince Charles Hospital, where he founded and leads the multi disciplinary Critical Care Research Group, the largest group of its kind in Australasia. This group has 7 purpose built labs, including molecular, medical engineering, ex vivo resuscitation of hearts and lungs and cell culture. Prof Fraser currently supervises over 20 PhD, MPhil and honours students in medicine, surgery, basic science, engineering and allied health fields. Since its inception in 2004, the group has earned more than $29M Australian in grants and industry funding. The group leads Australia in complex animal models of critical illness, including artificial heart and lung development; trauma and haemorrhage research, and has been awarded Centre for Metabolomics for University of Qld. In 2014 his group was awarded The Centre for Research Excellence (one of only of six clinical CRE’s) in Australia looking at the development and utilisation of bionic hearts and lungs. Collaborations extend across Australia, Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa, where the group’s collaboration with Imperial College has been awarded with a $4.3 million grant to investigate respiratory support in under-resourced environments. Prof has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, and has 4 professorships in different universities.

Professor David Tuxen is the Senior Intensivist at Alfred & Albury Base Hospitals and has been in ICU for 35 years.He was the Director of Intensive Care at the Alfred Hospital for 20 years. He is a past President of ANZICS & a past Chairman of the Intensive Care Foundation. He has received the ANZICS Medal, given the ANZICS Oration and been placed on the ANZICS Honour roll. He initiated and has convened all the annual Alfred ICU Advanced Mechanical Ventilation Conferences since 2007 and the Mechanical Ventilation Waveform Workshops since their start in 2012. He is most recognised for his research on the mechanical ventilation especially related to asthma, ARDS and Ventilator Waveforms.