Brian Cuthbertson is Chief of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Professor in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is also an Honorary Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Aberdeen and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the George Institute of Global Health in Sydney. His research interests include improving outcomes from critical illness and major surgery. He has over 125 peer-reviewed publications and $17million of research grants as well as playing a leading role in a number of key clinical guidelines.

Anthony is a dual qualified intensivist and emergency physician working at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) as a senior staff specialist. He is a senior lecturer with the University of Queensland Medical School. Anthony serves on the Australia New Zealand Intensive Care Society National Executive. He is an examiner for the fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand. He has authored five book chapters and 30 peer reviewed publications. He is the supervisor of intensive care training at the RBWH and is an instructor for BASIC and EMST (ATLS). Anthony is a representative for the National Blood Authority Critical Care Group in developing the Australian Patient Blood Management Guidelines for critical care. Anthony is a Commander in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve and his military career has seen him deploy extensively, including to Angola, Bougainville, East Timor and The Persian Gulf. Anthony served in Afghanistan in 2012 as a force insertion and extraction medical officer and then again in 2013 as an intensivist at the American led NATO Role III Hospital in Kandahar. He has most recently returned in April this year, after serving in Taji, Iraq at the ANZAC Role 2E Hospital.

Professor Reade is an intensivist / anaesthetist and clinician scientist in the Australian Defence Force, seconded to the University of Queensland and the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital to lead a program of research relevant to military trauma medicine and to guide the implementation of modern trauma care into ADF practice. In his military clinical role, he holds the rank of Colonel and is the Director of Clinical Services of the Australian Regular Army’s only field hospital. He has completed eight overseas operational deployments since commissioning as an Army officer in 1989, most recently to Iraq in 2015 and 2016. Professor Reade’s Oxford DPhil examined the molecular pathogenesis of septic shock, while his postdoctoral research fellowship focussed on clinical trials and large observational datasets. His current research interests are fluid resuscitation and coagulopathy in trauma, the effects of blood transfusion (including large clinical trials of cryopreserved blood products and tranexamic acid), and the management of delirium. He recently completed the 15-hospital DahLIA trial assessing dexmedetomidine treatment for agitated delirium in the ICU. He holds or contributes to research grants totalling >A$12M, has published >100 peer-reviewed papers and has delivered >140 lectures at national and international conferences.

A/Prof Ian Seppelt is a senior specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at Nepean Hospital, Sydney and the University of Sydney Medical School, and Clinical Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University. He is an active clinical researcher and teacher in intensive care medicine and is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health, Sydney. Research interests include critical care infection (including gut microbiology in critical illness), fluid resuscitation, and sedation and delirium in intensive care. He is the Australian lead for the multinational SuDDICU program (developing the 'definitive' trial of Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract in Intensive Care). Other interests include neuroanaesthesia and neurocritical care, and the ethics of clinical research in critical illness. He is senior horse transport technician and deputy assistant groom for his children and also part owner of a very nice vineyard near Orange in central New South Wales.

Stephen is strongly engaged with medical education, critical care research, clinical governance and organ donation. In his role as the Victorian Regional Chair of ANZICS, he actively advocates for critical care practice. In 2014, he was awarded fellowship of the Academy of Clinical Teachers at the University of Melbourne and examines for both the RACP and CICM. His main research interests relate to ICU survivor outcomes and critical care hepatology.