Antonio Artigas

Antonio is a Professor of Applied Physiology and Chair of Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Failure Research at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He was the Director of the Intensive Care Medicine Department at Corporacion Sanitaria Universitaria Parc Tauli from 1988-2016 and is now Emeritus Director and Director of the Pathophysiological Translational and Cell Therapy Laboratory. His research interests are primarily intensive care, ARDS, and sepsis.

He completed his training at Barcelona University and became MD in 1973 and his PhD in 1992. He then was certified in internal medicine in 1976 and intensive care medicine in 1982.

Antonio is a member of several societies including ESA, ESCIM, ATS, SRLF (for which he was the vice president between the years 1991 – 1993), CIBER, and chairman of the ERS critical care group and HERMES respiratory critical care program. He is an Honorary Member and Golden Medal of the European Society of Intensive Care and was a member of the executive committee from the years 1982 to 1990. He is also heavily involved in sepsis research and is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Sepsis Alliance and member of the Advisory Committee of Sepsis of the Government in Catalonia. He was the chairman of the European-North American Consensus Conferences on ARDS and is a member of the ATS Task Force on Experimental Models of ARDS

in addition to this, he is also on the editorial boards of many critical care and respiratory journals and reviews numerous papers. He has published over 200 articles in both national and international scientific journals and has published 20 books and wrote chapters in various others. He has an h-Index of 82. He has presented at more than 200 conferences internationally. He has received 50 awards and more than 30 research grants funded by the Spanish Research Agency, and the EU research programs and participated in many multicentre clinical trials of pharmaceutical companies. He is a member of the Educational Committee of the hospital director of 20 doctoral theses and tutor of residents and research fellowship program of intensive care medicine. He received the Educational Award of the European Respiratory Society in 2015.He is International Corresponding Member of Académie Nationale de Médicine since 2016.