Program LUSEP 2026 |
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Thursday September 10th |
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| 11.30–12.50 | Lunch and registration |
| 12.50–13.00 | Opening remarks Adam Linder, MD, Professor at Infection Medicine, Lund University |
| Theme: Definitions | |
| 13.00–13.30 | SOFA-2 Mervyn Singer, MD, Professor at Intensive Care Medicine, University College London |
| 13.30–14.00 | Surviving sepsis 2026 Joost Wiersinga, MD, Professor at Infection Medicine, University of Amsterdam |
| 14.00–14.15 | Infection definitions Lisa Mellhammar, MD, Associate Professor at Infection Medicine, Lund University |
| 14.15–14.30 | Sepsis mimics Maria Lengquist, MD, PhD, Intensive Care Medicine, Lund University |
| 14.30–15.00 | Coffee break |
| Theme: Therapeutics | |
| 15.00–15.20 | Trial design – what is the future? Janus Jacobsen, MD, PhD, Researcher at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen |
| 15.20–15.40 | Adaptive design Lennie Derde, MD, Assistant Professor, Intensive Care Medicine, University of Utrecht |
| 15.40–16.00 | BRICNET - a Brazilian platform for clinical intervention studies Adriano José Pereira, MD, PhD, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Faculdade Israelita de Ciências da Saúde Einstein and Global Data Connections Manager, Einstein Hospital Israelita, São Paulo, Brazil Bruno Besen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo |
| 16.00–16.20 | Common druggable targets – the future for sepsis treatments? Djillali Annane, MD, Professor at Intensive Care Medicine, University Paris Saclay |
| 16.20–16.35 | Steroids yes or no in pneumonia? Kristoffer Strålin, MD, Associate Professor at Infection Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital |
| 16.35–16.55 | PCT guided strategies Paul Dark, MD, Professor of Critical Care Medicine, University of Manchester |
| 16.55–17.20 | Coffee break |
| Theme: Patient perspective | |
| 17.20–17.50 | Sepsis immune suppression / long-term Sara Cajander, MD, Associate Professor, Örebro University |
| 17.50–18.10 | From Sepsis to Paralympics – patient story Shahrzad Kiavash, sepsis survivor |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
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Friday September 11th |
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| 08.30–09.00 | Coffee |
| Theme: AI / Omics | |
| 09.00–09.30 | Omics in sepsis Tom van der Poll, MD, Professor at Infection Medicine, University of Amsterdam |
| 09.30–10.00 | Proteomics Johan Malmström, Professor at Infection Medicine, Lund University |
| 10.00–10.30 | Coffee break |
| Theme: Emergency care | |
| 10.30–10.50 | Microbiome and sepsis Joost Wiersinga, MD, Professor at Infection Medicine, University of Amsterdam |
| 10.50–11.10 | Sepsis monitoring at the ward Pontus Naucler, MD, Professor at Infection Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital |
| 11.10–11.30 |
Sepsis in the ED – trials and identification Hjalmar Bouma, MD, Adjunct Professor at Acute Medicine, University of Groningen |
| 11.30–11.45 | Capillary refill as a clincial marker Alexandre Biasi, MD, PhD Professor at São Paulo University Medical School, Brazil |
| 11.45–12.15 | The role of mitochondria in sepsis Mervyn Singer, MD, Professor at Intensive Care Medicine, University College London |
| 12.15–12.25 | The importance of awareness – the Swedish story Ulrika Knutsson, General Secretary, Sepsisfonden, Sweden |
| 12.25–12.35 | Concluding remarks Adam Linder, MD, Professor at Infection Medicine, Lund University |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch |
LUSEP is arranged by Lund University and Sepsisfonden in collaboration