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 | Adaptive design Lennie Derde, MD, assistant professor, Intensive care Medicine, University of Utrecht |
| 15.20–15.40 | BRICNET - a Brazilian platform for clinical intervention studies Adriano Pereira, MD, PhD, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil Bruno Besen, MD, PhD assistant Professor Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil |
| 15.40–16.00 | Common druggable targets – the future for sepsis treatments? Djillali Annane, MD, Professor at Intensive care Medicine, University Paris Saclay |
| 16.00–16.20 | Steroids yes or no in pneumonia? Kristoffer Strålin, MD, Associate professor at Infection Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital |
| 16.20–16.40 | PCT guided strategies Paul Dark, MD, Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Vice Dean for Health and Care Partnerships at the University of Manchester |
| 16.40–17.10 | Coffee break |
| Theme: Patient perspective | |
| 17.10–17.40 | From Sepsis to Paralympics – patient story Shahrzad Kiavash, sepsis survivor |
| 17.40–18.00 | Sepsis immune suppression/long-term Sara Cajander, MD, Associate professor, Örebro University |
| 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

