Critical Care Reviews Team
We're building something incredible
Rob Mac Sweeney
Rob started Critical Care Reviews in 2009 to freely share the latest scientific advances in the field of intensive care medicine. During the day, he is a fulltime intensivist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Disclosures
Chris Nutt
Chris works across the platform, driving progress in the growth and direction of the organisation. He is a fulltime intensivist and anaesthetist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
Catriona Kelly
Catriona leads the organisation of the annual meeting, and specialises in the putting toegther a diverse and engaging social programme. She is a fulltime neurointensivist and neuroanaesthetist in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin.
Phil Gillen
Phil is a key component in the success of both the meeting and livestream, taking on unseen roles to ensure their smooth operation. He is also a fulltime intensivist and anaesthetist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, as well as the lead for the adult critical care transfer service for Northern Ireland.
Emma Mac Sweeney
Emma started in Spring 2022 as the first Director of Operations for Critical Care Reviews. She manages the financial and logistical activities of this continually growing organisation. She is Critical Care Reviews' first employee.
Jakub Fronczek
Kuba is our first team member from outside Northern Ireland. He leads on visual abstracts and our new instagram account. He is an anaesthesiology & critical care trainee in Cracow, Poland, and an Editorial Fellow at the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
Toby Betteridge
Toby is a Specialist in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has been the ANZICS CTG committee member for New Zealand since 2021 and was previously on the board of the ANZICF. His research interests include neurocritical care, optimisation of organ flow and its measurement, mechanical ventilation, and the impact of right ventricular dysfunction on ICU outcome.
Michael Behal
Michael is the Post-Doctoral Academic Fellow at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy in Lexington, KY, and a pharmacist practicing in the medical intensive care unit at University of Kentucky Healthcare.
Sarah Corbett
Sarah is a consultant anaesthetist from Galway, Ireland, and is currently working in an echo fellowship in Wellington, New Zealand.
Rosalyn Chi
Rosalyn is an emergency medicine physician from New Jersey who is now training as a critical care fellow at Indiana University, USA.
Toni Riveros
Toni Riveros is an EM-CCM trained intensivist based out of the Chicagoland area. Her clinical areas of interest are communication between patients, their advocates and providers, and improving workflow and team dynamics during in-hospital cardiac arrests. Originally from Los Angeles, California, she now actually enjoys the temperamental weather of the Midwest.
Enrique Ortiz-Diaz
Anestis Karakatsanis
Anestis was born and raised in Greece, where he completed residency in General Surgery and later a Critical Care fellowship. He has been practising as an Consultant in Critical Care for the last 4.5 years. His interests include resuscitation, acute surgical critical care and trauma, and mechanical ventilation. Anestis is ardent supporter of free open access medical education.
Varun U. Shetty
Varun is an adult intensivist at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Hamot Hospital, Erie. Varun’s focus is on healthcare disparities in critical care and care of the critically ill in global health settings. He is interested in developing sustainable systems that will consistently provide high-quality care to critically ill patients anywhere.
Carmen López Soto
Jonathan Ball
Jonathan is currently based in Auckland, New Zealand, doing full time ICU. He spent over 15 years as a General and Neuro ICU consultant in south London, where he trained, to return to Australasia, where he had previously completed 18-months of post training fellowships. His clinical and research interests cover a broad range of topics from pathophysiology to palliative care.
Patrick Eckert
Patrick is an attending physician in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care at Christiana Care Health
System in Wilmington, Delaware USA. He works primarily in the medical ICU and is active in resident
education and critical care ultrasound.
Shakti Mishra
Dr Shakti Bedanta Mishra is a Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at IMS and SUM.
Rohit Patnaik
Dr Rohit Patnaik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at IMS and SUM. His areas of interest are POCUS and Mechanical Ventilation.
Dr Sagarika Panda
Dr Sagarika Panda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at IMS and SUM. His areas of interest are nosocomial infections and Septic Shock.
Rupali Patnaik
Dr Rupali Patnaik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at IMS and SUM. Her areas of interest are ARDS and RRT in ICU.
Biswajit Nayak
Dr Biswajit Nayak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at IMS and SUM. His areas of interest are quality improvement in ICU.
Abhilash Dash
Dr Abhilash Dash is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at IMS and SUM. His areas of interest are ECMO and CRRT.
Samir Samal
Dr Samir Samal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at IMS and SUM. His areas of interest are nosocomial infections.
Rafael Wabl
Rafael Wabl is a neurologist and neuro-critical care-trained intensivist working in a mixed medical and surgical ICU in the Seattle area. He loves running, reading fiction, and escaping into the mountains
Marcelina Czok
Zbigniew Putowski
Disclosures
Rob Mac Sweeney receives salary support from Charitable Trust funds from the Belfast Health & Social Care Trust for his work with Critical Care Reviews in disseminating science. He also receives salary support from the Irish Critical Care Clinical Trials Network, via a HSC R&D grant, for social media support. Rob also works with the UK Critical Care Research Group providing support for their website.