Professor of Intensive Care and Anesthesiology at the “Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore” Director of the General Intensive Care Unit of the Policlinico A. Gemelli University Hospital and of the Institute of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care. Director of the School of specialty in Anesthesiology and Intensive care MedicinePresident of the Italian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (SIAARTI), President elect of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)Editor in chief of the Intensive Care Medicine journal from 2007 to 2012.Associate Editor of the same Journal from 2000 to 2007.Independent referee of the JAMA, Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology, AJRCCM, European Respiratory Journal, Anesthesia and Analgesia and Monaldi Archivies, Lancet , BMJ, Critical Care and other Journals. Author of more than 200 papers. The majority of these scientific publications are on several aspects of Noninvasive Ventilation, ARDS, Shock and sepsis. H index 46 with more than 8000 citationsInvited lecturer or chairman in more than 200 International Meetings.