Jean-Louis Vincent, MD serves as Professor of Intensive Care at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Head of the Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital of the University of Brussels. He is one of the most prominent doctors in the field, and an author of Textbook of Critical Care, 6th Edition.

Among his professional affiliations, Dr. Vincent has served as Secretary General of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, is a former President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Shock Society (ESS) and Past-Chair of the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). Dr. Vincent has been recognized with the Foundation André Loicq award, the Foundation De Kerckheer award, the Distinguished Investigator award of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the College Medalist Award of the American College of Chest Physicians, the Society Medal of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and the Prix Scientifique Joseph Maison-Sciences biomédicales cliniques.