Maurizio Cecconi
Vicepresidente, MEDTEC School Humanitas University

Maurizio Cecconi is an anesthesiologist,intensive care specialist, and Chair of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Units at Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan, Italy. He is the Vice Scientific Directorfor Clinical Research, and the Vice President of the joint Medicine-Bioengineering degree “MEDTEC School” at Humanitas University in Milan.

He studied in Italy (University of Udine),Spain (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), the UK (St George’s University ofLondon), and the USA (Harvard Medical School), He worked for 14 years as an NHS Consultant UK, before joining Humanitas in Milan, Italy in 2018

He has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and an H-Index of 89. His research focuses on improving outcomes in perioperative care, data science and artificial intelligence, and the physiology of shock, acute respiratory failure, and sepsis.

He is the Past President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, which he led through the COVID-19 pandemic. He designed and directed the EU-funded C19_SPACE training course, which provided 20,000 healthcare workers with practical training in record time during the pandemic. He is part of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and has collaborated with WHO on the COVID-19 and Influenza Clinical Guidelines.

In 2018, the Italian president nominated him Knight of the Order of Merit (O.M.R.I) of the Italian Republic.