Sepsis specialist appointed ao For more than 20 years, Professor Simon Finfer has led transformational studies in critically ill patients to reduce mortality and shed light on one of the world’s most serious silent killers – sepsis. An ICU specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital, Simon is a Professorial Fellow in the Critical Care and Trauma Division at The George Institute where he has been involved in ground-breaking research that is recognised around the world. The critical care physician was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, one of 134 people honoured in science, medicine and engineering. His work has been instrumental in demonstrating that high-quality randomised controlled trials could be done in the critical care population and lead to improved mortality. The founder of research and advocacy body the Australian Sepsis Network leads a team trialling drug treatments for COVID-19 at RNSH. The research focuses on sepsis, a condition in which the body’s immune response to infection starts to damage tissues and organs. In 2015 Professor Finfer established the Australian Sepsis Network (ASN), a national association working across jurisdictions, and with sepsis clinical champions and survivors. In early 2018, the ASN, which is hosted at The George Institute, released the ‘Stopping Sepsis National Action Plan’, which was developed in collaboration with policy, clinical, academic, research and survivor stakeholders and form the basis of national
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efforts to reduce the national burden of sepsis. Also in 2015, Professor Finfer co-chaired an international meeting of sepsis experts to develop a path to reduce the global burden of sepsis. This meeting initiated a collaboration that led to the first truly global assessment of the burden of sepsis culminating in the publication of an authoritative report in The Lancet in January 2020. In October 2018, Simon led efforts to establish the Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance leading the Bangkok Declaration – a call to action for a regional alliance to reduce the burden of sepsis in the Asia Pacific. This followed the 2017 WHO resolution that made sepsis a global health priority. He is a member of the executive committee of the Global Sepsis Alliance, which initiated the push for the WHO resolution. • facebook.com/HornsbyHospital/ NSLHD on Twitter • twitter.com/NthSydHealth NSLHD on LinkedIn • linkedin.com/company/northern-sydney- local-health-district/
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