John A. Kellum, MD, MCCM received his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio. His postgraduate training includes an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester, NY, and a Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests span various aspects of Critical Care Medicine, but center in critical care nephrology, sepsis and multi-organ failure. He has authored more than 750 publications and has won several awards for teaching. He lectures widely and has given more than 500 seminars and invited lectures worldwide.

Rinaldo Bellomo is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University of Melbourne; Honorary Professor of Medicine, Monash University, Co-director of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Director of Intensive Care Research at the Austin Hospital and Senior Research Advisor in Intensive Care Research at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He has produced >1800 PubMed cited

publications, is the most published biomedical investigator in the history of Australian medicine and the most published intensive care investigator in the world.

Claudio Ronco is Director of the Department of Nephrology and Transplantation at the International Renal Research Institute (IRRIV), San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy. He has held positions as Director of the Renal Laboratory of research at the Renal Research Institute and Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Beth Israel Medical Centre of New York in 1999 and 2000. He has co-authored 1246 papers, 65 books and 86 book chapters and has delivered more than 750 lectures at international meetings and universities.