Early Diagnosis of Sepsis Lecture 

Presentation presented by Dr Ricard Ferrer at the Egyptian Critical Care Summit 2022

Professor Ricard Ferrer is Head of the Intensive Care Department at Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona,
Spain. in Barcelona, Spain. He graduated in 1992 from the University of Barcelona, Medical School
and pursued his specialisation in Intensive Care from 1994 to 1998 in the Intensive care Unit of the
Hospital General Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona. He continued his education at the Hôpital
Lariboisière in Paris, France before coming back to Barcelona where he received the Doctor in
Medicine title in 2010 from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
Prof. Ferrer holds several positions at a numerous intensive care societies and he is member of the
steering committee of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and since 2010 is deputy of the Systemic
Inflammation and Sepsis section of the ESICM (European Society of Intensive Care Medicine). He has
published a number of original articles and review articles in peer reviewed journal in the field of
sepsis and has contributed to the publication of book chapters on sepsis and infection.