Dr. Jean-francois Timsit received his PhD in 1988 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Dr. Jean-francois Timsit is currently a professor of intensive care medicine at Paris-Cité University and the Head of the Medical and Infectious Diseases ICU at Bichat Hospital. He is a leader in critical care teaching in the Parisian area and the group leader of the Infectious Diseases in Critical Care section in the research unit Inserm U1137 (IAME) at Paris-Cité University. Dr. Jean-francois Timsit heads the chair of the Critical Care section of the ECCMID (ESGCIP) and serves as an editor and deputy editor for several international journals. He has authored more than 600 indexed papers published in international peer-reviewed journals. He is also the president of the OUTCOME REA research network. Dr. Jean-francois Timsit’s research domains are sepsis and antimicrobial therapy, catheter-related infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia, multidrug resistance, improvement in quality of care, high quality database, prognostic models, mortality, and competing risks.