Professor Mikhail Kirov is currently a Head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine of the Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Dr. Kirov graduated from the Northern State Medical University in 1994. During 1994-1997, he was a research fellow at the Department of Cardiac Anesthesia at the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs in Moscow. After returning to Arkhangelsk, Dr. Kirov has worked as an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine of the Northern State Medical University. In 2003, Dr. Kirov has received his PhD degree devoted to nitric oxide pathways in sepsis and acute lung injury at the University of Tromsoe, Norway. He was appointed the position of Professor at the Northern State Medical University in 2007, and became a Head of Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine in 2011. Professor Kirov is a member of the Council of European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, a Secretary of the Board of the Russian Federation of Anesthesiologists-Reanimatologists and the Vice-President of the Association of Anesthesiologists-Reanimatologists of Northwestern Russia. Professor Kirov has published 50 books and book chapters, 238 articles in the peer-reviewed medical journals, and 468 abstracts. His main research interests are in the fields of monitoring, cardiac anesthesia and intensive care, sepsis and ARDS.