Konrad Mendrala, MD, PhD, is an anaesthesiologist–intensivist, Assistant Professor at the Medical University of Silesia, and Deputy Head of the Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at the Upper Silesian Medical Center. His clinical and research interests include accidental hypothermia, extracorporeal life support (ECLS), and lung ultrasound. He earned his MD (2012), completed board certification in anaesthesiology and intensive care (2020), and received a PhD (2023) for work on continuous renal replacement therapy as a rewarming strategy in deep hypothermia. He co-founded AI4LUS (Artificial Intelligence in Lung Ultrasound) and is a co-author of the OXiFlame oxygenator patent. In 2022, he shared in the WHO Dr. LEE Jong-Wook Memorial Prize for Public Health, awarded to the team that established the Severe Hypothermia Treatment Center in Poland. Contact: kmendrala@sum.edu.pl