About me

Professor Massimo Antonelli graduated in Medicine at the University “La Sapienza” in 1981 with full marks and specialised in Anæsthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the same University in 1984. He received post-graduate training at the Rayne Institute of the School of Medicine, University College of London (1984), the Membrane Biogenetics Group, Berkeley University, CA, USA (1984-85) and a sabbatical at the Cochin University Hospital of Paris in 1991. Professor Antonelli is currently Professor of Intensive Care and Anæsthesiology at the “Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore”, Rome, Director of the General Intensive Care Unit of the Policlinico A. Gemelli University Hospital and of the Institute of Anæsthesiology and Intensive Care and Director of the School of Speciality in Anæsthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. A very active member of ESICM, Professor Massimo Antonelli was the Italian representative of the ESICM Council between the years 1997-1999 and a member “ex-officio” of the Executive Committee from 2007 to 2012. However, it was his activities and achievements, at a difficult time of change in the field of medical publishing – first as Associate Editor of Intensive Care Medicine from 2000 to 2007 and later, from 2007 to 2013 as Editor in Chief of the Intensive Care Medicine - that his master skills become evident. During his tenure, there was a major improvement in the quality of the Journal, which benefited all ESICM members.