Finfer, Simon

Prof Simon Finfer AO

Senior Professorial Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health; Adjunct Professor, University of New South Wales; Director of Sepsis Australia and Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance
Professor Simon Finfer AO is a Professorial Fellow in the Critical Care Division at The George Institute for Global Health, Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales and Professor of Critical Care, School of Public Health, Imperial College London.

Simon leads the Sepsis Research Program at The George Institute which is focussed on the design and conduct of robust high-quality RCTs that will reduce death and disability due to sepsis in Australia and around the world.

Simon has obtained over $50M in research funding and authored or co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed papers with 20% of those in the highest-ranking medical journals. He served as a guest editor for the New England Journal of Medicine from 2012 to 2014 and is currently an editor of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care and the Critical Care Section Editor of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine.

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