Dr. Yasser Sakr
Dr. Sakr is a consultant in the Dept. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University in 1995. After completion of a one year internship and three years as a resident in the Department of Critical Care in Cairo University hospitals, he qualified as a specialist in intensive care medicine and was appointed to the position of Assistant Lecturer in Critical Care medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University. He also obtained a master’s degree in intensive care in 2000.
Dr. Sakr spent two years as a research fellow in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme Hospital (Free University of Brussels) from 2001 to 2003 and obtained his PhD from the same university in 2007. Since 2003, he has worked in the Dept. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, where he obtained a Doctorate in Medicine “Dr. Med.” in 2006 and lecture assignments in Anesthesiology “Privat Dozent” in 2010.
He is the author and co-author of more than 120 original articles and book chapters. His main area of clinical research is investigating innovative methods of assessment of microcirculation in critically ill patients. The coordination and data management of large European multicentre studies (SOAP, EPIC II, ICON, and IC-GLOSSARI studies) are included in his prominent research activities over the last few years. He is currently leading a research group in Jena University Hospitals in addition to his clinical assignments.
Dr. Sakr is a member of the European Society of Intensive Care (ESICM) since 2003 and has actively contributed to the activities of the various sections of the society, especially the SIS section. He coordinated a major study, endorsed by the ESICM from 2001 to 2010 (the SOAP study) and is the PI of a recent trial initiated by the trials’ group of this society. He is currently Chairman of the Systemic Inflammation and Sepsis section of the ESICM.
