Naoyuki Matsuda

Naoyuki is a board member of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA), the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and a representative of the Japanese Sepsis Alliance (JaSA). He has led emergency medicine and critical care medicine at Hokkaido university and Kyoto university and is currently working as a professor of Emergency & Critical Care Medicine at Nagoya University, Japan.

He has been an original member since the first term when the Japanese sepsis clinical practice guidelines were created and published in Japan and have carried out many basic and clinical types of research on sepsis. He has published more than 100 sepsis-related articles and books and has given many educational lectures in Japan. Currently, as a board member of the GSA and JaSA, he is involved in a wide range of international collaborations, including the Asia-Pacific region and the world, and is leading high sepsis activities as a representative of Japan.

He is a meritorious person who introduced WSD to Japan by holding the first clean hand campaign and WSD in Japan in 2012. He disseminates information on sepsis to healthcare professionals and the public, conducting research and academic activities on sepsis in Asia and the world. This time, he will introduce how Japan and his hometown are working to further raise awareness of sepsis in collaboration with the Asia-Pacific region and the world.