Konrad Reinhart
Member of the Scientific Committee and Speaker in Session 1
Konrad is recognized as an international champion of sepsis.
He is the Founding President of the Global Sepsis Alliance and the German Sepsis Society. He was one of the key initiators of the World Sepsis Day movement in 2012.
He is a member of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina and Chair of the Sepsis-Foundation. As speaker of the nation-wide German research network SepNet, he initiated landmark studies on the efficacy and safety of therapeutic approaches in sepsis as well as on the epidemiology of sepsis.
His research activities in the field of sepsis and intensive care medicine led to more than 900 peer-reviewed publications and the Research Award of the Federal State of Thuringia/Germany. Since 2019, he has been visiting for Sepsis Awareness at the Charité in Berlin.
In 2022, he was granted the Global Sepsis Award for his contributions to sepsis research and sepsis advocacy. In 2023, he was granted the Sepsispriset by the Swedish Sepsisfonden for being instrumental in the process of the adoption of the Sepsis Resolution by the World Health Assembly in 2017.