Season Greetings by the New ESA Steering Committee

The ESA Steering Committee and the ESA Secretariat jointly wish all our members and stakeholders peaceful and healthy festivities, and a great start to the new year. We look forward to our continued collaboration in 2023 to improve awareness and mitigate the burden of sepsis in Europe.

At the occasion of the last ESA Annual Meeting on 20 September, the ESA formally elected its new Steering Committee and confirmed Prof. Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis as Chair for this new two-year term.

He commented: “While sharing my best wishes, I also congratulate my colleagues for their election, and I am honoured and humbled by their trust for serving as chair for this second term. I take it as a sign of the good work we have done together in the past three years since the first ESA Steering Committee was elected in 2019. From the inception of the ESA until now, we have tirelessly worked to make our stakeholders understand the urgency of improving sepsis management across Europe, via our advocacy initiatives, research projects, and the sharing of best practices. Looking back at 2022, I am happy to count a number of successes, culminating recently with the involvement of European Commissioner Kyriakides at the last ESA Annual Meeting, the publication of the results of the European Sepsis Care Survey and the announcement by G7 leaders, in May under the German Presidency, to commit to foster the implementation of the WHA 70.7 Resolution on sepsis. 

I look forward to keeping on working with this amazing and diverse group of colleagues who bring to the table a varied set of skills and backgrounds. I am sure that together we will achieve great results and contribute to mitigate the burden of sepsis in Europe.”