Personal profile

Biography

Lennie is an ICU consultant with a background in infectious diseases and epidemiology. She co-leads (with Olaf Cremer) the "epidemiology of sepsis and inflammation" research group at the Intensive Care Center of the UMCU, supervising 8 PhDs and 2 postdoctoral researchers. Her research focuses on clinical trials in critically ill patients, especially those with sepsis and severe infections. Lennie is the European lead and immediate past chair of the global TSC of REMAP-CAP, and a co-applicant and work package leader on EU-funded projects like RECOVER and ECRAID-Base. Lennie leads the ZonMw funded IMPRINT consortium and is co-applicant on several international collaborative grants. She is a member of several DSMBs, guideline committees and advisory committees (all unpayed), and a member of the ESICM executive committee as the Education and Training Committee lead.

Biography

KEY TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Faculty ESICM Sustainability Masterclass 2024-present

Faculty ESICM Research Masterclass 2022-present

Faculty ESICM Sepsis and Severe Infections Masterclass 2017-present

Faculty and organizer Dutch ICU Fellows Education on Infectious Diseases in ICU 2013-present

CONFERENCES and SEMINARS

Invited (inter-)national speaker for NVIC, CCR, ESICM, ISICEM (Keynote), ERS, Weimar sepsis update, ANZICS/ACCCN ASM (Keynote), International Sepsis Forum, and several Dutch national conferences.

SERVICE

UMCU internal DSMB 2024-present

Co-vice chair (ESICM) Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2023-present

Surviving Sepsis Campaign Research Committee 2023-present

EMPRESS DSMB 2023-present

Ecraid Coordinating Committee 2022-present

ESICM Executive Committee 2022-present

Chair ESICM Education and Training Committee 2022-present

Member International Advisory Board of Sepsis Canada 2021-present

Chair International Trial Steering Committee REMAP-CAP 2021-2023

Member “Pandemic Preparedness Plan” committee for Dutch National Academy of Sciences (KNAW) 2021-2022

Taskforce Acute Infectious Threats for Dutch National ICU Society (NVIC) 2018-present (chair 2019-2021)

Education/Academic qualification

PhD "Controlling Antibiotic Resistance in the ICU", Julius Center

20072013

MSc Medicine, Vrije Universiteit

19941999

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

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