Michael Sasse, MD Medical School Hannover

Dr. Michael Sasse completed his medical studies at the University of Giessen. After two years of training in the Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the Max Planck Institute in Bad Nauheim, he moved to the Children's Hospital of Hannover Medical School. Since 1999 he is the chief physician of the pediatric intensive care unit of the MHH. As the founder of the pediatric intensive network in Northern Germany (PIN), he has overseen the same since 2003. Dr. Sasse is head of the Standardization Expert Council (SET) Infusion Management of the MHH. Its aim is to bring together and coordinate all departments of the clinic involved in infusion therapy. In addition to his clinical work on the Children's Intensive Care Unit, his scientific focus is on infection and inflammation research as well as in various areas of infusion management. He heads the department's own Academy of Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, which covers the further education and training of all areas of pediatric intensive care medicine. Dr. Michael Sasse is a member of the Society for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, the Society for Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine (GNPI), the German Interdisciplinary Society for Intensive Care Medicine (DIVI), the German Council for Revival (GRC), the German Sepsis Society (DSG) and European emergency and intensive care societies.