Tom van der Poll

Biography

Tom van der Poll is Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine in the Amsterdam University Medical Centers. Van der Poll is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. His training included a postdoctoral research fellowship in Cornell University Medical College in New York (1993-1995). His research focuses on pneumonia and sepsis, particularly on pathogenesis, the host response, immunotherapy and biomarkers. He published >1000 scientific manuscripts on these topics. He is the former chair of the International Sepsis Forum, and was a member of international committees that established the new sepsis definitions (JAMA 2016) and “surviving sepsis guidelines” (ICM 2016). In 2019 he was elected as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (membership for life for best Dutch scientists from all fields). In 2023 he was elected as member of Academia Europaea.