Adj Professor Graeme MacLaren is the Director and Head of Division of the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU), an Intensive Care Physician at the National University Heart Centre, Singapore (NUHCS), and the Clinical Director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Programme at NUHCS. Professor MacLaren graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and trained in internal medicine, anaesthesia, and critical care medicine. He undertook additional post-fellowship clinical training in paediatric intensive care at the Royal Children’s Hospital, perioperative echocardiography at St Vincent’s Hospital, and infectious diseases at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. He was a visiting paediatric cardiac ICU physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital for 15 years. He is a physician in the Antibiotic Stewardship Program at the National University Hospital and has a Masters degree in Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Professor MacLaren has authored over 300 articles, reviewed for more than 100 medical journals, published over 30 textbook chapters, edited 7 textbooks, and given nearly 500 presentations at international conferences across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He has taught clinicians about the care of ECMO patients in 30 countries and served on the editorial boards of ten journals in the fields of critical care, perioperative medicine, and infectious diseases, and was or is an associate editor for six of them. He has been heavily involved with the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) since 2011 and was the Inaugural Chair of its Asia-Pacific Chapter. In 2023, he became the first President of ELSO in the history of the organization from outside the United States.
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