Professor Graeme MacLaren is the Head of Division of Cardiothoracic Intensive Care, a critical care physician at the National University Heart Centre, Singapore (NUHCS), and the Clinical Director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Programme at NUHCS. He graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and trained in internal medicine, anaesthesia, and critical care medicine. He has a Post-Graduate Diploma of Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography from the University of Melbourne and undertook an additional three years of post-fellowship 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 is a physician in the Antibiotic Stewardship Program, Division of Infectious Diseases, NUH, and holds a Masters degree in Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He served as a visiting professor in critical care at the Texas Children’s Hospital (2015), Toronto Hospital for Sick Children (2016), and was the inaugural George Fortenberry visiting professor of pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta, USA (2026). He was a visiting cardiac ICU physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, for 15 years.
Professor MacLaren has authored over 300 articles, reviewed for more than 100 medical journals, published nearly 40 textbook chapters, edited 8 textbooks, secured over $3.5 million of research grant funding, and given over 450 presentations at international conferences across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He has served on the editorial boards of eleven journals in the fields of critical care, perioperative medicine, and infectious diseases, and has worked as an associate editor for six of them. He has trained clinicians about the care of ECMO patients in 30 countries and co-chairs the National ECMO Standing Committee, Ministry of Health, Singapore. He has been heavily involved with the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) since 2011, has edited several editions of ELSO ECMO textbooks and other publications, 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 of the USA.
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