Dr. Miguel Sánchez García is Director of the Critical Care Department at the Hospital Clínico San Carlos and Associate Professor in Medicine at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. His main areas of interest are the prevention and treatment of severe infection, bacterial resistance and the host response to infection, areas in which he has an extensive curriculum of research and publication. He has lectured extensively at international meetings and has contributed to medical text books and published widely. Dr Sánchez García is a member of the Spanish Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, the Regional Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and member of the Spanish National Academy of Medicine.