Alain Cariou

Alain Cariou is a Professor of intensive care medicine and therapeutics at the University of Paris, senior physician in the Medical ICU of Cochin University Hospital (APHP), and medical director of the Emergency and Intensive Care Department at APHP. Centre in Paris, France. He is also an associate researcher at INSERM, U970 in the Paris Cardiovascular Research Center (PARCC), in which he is involved in the Sudden Death Expertise Center.

He is an expert in the field of post-resuscitation care as reflected by his past and present clinical research activities regarding early coronary reperfusion and targeted temperature management in this setting. He also recently led a research program focusing on the pharmacological protective effect of erythropoietin analogs in post-cardiac arrest patients.