Professor Gee-Young Suh is a pulmonary and critical care physician working at Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea. He severed as the Director of ICU of Samsung Medical Center for 16 years and in 2013, he became the Chair of Department of Critical Care Medicine first clinical department dedicated to critical care in South Korea. He is one of the Treasurer and a member of the Executive Committee of World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care and is the Immediate Past-President of Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine. He is also the Chairman of Executive Committee of Korean Sepsis Alliance. His research interests include sepsis, derecruitment-associated lung injury, ICU rehabilitation, ECMO, and rapid response system.