Manu Malbrain (1965) graduated as a doctor (MD) from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1991. After his primary specialization in internal medicine (1996) he specialized in Intensive Care (1997). He is former ICU Director and medical director in various hospitals in Belgium. Now he made the transition from hospitals to medical data management as CMO of Medaman, an Ehden certified SME, combined with a position as professor of Critical Care Research at the First Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy of the Medical University of Lublin in Poland. He is co-founder and president of the International Fluid Academy (www.fluidacademy.org). He is also the co-founder, past-president and current treasurer of the Abdominal Compartment Society (WSACS, www.wsacs.org). Over the years he gave more than 1000 lectures at (inter)national scientific meetings. He is author and co-author of more than 360 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, comments, editorials, book chapters and books on abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) and rational fluid use. His cumulative h-index is 61 on Scopus and 83 on GoogleScholar (with a total of 32598 citations).