Flavia Machado is a professor and head of the Intensive Care Session of Anesthesiology, Pain and Intensive Care Department at the Federal University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil. Machado is board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases and critical care.
Dr. Machado is one of the founders of the Latin America Sepsis Institute – LASI being currently its CEO. LASI is devoted to quality improvement process, multicenter studies in sepsis field and awareness campaigns.
She was part of the executive board of the Global Sepsis Alliance. She serves on the 2012 and 2016 of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines, being the head of Hemodynamic group in the 2020 board and current a member of the SSC Executive Committee on behalf of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). She is also member of the Executive Committee and the current chair of the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network – BRICNET. She is also a member (founder) of the Latin America Intensive Care Network (LIVEN). She integrates the International Sepsis Forum (ISF) council since 2014. She is an honorary member of the ESICM.
