Chapter 12 Curriculum Vitae Rui Paulo Jinó Moreno, born in Cascais, Portugal on the 20 of June, 1961. Married with Isabel Maria Pedro Jorge. One daughter, Maria João, born in 1990. Grade in Medicine by the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 31 of July, 1985. Resident in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Public Health in the Hospital Distrital de Cascais in 1986-1987. Registrar in Internal Medicine in the Hospitais Civis de Lisboa, Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos in 1988-1992. This period included education in Infectious Diseases (6 months) and Intensive Care Medicine (11 months). Speciality certification in Internal Medicine in January 1993. Member of the Portuguese Board of Internal Medicine since September 1993. Consultant (Assistente Hospitalar de Medicina Interna) in the Hospitais Civis de Lisboa, Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos since 1994. Working on a full-time basis in Intensive Care Medicine since 1991. Training and experience in all the techniques used on that field including bronchofibroscopy and echocardiography. Other activities: European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (1991); Post-graduate training in Statistics in Medical Education (1995); Member of the Committee for Medical Informatics of the Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos since 1995; Founding member of the Intensive Care branch of the Portuguese Internal Medicine Society (1992) and Member of its Executive Committee since 1992. National Coordinator of the Severity Scores Study Group of the Society since 1992; Member of the Portuguese Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Member of its Direction since 1996. National Co-ordinator of the Working Group on Prognosis Evaluation since 1994; Member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Member of the Task Force for Quality Improvement (Chairman Professor L. Thijs) and Chairman of the Working Group on Sepsis-Related Problems since 1996; Member of the Spanish Society of Intensive Care Medicine (Sociedad Española de Medicina Intensiva y Unidades Coronarias); Member of the American Society of Critical Care Medicine; Member of the methodology group of the EURICUS projects since 1995; Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Sepsis Project since 1996. Presentations: More than 100 presentations in national and international scientific meetings. Publications: Vera JA, Morais P, Moreno R. Intoxicações - Estatística de 4 anos no Serviço de Urgência. Bol Clin Hospital Distrital de Cascais 1987;2:61-9; Moreno R, Vera J. Febre Tifóide: Clínica e Terapêutica. 1989. Bol Clin Hospital Distrital de Cascais 1989;4:5-22; Moreno R, Estrada H, Sá J, Resina Rodrigues A. Intoxicações numa unidade de cuidados intensivos polivalente. Acta Med Port 1992;5:115-8; Colaço MI, Estrada H, Moreno R, Barros Veloso A. Carcinoma do Pulmão. Revisão da casuística de 12 anos num Serviço de Medicina Interna. Acta Med Port. 1992;5:365-8; Moreno R, Estrada H, Bentes de Jesus M, Sá J, Resina Rodrigues A. Doentes Cirúrgicos e politraumatizados numa unidade de cuidados intensivos médica. Acta Med Port 1992;5:425-8; Moreno R, Estrada H, Ferrão MJ, Massa L. Índices de gravidade como indicadores de prognóstico numa Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos. Rev Soc Port Anestesiologia. 1992;4:103-7; Moreno R. Síndrome de Dificuldade Respiratória do Adulto: uma perspectiva para os anos 90. Rev Soc Port Anestesiologia. 1992;4:149-57; Vincent, JL, Moreno R, Takala J, Willatts S, De Mendonça A, Bruining H, Reinhart CK, Suter PM, Thijs LG. The SOFA (Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment) score to describe organ dysfunction/failure. Intensive Care Med 1996;22:707-10; Moreno R. Methodological problems in the evaluation of performance in intensive care. In: Braschi A, Chiaranda M, Gattinoni L, Pesenti A, Raimondi F, eds. Simposio Mostra Anestesia Rianimazione e Terapia Intensiva. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996:112-117; Moreno R, Morais P. Outcome prediction in intensive care: results of a prospective, multicenter, portuguese study. Intensive Care Med 1997;23:177-86; Moreno R, Matos R. Monitorização hemodinâmica com catéter de Swan-Ganz: pouco usada ou abusada? Bol Soc Port Cuidados Intensivos 1997;1:3-8; Moreno R, Morais P. Validation of the simplified therapeutic intervention scoring system on an independent database. Intensive Care Med 1997;23:640-4; Reis Miranda D, Moreno R, Iapichino G. Nine equivalents of nursing manpower use score (NEMS). Intensive Care Med 1997;23:760-65; Reis Miranda D, Moreno R. ICU models and their role in management and utilization programs. Curr Opin Crit Care 1997;3:183-7; Moreno R, Reis Miranda D, Fidler V, van Schilfgaarde R. Evaluation of two outcome predictors on an independent database. Crit Care Med (in press); Moreno R, Apolone G. The impact of different customization strategies in the performance of a general severity score. Crit Care Med (in press); Moreno R, Reis Miranda D. Nursing staff in intensive care in Europe. The mismatch between planning and practice. Chest (in press); Moreno R. Principles of quality control in the high-risk patient. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand (in press); Moreno R, Matos R, Caixinha J, Fevereiro T, Almeida E. Avaliação de qualidade em Medicina Intensiva. Rev Port Medicina Interna (in press); Moreno R. Gestão e Organização em Medicina Intensiva. Lisboa: Permanyer Portugal (in press); Moreno R. Performance of the ICU: are we able to measure it? 1998 Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag (in press). Abstracts: Moreno R, Estrada H, Ferrão MJ, Massa L. APACHE II and SAPS as outcome predictors in an ICU. Intensive Care Med 1992;18 (suppl. 2):S181; Estrada H, Moreno R, Ferrão MJ, Massa L. TISS; MOF and OSF as outcome predictors in an ICU. Intensive Care Med 1992;18 (suppl. 2):S181; Moreno R, Estrada H, Miranda I, Teixeira H, Matos R, Calado J. População HIV numa UCI. Rev Port Medicina Intensiva 1993;2:92; Moreno R, Estrada H, Morais P, Massa L. Comparação do SAPS II com o APACHE II e o SAPS I como indicador de prognóstico numa UCI: estudo de validação. Rev Port Medicina Intensiva 1993;2:96; Estrada H, Moreno R, Miranda I, Massa L. Comparação entre 4 índices de falência múltipla de orgão numa UCI. Rev Port Medicina Intensiva 1993;2:96; Estrada H, Moreno R, Miranda I, Massa L. Comparison of multiple organ failure scoring systems in an ICU. Medicina Intensiva 1993;17 (suppl. 1):S2; Estrada H, Moreno R, Miranda I, Massa L. Mortality probability models (MPMs) in an ICU: a preliminary study. Intensive Care Med 1994;20 (suppl. 2):S102; Estrada H, Moreno R, Miranda I, Massa L. SAPS II as outcome predictor in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Intensive Care Med 1994;20 (suppl. 2):S102; Moreno R, Estrada H, Miranda I, Teixeira H, Matos R, Massa L. HIV infection in an ICU. Intensive Care Med 1994; 20 (suppl. 2): S116; Estrada H, Moreno R, Pereira E, Massa L. Audit of intensive care: the use of severity scoring systems over the first two years of an ICU. Clin Intensive Care 1994;5:S121; Moreno R, Estrada H, Miranda I, Massa L. SAPS II overtime: a preliminary study Clin Intensive Care 1994;5:S122; Moreno R, Estrada H, Ferrão MJ, Massa L. Measuring workload: TISS 28 versus TISS 76 Clin Intensive Care 1995;6 (Suppl. 2):126; Moreno R, Estrada H, Miranda I, Massa L. SAPS II overtime Clin Intensive Care 1995;6 (Suppl. 2):125; Moreno R, Amado L, Estrada H et al. Sepsis-related organ failure assessment (SOFA) as a descriptor of multiple organ failure: a preliminary study. Intensive Care Med 1996;22 (Suppl. 1):S44. Reis Miranda D, Iapichino G, Moreno R. Nine Equivalents of Nursing Manpower use Score (NEMS). Validation on the EURICUS-I database. Intensive Care Med 1996;22 (Suppl. 3):S296; Moreno R, Reis Miranda D, Fidler V, Apolone G. Evaluation of two outcome predictors on an independent database. Intensive Care Med 1996;22 (Suppl. 3):S266; Moreno R, Apolone G, Fidler V, Reis Miranda D. Variations in case-mix according to European areas. Intensive Care Med 1996;22 (Suppl. 3):S266; Moreno R, Apolone G, Fidler V, Reis Miranda D. Evaluation of the uniformity of fit of SAPS II and MPM II0 on an independent database. Intensive Care Med 1996;22 (Suppl. 3):S267; 1. Moreno R, Apolone G, Fidler V, Reis Miranda D (1996) Can SAPS II be used in patients with acute myocardial infarction?. Intensive Care Med 1996;22 (Suppl. 3):S267; 2. Moreno R, Apolone G, Fidler V, Reis Miranda D. The effects of first versus second level customization on the goodness of fit of MPM II0. Intensive Care Med 1996;22 (Suppl. 3):S267; 3. Moreno R, Apolone G, Fidler V, Reis Miranda D. The impact of first level customization on the uniformity of fit of SAPS II. Intensive Care Med 1996;22 (Suppl. 3):S267; 4. Moreno R, Reis Miranda D, Iapichino G. Variations in the utilisation of nursing manpower according to European areas. Intensive Care Med 1996;22 (Suppl. 3):S304; 5. Moreno R, Reis Miranda D, Iapichino G. The efficiency of nursing manpower use in Europe. Intensive Care Med 1996;22 (Suppl. 3):S304; 6. Moreno R, Morais P, on behalf of the Severity Scoring Systems Study Groups of the Portuguese Intensive Care Society and the Portuguese Society of Internal Medicine. Validation of the simplified therapeutic intervention scoring system on an independent database. Intensive Care Med 1996;22 (Suppl. 3):S267; 7. Moreno R, Reis Miranda D, Iapichino G. The evaluation of nursing manpower use in Europe: results of a prospective, multinational study. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of Intensive & Critical Care Medicine. Ottawa, Canada 1997;69 8. Moreno R, Reis Miranda D. Length of stay in the ICU and severity of illness. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of Intensive & Critical Care Medicine. Ottawa, Canada 1997;72 9. Antonelli M, Moreno R, Vincent JL, et al. SOFA score to describe MOF in multiple trauma patients: analysis of risk factors for LOS and mortality. Intensive Care Med 1997;23 (Suppl. 1);S52; 10. Strom J, Moreno R. SAPS II does not predict mortality in Danish ICU populations. Intensive Care Med 1997;23 (Suppl. 1);S152; 11. Moreno R, Pereira E, Matos R, Fevereiro T. The evaluation of cardiovascular dysfunction/failure in multiple organ failure. Intensive Care Med 1997;23 (Suppl. 1);S153;