Dr Francesca Rubulotta is a Consultant and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at Charing Cross and St Mary’s Hospital, NHS Trust and at Imperial College Medical School in London, UK. She has been appointed Prof of Intensive Care Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

She obtained her MD with laude and commendation at the University of Catania, Italy. In 2002, Dr Rubulotta gained accreditation in Anesthesia at the University of Trieste in Italy and later in 2004 she obtained her specialty in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. Her training in ICM took place in the USA, the Netherlands, and in Belgium. In 2012, she obtained her PhD at the University of Catania, Italy. In 2018, she obtained a Master in Business Administration (MBA) at Imperial College London, UK. Dr Rubulotta was the Chair of the division of professional development (DPD) of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and the Chair of the CoBaTrICE project. Dr Rubulotta is the chair of the committee of Medical Managers (CMM) of the British Medical Association (BMA).

Dr Rubulotta is a member of the European Board of Intensive Care Medicine (EBICM) and a member of the European Accreditation Board for Continue Medical Education (EACCME) in the Union of European Medical Specialities (UEMS), a member of the Governance Board of the EACCME, and a new member of the UEMS school of examiners. Dr Rubulotta is on the Editorial board of ICU management and practice and she is a reviewer for several journals. Dr Rubulotta is a founding member of the International Society for Rapid Response Systems and part of two Consensus Conferences of rapid response systems. Dr Rubulotta is the interim chair of the International Women in Intensive and Critical Care Network (iWIN).

An avid researcher, Dr. Rubulotta has published papers, abstracts, chapters and reviews, mainly on education, sepsis, rapid response systems, leadership and ethics. Dr. Rubulotta has recently developed interest in value creation in health care and has been consulting companies including Phillips and Medtronic. She is working with the London in vitro Diagnostics Co-Operative (London IVD, http://london.ivd.nihr.ac.uk/industry-innovators/ )

Dr Rubulotta has been invited as a speaker at national and international meetings. Dr Rubulotta has a personal interest in Waterpolo which she is still playing at a semi-professional level and has won four times the master world championship and several times national and European championships.