Dr Steve Webb is an Intensive Care specialist, a Professor of Critical Care Research at Monash University, Director of Research for St John of God Healthcare, and immediate past Chair of the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance. He is a past-Chair of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group and previously Co-chair of the federal Government’s Clinical Trials Collaborative Forum. He is a foundation fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

He has been an investigator on trials with an accumulated sample size of more than 60,000 patients, is a named investigator on more than $175M of competitive research funding and has published more than 250 manuscripts, including multiple manuscripts in NEJM (11) and JAMA (12), that have been cited more than 72,000 times. He has experience with Bayesian adaptive platform trials and other innovative designs such as cluster cross-over trials. He was the global leader of the REMAP-CAP platform trial that reported the treatment effect of 18 different interventions for patients with severe COVID-19 infection. Results from his trials have been incorporated rapidly into international guidelines and implemented into clinical practice saving many lives.