Dr. Martin Kneyber (1972) is Chief of the Division of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine at the Beatrix Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. Dr. Kneyber obtained his medical degree in 1998 (cum laude) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and completed his specialist training in Paediatrics in 2003 at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht. Since 2005 he is board certified in paediatric critical care. Dr. Kneyber completed a PhD thesis in 2000 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Kneyber serves as Medical President-Elect of the European Society for Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC). He is a member of the editorial board of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and frequently reviews for international journals in the field of critical care medicine.
His main academic interest relates to paediatric mechanical ventilation. He is the PI for the PAN (Paediatric Ards Neuromuscular blockade) study funded by ZonMW and MPI for PROSpect (Prone and Oscillation pediatric clinical trial) funded by the NIH/NHLBI.
Dr. Kneyber has published more then 200 scientific papers and contributed to numerous book chapters. He frequently gives invited lectures and workshops at international critical care conferences.
