Membership of the Global Definition Consensus Conference


Process for membership

The goal of the organizers of the consensus conference was to convene a committee of experts representing diverse clinical, geographic, socio-economic, racial, ethnic, and gender backgrounds, as well as a patient advocate. The target committee membership was ~30 to ensure that it was large enough to obtain diverse perspectives and small enough to allow for meaningful contributions from each member.

Members were selected through an informal cascading recruitment process. The conference chairs identified subject area experts who then recommended other members, considering the stated diversity goals. A total of 32 members were selected and agreed to participate. Only one person who was invited declined to participate.

Although this process to achieve diversity and expertise has some limitations, the resulting committee was more diverse and represented more areas of the world than prior groups that developed working definitions of ARDS.


Conference members