Dr Lowell Ling is a Clinical Associate Professor at The Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care. He is an Intensivist with a special interest in critical care, sepsis, and organ dysfunction. His research uses epidemiological, clinical, and genomic approaches to understand and treat sepsis. He and his team have used electronic health records to estimate population-level incidence and mortality of sepsis. His research team is working on investigating the role of molecular pathogen detection techniques in basic science studies and clinical trials. He was awarded a Young Distinguished Fellow by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. He is the Secretary of the Asian Critical Care Clinical Trials Group and a member of the Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance.