Professor Mikhail Kirov is currently a Head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine of the Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Dr. Kirov graduated from the Northern State Medical University in 1994. During 1994-1997, he was a research fellow at the Department of cardiac Anesthesia at the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs in Moscow. After returning to Arkhangelsk, Dr. Kirov has worked as an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine of the Northern State Medical University. In 2003, Dr. Kirov has received his PhD degree devoted to nitric oxide pathways in sepsis and acute lung injury at the University of Tromsoe, Norway. He was appointed the position of Professor at the Northern State Medical University in 2007, and became a Head of Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine in 2011. Professor Kirov is a member of the Education Committees of the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists and the European Society of Anesthesiology (ESA), a member of the Intensive Care Sub-Committee of ESA, a member of the Board of the Federation of Anesthesiologists-Reanimatologists of Russia and the Vice-President of the Association of Anesthesiologists-Reanimatologists of Northwestern Russia. Professor Kirov has published 27 books and  book chapters, 38 articles in the international and 77 in the national peer-reviewed medical journals, and more than 300 abstracts. His main research interests are in the fields of cardiac anesthesia and intensive care, monitoring, sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome.