Jan Gunst, M.D., Ph.D., is board-certified specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine. He is staff physician-intensivist in the Clinical Department of Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospitals Leuven, and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine at KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. His research focuses on endocrinology, metabolism, and nutrition of critical illness, combining both clinical and translational studies.