Dr. Paul Elbers

Dr. Paul Elbers (b. 1975) is an intensivist, principal investigator and associate professor at Amsterdam UMC and VU Amsterdam, and founding director of the Center for Critical Care Computational Intelligence. His work bridges intensive care medicine, medical informatics and artificial intelligence, with one ambition: to use the routinely collected electronic health record data of every past ICU patient to improve care for every future one: from bytes to bedside.

He graduated cum laude in medicine at the Academic Medical Center and earned his PhD at the University of Amsterdam. He trained in anesthesiology and cardiac anesthesia in Nieuwegein, and in intensive care medicine at OLVG Amsterdam, and has been an intensivist at Amsterdam UMC since 2012, with over fifteen years of clinical experience.

His early work on quantitative acid-base analysis produced Stewart's Textbook of Acid-Base and the acidbase.org platform, used by thousands of clinicians. His group later built AutoKinetics, the first EHR-integrated system for personalized antibiotic dosing at the ICU bedside, and pioneered AI-supported ICU discharge assessment.

He holds a leading role in major data-sharing initiatives: AmsterdamUMCdb, Europe's first freely available high-granularity ICU database; ICUdata, uniting data from over twelve Dutch ICUs; and INDICATE, for federated ICU data sharing across Europe.

He has secured over EUR 5 million in research funding, including grants from the Dutch Organisation for knowledge and innovation in health, healthcare and well-being (ZonMw), the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT), the European Commission (EC), Health Insurers Netherlands (ZN), and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RvO).

With over 250 peer-reviewed publications and an H-index above 50, he holds leadership and editorial roles at ESICM, NVIC, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, and founded Amsterdam Medical Data Science.