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Vincent Critical Care 2011, 15:192 /content/15/5/192 EDITORIAL Obituary: Dr Max Harry Weil Jean-Louis Vincent Critical care medicine has lost one of its true leaders, some would say its father-? gure. Dr Max Harry Weil (Figure 1) played such a major role in the development of intensive care medicine as we know it today, making numerous contributions that have shaped the way in which we approach and manage critically ill patients. Born in Switzerland, Dr Weil reached the US when he was just 10. He obtained his MD degree in New York in 1952, a PhD degree from the University of Minnesota in 1957, and an honorary ScD degree from the State University of New York in 2004. He worked for several years as a cardiologist before deciding to devote his time to critical care medicine. As early as 1959 Dr Weil created the famous Shock Unit at the University of Southern California, and then in 1974 started an Institute of Critical Care Medicine. He Figure 1. Dr Max Harry Weil. moved to the University of Health Sciences in 1981 before returning to California in 2007 to create his own Institut e Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine in Rancho Mirage. critically ill. As an innovator and inventor, he owned more than 20 patents for medical equipment and devices he developed to help monitor and treat critically ill patients. His major contributions are well known to all intensi- vists, and include improved understanding of the patho- physiology of shock states, of the importance of blood lactate levels, and of the mechanisms of lung edema Dr Weil trained many hundreds of intensivists from the including the role of colloid osmotic pressure. Many of ? ve continents and remained a faithful mentor to many, if today’s management strategies and therapeutic approaches not all, of us. Under his skilled tutorship and guidance, in critical care