Dr Francesca Collino
Dr. Francesca Collino is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Turin, Italy. She completed her training in Turin and at the University Medical Center of Goettingen (Germany) under the mentorship of Professor M. Quintel and Professor L. Gattinoni. During this period, she contributed to the development and validation of the seminal concept of Mechanical Power in mechanical ventilation — a framework that has since helped redefine ventilatory-induced lung injury research and ventilatory strategy optimization.
Dr. Collino’s research interests span mechanical ventilation, CO₂ physiology, venovenous extracorporeal support, and nutrition in critical illness. She is an active member of the Acute Respiratory Failure Section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and serves as faculty for ESICM educational courses on ventilation and airway management. She is also a member of the Ventilation Board of SIAARTI, contributing to national scientific guidelines, educational programmes, and multidisciplinary initiatives.
Dr. Collino is a frequent invited speaker at leading national and international conferences, including the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM), the ESICM Annual Congress, the SMART Meeting (Milan, Italy), and the Mayo Clinic Conference on Mechanical Ventilation. She is deeply involved in advanced training programmes for intensivists across Europe and beyond.
Her academic leadership includes serving on steering committees for large multicentre studies, such as STARGATE, an international observational study on airway management in operating-room and non-operating-room anesthesia. She is also the Principal Investigator of ENDGAME, a prospective observational study evaluating end-tidal CO₂ and arterial PCO₂ gradients as criteria for weaning during mechanical ventilation.
Dr. Collino leads several collaborative efforts aimed at advancing translational physiological research in respiratory mechanics and ventilator-induced lung injury. She maintains active international partnerships — including with Professor Luigi Camporota (UK) — connecting experimental physiology with bedside clinical application.
She is the co-founder and President of CONNECT (COlonia Initiative for Networking, Novel Education, Critical Care and Translational Physiology), an international association of young intensivists dedicated to continuing the scientific and educational legacy of Professor Luciano Gattinoni. CONNECT promotes research, training, and cross-disciplinary collaboration grounded in translational physiology.
