Dr. Matthieu Legrand is an intensivist and anesthesiologist, completed his postgraduate training in Anesthesiology and Critical Care from 2003 to 2010 at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France, receiving his medical degree in 2010. Thereafter, Dr. Legrand received a PhD degree in Cardiovascular Physiology from Sorbonne Paris Cite University in 2012 and was promoted associated to Full Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine in 2017.

He had been serving as the Medical Director of Burn and surgical Intensive Care Units at Saint-Louis Hospital. He moved to the university of California San Francisco in august 2019 as a full Professor in residence in the department of Anesthesiology and Peri-operative care with the goals to pursue his translational research.

His research interests cover the pathophysiology of acute kidney injury in peri-operative, the role of the microcirculation in kidney damage and sepsis, and the mechanisms of cardiovascular consequences of acute kidney injury. Dr. Legrand have worked on developing and validating several biomarkers in the setting of kidney injury, sepsis and amniotic fluid embolism. He is the principal investigator or scientific director of several large multicenter studies and randomized controlled trials..