Join the people building the future of intensive care.
YODA is more than an organization. It is an international community united by physiology, science, innovation and education. Whether you are a clinician, researcher, engineer or student, your ideas can help shape the future of critical care.
YODA is not a passive association. It is a working scientific community — a place where clinicians, researchers, engineers and students actively contribute to projects that shape the future of intensive care.
Members do not merely attend. They design studies, teach courses, build tools, mentor students, publish open science and lead international collaborations.
The value of YODA is created by its members — and returned to them, to their patients, and to the field.
You are not joining an organization. You are joining a mission.
Every pathway is a real seat at the table — with responsibilities, contributions and benefits designed for that stage of the journey.
For medical, engineering and science students beginning their journey into critical care and physiology.
For residents in anesthesiology, internal medicine, emergency medicine and related specialties.
For intensivists and specialists practicing at the frontlines of critical care.
For scientists advancing physiology, data science, AI and translational critical care research.
For senior clinicians and scientists shaping the direction of critical care worldwide.
For hospitals, universities and research institutes joining YODA as institutional collaborators.
The full library of learning tracks, seminars and mechanistic teaching.
Join multi-centre studies with shared protocols and open outputs.
Small, focused groups working on the field's hardest questions.
First access to new curricula, tools and open datasets.
A living network of peers across continents and disciplines.
Structured mentorship — from student to faculty, both directions.
Contribute to YODA Labs projects at the frontier of ICU technology.
Priority participation in YODA scientific meetings and symposia.
Recognition for teaching, research and contribution to the field.
A shared commitment to reproducibility, transparency and access.
YODA values contribution over titles. A resident with a question, an engineer with a prototype, a nurse with a bedside insight — each moves the field forward.
Bring the questions the bedside actually asks.
Design, run and publish studies that move the field.
Turn understanding into curricula that outlive us.
Build the instruments the next decade of ICU needs.
Give models physiology, transparency and clinical honesty.
Ship clinical-grade tools with craft and safety.
Make complex science legible and shareable.
Invest in the next generation of clinicians and scientists.
Steward programs, working groups and international efforts.
Cultivate the culture that makes the science possible.
YODA connects disciplines more than borders. The community is drawn not by geography, but by the shared problems worth solving.
Enter a community of clinicians, scientists and engineers united by physiology.
Engage with YODA Academy — mechanistic, rigorous, continuously updated.
Participate in working groups and multi-centre projects across continents.
Contribute to open, reproducible science with international co-authors.
Take part in YODA Labs — from prototypes to clinically validated tools.
Turn your expertise into curricula, mentorship and lasting knowledge.
Shape working groups, programs and the future direction of the field.
Founding members hold a role that no later generation can — they define what YODA becomes. Its culture, its values, its scientific priorities, its standards for rigor and openness.
The first cohort shapes the working groups, seeds the first international studies, drafts the earliest curricula, and sets the tone for how a global scientific community can behave in the age of AI.
This chapter is short. It will not open again.
Anyone contributing to intensive care — clinicians, researchers, engineers, data scientists, educators and students. Contribution matters more than title.
Yes. YODA is a global community from its first day, with members and partner institutions across multiple continents.
Absolutely. Students are essential. Dedicated tracks, mentorship and research opportunities are built for them.
Through research, teaching, engineering, writing, mentorship, leadership — or simply by asking the questions that move the field.
Yes. YODA Academy offers structured learning tracks in physiology, mechanical ventilation, explainable AI, sepsis, imaging and more.
Through shared protocols, federated data, working groups and open-science outputs coordinated by YODA.
As institutional partners — joining coordinated research, education and platform initiatives with formal agreements.
"The future of intensive care will be built by people willing to learn, collaborate and innovate together."