Gordon S. Doig is an epidemiologist who has worked in the field of critical care and trauma for more than 30 years. He started this journey in 1994, when he undertook a Research Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine with W.J. Sibbald in Canada. Upon completion in 1996, he received the US Society of Critical Care Medicine's In-Training Fellow Award for his work in sepsis. In 1998, Gordon was awarded the Foundation Visitor's Medal from the Australian and New Zealand Faculty of Intensive Care for his contributions to evidence-based critical care and in 1999 he worked for the WHO in China and the Phillippines. In 2000 he was invited to the Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia as the Year 2000 Visiting Professor of Medicine and in 2001 he was recruited from Canada to the Royal North Shore Hospital Intensive Care Unit in Sydney by Professor Malcolm Fisher.