FUSIC® Critical Care Ultrasound Online Study Day

Professor Hannah Conway

Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care and National Lead for FUSIC® Heart, UK

Hannah Conway is an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner and Associate Professor of Advanced Clinical Practice, specialising in cardiothoracic critical care. As National Lead for FUSIC® Heart and Chair of the Advanced Practitioners in Critical Care Professional Advisory Group, she champions the development of critical care education and professional standards.

https://linktr.ee/cardiacaccp

 

 

: @cardiacACCP

Dr Justin Kirk-Bayley

Consultant Intensivist & Anaesthetist and National FUSIC® Lung Lead, UK

Justin Kirk-Bayley is a Consultant Intensivist & Anaesthetist at Royal Surrey NHS Trust in Guildford, UK where he has been Clinical Lead for ICU, and is now Deputy Medical Director. His clinical passion is for pragmatic delivery of point of care ultrasound, having run a training fellowship for over a decade and being a part of the ICS’s FUSIC committee. He has published and teaches ultrasound around the world. As his Trust’s Professional Director for Therapeutics, he is committed to medication safety and optimisation, lecturing internationally about improvement in medication process and has helped found the Turning the Tide group to improve the UK’s use of intravenous fluids. (@Turningthe_Tide)

: @PARADicmSHIFT

Prashant Parulekar

Consultant in Intensive Care, Acute & General Internal Medicine , William Harvey Hospital

Prashant is a Consultant in Intensive Care, Acute & General Internal Medicine at William Harvey Hospital (East Kent Hospitals). He is an honorary senior lecturer at Queen Mary University London (QMUL), giving lectures regarding the role of echocardiography in resuscitation and chairing tutorials on diagnostics and imaging modalities in resuscitation. He teaches and lectures at both regional and national ultrasound and echo conferences and courses.

He is member of the national Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee and is BSE Level 2 accredited in Critical Care Echocardiography. He is a FUSIC & FICE (Focused Intensive Care Echocardiography) supervisor & mentor and runs national FUSIC courses. He is published in research in the use of echo and ultrasound in Intensive Care and Acute Medicine and in the assessment of haemodynamic status using echo.

Prashant was the Chief Investigator (CI) for the national lung ultrasound and echo CORONA study (COre ultRasOund of covid in iNtensive care & Acute medicine) assessing the lung ultrasound features and the incidence of left and right ventricular dysfunction in COVID ICU patients. He is the creator and co-host of Ultra Live, the world’s first live POCUS gameshow at the SOA this year. 

: @parulekar8550

Marcus Peck

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Marcus Peck is an NHS anaesthetist & intensive care consultant, past-cochair and current network lead of the Intensive Care Society’s Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care (“FUSIC”) committee, and editor of the OUP textbook 'Focused Intensive Care Ultrasound'. He is a passionate POCUS advocate, who speaks and teaches widely, and sits on multiple national committees focused on improving POCUS training opportunities and quality assurance. He relishes breaking down organisational barriers and dreams of the day when POCUS is normal practice for every frontline clinician. You can find Marcus on X as @ICUltrasonica".

: @ICUltrasonica

Dr Antonio Rubino

Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist and Intensivist, Royal Papworth Hospital

Antonio Rubino is a cardiothoracic anaesthetist and Intensivist at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. He is clinical lead for Organ Donation for the Eastern Region as part of the National Transplant service. He is Intenisve Care Society's national lead for the focused transoesohpageal echocardiography (fTOE) program. His research interest include critical care ultrasounds, ECMO and cardiothoracic donor organs optimisation.

: @AEA_rubino

Dr Jennie Stephens

Consultant in Intensive Care and Acute Medicine, Royal Cornwall Hospital

Jennie is the Chair of the FUSIC committee and National lead for FUSIC Abdomen.

She works as a Consultant in Intensive care and Acute Medicine in, the sometimes sunny but always beautiful, Cornwall in Southwest England.

She was a founding member of three of the major working groups for point-of-care ultrasound (FUSIC, FAMUS and CACTUS).  She continues to teach POCUS on a regular basis in her local setting but also nationally and via remote mentorship.

She is the clinical lead for OPAT (Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy) in Cornwall and supervises a nursing team delivering acute care in the community.

She is a mum to 2 boys, cross-fit enthusiast and occasionally competent gardener.

Dr Jonny Wilkinson

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, Northampton General Hospital

Dr. Jonny Wilkinson (MBChB.MRCP.FRCA.FFICM) is a Consultant in Intensive care medicine and Anaesthesia in Northampton, UK. He trained in Nottingham, where he undertook a fellowship in thoracic anaesthesia. He is the editor in chief of the Oxford Handbook of Thoracic Anaesthesia and founder of www.criticalcarenorthampton.com. When not on Twitter , he is a national and international expert in point of care ultrasound, with specialist interests in the use of handheld devices to assess the critically ill patient. He is a course director for Advanced Trauma Life support and NICE IV fluid lead for his trust, promoting safe fluid prescription and education on fluid physiology. He is a member of the ICS council and the FUSIC committee (Focused Intensive Care Ultrasound). He is faculty for The State of The Art Intensive Care Society meeting, the International Fluid Academy, the Critical Care Symposium and RA-UK. He enjoys speaking / teaching on all that is ultrasound, nationally and Internationally.

: @Wilkinsonjonny

Rachel Wong

Consultant Intensivist, Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, and ECMO

Dr Rachel Wong is a Consultant at the Royal Papworth Hospital, specialising in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, and ECMO. Rachel holds Level 2 accreditation in EACVI TOE and serves as a mentor for FUSIC and FAMUS across all existing modules. When not instructing in Echocardiography or Ultrasound, Rachel dedicates her time to training and developing roles allied to medicine, including Clinical Scientists and Advanced Practitioners in Critical Care.

: @RachelWongLiene