Join us for a series of events organised jointly by our AHP and Physiotherapist Professional Advisory Groups.
Session overview: Introduction to intensive care for junior staff and AHPs new to ICU.
Chair: Sarah Wallace
Moderator: Zoe Van Willigen / Clair Martin
More details will be announced soon.
If you have any questions about the event or need any further assitance, please do contact us via:
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Critical Care Occupational Therapist , The James Cook University Hospital

Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist - Critical Care & Neurosciences, Royal Free Hospital, London

Consultant Speech and Language Therapist in Critical Care, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Critical Care Occupational Therapist , The James Cook University Hospital
Sharon Barker is a Critical Care Occupational Therapist at The James Cook University Hospital and one of two elected OT representatives on the Intensive Care Society AHP Professional Advisory Group. With over 15 years' experience, working in critical care since 2020, Sharon is passionate about early rehabilitation, non-pharmacological delirium management, and the humanisation of care. Her professional interests include environmental design to improve patient outcomes, neurosciences and cognitive recovery, and multiprofessional collaboration to improve recovery across the whole patient experience to improve life after critical illness.

Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist - Critical Care & Neurosciences, Royal Free Hospital, London
Aeron is a clinical lead speech and language therapist from the UK. She has (SLT) over 25 years’ experience of working in both neurosciences and critical care in both the UK and Australia. She has a specialist interest in tracheostomy weaning, one way valve use in line with ventilation and dysphagia. She has conducted research into swallow screening on patients with a tracheostomy and has been a contributing author to a chapter on communication in the ICU population. She is on the committee of the national SLT tracheostomy clinical excellence network and has been a contributing author on the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists critical care position paper and tracheostomy competency framework. She has presented at both national and international events. She currently works at the Royal Free Hospital in London as the Clinical Lead SLT for critical care and neurosciences.

Consultant Speech and Language Therapist in Critical Care, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Sarah Wallace OBE FRCSLT is a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester and honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. She specialises in Critical Care and has over 30 years of clinical experience as an SLT. After training in Manchester, Sarah has worked in hospitals and Non-Government Organisations in the UK, Singapore, Grenada (WI) and Cambodia. Whilst working clinically in cardiothoracic, ECMO and general critical care in Manchester, she also teaches and conducts research internationally, focussing on laryngeal injury, dysphagia and communication issues post intubation and tracheostomy. She has over 60 publications, several top cited articles winning awards from the BMJ and the ICS. She holds expert advisor roles with the Intensive Care Society (ICS), the National Tracheostomy Safety Project and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and has contributed to many policies, guidelines and initiatives including GPICS, FEES, NCEPOD and the ICS National Rehabilitation Collaborative. Sarah is also an Associate Editor for JICS. She has pioneered new treatments for laryngeal recovery in ICU, setting up the first FEES service in Asia and the UK and supports SLT service development in the UK, Sweden and Chile.
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