Andrew Conway-Morris

Consultant Intensivist

Dr Conway Morris is a critical care consultant and MRC Clinician Scientist based at the University of Cambridge.  He trained at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, undertaking a PhD in Edinburgh focused on immune failure in critical illness and nosocomial infection.  His research interests include neutrophil function and dysfunction in critical illness, where he identified complement component C5a as a key driver of dysfunction in patients.  He has also developed and tested a number of diagnostics for pneumonia, using both host and pathogen-focussed techniques.  His animating force is a desire to improve the management of infection in intensive care, and combat the rising tide of antimicrobial resistance.  He was recently awarded the Royal College of Anaesthetists 2023 Mackintosh Professorship.   He is the director of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine’s research and antimicrobial stewardship learning pathways.

: @andymoz78

Ema Swingwood

Consultant Physiotherapist, UK

Ema is a Consultant Therapist (Physiotherapist by background) in Critical Care at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. Her area of clinical expertise and interest is ventilation, weaning and complex airway clearance. 

Having completed the Advanced Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy Msc programme at University College London (UCL) in 2012, Ema has continued her research focusing on the use of Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation (MI-E) and other cough augmentation strategies. Her current PhD work focuses on the use of MI-E in the intubated population which is funded through the NIHR Clinical Academic Research Fellowship pathway. 

Extra-curricular activities include contributions to the Undergraduate Physiotherapy programme at the University of the West of England, and post-graduate teachings at University College London and Brunel University. She sits on the Intensive Care Society Physiotherapy Professional Advisory Group and Education Committee, the Equity, Diversity and Belonging Committee of the CSP, and ICUsteps support group network. She has been part of the multi-professional authorship for BTS/ICS documents related to Respiratory Support Units and Weaning Centres. Most recently, she is part of the NHSElect working group for the development of a Critical Care Capability Framework.

: @emaroids1

Kordo Saeed

Consultant clinical microbiologist , University Hospitals Southampton NHS Trust

He is the clinical lead for the implementation of respiratory metagenomics in the critical care at the University Hospital Southampton. Currently working as a consultant clinical microbiologist and lead for the bacteriology laboratory at University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust & an honorary associate professor at the University of Southampton School of Medicine. His interests are infections in intensive care and orthospinal & major trauma-related infections.  He is the chair of the Rapid Diagnostics and Biomarker Working Group of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) and the secretary for the Bone and Joint Infection Working Group. He has published on Infection Control, Antibiotic Stewardship, Bone and Joint Infections and sepsis.

Lisa Beeson

Sister/ECMO Specialist Critical Care, Royal Papworth NHS Foundation Trust

Lisa Beeson is a highly skilled Senior Sister at Royal Papworth Hospital, where she plays a pivotal role in the 36-bed Critical Care Unit, delivering expert care to patients recovering from cardiac and thoracic surgery. With a BSc (Hons) in Nursing, Lisa brings extensive clinical expertise, leadership, and a deep commitment to patient safety and excellence in critical care.

As an ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) Specialist Nurse, she provides life-saving support to patients with severe cardiac and respiratory failure, ensuring optimal management and recovery for critically ill individuals. Her advanced knowledge and experience in infection control make her an invaluable Lead Infection Control Nurse, implementing and overseeing protocols to prevent healthcare-associated infections in the high-acuity critical care setting.

Dedicated to clinical excellence, patient safety, and innovation in Critical Care, Lisa continues to drive best practices and mentor the next generation of critical care nurses at Royal Papworth Hospital.

Nazima Pathan

Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care

Nazima Pathan is Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care at the University of Cambridge and Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge.

She has a research interest in infection and the host-microbiome interaction in critical illness, and was chief investigator on the NIHR-HTA funded Paediatric Infection Control in Intensive Care (PICNIC) study which examined the feasibility of undertaking a definitive trial of SDD in the PICU setting through a mixed methods and pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

Nicole Hunfeld

Critical Care Pharmacist

Dr Nicole Hunfeld is a critical care pharmacist in a large academic hospital (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands).

She is specialized in pharmacology of sedation and antibiotics, with a link to inflammation.

She is chair of the Green ICU project of the ICU of Erasmus MC, chair of the national Green ICU network and she leads a large interdisciplinary research project involving circular hospitals.

Rajeka Lazarus

Consultant in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

I am a UKHSA Consultant in Infectious Disease and Microbiology based at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.

I completed my infection training in Oxford and Singapore and I'm the Vice President of the British Infection Society - I have recently initiated a collaboration with the Intensive Care Society to optimise the delivery of infection services within critical care.

I am the microbiology ECMO lead at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.

My other clinical and academic interests are adult vaccines, sustainability in healthcare and tuberculosis. 

: @@LazarusRajeka

Reena Mehta

Consultant Pharmacist, Chair of ICS Learning Division & Pharmacy Professional Advisory Group

Reena is a Consultant Pharmacist in Critical Care at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London and Chair of the Intensive Care Society’s Learning Division.

Her specialist areas of interest are anti-microbial stewardship, medicines use in extra-corporeal circuits and health inequalities. 

She has worked in Critical Care for over 15 years, and has co-authored and provided specialist input nationally into areas such as pharmacy critical care workforce, clinical guidelines, and advanced critical care training.  Reena is an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Intensive Care Society and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.   Within her organisation, she is a Principal Investigator on a number of CRN Portfolio studies

Reena is also the Pharmacy Lead for the South East London ICS - Critical Care/ODN and a member of the United Kingdom Adult Critical Care Pharmacy Leadership Forum.  She has recently completed an MSc in Health Economics, Policy & Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

: @ReenaM2703

Richard Pugh

Anaesthetics and Critical Care, Glan Clwyd Hospital in North Wales

Dr Richard Pugh is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine working in North Wales and Honorary Senior Lecturer with Cardiff University. He chairs the Wales Critical Care Trauma and Emergency Medicine Network Clinical Reference Group for Critical Care, is immediate past Chair of the Welsh Intensive Care Society, and previous member of the Wales Critical Care Steering Group for healthcare-associated infection

Jeffrey Lipman

Chair of Trauma-related Clinical Research

Professor Jeffrey Lipman AM, received his medical degree (MBBCh) from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and has specialist qualifications in anaesthesia (DA, FFA) and intensive care (FFA Crit Care, FCICM).

For over 20 years he was Director of the Intensive Care Services, Royal Brisbane and Womens’ Hospital and has recently stepped aside to concentrate more on research.

He was Professor and Head of Academy of Critical Care, The University of Queensland for over 20 years having recently stepped down. He is the Executive Director of the Burns, Trauma, Critical Care Research Centre at this University. He has Professorial attachments at QUT, University of New South Wales, Chinese University of Hong Kong and his Alma Mater, University of Witwatersrand.

Professor Lipman is a career Intensivist, having worked full-time in Intensive Care Units since 1979. His research interests include all aspects of infection management in intensive care. He has a special interest in the pharmacokinetics of antibiotics, an area in which he completed his MD through the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he still holds an Adjunct Professorial position. More recently has also obtained the DMed(Res) from The University of Queensland on refining beta-lactam dosing in critically ill patients.

He has published over 30 book chapters and over 650 peer-reviewed articles including in high impact journals like NEJM, JAMA and Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Professor Lipman has been the recipient of a number of National and International awards for his service to Intensive Care Medicine and was awarded 2017 Researcher of the Year by Metro North HHS. In 2020 he received the “Member of the Order of Australia” Also in 2020, he was conferred Honorary Membership of European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (only 2nd Australian).

He has set up numerous clinical trials and as Principal Investigator has just published of a randomised clinical trial of 7200 patients run in over 100 ICUs in a number of different countries.

Jame McCrae

Consultant in Infectious Disease & Clinical Pharmacology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Jame McCrae is a Consultant in Infectious Disease and Clinical Pharmacology. Because the NHS doesn’t hire Clinical Pharmacological Infectious Diseasologists, he currently works as a general medicine consultant in Oxford. He is one of the hosts of the Infectious Disease: Insight Of Two Specialists, or ID:IOTS podcast, the UK’s Premiere infectious disease podcast.

Vicky Enne

Senior Research Fellow , King’s College London (KCL) & Guy’s and St. Thomas’s NHS Trust (GSTT)

Vicky Enne is a Senior Research Fellow at the in Centre for Infectious Disease and Diagnostics Research (CIDR), based at GSTT/ KCL. Her research focuses the development and evaluation of novel molecular diagnostic strategies for bacterial infections and AMR, and their implementation to improve antimicrobial stewardship and patient outcomes, with a strong emphasis on respiratory tract infections and pneumonia in the critical care environment. She is the Clinical Evaluation and Research lead for the national Respiratory Metagenomics Network and the co-ordinator and joint Chief Investigator of the INHALE research programme.

She obtained her PhD investigating the persistence of antibiotic resistance from Barts and The London in 2001 and then completed AMR-related post-doctoral work at the University of Bristol and QMUL, before moving to UCL in 2013 and then KCL/GSTT in 2024. Vicky has authored numerous publications on these subjects and is a member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

Hannah Pymont

Clinical Scientist & HSST Microbiology, UK Health Security Agency

Hannah is a fourth year Higher Specialist Scientist Trainee in Microbiology in Bristol, and the BIA HSST Professional Affairs Secretary. She has an interest in Diagnostic Stewardship, development of NGS/WGS technologies for use in routine diagnostics, and evaluation of novel technologies for diagnosis of infectious disease. As part of her HSST programme she is completing a professional doctorate (DClinSci) looking at the use of exhaled breath condensate from Heat-Moisture Exchanger Filters for early detection and diagnosis of VAP.