Medicine for Intensive Care

Sean Brown

Dr Brown is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist at the Gloucestershire Oncology Centre, specialising in lung and upper gastro-intestinal (oesophagus, gastric, hepatobiliary and pancreatic) cancers. He has expertise in the use of radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted treatments and immunotherapy. He has a specialist interest in stereotactic radiotherapy (SABR) for early lung cancer and tumours that have spread to a limited number of sites within the body (oligometastatic disease).

Before taking up his Consultant post in Gloucestershire, Dr Brown completed his medical training in Liverpool and specialist oncology training at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. In 2019 he was awarded an MD after undertaking a period of research at The Christie investigating the role of high precision radiotherapy in lung cancer.

Dr Brown is keenly involved with research and actively recruits and manages patients enrolled in clinical trials. He has several first name publications in peer reviewed journals and has presented his work at both national and international conferences.

Sarah Burgess

Sarah grew up in the West Country and qualified from the University of Cambridge in 2012.  She decided that critical care was for her after watching a registrar do an RSI on a general medical ward and deciding this was the coolest thing ever! She has worked in Lancashire, Cambridgeshire, the West Midlands and London where she currently works as dual trainee in anaesthesia and ICM (she no longer approves of intubating patients on medical wards...)  She was elected to the ICS Trainee Advisory Group in late 2020, where she works for the education team.

Paul Dargan

UK

Paul Dargan is a Consultant Physician and Professor of Clinical Toxicology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London. He has a specialist clinical and research interest in recreational drug and heavy metal toxicity. He has an active research programme with research collaborators in the UK, Europe, North America, Africa, Australasia and Asia across a range of projects related to recreational drug toxicity, new psychoactive substances, self-poisoning and heavy metal toxicity. He has published over 360 peer-reviewed papers and numerous book chapters. He is a Commissioner to the UK Commission on Human Medicines and an expert advisor to a number of UK and International bodies including the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).

James Ferguson

Consultant Hepatologist ,

Consultant Hepatologist

Honorary Reader University of Birmingham

Melanie Hingorani

Mrs Melanie Hingorani qualified from Oxford University and Guy’s Hospital, has an MD (research in allergic eye disease) from the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and trained in London. She was a consultant at Hinchingbrooke Hospital providing paediatric ophthalmology, adult squint and high volume cataract surgery in their NHS Treatment Centre before moving to Moorfields. Her clinical practice now concentrates on paediatric emergency, external eye and corneal disease. She has held various Clinical Director roles at Moorfields and national roles at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.  She is currently Chair of the UK Ophthalmology Alliance (UKOA), Honorary Secretary at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, CQC Specialty Advisor for Ophthalmology and has just stepped down after 2 years as Clinical Lead for the NHS England National Eye Care Recovery and Transformation Programme. As Chair of Professional Standards at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, she led the College’s extensive guidance and advice response to Covid including producing new guidance for managing eye care and concerns in intensive care.

Manish Kalla

Manish qualified from Guy’s, King’s & St. Thomas’ School of Medicine before undertaking his medical training in London. His Cardiology training began in Cardiff before moving to Oxford to undertake a period of research as a BHF Research Fellow. He was awarded his DPhil in 2016 for his work on autonomic control of ventricular arrhythmia. His advanced electrophysiology training was in Oxford followed by a fellowship at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham in 2018. His clinical interests are catheter ablation of arrhythmia, inherited arrhythmia syndromes. He leads the fellowship program and works externally with the regional cardiac network to improve care for patients with heart rhythm disease.

Ed Needham

Ed Needham is an Academic Neurologist at Addenbrookes Hospital with subspeciality interests in Neuroimmunology and Neurocritical Care. His research focuses particularly on the immunological response to severe traumatic brain injury.

Dhruv Parekh

Consultant - Critical Care and Respiratory Medicine
Senior Clinical Lecturer Acute and Critical Care

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Gemma Talling

UK

Gemma moved from her native Somerset to London to study medicine at Imperial College, graduating in 2006. Following foundation training in Surrey she moved back to the south west for anaesthesia then ICM training in Severn Deanery.  Based in Gloucestershire, she enjoyed a prolonged break from training to raise her three children and working as an SAS Anaesthetist. 

The post Covid era has seen her return to training in ITU in the West Midlands. Any spare time she has is spent with her family enjoying the Cotswold countryside, swimming at the local lido and relaxing with friends and family. 

Her main interest is in medical education so she is particularly pleased to be involved in organising the Medicine for Intensive Care Study days in 2023.