PICU for the District General Hospital ICU Team

John Glazebrook

John is a consultant paediatric intensivist and anaesthetist in Adult & Children's intensive care and anaesthesia at the Great North Children's Hospital in Newcastle. He obtained his medical degree In Leeds and completed training in Anaesthesia and Intensive care medicine in Yorkshire and the North-East. This included PICM training via the royal college of paediatrics sub-specialty training programme (GRID). He also completed a post-fellowship CCT in the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in paediatric general and cardiac critical care.

John serves on the Royal College of Paediatricians PICM intercollegiate standards and advisory committee as the FICM representative as well as on the FICM training and quality committee as the PICM representative. In addition, he works with the Great North Air Ambulance Service as a paediatric subject matter expert - but remains strictly on the ground!

Michael Griksaitis

Dr Michael Griksaitis is a consultant in paediatric intensive care at Southampton Children’s Hospital and has a specific interest in paediatric cardiac ICU, ECMO, resuscitation and transport medicine. He is the clinical lead for the Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT) at Southampton and is the national chair of the paediatric critical care society acute transport group. He is heavily involved with both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.

Rochelle Gully

Rochelle is an ACP for the WATCH transport service and Bristol PICU. She has worked in critical care for 20 years and has been an ACP since 2015. She recently became the deputy chair of the Paediatric Critical Care Society Acute Transport Group, supporting Michael and the UK transport teams to work collaboratively with national education and service development.

Martin Kneyber

Prof. Dr. Martin Kneyber (1972) is Chief of the Division of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine at the Beatrix Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. Dr. Kneyber obtained his medical degree in 1998 (cum laude) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and completed his specialist training in Paediatrics in 2003 at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht. Since 2005 he is board certified in paediatric critical care. Prof. Dr. Kneyber completed a PhD thesis in 2000 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.

Prof.Dr. Kneyber serves as Medical President of the European Society for Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) and is a member of the editorial board of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. His main academic interest relates to paediatric mechanical ventilation. He is the PI for the PAN (Paediatric Ards Neuromuscular blockade) study funded by ZonMW and MPI for PROSpect (Prone and Oscillation pediatric clinical trial) funded by the NIH/NHLBI. Dr. Kneyber has published more then 200 scientific papers and contributed to numerous book chapters. He frequently gives invited lectures and workshops at international critical care conferences.

Prof. Dr. Kneyber is an active member of the PREVENT subgroup; his site participates in PALISI research projects such as BACON and LongVentKids.

Thomas Payne-Doris

Tom is an adult ICU consultant in Newcastle and lead for the North East & Cumbria Transport and Retrieval Service (NECTAR), a combined adult and paediatric critical care transport service. Whilst he is predominantly an adult Intensivist, he also continues to work within the paediatric part of the service. This brings an interesting perspective on the interface between adult and paediatric colleagues when caring for the critically ill child. Interests include transfer of people with learning disabilities and supporting preferred place of death preferences for those receiving organ support.

Will Tremlett

Will is a consultant in paediatric intensive care at Birmingham Children's Hospital and in paediatric retrieval with the KIDSNTS transport service. He is the clinical lead for KIDS, deputy clinical lead for the West Midlands Paediatric Critical Care Network, and lead for PANDA within PICU. Will’s also a member of the Ethics Advisory Group for Birmingham Children's Hospital and his main interests are in prolonged intensive care and complexity, neurocritical care, and transport.

Lyvonne Tume

Lyvonne Tume RN RSCN RNT Dip App Sci (Nurs), B Nurs, Clinical MSc (Critical Care) PGDE PhD

Director of the Clinical Research development Programme at Alder Hey

Lyvonne Tume is Professor of Critical Care Nursing at Edge Hill University and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool. She has worked at Alder Hey (in PICU) since 2004. She undertook her PhD 2006-2010 at LJMU on the impact of nursing interventions in children with severe traumatic brain injury.

She is an Associate Editor for Nursing in Critical Care and on the editorial board for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and the Journal of Parental and Enteral Nutrition. She is an intensive care nurse with over 35 years’ experience in Australia and in the UK. She has over 170 peer reviewed publications and has held several NIHR research grants. She is currently the chief investigator for an NIHR HTA-funded multicentre trial of no routine gastric residual volume measurement to guide enteral feeding in critically ill children (GASTRIC-PICU). She is a member of the NIHR HTA funding panel.

Her research interests focus mainly on improving nutrition in critically ill children, particularly around enteral feeding, but she also focuses on respiratory critical care: making endotracheal suctioning safer, weaning mechanical ventilation, and preventing extubation failure. She is also committed to implementing research evidence into clinical practice.

Her research takes an ‘critical care across the lifespan’ approach with work in neonatal, paediatric, and adult intensive care. She is a visiting professor for the School of Health Sciences in Geneva and is a member of the NIHR HTA and a European funding panel.

Dr Jonny Wilkinson

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist

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.

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