Updates and Advances in Medicine for Intensive Care

Gemma Talling

ST6 Dual CCT Trainee Intensive Care Medicine + Anaesthesia, West Midlands Deanery

Dr Gemma Talling is an ST6 Dual Specialty Trainee in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia in the West Midlands Deanery.

After studying Medicine at Imperial College London, her interest in Intensive Care was ignited as a foundation trainee when she found herself drawn to the acute care specialties.

She sits on the FICM StR committee representing LTFT ICM trainees.

Her interests include medical education and clinical research.

Dr Megan Fahy

ST5 Triple CCT Trainee in Intensive Care Medicine + Respiratory & General Internal Medicine, West Midlands Deanery

I am currently an ST4/5 speciality trainee in Respiratory, Intensive Care and General Internal Medicine in West Midlands Deanery. After studying medicine at Bristol University as a postgraduate, I completed my initial training in Wessex deanery. My interest includes education education, having completed my PGCert in Medical Education.

Thusha Nawasiwatte

Consultant Neurologist, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Worcester, UK

Dr Thusha Nawasiwatte, MBBS, MD, MRCP(Lond), MRCPS(Glasg), MRCP (Neurology )UK is a Consultant Neurologist currently attached to Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and received her MD in Medicine from the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She was trained in Neurology in Sri Lanka and in King's College Hospital, London UK. She has been a member of the Royal college of Physicians since 2017.  Dr Nawasiwatte's work areas mainly cover General and Vascular Neurology and she has a special interest in novel Headache therapies. 

Henry Lin

Consultant Oculoplastic & Cataract Surgeon  , East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Mr Lin is a Consultant Oculoplastic (eyelid) & Cataract surgeon based in Colchester, Essex. He trained in general ophthalmology in the East of England before subspecialising in Oculoplastic surgery in Addenbrookes, Cambridge. During his training, he won several prizes/merits, and was selected as Chief Resident at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge. He is triple-accredited in the UK, Europe and Worldwide. He also has an interest in law and has a PGDipLaw from the University of London. 

Mr Lin teaches surgery on the Faculty for Microsurgical Skills at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. He is the departmental medical school lead for the University of East Anglia and Anglia Ruskin University.

Dr Alessia Dalla Pria

Consultant in HIV Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

I am an Infectious Diseases and Oncology Consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and I have been working at the National Centre for HIV Malignancy for the last 10  years. I am part of the leading team of the biggest HIV Department in Europe and UK which includes a highly specialised HIV inpatient and day unit service.

Dr Erin Vermaak

Consultant Rheumatologist , University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Erin graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and moved to the UK two years later.  She gained an MSc in Rheumatology from Kings College London before completing her training in Rheumatology and General (Internal) Medicine in Bath and Bristol, and then moved to the West Midlands where she took up a consultant post at The Haywood Rheumatology Centre in Stoke-on-Trent.  Erin joined the UHB Rheumatology team in 2022 where she leads the spondyloarthritis service.  Her main clinical interests are the spondyloarthritides and related conditions, and psoriatic arthritis, and she has also has a keen interest in Lifestyle Medicine (IBLM/BSLM certified), in particular its applications within Rheumatology and chronic disease management.

Dr Mathena Vinayaga-Pavan

Consultant Gastroenterologist , Barts Health NHS Trust

Dr Mathena Vinayaga-Pavan is a consultant gastroenterologist and acute physician at Newham general hospital part of Barts health NHS trust.  Her interests include inflammatory bowel disease where she completed research at University College London and is now a local lead for nutrition at Newham hospital. She has an interest in medical education completing publications for medical teacher and helping to edit the most recent edition of the Oxford handbook of gastroenterology and Hepatology. 

Dr Harry Wakefield

Consultant Renal Physician, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Harry Wakefield is a consultant nephrologist and physician working at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. He graduated from Nottingham University and completed his nephrology specialist training in the Oxford rotation. Areas of interest include renal/pancreas transplant medicine and interventional nephrology. He has led on bringing care closer to home for patients with renal disease, including early repatriation of post-transplant patients from transplant centres and expanding the Berkshire home haemodialysis programme.