SOA23 Congress

Steve Mathieu

ICS President and Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Steve Mathieu is the President of the Intensive Care Society.

He is a Consultant in Critical Care at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and the Divisional Director for Clinical Delivery (Critical Care, Anaesthetics, Theatres, Radiology, Pharmacy, Therapies, Blood Sciences and Pathology). He was previously the Clinical Director of Critical Care when the ICU was rated outstanding in all domains by the CQC.

His previous roles for the Society include Congress Director for State of the Art (SOA), Honorary Treasurer and Council Member.

He has interests in patient and staff experience, workforce and operational strategy as well as medical education and information technology. He is a co-founder and senior editor for The Bottom Line and set up and maintains the Portsmouth ICU website.

Twitter: @stevemathieu75

: @stevemathieu75

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Sandy Mather

Chief Executive, Intensive Care Society

Sandy began her career as a radiographer, which led to her undertaking a PhD in Child Health. Making the decision to move away from a clinical setting, Sandy gained a wealth of experience operating at a senior management level, leading strategy and change programmes for non profit organisations and membership bodies particularly those involved in professional education, training, standards, research and international development.  Sandy joined the Society in 2017.

: www.ics.ac.uk
: @sanmather

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Parjam Zolfaghari

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

No bio provided

: @PJZolfaghari

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Matt Morgan

Consultant Intensivist ,

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Mike Tipton

Professor of Human and Applied Physiology ,

No bio provided

: @ProfMikeTipton

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Luigi Camporota

Consultant Intensivist ,

No bio provided

: @Luigi_ICM

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Ramani Moonesinghe

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine and National Clinical Director for Critical Care (NSHE),

No bio provided

: @rmoonesinghe

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Nicki Credland

Nurse and Reader in Critical Care,

No bio provided

: @Credland_nicki

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Paul Dean

Consultant Intensivist ,

Dr Paul Dean is a Consultant in intensive care at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, and former Chair of the Society's Standards Division. He continues to be responsible for leading national work such as the Guidelines for the Provision of Intensive Care Services (GPICS), setting the standard in which every ICU in the country should operate. 

 

Paul is also Medical Lead for Lancashire and South Cumbria Critical Care Network.

: @d1975p

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Jack Parry-Jones

Consultant Intensivist ,

Consultant in adult intensive care medicine in Cardiff. He did his undergraduate training in London and then post graduate medical training in Bristol before returning to London to train in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia. Since 2003, Jack has worked as a consultant intensivist in south Wales in a variety of large and smaller units. He is a co-author for GPICS vs 1 and vs 2 chapters on Follow Up and Rehabilitation and the Welsh section of 'Life after critical illness'. He strongly believes that Rehabilitation and Follow Up are core areas of work for all critical care services as the speciality really works towards its true potential for patients.

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Sadie Diamond-Fox

Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care,

No bio provided

: @EsDeeEf

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Reena Mehta

Consultant Pharmacist,

Reena is a Consultant Pharmacist in Critical Care at King's College Hospital in London and Chair of the Intensive Care Society Pharmacy Professional Advisory Group.

She has worked in Critical Care for the past 15 years, leading and managing the Critical Care pharmacy service, providing vision and shaping its future strategy during a period of significant structural change and expansion. She has co-authored and provided specialist input locally & nationally into areas such as pharmacy critical care workforce, clinical guidelines, and advanced critical care training. Reena is a Principal Investigator on a number of NIHR CRN Portfolio studies.

Her specialist areas of interest are the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F) initiatives, transfer of care around medicines and drug use in extra-corporeal circuits, particularly in renal replacement therapy & ECMO.

Reena is the Pharmacy Lead for the South East London ICS - Critical Care/ODN and a member of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association Expert Development Practice Group. She is currently undertaking an MSc in Health Economics, Policy & Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

: @ReenaM2703

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Mervyn Singer

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

 Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at UCL.ICU consultant at UCLH since 1993. Published mainly on sepsis and multi-organ failure, infection, shock, monitoring. Developed various monitoring and support devices and has two ‘home-made’ drugs in current development. Co-chaired Sepsis-3 Definitions International Task Force. Past-Chair, International Sepsis Forum. Emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator. Written various textbooks e.g. Oxford Handbook of Critical Care. Has run Medical Emergencies Courses for >25 years. Masochistic Spurs season ticket holder. Loves being iconoclastic and gently provocative.

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David Sapsford

Consultant Pharmacist ,

David has been practicing critical care pharmacy since 2003 and now leads a team of ten pharmacists and a pharmacy technician covering the 59 adult critical care beds at Cambridge University Hospitals NHSFT. His particular interests include safe, effective use and stewardship of antimicrobials, the critical care interface of care and management of ICU delirium. He is keen to pursue a research career in ICU delirium.

David is deputy chair of the Intensive Care Society Pharmacy Professional Advisory Group and has been a member of the ICS for many years, joining originally to access professional support and development offered by the society.

David is delighted to count himself as inaugural ICS Leadership Programme alumni and is grateful for the opportunity to develop as a leader to provide better support to his team, peers, at a national level and for his own internal resilience.

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Laura Laughlin

Consultant Medical Microbiologist ,

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Andy Conway-Morris

Consultant Intensivist ,

No bio provided

: @andymoz78

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Alastair Proudfoot

Consultant Intensivist ,

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Segun Olusanya

Consultant Intensivist,

Segun is quite possibly the UK’s longest serving Intensive Care trainee, and currently works at University College Hospital, London. A University of Southampton graduate, he has spent his many years as a registrar in the Thames Valley and London regions. His clinical interests are social media, medical education, point of care ultrasound, and wellbeing in medicine. He’s been privileged to explore these interests by being part of the UK Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care Committee, an associate editor of the Journal of the Intensive Care Society, an ICS Digital Committee member, an editor for the POCUS Journal, a founding member of the Tea and Empathy Facebook group, and a co-opted member of the Editorial and Publishing committee for the ESICM.  His single great achievement is being able to run a wedding cake business with his wife.

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Ajay Jain

Consultant in Interventional Cardiology,

Dr Ajay Jain graduated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School, and completed training in cardiology and interventional cardiology in the North East Thames sector. Ajay is now a Consultant in Interventional Cardiology at Barts Heart Centre.

Dr Jain is the clinical lead for the nationally renowned Barts  Heart Attack Centre, which is among one of the busiest and most effective centres of its type in the UK. His clinical interests include acute coronary syndromes and their role in cardiogenic shock and  cardiac arrest.

Dr Jain is actively involved in education, and acts as faculty on many national and international meetings. He sits on  the Guidelines and Standards Committee for the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society.

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Sern Lim

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Louise Hartley

Consultant in General and Cardiac Intensive Care,

Louise is a consultant in general and cardiac intensive care in Edinburgh. She trained in critical care medicine in Glasgow and London prior to taking up her consultant post in 2020.

She has a passion for cardiogenic shock and ECMO. She is the lead for ECMO at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh and is running the Epidemiology and Outcomes of Cardiogenic Shock in Scotland (EPOCHS) study.

 

When not thinking about cardiogenic shock she can be found trail running or skiing in the mountains.

 

: @hartos84

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Mohammed Rashid Akhtar

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Ganesh Suntharalingam

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

No bio provided

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Emma Jackson

Consultant Intensivist ,

Dr Emma Jackson is an intensive care trainee in the northwest currently undertaking a fellowship in Cardiac Intensive care and ECMO. Along with her cardiac interests she has a keen interest in the humansiation, follow up and long term rehabilitation for intensive care patients. She currently chairs the Trainee advisory group for the Intensive Care Society as well as sitting on their Standards and Guidelines committee, where she has led on the development of several guidelines./p>

: @dremmaj_icu

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Emma Stockton

Consultant Anaesthetist,

No bio provided

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Rosica Pachilova

No bio provided

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Sandy Mather

Chief Executive, Intensive Care Society

Sandy began her career as a radiographer, which led to her undertaking a PhD in Child Health. Making the decision to move away from a clinical setting, Sandy gained a wealth of experience operating at a senior management level, leading strategy and change programmes for non profit organisations and membership bodies particularly those involved in professional education, training, standards, research and international development.  Sandy joined the Society in 2017.

: www.ics.ac.uk
: @sanmather

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Danielle Bear

Dietitian in Critical Care,

Danielle obtained her Nutrition and Dietetics degree at the University of Wollongong and after working for a short time in Sydney, she moved to London and has been the Principal Critical Care Dietitian at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) for the past 11 years. Danielle has recently completed a Health Education England / National Institute for Health Research (HEE/NIHR) Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship where she explored the measurement and prevention of skeletal muscle wasting during critical illness and the effect on recovery. On the back of this, she was awarded the prestigious British Dietetic Association Rose Simmonds Award for the best research publication of 2019. Danielle has been instrumental in guiding critical care dietetic services during the COVID-19 pandemic, being awarded British Dietetic Association Roll of Honour in 2020 and 2021 for her work.

: @danni_dietitian

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Rebekah Haylett

Physiotherapist in Critical Care,

Becky is a Physiotherapist working in Oxford and is the Chair of the ICS Physiotherapy Professional Advisory Group.  Since qualifying in 2006 she has remained committed to the speciality of intensive care, and to the recovery of critically ill patients across their entire pathway.  Throughout her career she has developed interests in multiprofessional education, service development, and advanced practice, and is currently undergoing accreditation as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner.  Becky has continued to make contributions to a range of educational sessions for multiprofessional groups, at undergraduate and multiple stages of postgraduate training. She is keen to ensure that all professional groups have opportunities to advance knowledge and skills in all domains of clinical practice, and actively promotes the sharing and exchange of knowledge and practice, critical analysis and development.  Quality improvement remain a key focus of her work, and she is dedicated to projects stemming from clinical practice.

: @Becky_HPhysio

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Julie Highfield

Consultant Clinical Psychologist ,

Dr Julie Highfield is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Lead for Organisational Health in Adult and Paediatric Critical Care, Cardiff. She is the National Project Director for Wellbeing in the Intensive Care Society. She has a long experience of working as a psychologist in medical and health care settings and works closely with staff in their experience of working in healthcare, as well as advising managers on matters of workforce wellbeing. Julie has worked with the British Psychological Society and its Division of Clinical Psychology in Wales. She led the BPS team writing the National Guidance for Staff in the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Julie works with the Welsh Assembly Government in various projects, including as the lead for Critical Care Workforce Task and Finish Group, and Modelling for Rehabilitation for patients post COVID-19, and the Wellbeing Conversation Tool. She has a number of publications and book chapters in the field of critical care, staff wellbeing, and leadership.

 

: @DrJulie_H

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Wes Ely

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Tony Whitehouse

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

Tony is a critical care consultant based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

He qualified from University College London in 1992 and after initial training in the North London Region, completed his MD with Prof Mervyn Singer. He dual-accredited in anaesthesia and intensive care in 2004 and was appointed to Birmingham shortly afterwards.

Since then he has built clinical research in the largest Intensive Care in the UK. He is principal investigator for a number of studies on the NIHR portfolio. He is regional co-lead for Critical Care at the Midland CRN and Chief Investigator for the NIHR-funded STRESS-L study. He is also investigating the use of large datasets for outcomes in critical care and a study of the microbiome in critically ill patients. He collaborates with the Microbiology Department in the University of Birmingham (UoB) studying Bacteriophage, MDR E coli and MicroRNA dynamics in the gut microbiome and also the Department of Clinical Bioinformatics (also UoB) investigating the management of patients undergoing Oesophagectomy and having treatment with Albumin.

He is working with members of the Turing Institute to analyse treatments used during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Andrew Breen

Consultant Intensivist ,

Andy is a consultant in ICM working in Leeds Teaching Hospitals, having been appointed in 2005. He is Clinical Director for Adult Critical Care in Leeds, and an elected Intensive Care Society Council member.  He graduated in Liverpool in 1995, where he completed his clinical training in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine.

Andy has strong interest in point-of-care ultrasound, having been a founding member of the FICE committee, current member of the FUSIC committee and co-author of a number of POCUS accreditation programmes. Other interests include ethical decision making and advance care planning, the science of quality improvement and IV fluids education.

: @ICUbreeno

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Mansoor Bangash

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Mansoor was born and raised in a medical family in Birmingham and his undergraduate degree in Medicine came from the University of Birmingham in 2001 too. He went on to specialise in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology, completing studies in 2015 and gaining a PhD in Intensive Care Medicine from William Harvey Research Institute, London, en route. After spending time training in liver ICUs in both Kings College and Royal Free Hospital, his specialist interests came to lie in ALF, ACLF, mechanisms of acute organ dysfunction, and mechanisms of acute to chronic disease transition. Mansoor has returned to Birmingham as a consultant and now pursues these research interests in the largest solid organ transplant centre and ICU in Europe.

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Tasneem Prani

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Aoife Abbey

Consultant Intensivist,

No bio provided

: @whistlingdixie4

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Jen Warren

Consultant Intensivist ,

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Emma Jackson

Consultant Intensivist ,

Dr Emma Jackson is an intensive care trainee in the northwest currently undertaking a fellowship in Cardiac Intensive care and ECMO. Along with her cardiac interests she has a keen interest in the humansiation, follow up and long term rehabilitation for intensive care patients. She currently chairs the Trainee advisory group for the Intensive Care Society as well as sitting on their Standards and Guidelines committee, where she has led on the development of several guidelines./p>

: @dremmaj_icu

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Fran Tait

Senior Trainee in Critical Care,

No bio provided

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Lennie Derde

Consultant Intensivist ,

No bio provided

: @Lennie333

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Danny McAuley

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

No bio provided

: @dfmcauley

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Manu Shankar Hari

ICS Director of Research and Consultant Physician in Intensive Care ,

No bio provided

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Kiran Reddy

Senior Trainee in Critical Care,

No bio provided

: @kiranreddy_icu

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Bronwen Connolly

Acute Respiratory and Rehabilitation Physiotherapist,

No bio provided

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Elaine Cole

Director of Research and Innovation for the London Major Trauma System,

No bio provided

: @traumaEMC

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Karim Brohi

Consultant Vascular and Trauma Surgeon,

No bio provided

: @karimbrohi

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Ceri Battle

Consultant Respiratory Physiotherapist ,

Ceri is a Consultant Respiratory Physiotherapist in Morriston Hospital, Swansea and an Honorary Professor in Emergency Care at Swansea University Medical School. She is co-speciality lead for Trauma and Emergency Care Research in Wales, and the AHP representative on the NIHR Incubator for Emergency Care Research. Ceri co-leads the Council for AHP Research in Wales. Her research work is focussed on the management of blunt chest wall trauma and she is the chief investigator of the Health and Care Research Wales funded STUMBL and ELECT trials. She is currently completing a Health Research Fellowship, developing co-produced guidance for patients with blunt chest wall trauma discharged home directly from the Emergency Department.

: @ceribattle

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Ross Davenport

Consultant Trauma and Vascular Surgeon,

No bio provided

: @rossdavenport

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Tobias Gauss

Consultant Intensivist, Anaesthetist and Emergency Medicine,

No bio provided

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Steve Mathieu

ICS President and Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Steve Mathieu is the President of the Intensive Care Society.

He is a Consultant in Critical Care at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and the Divisional Director for Clinical Delivery (Critical Care, Anaesthetics, Theatres, Radiology, Pharmacy, Therapies, Blood Sciences and Pathology). He was previously the Clinical Director of Critical Care when the ICU was rated outstanding in all domains by the CQC.

His previous roles for the Society include Congress Director for State of the Art (SOA), Honorary Treasurer and Council Member.

He has interests in patient and staff experience, workforce and operational strategy as well as medical education and information technology. He is a co-founder and senior editor for The Bottom Line and set up and maintains the Portsmouth ICU website.

Twitter: @stevemathieu75

: @stevemathieu75

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Peter Brindley

Consultant Intensivist ,

No bio provided

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Julie Highfield

Consultant Clinical Psychologist ,

Dr Julie Highfield is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Lead for Organisational Health in Adult and Paediatric Critical Care, Cardiff. She is the National Project Director for Wellbeing in the Intensive Care Society. She has a long experience of working as a psychologist in medical and health care settings and works closely with staff in their experience of working in healthcare, as well as advising managers on matters of workforce wellbeing. Julie has worked with the British Psychological Society and its Division of Clinical Psychology in Wales. She led the BPS team writing the National Guidance for Staff in the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Julie works with the Welsh Assembly Government in various projects, including as the lead for Critical Care Workforce Task and Finish Group, and Modelling for Rehabilitation for patients post COVID-19, and the Wellbeing Conversation Tool. She has a number of publications and book chapters in the field of critical care, staff wellbeing, and leadership.

 

: @DrJulie_H

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Fiona Kelly

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Dr Fiona Kelly, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bath

Fiona Kelly has been a consultant in Bath for 13 years. She has an interest in recovery from potentially traumatic events and has been working with Julie Highfield and her team to develop the TIM tool for the last 3 years. She is lead ICU consultant in Bath for staff wellbeing and is a member of the Association of Anaesthetists’ wellbeing working party.

 

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Sara Catrin Cook

No bio provided

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Mansoor Bangash

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Mansoor was born and raised in a medical family in Birmingham and his undergraduate degree in Medicine came from the University of Birmingham in 2001 too. He went on to specialise in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology, completing studies in 2015 and gaining a PhD in Intensive Care Medicine from William Harvey Research Institute, London, en route. After spending time training in liver ICUs in both Kings College and Royal Free Hospital, his specialist interests came to lie in ALF, ACLF, mechanisms of acute organ dysfunction, and mechanisms of acute to chronic disease transition. Mansoor has returned to Birmingham as a consultant and now pursues these research interests in the largest solid organ transplant centre and ICU in Europe.

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Rupert Pearse

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

No bio provided

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Sara Shaw

Professor of Health Policy & Practice ,

No bio provided

: @SaraShawX2

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Sarah Hare

Consultant Anaesthetist,

No bio provided

: @sarah_hare

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Angus McNair

Clinical Scientist,

NIHR Clinician Scientist and Consultant Senior Lecturer in Colorectal Surgery. Angus is an expert in shared decision making and informed consent for surgery working within the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre Surgical Innovation and Orthopaedic theme. He pioneered methods to develop patient-centred minimum information standards (core information sets) for surgical procedures. He leads the NIHR ALPACA study (bit.ly/3Y6kSHT) that will develop and evaluate a decision support intervention that integrates real-time monitoring of shared decision making into clinical care.

: @AngusGKMcNair

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Caroline Sampson

Consultant Intensivist, Anaesthetist and Adult ECMO,

No bio provided

: @caz_sampson

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Brij Patel

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

No bio provided

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Luke Flower

Trainee in Critical Care and Anaesthetics,

Dr Luke Flower is an Anaesthetic Trainee and an Honorary Clinical Research Fellow in Critical Care Medicine at Queen Mary University of London. He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Intensive Care Society, Secretary of the Trainee Research in Intensive Care Network, and an Elected Member of the Association of Anaesthetists Trainee Committee. His research interests include critical illness associated immune dysfunction, point-of-care ultrasound, and LGBTQ+ healthcare. He is an enthusiastic ultrasound educator and is the lead Editor of the textbook ‘Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Critical Care’. He is also passionate about improving LGBTQ+ healthcare and over the past three years has worked alongside the Intensive Care Society and the Association of Anaesthetists to better the experiences of LGBTQ+ staff and patients in the UK. During this time, he has developed an education series for critical care clinicians, published several articles on the subject and was awarded a GLADD Research Funding Award and the Intensive Care Society’s ICU People Champion Award for his work.

: @LukeFlower1

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Marcus Peck

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Marcus Peck is a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at Frimley Park Hospital (Surrey, UK), chair of the Intensive Care Society (ICS)’s Focused Ultrasound for Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee, and author of the OUP textbook 'Focused Intensive Care Ultrasound'. He is a passionate ultrasound trainer and teaches widely. Marcus sits on several national committees, including the ICS Council and British Society of Echocardiography’s Professional Standards Committee, delivering UK ultrasound training and quality assurance. He relishes breaking down organisational barriers, and dreams of the day when bedside ultrasound is normal practise for all frontline clinicians.

: @ICUltrasonica

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Ashley Miller

Consultant Intensivist ,

Ashley Miller is an Intensivist at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals. His specialist area of interest is Intensive Care ultrasonography. The 1st person to become BSE accredited in Critical Care Echocardiography, he is a BSE committee member and examiner. He has co-authored guidelines for the BSE on assessing fluid responsiveness with echocardiography. He is an elected ICS council member and co-chair of the Focussed Ultrasound in Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee where he has helped introduce a modular curriculum and accreditation pathway for Intensive Care ultrasonography. He is a speaker on ultrasound at international conferences and teaches on ultrasound courses around the country. He is a published author on ultrasound and is co-editing a forthcoming textbook on critical care ultrasound.

: @icmteaching

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Nazir Lone

ICS Director of Research and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Critical Care ,

Nazir Lone is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Critical Care and Honorary Consultant in Critical Care at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

My programme of research focuses on health services research and health care quality improvement for acutely ill patients. My research aims to directly improve the quality of care for patients before, during and after an episode of critical illness through rigorously conducted research and engagement with key stakeholders. I have a particular research interest in epidemiological methods and using linked 'big' data.

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Louise Rose

Professor of Critical Care Nursing

Professor Louise Rose, RN, PhD is a Professor of Critical Care Nursing at King’s College London, UK and an honorary Professor in Critical Care and the Lane Fox Respiratory Unit at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Prior to joining King’s she was an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. Her research program focuses on improving outcomes and the healthcare experience of mechanically ventilated patients across the care continuum from the emergency department, intensive care unit, specialised weaning centre and in the home. She also has extensive clinical experience in critical care in four countries. Since commencing her research career she has been awarded 90 peer reviewed research grants and has over 180 peer reviewed publications.

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Manu Shankar Hari

ICS Director of Research and Consultant Physician in Intensive Care ,

No bio provided

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Jonathan Coles

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

No bio provided

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David Menon

Professor and Lead in Perioperative, Acute, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine,

No bio provided

: @Menon_Cambridge

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Raimund Helbok

Consultant Neurologist ,

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Lara Prisco

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

This house believes that haemodynamic augmentation is beneficial in the management of delayed neurological deficit following aSAH.

Bio: I graduated in Medicine in 2007 and completed my training in Anaesthetics, Intensive Care, and Hyperbaric Medicine in 2012 at the University of Trieste (Italy) starting my research activities exploring traumatic brain injury outcome predictors and neurophysiology biomarkers of recovery of consciousness, after a Research Fellowship spent at the Coma Science Group in Liège (Belgium, 2010).

In 2012, I moved to the UK and completed several Intermediate and Senior Clinical fellowships in London and Cambridge (General Intensive Care Unit, UCLH; Echocardiography in Cardiac Critical Care, SGH; Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, NHNN UCLH; Neurosciences Critical Care Unit, CUH). 

While in Cambridge, I covered a Clinical Lecturer position at the University Department of Anaesthesia at the University of Cambridge and collaborated in large multi-centre studies in NeuroCritical Care.

I also participated in several others highly competitive graduate programs related to Space Medicine (European Astronaut Centre, European Space Agency), Brain Plasticity (Neuroscience Department, Utrecht University), and International Bioethics (Harvard Medical School, Harvard University). In 2013 I completed a MSc in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine at the Catholic University in Rome (Italy), and in 2023 I will complete both a MSc in Clinical Trials at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Master in Public Health (MPH) at the University of Glasgow.

I was founder and Chair Elect of the NEXT Committee of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) from 2013 to 2016 and the past Deputy Chairperson of the Neurointensive Care Section and former Research Committee member of ESICM, and co-chaired, until 2018, the Task Force on Diversity and Equality of ESICM and has supported the establishment of its 3 working group focussing on gender, social, and multidisciplinary issues in Intensive Care Medicine.

Since May 2016, I work as Consultant in Neuroanaesthesia and Neurocritical Care at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and have taken up the role of Research Lead in Neurocritical Care.

I hold a part-time Senior Clinical Research Fellowship at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the University of Oxford, where I am undertaking my DPhil exploring electroencephalographic biomarkers of acute and prolonged alterations of consciousness after TBI. I am particularly interested in the clinical and research development of a Continuous ElectroEncephaloGraphy in Critical Care (CCEEG) service in Oxford.

In 2019, I was elected Council Member of the NeuroAnaesthesia and Critical Care Society (NACCS UK).

URL: https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/lara-prisco

ORCiD:  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6727-7870

: @priscolara

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Ronan O'Leary

Consultant Intensivist ,

Dr Ronan O’Leary is Specialty Lead for Neurosciences and Trauma Intensive Care Medicine at Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK and is a member of the NHS clinical reference group for adult critical care.

He has been a consultant intensivist at Cambridge University Hospitals since 2013 and graduated from the University of Leeds School of Medicine in 2004 following a PhD in 1998 and a BSc in biochemistry and molecular biology. His clinical training was in West Yorkshire, West Midlands and Melbourne, Australia. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and a member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics.

He has a major interest in developing mechanisms to improve clinicians’ understanding, exploitation, and interoperability of electronic patient data and has developed the University of Cambridge Healthcare Data Programme.

: @NCCU Cambridge

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Nick Watts

NHS Chief Sustainability Officer,

No bio provided

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Eleanor Damm

Senior Trainee in Critical Care,

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Dominique Allwood

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Mahmood Bhutta

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James Dixon

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Mirander Hadfield

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Sadie Diamond-Fox

Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care,

No bio provided

: @EsDeeEf

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Hannah Conway

Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care,

Hannah is an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner and A/Professor in Advanced Clinical Practice, University of Nottingham UK.
Hannah specialises in Critical Care Echocardiography and Ultrasound and sits on the committee for Focussed Ultrasound in Intensive Care (FUSIC), taking a lead role in FUSIC Heart. Hannah is an approved supervisor and examiner for multiple accredited ultrasound programmes, including BSE and has over a decade of experience in ultrasound education.
Hannah is a keen clinical researcher and is currently conducting a study into the use of telemedicine to aid echocardiography mentoring on intensive care. Another research interest is characterisation of right ventricular (RV) injury. Hannah is co-chair for PRORVnet, an international RV centric research network and is proud to be an RV defender!
 @cardiacACCP
 

: @cardiacACCP

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Dan Harvey

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

Dr Dan Harvey is a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals and University of Nottingham. He is Chair of the UK Intensive Care Societies Legal & Ethical Advisory Group, and an author of multiple ICS & FICM guidance documents. Dan has an active research interest with roles including National Lead for Innovation & Research in Organ Donation for NHS Blood and Transplant, Vice Chair of the NIHR’s National Critical Care Group, and is joint Chief Investigator for the SIGNET study, the world’s largest interventional study in organ donation.

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Rob Tobin

Partner at Kennedys Law,

Rob leads Kennedys’ healthcare team in Cambridge. He advises NHS Trusts on healthcare law, medical negligence litigation, end of life decisions, judicial reviews, consent and capacity to treatment, inquests and mental health and capacity law. Working with NHS Resolution he manages a team of lawyers working on clinical negligence claims of the utmost severity, including cerebral palsy, neurological injuries, neonatal deaths and psychiatric injuries. He has a specialist practice in medical treatment cases involving declarations to treat and withdrawal of treatment and lectures on these topics. He is legal advisor to the Intensive Care Society’s LEAG and to Thrive LDN, a mental health taskforce.  He sits on the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust clinical ethics advisory group. During the pandemic, Rob actively advised the ICS and the National Executive Critical Care Committee. Rob’s recent high profile cases include: AH v Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2021) – obtaining a declaration to withdraw ventilation from a 56 year old, described as “the most complex COVID patient in the world” and Tafida Raqeeb v Barts Health NHS Trust and others (2019) – complex Judicial Review and treatment case concerning withdrawal of life sustaining treatment for 5 year old Muslim child.

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Dale Gardiner

Consultant Intensivist and NHSBT,

No bio provided

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Sarah Wallace

Consultant Speech and Language Therapist,

No bio provided

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Ben Messer

Consultant Intensivist ,

No bio provided

: @drbenmesser

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Eileen Kelly

Speech and Language Therapist,

No bio provided

: @EileenKellySLT

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Gemma Jones

Speech and Language Therapist,

No bio provided

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Dan Martin

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Royal Free Hospital

Senior Lecturer, UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science

Member of Caudwell Xtreme Everest expedition 2007

Director of the UCL Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine

: @deoxyexplorer

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Luke Flower

Trainee in Critical Care and Anaesthetics,

Dr Luke Flower is an Anaesthetic Trainee and an Honorary Clinical Research Fellow in Critical Care Medicine at Queen Mary University of London. He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Intensive Care Society, Secretary of the Trainee Research in Intensive Care Network, and an Elected Member of the Association of Anaesthetists Trainee Committee. His research interests include critical illness associated immune dysfunction, point-of-care ultrasound, and LGBTQ+ healthcare. He is an enthusiastic ultrasound educator and is the lead Editor of the textbook ‘Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Critical Care’. He is also passionate about improving LGBTQ+ healthcare and over the past three years has worked alongside the Intensive Care Society and the Association of Anaesthetists to better the experiences of LGBTQ+ staff and patients in the UK. During this time, he has developed an education series for critical care clinicians, published several articles on the subject and was awarded a GLADD Research Funding Award and the Intensive Care Society’s ICU People Champion Award for his work.

: @LukeFlower1

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Brigitta Fazzini

Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care,

Brigitta is an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner in the Adult Critical Care Unit at the Royal London Hospital. Essentially a clinician passionate in intensive care medicine, ultrasound enthusiast and young researcher within an international network. 
She is also the Deputy chair of the ICS Professional Advisory Group for Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care and part of the chair team of the Advanced Clinical Practitioners Academic Network (ACPAN) in UK. 

She graduated in Italy with a BSc (Hons), and she moved to London in 2014 to start her critical care training. During these years she has developed and consolidated 10 years of experience in intensive care and critical care outreach alongside a solid academic pathway including the Critical Care MSc and the Advanced Clinical Practice MSc. Additionally, interested in humanitarian healthcare and global health, she holds the Professional Diploma in Tropical Nursing. She is an ultrasound enthusiast and, holding FUSIC (heart and lung) accreditation, she teaches and mentors doctors, nurses and physiotherapists undertaking their ultrasound accreditation. Passionate about improving care for critically ill patients, she is involved in clinical research focused on acute respiratory failure and translational medicine. 

Her highest hope is to proactively shape the future of intensive care speciality with an inclusive multidisciplinary approach promoting effective quality changes, education and research. 

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Kay Mitchell

No bio provided

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Ed Palmer

No bio provided

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Sandy Mather

Chief Executive, Intensive Care Society

Sandy began her career as a radiographer, which led to her undertaking a PhD in Child Health. Making the decision to move away from a clinical setting, Sandy gained a wealth of experience operating at a senior management level, leading strategy and change programmes for non profit organisations and membership bodies particularly those involved in professional education, training, standards, research and international development.  Sandy joined the Society in 2017.

: www.ics.ac.uk
: @sanmather

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Parjam Zolfaghari

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

No bio provided

: @PJZolfaghari

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Steve Mathieu

ICS President and Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Steve Mathieu is the President of the Intensive Care Society.

He is a Consultant in Critical Care at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and the Divisional Director for Clinical Delivery (Critical Care, Anaesthetics, Theatres, Radiology, Pharmacy, Therapies, Blood Sciences and Pathology). He was previously the Clinical Director of Critical Care when the ICU was rated outstanding in all domains by the CQC.

His previous roles for the Society include Congress Director for State of the Art (SOA), Honorary Treasurer and Council Member.

He has interests in patient and staff experience, workforce and operational strategy as well as medical education and information technology. He is a co-founder and senior editor for The Bottom Line and set up and maintains the Portsmouth ICU website.

Twitter: @stevemathieu75

: @stevemathieu75

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Zudin Puthucheary

Consultant Intensivist ,

Dr Zudin Puthucheary is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Care at the William Harvey Research Institute within Barts and the London Medical School, and an Honorary Consultant in Intensive Care at the Royal London Hospital.

He graduated from Nottingham University in 1997, and moved to London post MRCP in 2000. Following a 3-year stint in Sydney, he started his Respiratory training in Bristol, before completing his critical care training in London.

His research interests are in muscle wasting, critical care nutrition and functional outcome research, which began when he was a National Institute for Health Research Fellow in Respiratory and Critical Care at University College London. Zudin was a Respiratory and Intensive Care Consultant at National University Hospital Singapore from 2013-2015, and he continues to collaborate actively in Singapore.

His work on acute muscle wasting has won awards from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, European Society of Anesthesia, the British Thoracic Society, The Intensive Care Society, The American Society of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrtition and Zudin was named a Global Rising Star by the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society.

: @Zudin_P

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Jack Parry-Jones

Consultant Intensivist ,

Consultant in adult intensive care medicine in Cardiff. He did his undergraduate training in London and then post graduate medical training in Bristol before returning to London to train in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia. Since 2003, Jack has worked as a consultant intensivist in south Wales in a variety of large and smaller units. He is a co-author for GPICS vs 1 and vs 2 chapters on Follow Up and Rehabilitation and the Welsh section of 'Life after critical illness'. He strongly believes that Rehabilitation and Follow Up are core areas of work for all critical care services as the speciality really works towards its true potential for patients.

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Lee-Anne Chapple

Senior Dietitian in Critical Care,

Associate Professor Lee-anne Chapple is the Senior Critical Care Dietitian at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and a Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide in Adelaide, Australia. She leads the intensive care nutrition research program at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, conducting research that focuses on nutrition physiology during critical illness and early recovery. In particular, A/Prof Chapple has an interest in understanding protein metabolism to prevent muscle wasting and improve recovery for critically ill patients.

: @LSChapple

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David McWilliams

Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Physiotherapist,

Dr David McWilliams is an Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Physiotherapist at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and Coventry University's Centre for Care Excellence. He is the Chair of the physiotherapy working group for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and Deputy Chair for the Intensive Care Society National Rehabilitation Collaborative. David was a member of the guideline development group for the NICE guideline ‘Critical Illness rehabilitation’ and subsequent quality standard on the same topic. His research interests are focussed on rehabilitation and recovery following a period of critical illness, with over 30 peer reviewed publications and 4 book chapters in critical care and physiotherapy related text books. David is recognised as an international expert on critical care physiotherapy and rehabilitation, regularly presenting both nationally and internationally on the subject.

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Kate Tantam

Specialist Intensive Care Sister,

Kate Tantam RN BSc(Hons)  MRes PGCE BEM 

Specialist Sister ICU
Rehabilitation Team 
Critical Care

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust 

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Kenneth Baillie

Consultant ,

Kenny Baillie graduated from the University of Edinburgh, BSc(Hons) in Physiology in 1999 and MBChB in 2002. After junior house officer jobs in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, he trained in hospital medicine at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, before being appointed to a training scheme in anaesthesia and critical care medicine in South East Scotland. During this time he led a series of high altitude research projects, involving several expeditions to Bolivia, and ran a charity, Apex (altitude physiology expeditions). He was appointed as a clinical lecturer on the ECAT (Edinburgh Clinical Academic Track) at the University of Edinburgh in 2008.

Kenny’s research interest is the genetics of host susceptibility to severe infection. He led the GenISIS (Genetics of Influenza Susceptibility in Scotland) study and the host genetics component of the MOSAIC (Mechanisms of Severe Influenza Consortium) study. In his role as working group chair for genomics, pathogenesis and pharmacology for the International Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Consortium (ISARIC), he led the development of an integrated biological sampling protocol for use in outbreaks, which is supported by the World Health Organization and has been adopted in many countries throughout the world.

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