SOA23 Congress

Aoife Abbey

Consultant Intensivist,

No bio provided

: @whistlingdixie4

Dominique Allwood

Dr Dominique Allwood is Chief Medical Officer at UCLPartners, a large health innovation partnership across North London and Essex covering a population of 5 million people, 17 hospitals and 5 universities. She provides leadership and expertise on a range of areas including improving equity and population health, anchor institutions, environmental sustainability, clinical engagement, and quality improvement. Dominique is also currently Director of Population Health, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

A Consultant in Public Health Medicine by background, she is a medical leader with 20 years of experience in healthcare including NHS provider and commissioner organisations, management consultancy and think tanks.

She is frequently invited to speak at national and international conference and has published over 35 papers on improving healthcare. She holds an MPH, is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, an Associate Editor for BMJ Leader Journal and on the Board of The Patient Revolution. She is currently completing an MBA at Henley Business School.

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.

Ceri Battle

Consultant Respiratory Physiotherapist ,

: @ceribattle

Danni Bear

Dietitian in Critical Care and ICS AHP Professional Advisory Group, Chair,

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

Mike Berry

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, Kings College London

Michael is a consultant in intensive care medicine, anaesthesia and ECMO at King’s College Hospital. His interest is in patient selection for ECMO and predictive modelling, with specialist interests in eCPR, cardiogenic shock and severe respiratory failure. He is also clinical lead for organ donation.

Mahmood Bhutta

Consultant ENT Surgeon, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals

Professor Mahmood Bhutta is a consultant ENT surgeon with over 20 years of experience, based at The Montefiore Hospital, Hove and BMI Goring Hall Hospital, Worthing. He specialises in hearing loss, ear discharge, tinnitus. dizziness, hearing implants and cholesteatoma. He is an expert in treating conditions like glue ear, holes in the eardrum, and earwax buildup, as well as otology (disease of the ear), which he studied in order to gain his Doctor of Philosophy qualification from the University of Oxford. Professor Bhutta is a consultant to the World Health Organisation on the prevention of deafness and hearing loss.

In 2006 Mahmood founded the Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group (hosted at the British Medical Association) in response to labour rights abuses in the manufacture of medical products, including surgical instruments, gloves and textiles.  He works with the NHS, and international procurement organisations and NGOs, to foster better working conditions in healthcare supply chains

Areas of research: Environmental sustainability in healthcare systems; labour rights in healthcare supply chains; ear and hearing care.

Area of expertise: Sustainable healthcare, health systems, ear and hearing disorders

NHS Blood and Transplant

: https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/
: @NHSBT

Mark Borthwick

Consultant Pharmacist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Mark is a Consultant Pharmacist in critical care, working in the area for over twenty years.  He has varied interests that include practice aspects such as standardisation of medicines concentrations, administration compatibility charts, and pharmacy workforce deployment.  Interests in therapeutic areas include stress ulcer prophylaxis, mucoactive agents, renal replacement therapy, and use of steroids.  However, his first concern was in the management of delirium.  Early in his career he witnessed first-hand a mosaic of different approaches applied to delirious patients with little commonality in approach, and so drew together a group of pharmacists to produce an evidential summary and guideline for the critical care community. The guideline was hosted by and then adopted by the Intensive Care Society, and is currently undergoing a major revision

Mark is married to Claire, they have four children and a significant number of pets that amount to a small zoo

: @mark_borthwick

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

Peter Brindley

Consultant Intensivist ,

Full-time Critical Care Doc who suspects nobody reads bios. Just in case, he is also a Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Medical Ethics in Alberta, Canada. Writes a bunch, talks too much, and loves the ICS. Come say “hi” right away: it’s how great collaborations and friendships start.

Karim Brohi

Consultant Vascular and Trauma Surgeon,

: @karimbrohi

Luigi Camporota

Consultant Intensivist ,

Luigi Camporota is consultant in critical care and Lead of the Severe Respiratory Failure and ECMO Service at St Thomas’ Hospital. He is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Intensive Care Medicine at King’s College London.

Luigi Camporota is the Chair of the Acute Respiratory Failure Section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM) and Intensive Care Medicine (ICM). His clinical and research interest is His clinical and research interest in Respiratory failure, ARDS, mechanical ventilation, respiratory monitoring, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R). He has contributed to over 200 published peer-reviewed papers and > 20 book chapters and edited a book in Intensive Care.

: @Luigi_ICM

Sara Catrin Cook

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW)

Sara by background is trained in Critical Care and Anaesthesia and has been actively involved in simulation since 2009.

Her experience is mainly focused to in-situ simulation and over the more recent years has been applying this to systems, pathways and protocol testing.

Her experiences include delivering simulation training particularly within Critical Care, supporting other units to set up their own in-situ programmes and develop the skills required, working alongside psychologists to develop debriefing skills, and presenting at various local, national and international conferences. She also has ample experience at designing, setting up and running a variety of different interprofessional simulation-based courses.

In 2016, Sara had the opportunity to undertake a formal simulation fellowship and headed to Australia for a year to work at the Sydney Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre as well as at the Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney. She had the most amazing time gaining further skills and experiences in simulation-centre based interprofessional training to complement her in-situ skills. In addition, she had the opportunity to work alongside a variety of other stakeholders including the University of Sydney and got to know numerous inspiring simulationists from across the globe. Some of her most memorable experiences was being part of the Social Media and Critical Care (SMACC) conference simulation team, delivering workshop and on-stage simulation programmes in Dublin, Berlin and Sydney.

Now settled back in Wales, Sara is thrilled at undertaking the role of Associate Dean in Simulation and Clinical Skills and heading up the fantastic HEIW simulation team. She is particularly excited at getting to know the Welsh simulation community and supporting the incredible work that is going on across the country.

: @SaraCatrinCook

Biswajit Chakrabarti

Consultant Respiratory Consultant,

Dr Chakrabarti (MD FRCP) completed his undergraduate training at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London in 1998  prior to undertaking Specialty training in  Respiratory Medicine in the Mersey region.  

This included a Research fellowship in the field of COPD and Ventilation at University Hospital Aintree followed by a period as a Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine where he completed an MD in the field of non-invasive ventilation for COPD. His specialist interests include Sleep Medicine and Ventilation, Pneumonia and Pleural Disease. 

In 2018 Dr Chakrabarti was named in the ‘Top 70 NHS Stars’ as part of a national poll launched by the NHS, to honour individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to patient care, services and local communities over the last 70 years. 

Cathy Challifour

Senior Trainee in Critical Care,

Cathy Challifour is an ST7 in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia in the Severn Deanery.  A latecomer to medicine, she is now happily taking the scenic route as a LTFT trainee and her interests lie in education and maternal critical care.  She is the Founding Director of the Severn and Peninsula Practice Intensive Care Exams (SPPICE) FFICM Prep Course, an elected member of the Intensive Care Society Trainee Advisory Group and sits on the FICM Education Sub-Committee.  She was the proud recipient of the Cauldron Prize at State of the Art 2022.  When not working she can be found chasing her dog and twin sons around the Bath countryside.

: @@CChallifour

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

Elaine Cole

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

Elaine Cole is the Director of Research and Innovation for the London Major Trauma System. Within this role she works with clinical and academic staff of the four major trauma networks and pre hospital providers within the London Major Trauma System to support the development of innovation, collaborative research and education across the system.

Her main research interests are investigating the predictors and phenotypes of contemporary multiple organ dysfunction (MODS) after major trauma, the impact of severe injury on older people and longer term outcome evaluation.  She is the co-programme director for the MSc Trauma Sciences at Queen Mary University of London

: @traumaEMC

Jonathan Coles

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

I completed my clinical and academic training in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine in the Eastern region and was appointed as an Academic Consultant working within the Neurosciences and Trauma Critical Care Unit (NCCU) at Cambridge University Hospitals in 2006. My PhD was in the field of neuro-imaging (MR and Positron Emission Tomography (PET)) following traumatic brain injury (TBI). I was awarded a Clinician Scientist fellowship from the Academy of Medical Sciences/Health Foundation in 2004 and have maintained a research program funded by the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council (UK), European Union, and National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia that examines mechanisms responsible for secondary neuronal injury, their temporal profile, and implications for eventual neurocognitive recovery following TBI. I have published extensively within the field of neurosciences & critical care and am a reviewer for relevant specialist medical journals and national/international grant awarding bodies. In 2022 I was appointed as Clinical Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.

Bronwen Connolly

Acute Respiratory and Rehabilitation Physiotherapist,

Hannah Conway

Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care and ICS APCC Professional Advisory Group, Chair,

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 also Chairs the Intensive Care Soceity's Advanced Practitioners in Critical Care PAG.

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

Andy Conway-Morris

Consultant Intensivist ,

: @andymoz78

Nicki Credland

Nurse and Reader in Critical Care and Chair of BACCN,

Nicki Credland is a Reader in Critical Care and Head of School at the University of Hull. She is a National Teaching Fellow and Chair of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN). Her role is to provide vision, direction, leadership and to develop strategy. This involves strategic leadership at a national level, chairing the executive board and national board. She holds positions on the National Critical Care Leadership forum, UK Critical Care Nursing Alliance and the Adult Critical Care Clinical Reference Group and is a specialist advisor in critical care nursing to NHSE. Involved in national and international research and education for critical care nursing Nicki was appointed Director for Nurse Education at the NHS Nightingale Hospital Yorkshire and the Humber during the Covid pandemic.

: @Credland_nicki

Eleanor Damm

Senior Trainee in Critical Care and ICS Sustainability Working Group, co-Chair,

Eleanor Damm is the co-chair of the Environmental Sustainability workgroup at the Intensive Care Society and an elected member to its Trainee Advisory group. She is an active member of the GREEN-ICU research collaboration based at the University of Brighton. She is a Dual Trainee in ICM and Anaesthesia in the West Midlands.  

: @EleanorDamm

Mike Dean

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Mike Dean is a consultant in anaesthetics and intensive care medicine at Northwick Park, Central Middlesex, Ealing and St Marks Hospital. He is clinical lead for organ donation, medical lead for the Advance Critical Care Practitioners team and lead for the small research team in the unit.

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

Lennie Derde

Consultant Intensivist ,

Lennie is an ICU consultant with a background in infectious diseases and epidemiology. She obtained her Ph.D. after successfully defending her thesis "Controlling antibiotic resistance in the ICU" in 2013. Her research focuses on innovative trial design, mainly in sepsis and severe infections. She is the current chair of the International Trial Steering Committee of REMAP-CAP, an Adaptive Platform Trial investigating the best treatment for pneumonia, including Covid-19. Lennie is a co-applicant and work package leader on EU-funded projects RECOVER and ECRAID-Base, and co-applicant on several international collaborative grants. 

: @Lennie333

Sadie Diamond-Fox

Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care,

: @EsDeeEf

James Dixon

Associate Director for Sustainability, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

: @ecoboyatheart

Allaina Eden

Physiotherapist,

Allaina is the Physiotherapy Service Lead at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. She trained at the University of Hertfordshire, where she returned to complete her Masters in advanced physiotherapy in 2015.  She has over 20 years’ experience as a Physiotherapist, with over 15 years in Intensive Care. 

Allaina is the Physiotherapy PAG Deputy Chair, Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care (ACPRC) Surgical Champion, ACPRC Editorial Board member, and chair of the UK ECMO Physiotherapy Network.  She presents regularly at national conferences and has led and co-authored many publications including national guidelines, scoping reviews and case series.

Clinical interests include complex rehabilitation and respiratory care following cardiothoracic surgery, transplantation, and long-term patients on Mechanical Circulatory Support.  Her areas of special interest are early rehabilitation, ECMO and physiotherapy, weaning from ventilation and lung ultrasound.  She is passionate about raising the profile of all AHPs working in Intensive Care.

Wes Ely

Critical Care Physician, Internist and Pulmonologist,

Brigitta Fazzini

Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care and ICS APCC Professional Advisory Group, Deputy Chair,

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. 

Jill Featherstone

No bio provided

Tim Felton

Consultant in Intensivist and Respiratory Medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

: @timwfelton

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

Louise Gallie

Patient Advocate,

From November 2018 through to January 2019 I was critically ill. I experienced the NHS at it’s finest and was cared for by the most fantastic team of nurses, healthcare assistants, consultants, surgeons, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dieticians, cleaners, the list is endless.

Quite simply, I owe them my life…….

In 2018, after 3 years of struggling, I was diagnosed with a rare condition called Achalasia. In simple terms, this is where the oesophagus doesn’t work properly making it difficult for food or liquid to pass from the mouth to the stomach. There is no cure for Achalasia, it’s a progressive disease and there are only palliative options.

I was offered a complex procedure called a ‘Heller Myotomy’. A cut was to be made at the lower sphincter of my oesophagus allowing solids and liquids to flow freely into the stomach. To prevent reflux, I was also to have a fundoplication or ‘wrap’ from the stomach to the oesophagus.  It was not a cure but instead offered a means of relieving the symptoms.

On 21st November 2018 I went in for surgery. The procedure went well but my oesophagus ruptured during surgery. Having gone undetected during my post-operative recovery, I suddenly took a rapid, dangerous descent downhill. All that I had drunk in the 24/36hrs following surgery, along with other fluids, had been filling my abdominal cavity. I was critically ill and my body was experiencing one of the most severe types of trauma possible. During emergency surgery my abdominal cavity was flushed with 10 litres of fluid. I had early onset sepsis, my left lung collapsed, my kidneys began to fail, I went into shock and multiple drains, tubes and lines were inserted.

I found myself on the Intensive Care Unit at University Hospitals Plymouth (Derriford), waking from a medically induced coma. Then began a very slow, painful recovery waiting for my oesophagus to heal naturally, whilst being nil by mouth for the entire time. My world along with that of my family, had been turned upside down. 84 days in hospital from ICU to the ward was without doubt, the toughest battle I’ve ever had to fight.

During my time in ICU I experienced severe deliriums: Vicious, vivid nightmares, visions and hallucinations, thought to be brought on by infection and medication.

I’ve created my blog https://fromdeliriumtoreality.com/  to support my recovery. I now have a new best friend, PTSD! I have been very fortunate to receive rehabilitation and psychological support from the ICU rehab team – without them I’m not sure where I’d be. Me and PTSD walk hand in hand through life, reminding me of what I’ve been through but also reminding me how very lucky I am.

This blog allows me to process my thoughts whilst sharing my own personal experiences of life as an ICU patient and beyond.

: www.fromdeliriumtoreality.com
: @RehabLegendLou

Dale Gardiner

Consultant Intensivist and NHSBT,

Dr Dale Gardiner is the Associate Medical Director – Deceased Organ Donation, at NHS Blood and Transplant and a Consultant in Adult Intensive Care Medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

His professional interests are medical ethics, the diagnosis of death and deceased organ donation. Dr Gardiner is immediate past chair of Nottingham’s Ethics of Clinical Practice Committee and co-chair of the deceased donation working group for ELPAT. He served for four years as a member of the UK Donation Ethics Committee until its closure in 2016. 

Dr Gardiner is a Board Member of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

Originally, he came from Australia but migrated to the UK in 2002.

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Tobias Gauss

Consultant Intensivist, Anaesthetist and Emergency Medicine,

Born and trained in Germany, specialty training Anesthesia-Critical Care-Prehospital Emergency Medicine Germany and France. Lead Consultant Trauma Critical Care and Resuscitation Beaujon University Hospital, Paris until 2021, since 2021 Consultant Grenoble University Hospital; clinical lead regional trauma network Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes; cofounder French Trauma registry Traumabase.eu. Research focus machine learning for decision support (traumatrix.fr), shock management.

Nandy Gautam

I am a general medical and intensive care physician working at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. 

My clinical and academic interests are wide ranging and include liver failure , complex weaning, chronic critical illness, and more recently, post covid care

In addition, I  have  a delightful spouse, a 3yr old cockapoo dog,  a leaky campervan- and a teenaged daughter - all of whom make me very happy.

No conflicts of interest

Mirander Hadfield

Boston Consulting Group,

• Miranda is a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group and core member of BCG’s Climate and Sustainability Practice
• She works primarily with healthcare organisations on decarbonization and broader sustainability topics, and has led the work that BCG is doing with the Sustainable Markets Initiative Health Systems Task Force
• Miranda is also a World Economic Forum climate fellow focussed on supply chain decarbonisation and has worked with several COP presidencies

Matt Hampson

Since his accident in 2005 during an England Under 21 rugby training session, Matt has battled hard to live as normal a life as possible. Paralysed from the neck down and breathing via a ventilator, Matt didn’t lament what he’d lost, but instead decided to focus on the things he could still do and get busy living. He established the Matt Hampson Foundation in 2011 to help others like him who have suffered similar catastrophic injuries through sport to receive the support they need to rebuild their lives.

Matt is heavily involved with running the Foundation’s Get Busy Living Centre which provides expert physiotherapy, specialist personal training, mentorship, advice and support to others that have suffered life-changing injuries.

Matt's book 'Engage' describes the circumstances surrounding his accident and subsequent rehabilitation. It received critical acclaim and won a sports book of the year award.

Matt was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s 2021 New Year’s Honours for his incredible achievements.

If anyone epitomises the Foundation's ethos of 'Get Busy Living' it is Matt Hampson.

Beverley Harden

Deputy Chief Allied Health Professions Officer for England,

I work as the Health Education England lead for the Allied Health Professions and Deputy Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (England). My role also leads nationally on the multi-professional advanced and consultant practitioners.  I previously worked as a National Advisor to the New Care Models Team at NHS England.  As a physiotherapist, I have worked extensively as an expert clinician in respiratory failure, non-invasive ventilation and rehabilitation and as leader of complex, cross-sector, multi-professional services. I have undertaken a variety of clinical leadership roles at local, regional and national level and am skilled in workforce transformation and organisational development. 

: @BeverleyHarden

Sarah Hare

Consultant Anaesthetist,

Sarah Hare is a Consultant Anaesthetist at The William Harvey Hospital in East Kent.  She was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Health Science Research Centre at the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2022 and is responsible for both coordinating the delivery of, and promoting engagement with, the wide-reaching research and audit programmes of the RCOA. Sarah was the National Clinical Lead for the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) from 2017 to 2021. Sarah is also a member of the National Clinical Leaders in Anaesthesia Executive Group at the RCoA.

: @sarah_hare

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

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.

Michelle Hatch

Specialty Doctor and and ICS Specialty Doctor Professional Advisory Group, Chair,

Dr Michelle Hatch

Michelle is an SAS Specialty Doctor currently working in Intensive Care Medicine in North Wales.

Michelle qualified in Medicine in Edinburgh in 1989. She took nearly 20 years out of medical practice before returning in 2014. Michelle is the SAS Tutor for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and is the current chair of the Intensive Care Society’s SAS Professional Advisory Group. She is a passionate advocate for the SAS role and for women in medicine.

Rebekah Haylett

Physiotherapist in Critical Care and and ICS Physio Professional Advisory Group, Chair,

: @Becky_HPhysio

Raimund Helbok

Professor of Neurology and a specialist in Neurocritical care ,

Raimund Helbok, MD, PD, is associate professor of Neurology and a specialist in neurocritical care at the Neurological Intensive Care Unit at Medical University of Innsbruck in Innsbruck, Austria.

Raimund completed his medical training at the Medical University of Innsbruck and obtained a master’s degree in clinical Tropical Medicine at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. After his training in General Medicine and Neurology, he conducted his research fellowship at the Division of Neurocritical Care, Department of Neurology, at Columbia University Medical Centre in New York.

Raimund’s clinical practice covers the spectrum of neurocritical care, including the management of ischemic and haemorrhagic stroke, subarachnoid haemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, status epilepticus, neuromuscular diseases, autoimmune encephalitis and neuroinfectious diseases.

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

Louise Hubner

NHSBT,

No bio provided

Ben Ivory

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist and NHSBT,

: @bennoivory

Emma Jackson

Consultant Intensivist ,

Emma Jackson is an intensivist from the NW with a longstanding interest in all aspects of humanising the ICU - all aspects from environmental & sensory through to animal-assisted therapy. She has also developed interests in follow up and long term rehabilitation for intensive care patients highlighting that there is always ‘a person behind the patient’ . She has undertaken a fellowship in ECMO and cardiac intensive care during her training.  

She previously chaired the Trainee Advisory Group for the Intensive Care Society as well as sitting on their Standards and Guidelines committee, where she led on the development of several guidelines. 

: @dremmaj_icu

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.

Avinash Jha

Consultant Intensivist ,

Avinash trained in Anaesthetics and Critical Care Medicine in India. He then moved to UK for a better work life balance.

He started working at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals as an ICU registrar and is now a Locum consultant in critical care having navigated his way through the CESR pathway.

His areas of interest include POCUS in critical care and RRT. He is also a mentor for

FUSIC heart and supports his colleagues and trainees to attain competency in FUSIC heart.

He published a review article on management of Covid-19 during the pandemic.

He is a member of Intensive Care Society’s professional advisory group for SAS doctors, as well as the Guidelines Committee.

: @Dr_AvinashJha

Michaela Jones

Critical Care Nurse and ICS Nursing Professional Advisory Group, Chair.,

Michaela is a matron in critical care at University Hospital Southampton and is the deputy chair of the nurse PAG. Michaela has worked in critical care for over three decades where much of her career has been at UCLH, Cambridge and more recently, Southampton. Michaela has always had a passion for education, training and leadership and is a member of the Critical Care Nurse Education Review Forum (CCNERF), a subgroup of Critical Care National Network Nurse Leads Forum (CC3N).

Her key areas of interest remain education, training, and leadership for clinical excellence.

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.

Shondipon Laha

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

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: @shond3

Laura Laughlin

Consultant Medical Microbiologist ,

I am a consultant medical microbiologist in Belfast Health and Social Care Trust with an interest in infection in critically ill patients.  

To date my research interests have focused on fungal infection, specifically Candida and Aspergillus and the use of diagnostic tests for these infections.  

Sern Lim

Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer ,

Dr Sern Lim is a Consultant Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences with interest in advanced heart failure, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. He is the Standards and Guidelines Committee Associate Chair of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation and a member of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) Heart Failure Task Force. Nationally, he is a member of UK Cardiogenic Shock Working Group, the Cardiothoracic Advisory Group and a Member of the Cardiology Medical Advisory Panel for the Department for Transport. 

Dr Lim has research interest in heart transplantation, pulmonary circulatory physiology and mechanical circulatory support. 

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.

Sarah Marsh

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Sarah Marsh is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and the Faculty Tutor at Harrogate District Hospital.  She is the course director for the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine’s exam preparatory course and chair of the Education Sub-Committee.  She is also the Deputy-Chair of both the Women in Intensive Care Medicine (WICM) group. 

For the Education Sub-Committee, she has overseen the production and launch of several different educational work streams including professional development events, blogs, podcasts and the Case of the Month for FICMlearning and as the previous deputy chair for e-ICM, she helped to co-create and launch the e-ICM project for Health Education England’s e-Learning for Health programme which now features over 700 sessions across 10 modules. 

Sarah is also a member of the Adult Critical Care Clinical Reference Group for NHS England and the Clinical Lead for the Critical Care Outreach Team and for Organ Donation at her trust.

: Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
: @drsarahmarsh

Dan Martin

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

Dan Martin is a professor in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at Derriford hospital and university of Plymouth. 

His research interest is focused on oxygen physiology; in particular how humans adapt to low levels of oxygen and the potential harm caused by excessive oxygen. He was involved in a series of research expeditions to high altitude with the Xtreme Everest team defining oxygen physiology near the summit of Mount Everest where they recorded the lowest oxygen levels ever reported in humans. The group is studying the key adaptive processes required to survive such low levels of oxygen through a wide range of studies at various altitudes.

He is currently the chief investigator for the NIHR funded UK-ROX trial and EXAKT study in the UK. UK-ROX trial is investigating if giving a little less oxygen than usual to critically ill patients on a mechanical ventilator will improve their survival. The aim is to recruit 16,500 patients from 100 NHS intensive care units. In the EXAKT study we will be investigating the accuracy pulse oximeters in critically ill patients with different skin tones, to answer a very important question about these essential oxygen monitoring devices. 

I am also very interested in exercise and how it can be used to improve clinical outcomes. We have used a tailored exercise intervention to train patients waiting for liver transplantation and I am the co-chief investigator of the NIHR-funded EXALT trial in which we will further evaluate the effect of exercise around the time of liver transplantation. I am also invoked with a study to explore the benefits of exercise programmes in patients awaiting bariatric surgery. 

I am the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia academic training coordinator and Royal College of Anaesthetists Bernard Johnson advisor for academic training. I am passionate about promoting academic training for both doctors in training and allied health professionals. I supervise a number of higher degree students including scientists, medical doctors and allied health professionals. 

I have been the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the Intensive Care Society for the last four years and sit on the Council of the Intensive Care Society. 

In 2015 I was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), for services to the prevention of infectious diseases. This was the result of our work at the Royal Free Hospital in London, caring for patients with Ebola virus disease. 

: @deoxyexplorer

Sandy Mather

Chief Executive, Intensive Care Society

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: @sanmather

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

Danny McAuley

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

Danny McAuley is a Consultant and Professor in Intensive Care Medicine at the Regional Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Queen’s University of Belfast. He undertook his training in Belfast, Birmingham, London and San Francisco. He is Programme Director for the MRC/NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) programme. He has several research interests including Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and clinical trials.

: @dfmcauley

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

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.

Reena Mehta

Consultant Pharmacist and and ICS Pharmacy Professional Advisory Group, Chair,

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

David Menon

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

David Menon is Professor and Lead of the Perioperative, Acute, Critical Care and Emergency(PACE) Section in the Department of Medicine, and Consultant in Neurocritical Care, at the University of Cambridge.  He is Principal Investigator at the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre and at the John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair. He is Chair of the European Brain Trauma Consortium and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Neuro Trauma Society. He serves as Vice-Coordinator CENTER-TBI, a €30 million FP7 European multi-centre study of precision medicine and comparative effectiveness research in traumatic brain injury, as Joint Director of the Cambridge NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma, and Coordinator of the International Traumatic Brain Injury Research (InTBIR) initiative. He was appointed as Emeritus Senior Investigator by the National Institute for Health Research (UK) in 2018.  He leads the Immunology & Biomarkers Work Group in the UK COVID-CNS study, the Imaging Work Group for the GCS-COVID study of the Neuro Critical Care Society, and is a PI on the Immunoglobulin arm of REMAP-CAP. He has over 500 publications in peer reviewed journals, with a ‘h’ index of 123 (Google Scholar) and is listed as a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Clarivate. He has been Principal or Co-Investigator on grants over $50 million over the last 20 years, and has contributed to major textbooks and international guidelines.  He is joint lead author on two Commissioned Issues of the Lancet Neurology on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI; released at the European Parliament in 2017, and at the CENTER-TBI meeting in 2022). He was Executive Editor of the Report of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Acquired Brain Injury.

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1. https://www.center-tbi.eu/
2. http://neurotrauma.world/ 
3. https://intbir.incf.org/
4. https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/traumatic-brain-injury
5. https://www.ukabif.org.uk/campaigns/appg-report/

: @Menon_Cambridge

Ben Messer

Consultant Intensivist ,

Ben is a Consultant in Critical Care Medicine and Home Ventilation in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the clinical lead of the North East Assisted Ventilation Service. 

His main critical care interest is acute non-invasive respiratory support. Within home ventilation, his interests are tracheostomy ventilation, upper airway dysfunction and secretion management in MND, and the respiratory and perioperative care of neuromuscular patients.

He is the chair of the critical care specialist advisory group of the British Thoracic Society. He was the chair of the multi-professional writing committees for the joint British Thoracic Society and Intensive Care Society guidelines for Respiratory Support Units and Specialist Weaning Units.

: @drbenmesser

Victoria Metaxa

Consultant Intensivist and Trauma ,

Ashley Miller

Consultant Intensivist ,

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Cathy Miller

Head of Education and Professional Development, NHS Blood and Transplant,

Cathy works at NHS Blood and Transplant in one of two Head of Education and Professional Development roles, covering the Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Directorate (OTDT).

Cathy is a Registered Adult Nurse, Teacher in Health and Social Care and Executive Coach. Her clinical background is in Critical Care, Organ and Tissue Donation, Policy Writing, Education and Training.

Cathy is a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham, her thesis is focussed on evaluation of the Educational Intervention for Deemed Consent Legislation for Specialist Nurses in Organ Donation.

Previously working as a Specialist Nurse in Organ Donation, Cathy developed a passion for donor family care, communication and understanding what factors impact the family’s decision to support donation.

: @CathyMCMiller

Kay Mitchell

Kay is a critical care nurse researcher with an interest in understanding hypoxia, and inter-individual variations in response to it. She is also focussed on developing the research careers of healthcare researchers whatever their background or profession. She has worked full time in research since 2006, first at University College London, and more recently at University Hospital Southampton and the University of Southampton. During that time, she has carried out research in healthy volunteers at altitude, in hypobaric and normobaric chambers, and in patients at sea level. She has also set up two organisations that support healthcare researchers access opportunities from multiple funders to develop their own careers. Recently, she defended her PhD thesis looking at epigenetic responses to hypoxia. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Intensive Care Society.

Hugh Montgomery

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

• Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, UCL
• Director, UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance
• Consultant Intensivist, Whittington Hospital
• London Leader, GLA.

Ramani Moonesinghe

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

Ramani was appointed as a Consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care at UCL Hospitals in 2010 and has been a Professor at UCL since 2018. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating ways to improve the safety and quality of perioperative and critical care and leads several national and international programmes. She is critical and perioperative care theme lead for the UCLH Biomedical Research Centre and the founding director of the Central London NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaboration, which will focus on surgery, perioperative, acute and critical care.  

Previous roles include being UCLH FICM Faculty Tutor and Clinical Lead for Organ Donation, London TPD for academic anaesthesia, National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia training lead, a Royal College of Anaesthetists trainee Council member, and Director of the RCoA’s Health Services Research Centre. 

She was appointed to her current role for NHS England (NHSE) in 2020 and provided clinical leadership to the NHSE critical care response to COVID19 throughout the pandemic. She now clinically leads NHSE transformation programmes in critical care and perioperative care. These aim to improve access, reduce system- and patient-level inequalities, and improve care delivery and outcomes for patients who could benefit from critical care and surgery. Central to this work is the workforce: looking after them, supporting recruitment and retention, and exploring new ways of working and new clinical roles.  

She is married to a very patient and supportive inventor and live in Sussex with him and their adopted children aged 4, 6 and 7. She was awarded the honour of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2021 for services to anaesthesia, perioperative and critical care. 

: @rmoonesinghe

Matt Morgan

Consultant Intensivist ,

Dr. Matt Morgan is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital of Wales, UK and The Royal Perth Hospital, Australia. He is an adjunct Clinical Professor at Curtin University, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University and regular columnist at the BMJ. 

He is passionate about public engagement, has contributed to multiple scientific articles following his PhD in artificial intelligence and has appeared on many international media channels.

His first book “Critical" he tells the remarkable stories of patients he has met as a guide through the intensive care unit. His second book, "One Medicine", explored how understanding the lives of animals can help treat human disease. He lives between Cardiff and Australia with his family.

Shravan Nanda

SAS/Specialty Doctor,

Shravan an intensive care doctor who trained as an anaesthetist in India and started working in Intensive care since 2013. I came to the UK as an MTI in 2018 and am currently pursuing CESR in ICM at Royal Preston Hospital.

I’m also a part of the team developing Speech and language recognition software for voice-impaired patients, mainly tracheostomized patients known as SRAVI and won an award for the same at the Medilink business awards 2023.

As an elected member and co-chair of the SAS  Professional Advisory body in the Intensive Care Society, I’m very passionate about promoting awareness and potential of the SAS group of doctors in ICM.

: @@ShravanNanda

Bryan O'Farrell

Lead Pharmacist for Critical Care, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Bryan O'Farrell is the lead pharmacist for critical care and theatres at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. He has over 20 years’ experience as a clinical pharmacist and has been working as a critical care specialist pharmacist for over 14 years.

In addition to his role at the Royal Free he also is part of the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association Critical Care Expert Group and he is an associate editor for the Journal of the Intensive Care Society. His interests include antimicrobial PK/PD in critically ill patients, renal replacement therapy, analgo-sedation, ICU delirium and drug error reduction systems.

: @BryanOFarrell1

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

Segun Olusanya

Consultant Intensivist,

Segun is a newly appointed Intensive Care Consultant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, with special interests in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), clinician wellbeing, point of care ultrasound, equality/diversity/inclusion, and online education. His real claim to fame is running an award winning wedding cake and confectionery business with his wife, Fehintola; he primarily functions as Chief Taster, and occasional Dish Washer.

: @iceman_ex

Rosica Pachilova

Researcher & Design Consultant ,

Rosi Pachilova is a researcher & design consultant affiliated both to the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, specialising in Space Syntax; and now with Foster + Partners.  

Her chapter on 'Working Together in the Healthcare Space' is well worth a read for those looking at the role of architecture in hospital design: The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture – UCL Press 

: @rpachilova

Edward Palmer

Doctor in Anaesthetics & Intensive Care, University College London

Ed Palmer is a registrar in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. His PhD in clinical data science explored the capabilities of routinely collected healthcare data for research in intensive care. As a fellow of the software sustainability institute, Ed advocates for better training in statistics and research methodology within medicine.

: @DocEd

Jack Parry-Jones

Consultant Intensivist and Vice Dean, FICM,

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.

Prashant Parulekar

Consultant in Intensive Care, Acute & General Internal Medicine ,

Prashant is a Consultant in Intensive Care, Acute & General Internal Medicine at William Harvey Hospital (East Kent Hospitals). He is an honorary senior lecturer at Queen Mary University London (QMUL), giving lectures regarding the role of echocardiography in resuscitation and chairing tutorials on diagnostics and imaging modalities in resuscitation. He teaches and lectures at both regional and national ultrasound and echo conferences and courses.

He is member of the national Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee and is BSE Level 2 accredited in Critical Care Echocardiography. He is a FUSIC & FICE (Focused Intensive Care Echocardiography) supervisor & mentor and runs national FUSIC courses. He is published in research in the use of echo and ultrasound in Intensive Care and Acute Medicine and in the assessment of haemodynamic status using echo.

Prashant was the Chief Investigator (CI) for the national lung ultrasound and echo CORONA study (COre ultRasOund of covid in iNtensive care & Acute medicine) assessing the lung ultrasound features and the incidence of left and right ventricular dysfunction in COVID ICU patients. He is the creator and co-host of Ultra Live, the world’s first live POCUS gameshow at the SOA this year. 

: @parulekar8550

Brij Patel

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Dr Patel graduated with distinction honours from University College London Medical School. He trained in general internal medicine at the former Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital, before pursuing clinical training in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine through Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals.

Dr Patel successfully attained a Clinical Research Training Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust to undertake a PhD within Imperial College London. His PhD investigated the role of tumour necrosis factor (TNF), which subsequently won institutional and regional prizes, including the Gold Medal for Research from the Intensive Care Society (UK) in 2011/12.

Following completion of his PhD, Dr Patel went on to complete advanced training in Intensive Care Medicine through the Royal Brompton and King’s College Hospitals. In 2014, he was appointed as a clinical lecturer in anaesthesia and intensive care at the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). 

Dr Patel is as an honorary consultant with adult intensive care at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals. He is a clinical senior lecturer at Imperial College London. 

Rupert Pearse

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

Rupert Pearse graduated in 1996 from St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK, where he developed many of his current research interests and completed his training in Intensive Care Medicine. In 2006, he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine at Queen Mary University of London and was promoted to Professor in 2014. He has now given up anaesthesia to concentrate on his research into improving patient outcomes following major surgery, and his clinical duties on the Adult Critical Care Unit at The Royal London Hospital in London's east end. He is the programme director of the Optimising Shared decision-making for high Risk major Surgery (OSIRIS) project. 

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

Tasneem Pirani

Consultant Intensivist ,

Completed dual training in hepatology and intensive care medicine in some of London’s major teaching hospitals.

Works as a critical care consultant at King’s College Hospital across both general intensive care and liver intensive care. Is currently the Clinical Lead for the King’s Liver Intensive Therapy Unit, which has a long history of spearheading research and innovation in the management of complex patients with acute liver failure and chronic liver disease. Her areas of specialist interest include pregnancy related acute liver failure, acute on chronic liver failure, use of extracorporeal support in acute and chronic liver failure as well as management of systemic diseases affecting the liver such as HLH and haematological malignancies

: @TasPirani

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

Alastair Proudfoot

Consultant Intensivist ,

I am currently a cardiac & general intensivist at Barts Heart Centre where I lead for cardiogenic shock. My clinical focus is acute cardiac care including the management of cardiogenic shock, mechanical circulatory support, pulmonary embolism and post-cardiac arrest syndrome. I am also a Clinical Senior Lecturer within the Perioperative Medicine Group at Queen Mary University of London with a research interest in cardiogenic shock, specifically the genetic drivers of the heterogeneity of host response. I am the CI for the GolDilOCS study which is a partnership with the Knight group at Oxford University. I am the CI for the development of a cardiogenic shock module within the ICNARC case mix programme and a co-lead for a European / North African cardiogenic shock registry. 

: @ICUDocAP

John Prowle

Dr Prowle is Clinical reader in Critical Care Nephrology in the Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group at William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London and is an Honorary Consultant Physician in Intensive Care Medicine and Renal Medicine at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. 

Dr Prowle graduated with distinction in medicine from the University of Cambridge in 1999 and undertook Doctoral Research under the supervision of Prof Rinaldo Bellomo (the most published and highly cited researcher in the history of Australian Medicine) in Melbourne, Australia leading to the award of his MD research doctorate in 2012.

His research interests include the pathogenesis, diagnosis and outcomes of Acute Kidney Injury, Renal replacement Therapy in the ICU the Epidemiology of Critical Illness and its recovery and the impact of multi-morbidity of high risk surgical and ICU outcomes. Since 2009 he has co-authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications and 30 book chapters with an H-index of 51 (GS).  

He is an active senior contributor to national and international collaborations in critical care nephrology including the Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI), Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes AKI Group and the UK Kidney research Consortium Clinical Studies Group in AKI (as co-chair).

: @@JohnProwle

Zudin Puthucheary

Consultant Intensivist ,

: @Zudin_P

Mohammed Rashid Akhtar

Consultant Interventional Radiologist,

: @xraysurgeon

Kiran Reddy

Senior Trainee in Critical Care,

Kiran is a senior trainee in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia, and a clinical research fellow working at Queen’s University Belfast. He co-leads the PHIND study, which is a multicentre observational study in the UK and Ireland that focuses on point of care phenotyping of patients with acute respiratory failure by their plasma cytokine profiles. This work builds towards a trial that initially splits patients into the “hyperinflammatory” and “hypoinflammatory” phenotypes and aims to identify phenotype-specific benefit and heterogeneity of treatment effect for a variety of pharmacological interventions. Kiran is a co-applicant on a recently funded grant from the NIHR that will deliver this in the form of a large international platform trial conducted initially in the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Kiran is a Wellcome Trust funded fellow and part of the Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) programme. He is also an executive member of the Irish Critical Care Clinical Trials Network. His research focuses on using translational, bioinformatic, and machine learning approaches to understand heterogeneity in critical care syndromes and leveraging these data to deliver stratified platform trials.

: @kiranreddy_icu

Carmel Richardson

No bio provided

Louise Rose

Professor of Critical Care Nursing

Caroline Sampson

Consultant Intensivist, Anaesthetist and Adult ECMO,

Dr Caroline Sampson BMBS(hons) BmedSci FRCA FFICM EDIC

Consultant in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Adult ECMO

Caroline (Caz) trained in Anaesthesia and Critical Care in London and the Midlands, and has been a Consultant at Glenfield Hospital since 2014. Alongside general, cardiac and ECMO intensive care duties, she retrieves patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Failure (SARF) both conventionally and using mobile ECMO . Her specialist interests lie in SARF and Adult ECMO alongside medical education and critical care follow-up. She is currently the deputy director for Adult ECMO at Glenfield Hospital and runs the ECMO follow-up clinics.

: @caz_sampson

David Sapsford

Consultant Pharmacist , Cambridge University Hospitals

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.

Manu Shankar Hari

ICS Director of Research and Consultant Physician in Intensive Care ,

Manu Shankar-Hari trained in Intensive Care Medicine in London, completed MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and did his PhD in Immunology at the Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology at King's College London, UK.

Manu was appointed as a consultant physician in Intensive Care Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2009. He was awarded the NIHR Clinician Scientist Fellowship in 2016 to investigate the long-term health consequences of sepsis survivors and to undertake a clinical trial of vaccinating to reduce long-term health care burden in adult sepsis survivors.

Manu was appointed to the Chair of Translation Critical Care Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 2022.

Sara Shaw

Professor of Health Policy & Practice ,

: @SaraShawX2

Murali Shyamsundar

Mervyn Singer

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

Emma Stockton

Consultant Anaesthetist,

Jessica Sullivan

Jessica completed her undergraduate training at Norwich Medical School in 2016 where the university accredited her with an ‘Outstanding Contribution to Sport Award’. Her most recent position was as anaesthetic/ITU registrar at the Whittington Hospital where she had the pleasure of working alongside Prof Montgomery. Jessica is on the organising committee for the North Thames Anaesthetic Meeting (NTAM) conference which was hugely popular this year. Medicine is not Jessica’s only passion, she also is a keen sportswoman and an ex competitive gymnast. She is currently undertaking extensive training in acrobatics and inviting all friends and colleagues to see her perform in July! 

Charlotte Summers

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

: @charlot_summers

Ganesh Suntharalingam

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

No bio provided

Ema Swingwood

Physiotherapist,

Ema is currently a NIHR Clinical Academic Research Fellow at the University of the West of England. Her substantive post is as the Respiratory Pathway Lead Physiotherapist 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. 
  
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. She sits on the BTS Education and Training Committee, NHSE/PHE Independent High-Risk Aerosol Generating Procedures Panel, ICS Physiotherapy Professional Advisory Group and the Equity, Diversity and Belonging Committee of the CSP.

Fran Tait

Senior Trainee in Critical Care and ICS Trainee Professional Advisory Group, Chair,

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 

Mike Tipton

Professor of Human and Applied Physiology ,

Professor Tipton has worked at the University of Surrey and University of Portsmouth. In addition, he was based at the Institute of Naval Medicine (INM) from 1983 to 2004 and was Consultant Head of the Environmental Medicine Division of the INM from 1996. He has published over 750 scientific papers, reports, chapters, abstracts and books in his research areas of drowning, thermoregulation, environmental and occupational physiology, and survival in the sea.

Professor Tipton was a Trustee/Director of Surf Lifesaving GB, a member of the Council of the RNLI as well as a Consultant to the Medical Director of the RNLI. He has been a consultant in survival and thermal medicine to the Royal Air Force, UKSport and the English Institute of Sport (EIS). He chaired UKSport’s Research Advisory Group and sat on the EIS Scientific and Ethics Advisory Group. Prof Tipton as edited several scientific journals and is currently Editor-in-Chief of The Physiological Society’s journal “Experimental Physiology”.

Prof Tipton is a visiting Professor at King’s College, London, and an Adjunct Professor at Waterford Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and The Physiological Society. He was awarded his MBE for services to physiological research in extreme environments; the Ireland Medal for saving lives from drowning worldwide; and the H&L Swiftwater rescue lifetime achievement award from the USA.

: @ProfMikeTipton

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.

Sarah Wallace

Consultant Speech and Language Therapist,

Sarah Wallace OBE FRCSLT is a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester and honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. She specialises in Critical Care and has over 30 years of clinical experience as an SLT. After training in Manchester, Sarah has worked in hospitals and Non-Government Organisations in the UK, Singapore, Grenada (WI) and Cambodia. Whilst working clinically in cardiothoracic, ECMO and general critical care in Manchester, she also teaches and conducts research internationally, focussing on laryngeal injury, dysphagia and communication issues post intubation and tracheostomy. She has over 60 publications, several top cited articles winning awards from the BMJ and the ICS. She holds expert advisor roles with the Intensive Care Society (ICS), the National Tracheostomy Safety Project and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and has contributed to many policies, guidelines and initiatives including GPICS, FEES, NCEPOD and the ICS National Rehabilitation Collaborative. Sarah is also an Associate Editor for JICS. She has pioneered new treatments for laryngeal recovery in ICU, setting up the first FEES service in Asia and the UK and supports SLT service development in the UK, Sweden and Chile. 

Jen Warren

Consultant Intensivist ,

No bio provided

Nick Watts

NHS Chief Sustainability Officer,

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.

Jonny Wilkinson

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

: @Wilkinsonjonny

Parjam (PJ) Zolfaghari

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, The Royal London Hospital

PJ was born in Iran and moved to the UK when he was 11 years old. He studied medicine at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ (UMDS) and after initially training to be a surgeon, he switched to anaesthesia and critical care medicine training in East London. He did his PhD with Mervyn Singer at UCL on mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis and multiorgan failure before starting his consultant post at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, London. His interests are metabolic response in critical illness and trauma. His current main focus is his passion for teaching: he runs the Critical Care MSc at Queen Mary University London and is a senior lecturer in the Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group at QMUL. He is also one of the associate editors of BJA Education. He is the current programme director of SOA and is very excited to bring education, research and debate to this multi-professional meeting, as well as great social events in the evenings (another one of his passions!). 

: @PJZolfaghari