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President of College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand
Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care and ICS APCC Professional Advisory Group, Chair
Senior Trainee in Critical Care and ICS Sustainability Working Group, co-Chair
Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care and ICS APCC Professional Advisory Group, Deputy Chair
Specialty Doctor and and ICS Specialty Doctor Professional Advisory Group, Chair
Physiotherapist in Critical Care and and ICS Physio Professional Advisory Group, Chair
Lead Nurse Associate Director and ICS Nursing Professional Advisory Group, Chair.
Consultant Pharmacist and and ICS Pharmacy Professional Advisory Group, Chair
Consultant in Neurosciences, Trauma, Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine
Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, The Royal London Hospital
Consultant Intensivist & Anaesthetist ,
Justin Kirk-Bayley is a Consultant Intensivist & Anaesthetist at Royal Surrey NHS Trust in Guildford, UK where he has been Clinical Lead for ICU, and is now Deputy Medical Director. His clinical passion is for pragmatic delivery of point of care ultrasound, having run a training fellowship for over a decade and being a part of the ICS’s FUSIC committee. He has published and teaches ultrasound around the world. As his Trust’s Professional Director for Therapeutics, he is committed to medication safety and optimisation, lecturing internationally about improvement in medication process and has helped found the Turning the Tide group to improve the UK’s use of intravenous fluids. (@Turningthe_Tide)
FUSIC Lung Monday @ 1:00 PM
Consultant Intensivist,
No bio provided
Inclusivity Live Tuesday @ 1:30 PM
Intensive Care Trainee,
Dr Bakare is currently an Advanced Trainee in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia in Northwest London. She graduated with Honours from the University of Bristol and commenced her career in the West Country before pursuing Specialty Training in Northwest London. As an elected member of the Trainee Advisory Group of the Intensive Care Society and leverages her expertise to contribute actively to the society's Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Working Group. She also holds the additional responsibility of serving as the EDI lead on the Editorial Board for GPCISv3.
Dr Bakare is deeply passionate about advancing Equity in Healthcare and Medical Education, with clinical interests spanning Major General Surgery and Transfer Medicine.
Assuming the role of chairing this study day, Dr Bakare seamlessly integrates her passion for medical education with a steadfast dedication to fostering safe and equitable healthcare practices through multidisciplinary collaboration.
Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,
Kris is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
After medical school in Munich and a PhD in hepatobiliary research, he bimbled through several clinical specialties with posts in Germany, Australia and Cornwall, before finding his love for ICM in Sheffield.
Kris’s clinical and academic interests include critical care management of pulmonary hypertension, hyperinflammation/HLH, ICU management of patients with haematological malignancies and paediatric-to-adult critical care transition. He is a member of the national Hyperinflammation and HLH across specialty collaboration (www.hihasc.org), training programme director for ICM in Yorkshire and the Humber and, most importantly, dad to two brilliant boys aged 13 and 8.
Paediatric to adult transition Thursday @ 11:15 AM
Reader in Critical Care Medicine,
I am a reader in critical care medicine and health systems development at the Institute of Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh. I co-lead the Wellcome Collaboration for Research, Implementation and Training for Critical care in Asia and Africa. Under this umbrella, I collaborate with clinicians and research consortiums to develop and implement near real time digital healthcare registries, support scalable population health surveillance, critical care benchmarking and service improvement. My work combines research methods, with a focus on person centred approaches.
Critical care and global health Thursday @ 11:15 AM
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.
Maternal Critical Care Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Critical Care Tales - Butterfly Effect Wednesday @ 11:15 AM
Consultant Intensivist ,
I am a Consultant in Critical Care at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. I am Chair of the FICM Legal & Ethical Policy Unit and hold an MA in Healthcare Ethics and Law from the University of Manchester. I'm an elected member of the FICM Board, sit on the FICM Professional Affairs and Safety Committee and am vice chair of the FFICM SOE examiner's group. I am an author for the FICM midnight law series and recently chaired a multi-specialty working group to develop guidance for the management of patients with severe eating disorders referred to critical care.
Legal - Mental Health Act and the use of sedation or physical restraints Thursday @ 9:15 AM
President of College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand,
Rob trained in the UK, having originally been in the first year of the combined 'Barts and the London' in 1995. He moved over to NZ in 2004 and dual trained in General Medicine and Intensive Care (FRACP and FCICM) but works full-time in ICU at Auckland Hospital Department of Critical Care Medicine (DCCM)- which is a tertiary ICU providing trauma, neurosurgery, liver and renal transplant and haem/onc services. It was the first ICU set up in Australasia in the early 1960's. He moved over a year ago from Middlemore Hospital, having spent 6yrs at the National Burns and Spinal ICU.
He joined the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (CICM) as a trainee rep and is the current CICM President over 12yrs. He was the Education lead for the College, and has published on the history of ICU training in Australia and New Zealand, as well as setting up collaborations with the UK. He has recently finished writing the inaugural chapter on 'Obesity' for the next edition of 'Oh's Intensive Care'.
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
Sustainability - Bottom up Wednesday @ 2:00 PM
Consultant Pharmacist,
Richard is a clinical academic pharmacist specialising in critical care practice. He is a consultant pharmacist in critical care at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and honorary senior clinical lecturer in pharmacy at The University of Manchester.
Richard’s research interests include medicines optimisation and medication safety in the critically ill patient. Richard recently completed a post-doctoral NIHR ICA programme clinical lectureship in which he identified and developed a complex intervention to improve medication safety for intensive care patients transferring to a hospital ward. His current research builds on this, developing related observational and interventional projects to improve patient outcomes post-intensive care.
Sex, Drugs and Falls Tuesday @ 1:30 PM
Lead Nurse and Deputy Chair of CC3N,
Graham has worked in Critical Care for many years, and he has a vast amount of experience within many units around England. Graham was a Matron for 15 years before taking the role of Lead Nurse and Manager of the Southwest Critical Care Network in 2016. He is also Lead Nurse for the Retrieve Critical Care Transfer Service in the Southwest of England. Graham is currently the Deputy Chair of the Critical Care National Network Nurses Leads Forum (CC3N). He is involved in many of the National Critical Care Strategy and Operational Groups including the ICS Nurses Professional Advisory Group and is passionate about ensuring patient care is at the heart of everything.
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 the Intensive Care Society's Honorary Secretary. 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.
Consultant Intensivist ,
Steve Cantellow is a Consultant Intensivist and Clinical Director of Urgent and Emergency Care at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. He holds the position of Maternity Lead for the East Midlands Critical Care Network and contributes as a member of the Intensive Care Society’s Maternity Working Group and the ESAIC’s Subforum for the Obstetric Patient. Beyond maternal critical care, his interests include transfer medicine and systems-level human factors.
Maternal Critical Care Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Consultant Intensivist ,
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Death, dilemmas and decisions Tuesday @ 1:30 PM
Sustainability - Bottom up Wednesday @ 2:00 PM
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 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!
FUSIC Heart Monday @ 9:00 AM
FUSIC Lung Monday @ 1:00 PM
Consultant Psychiatrist in Eating disorders ,
Dr ACM is a consultant psychiatrist in Eating disorders at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge. She is a trained child psychiatrist and neurodevelopmental specialist who now works in an adult eating disorders service with a large student population. Dr ACM is the head of school for psychiatry in the East of England and the vice chair of the Eastern Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Her research interest is in compulsive behaviour.
Legal and Ethical Symposium Monday @ 9:00 AM
Legal - Mental Health Act and the use of sedation or physical restraints Thursday @ 9:15 AM
Consultant Intensivist and Obstetric Medicine ,
Katie is an adopted Geordie having graduated in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and completing most of her training in the North East in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia. She is Consultant at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle-upon-Tyne where she works in both Intensive Care and Obstetric Medicine. Katie has a particular interest in Obstetric Critical Care and involved in setting up the Maternal Medicine Network within the North East. She is currently undertaking RCP Obstetric Medicine credentialing at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Katie is an active member of the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS) Steering Committee. Outside of work she loves to bake (complete with sticky fingers and copious sprinkles courtesy of her 5-year-old), swim and spend time exploring the beautiful North East with her family.
Maternal Critical Care Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
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.
Sustainability - Bottom up Wednesday @ 2:00 PM
Dr Thearina de Beer MBChB FRCA DICM FFICM LLM (Health Law) RCPathME , is a Consultant in Anaesthetics and ICM including Neuro-ICM at Nottingham University Hospitals. Thearina is currently Divisional Director for the Clinical Support Division. She is a Medical Examiner at NUH and is deputy lead ME for NUH. She is on the ICS – Legal and Ethical Advisory Group. Her special interests are delirium and the impact on long stay patients, legal and ethical issues around critical and neuro-critical care.
Legal and Ethical Symposium Monday @ 9:00 AM
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.
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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.
Consultant Anaesthetist & Clinical Lead for Acute Pain,
Jenny is a consultant anaesthetist working in South Wales, UK. She was elected to the board of RA-UK in May 2023, where she is lead for EDI. Clinical interests include acute pain and regional anaesthesia. She has recently lead the international research priority setting exercise for regional anaesthesia.
Regional anaesthesia - ICS and RA-UK Wednesday @ 11:15 AM
Critical Care Trainee and Research Fellow,
Dr Luke Flower is a specialty registrar and clinical research fellow in Intensive Care Medicine. He is also Co-Chair of the UK’s Trainee Research in Intensive Care Network, a member of the Intensive Care Society’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Working Group and an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Intensive Care Society.
His research interests include immune dysregulation in acute respiratory distress syndrome and cardiogenic shock. Alongside this he is an enthusiastic ultrasound educator and was the Lead Editor of the textbook ‘Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Critical Care’.
He is passionate about improving LGBTQ+ healthcare and over the past three years has worked with several national organisations to help improve the experiences of LGBTQ+ patients in critical care and received the Intensive Care Society’s ICU People Champion Award for his work.
Inclusivity Live Tuesday @ 1:30 PM
Consultant Intensivist and NHSBT,
Dr Dale Gardiner is a Consultant in Adult Intensive Care Medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the Associate Medical Director – Deceased Organ Donation at NHS Blood and Transplant.
His professional interests are medical ethics, the diagnosis of death and deceased organ donation.
Dale is a Board Member of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and Chair of the Professional Affairs and Safety Committee. He is co-chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges task and finish group to update the 2008 Code of Practice for the Diagnosis and Confirmation of Death.
Originally, Dale came from Australia but migrated to the UK in 2002.
NHSBT Live Simulation Wednesday @ 4:00 PM
Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthesia,
Ned Gilbert-Kawai is a Consultant in Critical Care Medicine & Anaesthesia at The Royal Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Ned completed his PhD at University College London on the effect of hypoxia on microcirculation and then undertook a Masters in Genomic Medicine at Imperial College London. He was the Chief Scientific Officer for the Xtreme Everest 2 expedition (UCL Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment (CASE) Medicine, 2013), and has since maintained an interest in both cardiovascular physiology and genomic medicine. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Intensive Care Society and an examiner at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Exams.
Professor of Practice (Anaesthesia) ,
No bio provided
Inclusivity Live Tuesday @ 1:30 PM
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.
Legal and Ethical Symposium Monday @ 9:00 AM
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.
Physiotherapist in Critical Care and and ICS Physio Professional Advisory Group, Chair,
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.Critical Care Tales - Butterfly Effect Wednesday @ 11:15 AM
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.
Development of Self in Leadership Monday @ 9:00 AM
Death, dilemmas and decisions Tuesday @ 1:30 PM
ABC of ICM Thursday @ 9:15 AM
Paediatric to adult transition Thursday @ 11:15 AM
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care ,
Deborah Horner is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Deputy Chief Medical Officer.
Her dual interests in Critical Care and Obstetric Anaesthesia have led to an interest in the provision of Enhanced and Critical Care for sick women in her own hospital, regionally and nationally. She is Yorkshire & the Humber Maternal and Enhanced Critical Care (MEaCC) steering group Chair, represents the OAA on the national MEWS working group and Chair of the Intensive Care Society Maternal Critical Care group.
She is married with 2 children and a very spoilt Labrador.
Maternal Critical Care Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Consultant Intensivist ,
I am a consultant in intensive care and a member of the legal and ethics group of the intensive care society having previously been a council member of the ICS.
I am interested in how we make decisions in respect to caring for patients in intensive care in particular appropriateness of medical interventions and futility. I have led a number of legal and ethical seminars on this subject and written a couple of papers bringing together lawyers and clinicians to address complex real life clinical situations that frequent intensive care.
I am also clinical director for research within Somerset Foundation Trust which is now one of the largest hospital trusts in England and oversee development of their research programme.
I live on a small holding in Somerset and keep bees which are plagued by wasps in the summer who steal their honey and kill them in the process. I also host badgers and foxes. They have few obvious morals when it comes to survival and indeed, I no longer keep chickens or ducks as the badgers and foxes will inevitably eat them. For animals and insects’ life is a game of survival driven by an overwhelming desire for food….
Intensive care is calm, controlled, and ethical in comparison!
Legal - Mental Health Act and the use of sedation or physical restraints Thursday @ 9:15 AM
Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist and NHSBT,
Ben is a consultant in intensive care and anaesthesia at Torbay Hospital, South Devon. He has been the national education lead for organ donation with NHS Blood and Transplant for the last 7 years, delivering, alongside the education team, the acclaimed national Deceased Donation Simulation Course. The team won the inaugural ICS education award in 2020 and deliver education around donation, ethical decision making and end of life conversations to national and international audiences. In his spare time he enjoys landscape photography and slow running.NHSBT Live Simulation Wednesday @ 4:00 PM
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.
Infectious Diseases Physician,
Dr Shevin Jacob is an infectious diseases physician who obtained his Doctorate of Medicine at Oregon Health & Sciences University (1999-2004) and a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2002-2003). He underwent post-graduate training in internal medicine at the University of Virginia (2004-2007) and infectious diseases at the University of Washington (UW) (2008-2012), after which he remained as a faculty member within the UW Department of Medicine until 2017. In 2017, he shifted his academic home to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK where he is currently Reader in Sepsis Research.
Dr Jacob currently lives in Uganda where, for over 15 years, he has been conducting research aimed to improve the management and outcomes of patients hospitalized with life-threatening infections in resource-constrained settings. As part of his research portfolio, he has led multinational consortia that focus on strengthening sepsis research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa to uncover and address knowledge gaps along the patient care continuum. Dr Jacob also has over a decade of experience as a consultant to the World Health Organization on a wide range of sepsis-related topics [including case management of viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHF)] and is the co-founder and a Director of Walimu (a Ugandan NGO), the Secretary General for the African Sepsis Alliance and Board and Executive Committee Member for the Global Sepsis Alliance. In 2018, his alma mater, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, recognised his work in sepsis and VHF by awarding him with the Leadership in Public Health Practice Award.
Critical care and global health Thursday @ 11:15 AM
Lead Nurse Associate Director and ICS Nursing Professional Advisory Group, Chair.,
Michaela is a Lead Nurse Associate Director for North West London Network and is the Chair of the Intensive Care Soceity's Nurse Professional Advisory Group. 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).
Co-Director, Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre,
Professor Jenny KItzinger is co-director of the Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre at Cardiff University (cdoc.org.uk) - a multi-disciplinary group of researchers exploring the ethical, legal and social dimensions of vegetative and minimally conscious states. She is co-author of multiple papers about the decision-making process around life-sustaining treatment and particularly the place of a person’s own values in ‘best interests’. This work has informed online training for healthcare professionals (cdoctraining.org.uk) and a website resource for patients’ families (healthtalk.org) which has been used by over 50,000 people and won a BMA award for its information on ethical issues.
Death, dilemmas and decisions Tuesday @ 1:30 PM
Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,
Shondipon is a Consultant in intensive care and anaesthesia at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Intensive Care Society's Honorary Secretary. He is also the Society's Learning Division Chair leading the education and ultrasound programme across the UK.
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Patient Advocate,
Rebecca (37) was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer at the age of 30.
She underwent surgery leaving her with a permanent ileostomy.
Following her first chemotherapy treatment she suffered a series of four cardiac arrests.
Rebecca used her enjoyment of sport to help her in her recovery; completing her first ever triathlon a year after her surgery (10 months after her ICU stay), and ran her first ever half marathon sixteen months after ICU. (After which she was interviewed for ITV national news).
After her initial recovery, Rebecca has got a DNACPR, Advanced Directive and ReSPECT form. She is passionate about talking about end-of-life planning, and was on a Radio 4 programme ‘Do Not Resuscitate’. She is keen to show that it isn’t a negative to complete such documents, while living life to the max.
She is keen to share her experience of being a patient, and a young woman with a stoma, to help others going through similar journeys.
Sex, Drugs and Falls Tuesday @ 1:30 PM
ICS Director of Research and Professor of Critical Care and Epidemiology,
Nazir is a Professor of Critical Care and Epidemiology and one of the Intensive Care Society's Directors of Research. Nazir’s programme of research focuses on health services research and health care quality improvement for acutely ill patients. His research aims to directly improve the quality of care for patients before, during and after an episode of acute or critical illness through rigorously conducted research and engagement with key stakeholders. He has a particular research interest in epidemiological methods and using linked 'big' data, multimorbidity and end-of-life care in acute and critical care settings.
His current programme of work includes NIHR-funded work to apply artificial intelligence (AI) methods in the context of multimorbidity (AIM-CISC) in which he co-leads work to develop AI tools to reduce adverse events. Furthermore, he leads Innovate UK funded work to improve multimorbidity recognition in emergency care settings using data analytics.
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Rising star Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
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.
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.Development of Self in Leadership Monday @ 9:00 AM
Critical Care Tales - Butterfly Effect Wednesday @ 11:15 AM
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
Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,
Brendan qualified from the University of Sheffield and trained initially in general medicine in Yorkshire, the North East and then Australia. He returned to specialise in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, appointed as a consultant at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, at Wythenshawe Hospital in 2009. He was appointed Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC) Honorary Professor in 2022.
Brendan’s research interests in patient safety and airway management led to the initiation of the UK National Tracheostomy Safety Project, collaborating widely in developing educational resources to guide the multidisciplinary response to airway emergencies. Realising that the real work was in prevention of airway emergencies, Brendan helped to develop the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative in 2012, bringing together international expertise from Harvard to Melbourne with the goal of improving tracheostomy care ‘everywhere’ through quality improvement initiatives. Brendan has worked on and led a number of domestic and international quality improvement projects and research studies, securing significant grant funding.
Brendan and his team have won a number of awards for their work, including:
Outside of medicine, Brendan is entertained by a young(ish) family, plays guitar in the family rock band, "Death Metal Children of Rock," attempts to support Liverpool FC whilst living near Old Trafford, and tries to ride his road bike when it isn’t raining (too hard).
Tracheostomies management and communication Wednesday @ 2:00 PM
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's 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.
Consultant Intensivist and Trauma ,
Dr Victoria Metaxa is a full-time Critical Care and Major Trauma Consultant, at King’s College Hospital in London. She is a King's College London Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, and has a PhD in neurosciences and an MA in Medical Ethics and Palliative Care from Keele University. Her clinical interests include bioethics, end-of-life care, critical care outreach and the management of patients with haematological malignancies. Dr Metaxa is a member of the European Society of Intensive Care (ESICM) Ethics section, and the representative of the section in the e-learning committee. She is the UK National Outreach Forum board Secretary and a member of the Legal and Ethical Advisory Group of the UK Intensive Care Society (ICS).Legal and Ethical Symposium Monday @ 9:00 AM
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.FUSIC Lung Monday @ 1:00 PM
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,
Prof Hugh Montgomery obtained a first-class degree in cardiorespiratory physiology/neuropharmacology before graduating from the Middlesex Hospital Medical school in 1987. He has since gained accreditation in general internal medicine, cardiology and intensive care medicine, and practices as a consultant in intensive care at the Whittington hospital in North London.Consciousness - Humans vs Artificial Intelligence Tuesday @ 10:00 AM
Sustainability - Bottom up Wednesday @ 2:00 PM
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Critical Care,
I am a senior clinical lecturer in critical care medicine at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, working clinically at the Aintree site of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Since my doctorate was awarded in 2016 I have developed a translation research career focusing on treatment and prevention of severe infection. During this time, I spent two years working at the Malawi-Liverpool Welcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (2019-2021) before returning to Liverpool in July 2021. My current research focuses on controlled human infection models to accelerate vaccine development for respiratory pathogens and developing improved care pathways for patients with multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Website: https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/dr-ben-morton
Critical care and global health Thursday @ 11:15 AM
Professor of Neurology and Neuro Critical Care,
Neurologist Susanne Muehlschlegel is an internationally known clinician-researcher who specializes in critically ill patients as well as understanding and improving shared decision-making, and the ways physicians derive and convey health care recommendations and prognostication to families of neuro-critically ill patients. Her empirical family- and patient-centred research intersects with decision-science, mixed-methods research, neurology, neurosurgery, and critical care medicine. She strongly believes that involving families and other stakeholders in her research will positively impact the clinical care of neurocritical patients.
Dr. Muehlschlegel earned her medical degree at Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany. She completed an internship in internal medicine followed by residency training at Shands Hospital and Malcolm Randall Veteran Affairs Medical Center at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She finished her fellowship training in neurocritical care at the Harvard Combined Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and she obtained her master’s degree in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health.
She is the co-chair of a large international guideline on neuroprognostication, a joint guideline between the Neurocritical Care Society and the German Society for Neuro-Intensive Care Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurointensivmedizin). She recently served as the leader of the “Curing Coma” Common Data Elements subgroup for “Goals of Care Decisions / Family Data” with national and international group members. She has also served as co-chair of the NIH/NINDS-funded Family Experience Workshop after Cardiac Arrest and Severe Neurotrauma.
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https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/susanne-muehlschlegel
Neurosciences - Brain injury assessment at the bedside and neuroprognostication Wednesday @ 4:00 PM
Consultant in Neurosciences, Trauma, Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine,
Virginia Newcombe is an academic consultant in Neurosciences and Trauma Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. She holds an NIHR Rosestrees Trust Advanced Fellowship and a Royal College of Emergency Medicine Professor. Her main research interests focus on the use of imaging and biomarkers to understand pathophysiology, prognostication and trajectory of outcome after traumatic brain injury.
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@vfjn2
Neurosciences - Brain injury assessment at the bedside and neuroprognostication Wednesday @ 4:00 PM
Speech and Language Therapist,
Helen has over 20 years experience working as a speech and language therapist (SLT) in the UK and New Zealand. She has worked extensively with patients with a tracheostomy in intensive care, H&N cancer and brain injury rehabilitation. She is a member of the International Group of SLTs Working in Ultrasound, whose pioneering work explores clinical applications of ultrasound in voice, speech, swallowing and tracheostomy. She is committee member and Treasurer of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ Tracheostomy Clinical Expert Network. Helen currently holds an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship, jointly hosted by Barnet Hospital (Royal Free London NHS FT), and the UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science. Her PhD focuses on how to choose the best size tracheostomy tube for adults in ICU, inspired by seeing first hand the effects of tube size on patient experience and recovery. She is passionate about humanising care in the ICU through person-centred, ‘whole-picture’ approaches to management.
Tracheostomies management and communication Wednesday @ 2:00 PM
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.
ICS Director of Research, Consultant Intensivist and Nephrology,
Marlies Ostermann is a consultant in critical care and nephrology, with a special interest in acute kidney injury and critical care nephrology.
She is very active in research and collaborates with colleagues nationally and internationally.
Marlies is also committed to teaching and education.
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.
FUSIC Heart Monday @ 9:00 AM
FUSIC Lung Monday @ 1:00 PM
Consultant Anaesthetist,
Amit is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Lead for Regional Anaesthesia at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, & also works at Cleveland Clinic, London.
He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.
He is an Ultrasound Guided Regional Anaesthesia (UGRA) enthusiast and was the first ever fellow in Regional Anaesthesia at Guy's & St Thomas'. He holds the ESRA European Diploma in Regional Anaesthesia (EDRA)
Additionally, Amit has been: President of the London Society for Regional Anaesthesia (LSORA) ands President of RA-UK, as well as a council member of the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia (ESRA).
Amit has created a series of Ultrasound Regional Anaesthesia Video tutorials on YouTube, and has an active social media profile and uses his X account to help share knowledge of Regional Anaesthesia, the occasional Dad Joke, and a few of his attempts at poetry! His most recent project has been creating a Regional Anaesthesia Podcast called “Block It Like It’s Hot”
He has numerous publications in regional anaesthesia covering General Anaesthesia-Free Breast Surgery and fascial plane blocks, and has authored numerous review articles, editorials, guidelines and Delphi consensus projects on aspects of regional anaesthesia.
Regional anaesthesia - ICS and RA-UK Wednesday @ 11:15 AM
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.
FUSIC Heart Monday @ 9:00 AM
FUSIC Lung Monday @ 1:00 PM
Consultant Intensivist ,
Dr Zudin Puthucheary is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine at the William Harvey Institute, Queen Mary, University of London, and a Consultant at the Royal London Hospital Adult Intensive Care Unit. 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 focusses on acquired functional disability, and the use of nutritional and exercise interventions to prevent and treat muscle and has published over 100 papers. Zudin is a nationally elected Council member of the Intensive Care Society (UK).
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 Nutrition and Zudin was named a Global Rising Star by the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society.
He chairs the UK National Post-Intensive Care Rehabilitation Collaborative, a multi-professional cross-disciplinary group focussing on rehabilitation and restitution of critical illness survivors.
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@Zudin_P
Sex, Drugs and Falls Tuesday @ 1:30 PM
Critical Care Clinical Dietitian & Senior Research Fellow,
Emma is a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Fellow and leads the Nutrition Program at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Emma has 19 years of clinical dietetic experience, including as a senior dietitian in the ICU at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. After completing her PhD in 2018, Emma’s primary research interest is the effect of long term nutrition interventions for the critically ill. Emma is internationally recognized as a critical care dietitian and researcher, ranked in the top 1% on Expertscape for critical care and many clinical nutrition topics and regularly presents both nationally and internationally. Emma has more than 100 peer reviewed publications and has been a named investigator on more than $>10 million dollars of research funding, including $4.2 million as CIA). Emma is CI-A on the recently completed INTENT trial that is investigating a whole-hospital nutrition intervention in critically ill patients (NCT03292237) and was awarded a MRFF 2022 Clinician Researcher: Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health grant of $1.49 million titled "A national platform for improving quality of nutrition care for critically ill adults and children".
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.Rising star Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist and Intensivist,
Antonio Rubino is a cardiothoracic anaesthetist and Intensivist at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. He is clinical lead for Organ Donation for the Eastern Region as part of the National Transplant service. He is national lead for the focused transoesohpageal echocardiography (fTOE) program. His research interest include critical care ultrasounds, ECMO and cardiothoracic donor organs optimisation.
FUSIC Heart Monday @ 9:00 AM
FUSIC Lung Monday @ 1:00 PM
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, and management of pain and delirium in ICU patients.
David is deputy chair of the Intensive Care Society Pharmacy Professional Advisory Group and is delighted to count himself as inaugural ICS Leadership Programme alumni.
David is a member of the ICS Zermatt to Verbier Ski Mountaineering Team for 2024. For more information or to sponsor David, please head to https://www.justgiving.com/page/dfavidsapsford-z2v24
ICS Director of Research and Professor of Intensive Care ,
Manu is one of the Directors of reseach at the ICS. He trained in Intensive Care Medicine in London, completed his 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.
Currently, Manu is Chair of Translation Critical Care Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. His translational immunology research programme aims to enable precision immunomodulation in critically ill adults with sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). For additional details, please see - https://www.ed.ac.uk/inflammation-research/people/principal-investigators/professor-manu-shankar-hari.
Rising star Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Consultant in Intensive Care and Acute Medicine ,
Jennie is a Consultant in Intensive Care and Acute Medicine in, the sometimes sunny but always beautiful, Cornwall in Southwest England.
She is an avid point of care ultrasonographer and teaches bedside scanning on a regular basis. She was a founding member of three of the major working groups for point-of-care ultrasound training in the UK (FUSIC, FAMUS and CACTUS). She continues to contribute educational material, time and enthusiasm to all three.
She has an interest in enhanced care delivered outside of the critical care setting. She has contributed to recent national guidance from the Society of Acute Medicine and Intensive Care Society helping define how this is best delivered.
She is mum to two young boys, cross-fit enthusiast and occasionally competent gardener.
FUSIC Heart Monday @ 9:00 AM
FUSIC Lung Monday @ 1:00 PM
Philip Stiles’ principal research area is in the management of people, primarily around the subjects of talent and performance management, and culture. His research takes in all levels of the organisation, from the board through to front-line staff, to gain a rounded view of the key processes and practices. He has worked with many organisations on issues of people management and change management, including the NHS, both within hospitals and with GP surgeries. He has won awards for his research and for his teaching at Cambridge.
Development of Self in Leadership Monday @ 9:00 AM
Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,
Ganesh Suntharalingam OBE is a former ICS President, former SOA organiser, and former Mr. Universe (*one of these statements may be incorrect). He is an intensivist at Northwick Park and Ealing hospitals and chair of the NW London Critical Care Network.
He has a longstanding (but amateur) interest in healthcare architecture and in spending your tax money, having been clinical design champion for a £65M acute hospital PFI and primary clinical project board lead for a £25M ED new build and a £13M theatre redevelopment. He is on the organising committee and a standing chair for the influential European Healthcare Design congress.
He is relatively disaster-prone, and among other things was ICS President during the first year of the pandemic. Prior to this he led the critical care response to the TGN1412 drug trial emergency, the world's first molecular biology major incident. In 2006 he appeared on CNN's evening news bulletin alongside Tony Blair and Saddam Hussein. He is the only one of these to still be in post.
Paediatric Critical Care Nurse,
Lucy has worked in the Paediatric Critical Care Unit for 20 years. After completing her nursing degree in Birmingham (back in the day when nursing degrees were a new concept) she moved back to Derbyshire and started as a Band 5 staff nurse.
As the PCCU Transition Nurse she works closely with young people and their families who require regular care on PCCU, usually due to long-term respiratory failure.
Other interests include staff health and wellbeing, the Psychological impact of working in PCCU, Safeguarding, Debriefing, Band 6 Nurse Development and Developmentally appropriate Healthcare for young people.
Paediatric to adult transition Thursday @ 11:15 AM
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.
Tracheostomies management and communication Wednesday @ 2:00 PM
Consultant Intensivist ,
Dr Fran Tait is an ST7 dual specialty ICM and anaesthesia trainee working in the East Midlands. She is vice-chair of the ICS trainee advisory committee and is interested in patient rehabilitation post ICU. She is passionate about improving working conditions and training for doctors, representing trainees both regionally and nationally.The Cauldron Wednesday @ 4:00 PM
Specialist Intensive Care Sister,
Kate Tantam RN BSc(Hons) MRes PGCE BEM
Specialist Sister ICU
Rehabilitation Team
Critical Care
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care ,
Rum is a Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care and Deputy Medical Director at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust. She is Clinical Lead of Yorkshire & Humber Paediatric Critical Care Operational Delivery Network, Training Advisor for Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health’s Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine Intercollegiate SAC, as well as Clinical Member of the Clinical Reference Group of Paediatric Critical Care – NHS England.
Her clinical interests include transition from paediatrics to adult critical care and diabetic ketoacidosis where she has co-authored national guidelines for both. Her focus is also to promote equitable access to health care for children and young people.
Her other interests include development and training of postgraduate doctors in paediatrics and paediatric critical care, improving patient safety and quality of care, as well as increasing awareness of sepsis and its management. And, walking in the Peak District, travel and photography.
Paediatric to adult transition Thursday @ 11:15 AM
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.
Legal and Ethical Symposium Monday @ 9:00 AM
Legal - Mental Health Act and the use of sedation or physical restraints Thursday @ 9:15 AM
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.
Tracheostomies management and communication Wednesday @ 2:00 PM
Professor of Critical Care,
Tim Walsh is Professor of Critical Care at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Consultant in Critical Care at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He is also Director Innovation for NHS Lothian, and Health Innovation South East Scotland. He is Head of the Academic Dept of Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, and Co-director of Acute Care Edinburgh a multidisciplinary research grouping in the University of Edinburgh Usher Institute.
Tim leads a multidisciplinary clinical research group with interests including transfusion medicine, sedation in the critically ill, recovery from critical illness and the epidemiology and prevention of ICU acquired infection. He has a particular interest in large pragmatic clinical trials, complex health intervention trials, and the evaluation of novel diagnostics and technologies in acute care. He is a past Chairman of the NIHR UK Critical Care Research Network and UK Critical Care Research Group.
Professor of Critical Care ,
Tim Walsh is Professor of Critical Care at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Consultant in Critical Care at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He is also Director Innovation for NHS Lothian, and Health Innovation South East Scotland. He is Head of the Academic Dept of Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, and Co-director of Acute Care Edinburgh a multidisciplinary research grouping in the University of Edinburgh Usher Institute.
Tim leads a multidisciplinary clinical research group with interests including transfusion medicine, sedation in the critically ill, recovery from critical illness and the epidemiology and prevention of ICU acquired infection. He has a particular interest in large pragmatic clinical trials, complex health intervention trials, and the evaluation of novel diagnostics and technologies in acute care. He is a past Chairman of the NIHR UK Critical Care Research Network and UK Critical Care Research Group.
Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,
Stephen is a Consultant in Intensive Care & Deputy Medical Director at Royal Papworth Hospital Cambridge. His clinical, education and research interests lie in cardiothoracic intensive care, patient safety and quality improvement. Stephen’s management responsibilities include Quality & Safety, Estates & Facilities and Critical Care. He is also President of the Intensive Care Society (ICS) and Chair of the Medusa Injectable Medicines Guide Advisory Board. Previously Stephen was Clinical Lead of the Eastern Academic Health Science Network (EAHSN) Patient Safety Collaborative, Clinical Lead for Postgraduate Leadership Development at Cambridge University Health Partners and Member of the East of England Clinical Senate Council.Clinical Academic in Intensive Care Medicine
Ingeborg Welters finished her specialist training in Anaesthesia at University Hospital Giessen, Germany, in 1999 followed by fellowships in Intensive Care and cardiac anaesthesia. She obtained her MD (Dr. med.) for work on haemostatic and immune changes during heart surgery and was awarded the venia legendi (PhD equivalent) in anaesthesia for researching effects of anaesthetics on leukocyte function and gene transcription. Funded by the German Research Society (DFG) she worked as visiting scholar at State University of New York for 12 months. She also completed a Master degree in management of health and social care organisations with honours. In 2005 she moved to Liverpool to continue her career as clinical academic in Intensive Care. She was appointed as Associate Professor for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany, and promoted to Personal Chair in 2009.
Ingeborg’s research interests focus on cardiovascular dysfunction in acute illness. Her research has been funded by NIHR, the British Heart Foundation and EU Horizon 2023.
A Year in review Wednesday @ 8:00 AM
Anaesthetic Trainee ,
Manoj is an Anaesthetic trainee in West Yorkshire. His interests include point of care ultrasound, critical care echocardiography and all things physiology. He set up and is the course director of the Leeds FUSIC course which has been running since 2019. He is passionate about medical education and recent interests and involvements include setting up ORCA (an interactive online resource for radiology education in acute care) as well as becoming an editor at criticalcarenorthampton.co.uk.
FUSIC Heart Monday @ 9:00 AM
Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,
Dr. Jonny Wilkinson (MBChB.MRCP.FRCA.FFICM) is a Consultant in Intensive care medicine and Anaesthesia in Northampton, UK. He trained in Nottingham, where he undertook a fellowship in thoracic anaesthesia. He is the editor in chief of the Oxford Handbook of Thoracic Anaesthesia and founder of www.criticalcarenorthampton.com. When not on Twitter , he is a national and international expert in point of care ultrasound, with specialist interests in the use of handheld devices to assess the critically ill patient. He is a course director for Advanced Trauma Life support and NICE IV fluid lead for his trust, promoting safe fluid prescription and education on fluid physiology. He is a member of the ICS council and the FUSIC committee (Focused Intensive Care Ultrasound). He is faculty for The State of The Art Intensive Care Society meeting, the International Fluid Academy, the Critical Care Symposium and RA-UK. He enjoys speaking / teaching on all that is ultrasound, nationally and Internationally.FUSIC Heart Monday @ 9:00 AM
FUSIC Lung Monday @ 1:00 PM
Regional anaesthesia - ICS and RA-UK Wednesday @ 11:15 AM
Consultant Intensivist, Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
Clare is a Consultant in ICM & Anaesthesia in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, having been appointed in 2014 and is a current ICS Council Member.
She has a keen interest in patient safety and governance, taking the lead for Critical Care Governance since 2015 and being an active member of the ICS Standards & Guidelines Committee.
She is a strong advocate for the care of young adults as they transition into the care of Adult Critical Care and was the lead author for the joint national guidelines between the ICS and PCCS (Paediatric to Adult Critical Care Transition).
Other interests include Organ Donation, having been a Clinical Lead for Organ Donation since 2019, and a representative of the ICS on the National Organ Donation Committee.
Paediatric to adult transition Thursday @ 11:15 AM
Consultant Intensivist, Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, and ECMO,
Dr Rachel Wong is a Consultant at the Royal Papworth Hospital, specialising in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, and ECMO. Rachel holds Level 2 accreditation in EACVI TOE and serves as a mentor for FUSIC and FAMUS across all existing modules. When not instructing in Echocardiography or Ultrasound, Rachel dedicates her time to training and developing roles allied to medicine, including Clinical Scientists and Advanced Practitioners in Critical Care.FUSIC Heart Monday @ 9:00 AM
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!).