SOA25 Congress

Dr Aoife Abbey

Consultant Intensivist

Aoife Abbey is a Consultant Intensivist at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire. She is an Intensive Care Society, Council member and chair of the Society's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) group. 

Aoife is author of an international published non-fiction book Seven Signs of Life and section editor for From the inside at Intensive Care Medicine

: @whistlingdixie4

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Professor Leanne Aitken

Professor of Critical Care, City St George's, University of London

Professor Leanne Aitken is a critical care nurse (Australia) after spending 12 months in an interim role as Vice-President, Research and 4 years as the Associate Dean, Research, Enterprise & Global Engagement in the School of Health & Psychological Sciences at City St.George’s, University of London. Professor Aitken concurrently holds visiting professorial appointments at Queen Mary University of London, UK, the University of Melbourne, Australia and the Universidad Del Salvador, Argentina. 

Professor Aitken has had a varied career in critical care and more recently in research leadership, including roles in practice, management, education and research. Professor Aitken's current research focuses on interventions that can be delivered during and after critical illness or injury to improve recovery after time in the intensive care unit, decision-making practices of critical care nurses and a range of clinical practice issues. Her various roles also incorporate mentoring academic and clinical staff and research students through the research process.

Professor Aitken is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing and the Australian College of Nursing as well as a Life Member and Fellow of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN). She is a co-editor of Critical Care Nursing, a comprehensive text that is now in the 5th edition and is published by Elsevier. She is also a Fulbright Alumnus after receiving a Fulbright Senior Scholarship to undertake research examining recovery after trauma at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

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Nicholas Barrett

Consultant Intensivist

Dr Nicholas Barrett is a consultant in critical care medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust who trained in both anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney Australia. He leads the ICU at Guy’s and St Thomas' and has particular interests in severe cardio-respiratory failure, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and extracorporeal CO₂ removal (ECCO₂R), including its provision in pregnancy. He is a specialist advisor to NICE and HSIB. He is chair of EuroELSO, the organisation supporting the development of ECMO in Europe and provides advice to ECMO programmes around the world.

 

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Professor 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

Elisa Bogossian

Associate Researcher, Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles and Faculty of Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles

 I am a Brazilian intensivist currently working as Associate Researcher at the intensive Care Unit of Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles and at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. My main research interests critically ill acute brain injury patients (including subarachnoid haemorrhage, traumatic brain injury and spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage) with a special focus on multimodal invasive and non-invasive neuromonitoring.

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 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.

: @ICUbreeno

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Sarah Burgess

Sarah grew up in the West Country and qualified from the University of Cambridge in 2012.  She decided that critical care was for her after watching a registrar do an RSI on a general medical ward and deciding this was the coolest thing ever! She has worked in Lancashire, Cambridgeshire, the West Midlands and London where she currently works as dual trainee in anaesthesia and ICM (she no longer approves of intubating patients on medical wards...)  She was elected to the ICS Trainee Advisory Group in late 2020, where she works for the education team.

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

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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

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Professor Jon Coles

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine , Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

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 and am currently President Elect, Neuroanaesthesia and Critical Care Society (NACCS), UK

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Professor Bronwen Connolly

Bronwen Connolly is a critical care physiotherapist, and Senior Lecturer in Critical Care at Queen’s University Belfast.  She is the Chief Investigator of the NIHR HTA-funded MARCH trial, investigating the effectiveness of mucoactive drugs in acute respiratory failure, and leads the development of a core outcome set for trials of physical rehabilitation in critical illness.  Bronwen is the recipient of three previous NIHR Fellowships, and her research interests focus on acute respiratory and rehabilitation physiotherapy, the recovery, long-term outcome and survivorship of post critical illness patients, and clinical trial methodology around complex rehabilitation interventions.  Bronwen sits on the NIHR Critical Care National Specialty Group and the UK Critical Care Research Group.

 

Hannah Conway

Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care and National Lead for FUSIC® Heart, UK

Hannah Conway is an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner and Associate Professor of Advanced Clinical Practice, specialising in cardiothoracic critical care. As National Lead for FUSIC® Heart and Chair of the Advanced Practitioners in Critical Care Professional Advisory Group, she champions the development of critical care education and professional standards.

https://linktr.ee/cardiacaccp

 

 

: @cardiacACCP

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Andrew Conway-Morris

Consultant Intensivist

Dr Conway Morris is a critical care consultant and MRC Clinician Scientist based at the University of Cambridge.  He trained at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, undertaking a PhD in Edinburgh focused on immune failure in critical illness and nosocomial infection.  His research interests include neutrophil function and dysfunction in critical illness, where he identified complement component C5a as a key driver of dysfunction in patients.  He has also developed and tested a number of diagnostics for pneumonia, using both host and pathogen-focussed techniques.  His animating force is a desire to improve the management of infection in intensive care, and combat the rising tide of antimicrobial resistance.  He was recently awarded the Royal College of Anaesthetists 2023 Mackintosh Professorship.   He is the director of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine’s research and antimicrobial stewardship learning pathways.

: @andymoz78

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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

Professor Paul Dark

Paul studied undergraduate physics and medicine. Graduating from The Manchester Medical School, he went on to study clinical academic surgery, emergency medicine and critical care at the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester in the UK, and at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

As MRC PhD Clinical Training Fellow, supervised by Professor Rod Little, he developed methods to transduce and study dynamic cardio-respiratory responses to tissue injury and haemorrhage. This work produced key evidence for the validation and refinement of minimally-invasive patient monitoring technologies including Doppler ultrasound and arterial pulse wave analysis systems.

He was appointed to his current clinical academic post at the University of Manchester in 2003, developing clinical services and academic practice in Critical Care Medicine at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (Salford Care Organisation). He developed and provides leadership for a programme of work, funded mainly by the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR), investigating the clinical and cost effectiveness of emerging molecular diagnostic technologies in the setting of sterile tissue injury and severe infections (sepsis) within both high and low resource healthcare settings internationally. Funded by NIHR Manchester BRC, NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Emergency and Acute Care and Innovate UK in partnership with industry, he also co-leads an ongoing programme of work developing novel technologies aimed at rapid point-of-care infection/sepsis theragnosis with the objective of optimising patient exposure to antimicrobial drugs.

Paul was NIHR Clinical Research Network's National Deputy Medical Director (2022 - 24). He provided strategic leadership for the development, delivery and accessibility of a large portfolio of national clinical research in NHS acute hospital settings and he represented NIHR internationally. As a former NIHR National Specialty Lead for Critical Care (2015-22), he served on NIHR's Urgent Public Health Research Advisory Group, providing expert advice on research priority for the Department of Health and Social Care and UK's Chief Medical Officers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

He is also Research Professor at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, providing strategic interdisciplinary leadership in global health and social justice.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-dark-33002722?lip
: @https://x.com/darknatter

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Ross Davenport

Reader, Trauma Sciences and Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Centre for Trauma Sciences (C4TS) and Royal London Major Trauma Centre, Bart’s Health NHS Trust

No bio provided

: @@rossdavenport

Professor Jan De Waele

President, ESICM

President of ESICM, Full Professor at Universiteit Gent, Intensivist at Ghent University Hospital, Senior Clinical Investigator at the Research Foundation Flanders.

: @@criticcaredoc

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Paul Dean

ICS Honorary Treasurer and Consultant Intensivist , UK

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

Dr Annemarie Docherty

Wellcome Career Development Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Critical Care, University of Edinburgh

Annemarie leads ICU-HEART. This multi-disciplinary collaboration aims to revolutionise the care of Intensive Care patients by harnessing novel approaches in the use of technology and high dimensional data. Our two exemplar projects - diagnosis of myocardial infarction, and multimorbidity - combine key unanswered research priorities with the need for data driven innovation.

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Luke Flower

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.

: @LukeFlower1

Ned (Edward) Gilbert-Kawai

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.

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

: @Becky_HPhysio

Andy Higgs

Andy Higgs is a Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine in Warrington Hospitals, Cheshire, having trained in Liverpool, North West England and Melbourne, Australia. He has a long-standing interest in airway management, especially extubation and in the ICU. Andy was Clinical Director of ICU between 2005 and 2007 and joint Clinical Lead Anaesthesia/ICU from 2007 to 2011. He is a faculty member and contributor to the Aintree Difficult Airway Management course. He co-authored the Difficult Airway Society Extubation Guidelines (2012) and chairs the joint Royal College of Anaesthetists/Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine/DAS group, aiming to produce a guideline for Airway Management in the Critically Ill.

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Julie Highfield

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

No bio provided

: @DrJulie_H

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Ben Ivory

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.

: @bennoivory

Michaela Jones

Lead Nurse Associate Director and ICS Nursing Professional Advisory Group, Chair.

Michaela joined North West London ACC Network as Lead Nurse /Associate Director at the end of January 2024 having spent almost 6 years as a matron at Southampton University Hospital Cardiac ICU. She has worked in critical care for over three decades where much of her career has been at UCLH and Cambridge.

Michaela has always had a passion for education, training, workforce and leadership.

Michaela is an elected council member at the Society and chair of the Society’s Nurse Professional Advisory Group. She is a member of the Critical Care National Network Nurse Leads Forum (CC3N), Critical Care Nurse Education Review Forum, a subgroup of CC3N and a member of UK Critical Care Nursing Alliance.

: @sisterswan

Justin Kirk-Bayley

Consultant Intensivist & Anaesthetist and National FUSIC® Lung Lead, UK

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)

: @PARADicmSHIFT

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Dr Chris Kirwan

Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust

After training in various London University Teaching Hospitals, Chris was appointed a consultant in Critical Care Medicine and Nephrology at The Royal London Hospital in 2012 and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Barts and The London school of Medicine soon after. His main research interests include improving the recognition and outcomes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and especially its long-term effect on renal function, the effect of AKI on hepatic drug metabolism and the peri-operative care of renal transplant patients. More recently Chris has focused on the evolving role of CRRT in acutely ill patients particularly the use of regional citrate anticoagulation, dynamic dosing and the importance of access in successful therapy, as well as the role of intermittent dialysis in supporting critically ill patients.

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Shondipon Laha

ICS President and Consultant Intensivist , UK

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.

Shondipon is also Honorary President of the Association of North Western ICUs (ANWICU).

: www.ics.ac.uk
: @shond3

Dr Andrea Lavinio

Consultant in Neurosciences and Trauma Critical Care & Anaesthesia , Addenbrooke’s Hospital

Dr. Andrea Lavinio, MD, MBA, FRCA, FFICM, RCPathME is a Consultant in Neurosciences and Trauma Critical Care & Anaesthesia at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is the Clinical Lead for Organ Donation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, a Medical Examiner, and an Affiliated Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge.

Dr. Lavinio is actively involved in clinical research, education, management and innovation. He has published highly impactful peer-reviewed papers, contributed to textbooks and has led the development of best practice guidelines for temperature management. He also leads a webinar series on temperature control in intensive care following cardiac arrest, acute vascular injury, and traumatic brain injury in collaboration with ESICM.

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Professor Nazir Lone

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. 

: @ICULone

Professor 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

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Steve Mathieu

ICS Immediate Past President and Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist

Steve Mathieu is the Immediate Past 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

Hannah Matson

Veterinary Intensivist, Queen Mother Hospital for Animals, Royal Veterinary College

Hannah is a veterinary intensivist. She underwent specialty training at the Royal Veterinary College and achieved diplomate status of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care in 2024. She stayed on with the team post-residency and currently practises at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals, where she and the team manage critically ill dogs and cats in the intensive care unit. Aside from her clinical duties, Hannah is also involved in teaching undergraduate and post-graduate veterinary students.

Professor 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

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Dr Bairbre McNicholas

Consultant Intensivist and Nephrologist, University of Galway

Dr. Bairbre McNicholas is a dual-trained Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Nephrology at Galway University Hospitals (GUH) and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Galway. She completed her PhD on early inflammation in obesity and type 2 diabetes as part of the National Specialist registrar academic fellowship programme and following this, completed a basic science research fellowship at the University of Washington, Seattle USA. She completed training in Intensive Care Medicine in Ireland in 2017.  Dr. McNicholas has led and collaborated on numerous clinical trials such as REMAP-CAP and REACT-SHOCK, Awake-prone meta trial group and studies on the immunology of sepsis and epidemiology of acute kidney injury.  Dr. McNicholas is the CRRT lead for Ireland’s Acute Critical Care Programme, the AKI Pathway Lead for ESICM.  She has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and two book chapters, and is co-chair of the RCPI Climate Advisory Group.

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Professor David McWilliams

Professor of Critical Care and Rehabilitation , Centre for Care Excellence, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust

David McWilliams is a Professor of Critical Care and Rehabilitation 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 Chair of the Intensive Care Society National Rehabilitation Collaborative. David was a member of the guideline development group for the NICE guideline ‘Critical Illness rehabilitation’ and led an NCEPOD study into rehabilitation and recovery following critical illness. David is recognised as an international expert on critical care physiotherapy and rehabilitation, regularly presenting both nationally and internationally on the subject.

: @Davido744

Reena Mehta

Consultant Pharmacist, Chair of ICS Learning Division & Pharmacy Professional Advisory Group

Reena is a Consultant Pharmacist in Critical Care at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London and Chair of the Intensive Care Society’s Learning Division.

Her specialist areas of interest are anti-microbial stewardship, medicines use in extra-corporeal circuits and health inequalities. 

She has worked in Critical Care for over 15 years, and has co-authored and provided specialist input nationally into areas such as pharmacy critical care workforce, clinical guidelines, and advanced critical care training.  Reena is an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Intensive Care Society and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.   Within her organisation, she is a Principal Investigator on a number of CRN Portfolio studies

Reena is also the Pharmacy Lead for the South East London ICS - Critical Care/ODN and a member of the United Kingdom Adult Critical Care Pharmacy Leadership Forum.  She has recently completed an MSc in Health Economics, Policy & Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

: @ReenaM2703

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Victoria Metaxa

Consultant Intensivist and Trauma , UK

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).  

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Ashley Miller

Consultant Intensivist

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

: @icmteaching

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Professor Hugh Montgomery

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.

Hugh obtained his research degree (MD) in 1997, and is Professor of Intensive Care at UCL, where he directed the Institute for Human Health and Performance. Hugh's interest has been in the use of environmental stressors in the exploration of human (patho)physiology – often using a genetic approach. He was the first to discover a 'gene for human fitness'. He has published over 450 scientific articles.

Hugh also has a strong interest in environmental impacts on health, and in climate change in particular.

His current roles are:

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

Dr Clare Morkane

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist , Royal Free Hospital

Clare is a Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist at the Royal Free Hospital, London. She trained in Cardiff and London and spent one year as a visiting Attending Anesthesiologist at the University of California, San Francisco. She completed an MD(res) focussed on prehabilitation for patients undergoing liver transplantation and complex major vascular surgery.

She has a specialist interest in liver intensive care and the perioperative management of patients undergoing complex major surgery.

: @@cmorks1

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

Professor Marlies Ostermann

ICS Director of Research, Consultant Intensivist and Nephrology, UK

Marlies is a Consultant in Critical Care & Nephrology at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Foundation Trust, London and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.

Following medical school in Goettingen (Germany), she completed her postgraduate training in the United Kingdom and Canada. She is one of the Directors of Research at the Intensive Care Society, and actively involved in the Renal Association. She is Deputy Chair of the AKI working group of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

Her clinical and research interests include acute kidney injury in the critically ill, including biomarkers and long-term complications, and all aspects related to acute renal replacement therapy.

: @MarliesOsterman

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Professor Gavin Perkins

Dean of Medicine , Warwick Medical School

Prof Gavin Perkins is Dean of Medicine at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Honorary Professor of Critical Care Medicine at University Hospitals Birmingham and Non-Executive Director at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. He has published over 500 papers and played a key role in developing the evidence base relating to cardiac arrest through his leadership of the UK National Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes Registry and the PARAMEDIC trials (PARAMEDIC-1, mechanical CPR, PARAMEDIC-2, adrenaline for cardiac arrest; PARAMEDIC-3 IV versus IO access) as well as research on CPR Feedback and Debriefing. Working with colleagues from across the UK, he played a key role in the underpinning research which informed the Recommended Emergency Care Treatment Plans (ReSPECT). His contribution to clinical research has been recognised through election as a Fellow to the Academy of Medical Sciences, appointment as a National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigator, honorary membership of the Resuscitation Council UK, European Resuscitation Council and Intensive Care Society and recognition as a Resuscitation Giant by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. Clarivate have identified him as a highly cited researcher, ranking in the top 1% of scientists in the world. As a Masters graduate in Medical Education, Prof Perkins prides himself in the organisation and delivery of high quality, research-led teaching to students and healthcare professionals at Warwick and around the world. Although his role now primarily focuses on leadership he has led the development of novel undergraduate and postgraduate teaching which had an impact on thousands of students and the patients they treat. Prior to taking up the role of Dean he served as Director of Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Director of Research for the Intensive Care Society and as a MERIT Consultant with West Midlands Ambulance Service for which he received the Queens Jubilee Medals for Pre-hospital Care.

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

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John Prowle

Clinical Reader in Critical Care Nephrology, Queen Mary University of London and Consultant Intensivist & Nephrologist, Barts Health NHS Trust

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

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Professor Zudin Puthucheary

Consultant Intensivist , UK

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. He worked as a Respiratory and Critical Care Consultant at National University Hospital Singapore before returning to the UK.

His research focusses on acquired functional disability, and the use of metabolic, nutritional and exercise interventions to prevent and treat muscle wasting, and has published over 100 papers with a H index of 39. Zudin is a nationally elected Council member of the Intensive Care Society (UK). He was the inaugural chair of the UK National Post-Intensive Care Rehabilitation Collaborative, a multi-professional cross-disciplinary group focussing on rehabilitation and restitution of critical illness survivors. 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. 

: @Zudin_P

Professor Kenneth Rockwood

Professor of Geriatric Medicine , Dalhousie University & Nova Scotia Health

Kenneth Rockwood is Professor of Medicine (Division of Geriatric Medicine and Neurology) and Clinical Research Professor of Frailty and Aging at Dalhousie University and an active staff physician. A native of Newfoundland, he received his MD from Memorial University, and completed training in Internal Medicine at the University of Alberta and in Geriatric Medicine at Dalhousie University.

He is a leading authority on frailty, Professor Rockwood has more than 600 peer-reviewed publications and nine books to his credit. His original definition of frailty, The Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), first described in 2005 as a semiquantitative tool used to estimate an individual’s degree of frailty on a scale of 1 to 9, is used extensively across the world. Ken has many collaborations internationally, including work on younger people with frailty in the UK, a deprescribing clinical trial, an intergenerational dementia prevention trial, and a large multi centre study of frailty, all in Australia. He is also working with Cape Breton University on healthy aging and dementia prevention.

Professor Louise Rose

Professor of Critical Care Nursing, UK

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

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Antonio Rubino

Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist and Intensivist, UK

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 Intenisve Care Society's national lead for the focused transoesohpageal echocardiography (fTOE) program. His research interest include critical care ultrasounds, ECMO and cardiothoracic donor organs optimisation.

: @AEA_rubino

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Louise Savic

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Louise Savic is a consultant anaesthetist with a clinical and research interest in drug allergy and perioperative anaphylaxis. She is currently a doctoral fellow with the NIHR, investigating drug allergy in surgical patients. Working closely with the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Clinical Immunology Professional Network, she is leading a cross speciality working party for improving allergy care among surgical patients, including the implementation of routine penicillin allergy delabelling

Professor Manu Shankar Hari

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. 

: @msh_manu

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Professor Mervyn Singer

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine

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

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Professor Simon Stanworth

Consultant Haematologist and Professor of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital and University of Oxford

Simon Stanworth is Consultant Haematologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford (NHSBT and Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust), and Professor of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Oxford. He has over 20 years of clinical research experience since gaining his DPhil from the University of Oxford in ‘haemoglobin switching’. His research is informed by patient needs, identified by multiple Patient and Public Engagement panels and work with James Lind Priority Setting Partnerships. The main aim of his research is to understand which patients need (or don’t need) blood or alternatives to blood transfusion. His research is centred on clinical indications of blood transfusion components or alternatives to transfusion. Highlights have included international randomised trials. He has an interest in translating research into practice, including contributions to many national and international guidelines, such as red cell transfusion thresholds.  

He is Director of the NIHR Blood Transfusion Research Unit (BTRU) Data Enabled Transfusion Practice which promises new data and new methods of assessing and improving transfusion practice. He has national and international leadership roles in transfusion medicine including Chair of the (formerly) National Cancer Research Institute Supportive Care Working Party, the European Haematology Association Transfusion Specialist Working Party, Chair of the International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines and co-Chair for the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative (BEST)

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Kate Tantam

Specialist Intensive Care Sister, UK

Kate is a Specialist Sister in ICU in Plymouth.  Her role is to support patients, loved ones and staff pre and post ICU discharge.  She is a nurse researcher in rehabilitation after critical illness and the founder of the #Rehablegend campaign. The campaign shares patient stories to share best practice, improve patient experience, support quality improvement and clinical research and raise awareness of the importance of rehabilitation for all.  Her work was recognised with a Parliamentary Award for care and compassion in 2019, National Patient Experience Award in 2019.  Her work during 2020/2021 supporting patients with COVID saw her awarded with a British Empire Medal for services to improve patient experience.  She is the deputy chair of the National Rehabilitation Collaborative and is keen to develop national work to support recovery after ICU.

: @tantamkate

Professor 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. 

Jonny Wilkinson

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist

Dr. Jonny Wilkinson (MBChB.MRCP.FRCA.FFICM) is a Consultant in Intensive care medicine and Anaesthesia in Northampton, UK. He trained in Nottingham, where he undertook a fellowship in thoracic anaesthesia. He is the editor in chief of the Oxford Handbook of Thoracic Anaesthesia and founder of www.criticalcarenorthampton.com. When not on Twitter , he is a national and international expert in point of care ultrasound, with specialist interests in the use of handheld devices to assess the critically ill patient. He is a course director for Advanced Trauma Life support and NICE IV fluid lead for his trust, promoting safe fluid prescription and education on fluid physiology. He is a member of the ICS council and the FUSIC committee (Focused Intensive Care Ultrasound). He is faculty for The State of The Art Intensive Care Society meeting, the International Fluid Academy, the Critical Care Symposium and RA-UK. He enjoys speaking / teaching on all that is ultrasound, nationally and Internationally.

: @Wilkinsonjonny

Clare Windsor

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.

: @ClareMWindsor

Parjam (PJ) Zolfaghari

SOA Programme Director and Consultant Intensivist

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