Dr Catherine McKenzie

Professor of Intensive Care Pharmacy in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton

Cathy McKenzie is a Professor of Intensive Care Pharmacy in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, and an Honorary Consultant Pharmacist in Critical Care. She has extensive knowledge and clinical experience of pharmacotherapy in healthcare. Her research interests are pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PKPD), antimicrobrial stewardship, medicines optimisation and delirium treatment and prevention in critical illness. She is currently funded via a the NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) Senior Clinical Practitioner Research Award. Cathy has recently been awarded £2.74million from NIHR Efficacy Mechanism and Evaluation program to conduct a double blind randomised controlled trial of IV thiamine versus placebo in the prevention and treatment of delirium in ICU. She has led or been a co-applicant of more than £6million in research funding. Cathy is supporting the NHR respiratory metagenomics programme with research into its impact on antimicrobial stewardhip and polypharmacy in ICU.

Cathy is one of three editors in chief for Critical Illness, an internationally acclaimed eBook, published by Pharmaceutical Press (www.medicinescomplete.com)

Dr Chris Remmington

NIHR Doctoral Fellow and Expert Pharmacist Critical Care, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Chris is a senior pharmacist with extensive experience in intensive care medicine. He is currently undertaking a doctoral fellowship with National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) focusing on protocolised sedation in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) patients. He is employed by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust providing pharmaceutical care to critically ill patients and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.

He holds national leadership roles including Deputy Chair of the Pharmacy Professionals Advisory Group for the Intensive Care Society and is Chair of the UK ECMO Pharmacist Group. He is research active and has published several peer reviewed articles on ECMO sedation and pharmacy workforce.

Rebekah Canning

HSC R&D Doctoral Fellow and Lead Critical Care and Theatres Pharmacist, South Eastern Health and Social Care NI

Rebekah is a senior pharmacist with more than 10 years’ experience in intensive care medicine. She is currently undertaking a doctoral fellowship with Health and Social Care R&D division, focusing on the identification of iatrogenic withdrawal in critically ill patients resulting from continuous opioid and/or sedative exposure.