Professor Louise Rose

Professor of Critical Care Nursing, King’s College London

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.

Professor Nazir Lone

ICS Director of Research and Professor of Critical Care and Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh

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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Professor Marlies Ostermann

ICS Director of Research, ESICM President-elect, Consultant Intensivist and Nephrology, Guy’s and St.Thomas’ hospital NHS Trust

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.

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Professor Bronwen Connolly

Professor of Critical Care, Queen’s University Belfast

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.

 

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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. 

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