Speakers
Professor Hugh Montgomery OBE
Dr Steve Harris
Callum Mackay
Dr Sam Clark
Hall 1
In this ‘sofa chat’ we will delve into all things sustainability alongside topics that are designed to make us all think way beyond the session. What will you change?
Chairs: Hugh Montgomery and Kate Tantam
Presentations:
A ‘sofa chat’ will follow the presentations, and there will also be time for discussion and questions.
Steve Harris is a Principal Research Fellow in Translational Data Science at UCL, an NHS Consultant in Critical Care, and the Chief Research Information Officer at UCLH Biomedical Research Centre. He has held fellowships from Wellcome, and the Health Foundation, and won more than £10m in grant funding. He is Co-Director of the Central London NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaborative, and co-investigator for CHIMERA, the Wellcome Innovation Flagship Critical Care Asia, and co-leads the NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative for Critical Care. At UCLH, he led the implementation of the Experimental Medicine Application Platform (EMAP) and FlowEHR that aim to bridge the 'AI chasm', and deliver algorithms and inference to the bedside.
Callum is currently undertaking a Transfer Fellowship with ACCTS Cymru (Adult Critical Care Transfer). He has completed his core training in Anaesthesia in Merseyside. His interests include advanced airway management, paediatric anaesthesia and, predictably, transfer medicine.
Callum also works in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd as an ICM fellow, where he has managed the development and implementation of improved strategies for blood testing in ICU.
Dr Sam Clark is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) and Clinical Lead for Critical Care Services at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Alongside ICM, he has a specialist interest in Palliative Medicine and works regularly within Specialist Palliative Medicine services at his Trust.
Sam has contributed to the development of clinical, end of life, and sustainability guidance over a number of years through the Intensive Care Society, and is currently an elected member of the Consultant Intensivist Professional Advisory Group and the Society’s Environment and Sustainability Working Group.
He developed and led the implementation and spread of the ICS “Gloves Off” campaign to support sustainable practice in Critical Care. He has also worked collaboratively with UK colleagues and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society to develop the Beginner’s Guide to Sustainability in the ICU, and was an author of the newly added sustainability chapter in GPICS Version 3.
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.