Speakers
Professor Hannah Conway
Dr Justin Kirk-Bayley
Marcus Peck
Prashant Parulekar
Dr Jennie Stephens
Rachel Wong
FUSIC
Led by Hannah Conway, Marcus Peck, and Prashant Parulekar, this immersive workshop offers structured, hands-on training across dedicated rotating stations spanning the full breadth of FUSIC® Heart and FUSIC® HD. Participants will build practical competence from foundational protocol skills through to advanced haemodynamic assessment, covering left and right ventricular evaluation including LVIDd, MAPSE, TAPSE, and eyeball assessment, preload evaluation, and pericardial effusion recognition, before progressing to left ventricular ejection fraction, right ventricular fractional area change, RV dimensions, pulmonary hypertension evaluation including tricuspid regurgitation velocity, and left atrial pressure estimation using both E/E' and structural assessment. Simulation pathology stations are integrated throughout, enabling participants to apply and consolidate learning in a safe, supported environment. The workshop is well suited to clinicians at any stage of their FUSIC® journey, whether building foundational competence or preparing for HD accreditation.
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Please note: Previous workshops have been fully booked well in advance. Early registration is strongly recommended to secure your preferred session. Tickets available through the SOA Congress registration portal
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.
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)
Marcus Peck is an NHS anaesthetist & intensive care consultant, past-cochair and current network lead of the Intensive Care Society’s Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care (“FUSIC”) committee, and editor of the OUP textbook 'Focused Intensive Care Ultrasound'. He is a passionate POCUS advocate, who speaks and teaches widely, and sits on multiple national committees focused on improving POCUS training opportunities and quality assurance. He relishes breaking down organisational barriers and dreams of the day when POCUS is normal practice for every frontline clinician. You can find Marcus on X as @ICUltrasonica".
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.
Jennie is the Chair of the FUSIC committee and National lead for FUSIC Abdomen.
She works as a Consultant in Intensive care and Acute Medicine in, the sometimes sunny but always beautiful, Cornwall in Southwest England.
She was a founding member of three of the major working groups for point-of-care ultrasound (FUSIC, FAMUS and CACTUS). She continues to teach POCUS on a regular basis in her local setting but also nationally and via remote mentorship.
She is the clinical lead for OPAT (Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy) in Cornwall and supervises a nursing team delivering acute care in the community.
She is a mum to 2 boys, cross-fit enthusiast and occasionally competent gardener.
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 President Elect of the Intensive Care Society. 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.