Rebekah Haylett

Physiotherapist in Critical Care and ICS Physio PAG Member

Becky is a Physiotherapist working in Oxford and is the member 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

Katie Nurcombe

Chief Executive Officer, Intensive Care Society

Katie is the CEO for the Intensive Care Society (ICS) and has a wealth of experience leading membership growth and transformational change.  Over her career she has led trade associations, membership organisations and public-private partnerships, and has worked in a variety of sectors including local growth, construction, skills and healthcare.  Prior to the ICS she was CEO at ENT UK, the surgical association for Ear, Nose, Throat and Head and Neck surgeons. She has a passion for corporate social responsibility, and is an active champion of wellbeing as well as equity, diversity and inclusion.

Professor Natalie Pattison

Professor of Clinical Nursing, University of Hertfordshire

Professor Natalie Pattison is a clinical academic who has worked clinically in cancer, critical care and critical care outreach. She is a Professor of Clinical Nursing with a joint appointment across the University of Hertfordshire and East and North Herts NHS Trust. Natalie also holds a Researcher in Residence (ICU) position at Imperial College London, working in the CATO team, with an honorary contract with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She is the clinical lead for critical care follow-up services, combining this with a research role. Her research interests focus on her clinical area of critical care and critically ill ward patients, end of life in critical care, and disability in critical care. She is widely published in critical care supportive care.  She is Chair of the National Outreach Forum, immediate past-Chair of UK Critical Care Research Group, and the UK Critical Care Nursing Alliance. She is also Deputy Lead for the National Institute for Health Research National Specialty Group for Critical Care.

: @drnatpat

Dr Parjam (PJ) Zolfaghari

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, The Royal London Hospital

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 was Programme Director for three editions of SOA (2023 to 2025) 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