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Professor of Critical Care and Rehabilitation , Centre for Care Excellence, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust

Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Oxford Critical Care Research Group


Professor of Critical Care and Rehabilitation , Centre for Care Excellence, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust
David McWilliams is a Professor of Critical Care and Rehabilitation and Clinical Academic Physiotherapist at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and Coventry University's Centre for Care Excellence. He is the chair of the physiotherapy working group for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and Chair of the Intensive Care Society National Rehabilitation Collaborative. David was a member of the guideline development group for the NICE guideline ‘Critical Illness rehabilitation’ and led an NCEPOD study into rehabilitation and recovery following critical illness. David is recognised as an international expert on critical care physiotherapy and rehabilitation, regularly presenting both nationally and internationally on the subject.

Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Oxford Critical Care Research Group
Sarah is a Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher in the University of Oxford Critical Care Research Group. She co-leads the NIHR-funded Enhanced Recovery After Critical Care (ERACC) programme of research, aiming to design and test an enhanced care pathway for critical care survivors.
Sarah has a clinical ICU nursing background. She is an outgoing Associate Editor for Nursing in Critical Care and Deputy Chair of the Intensive Care Society's National Rehabilitation Collaborative. She is also a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

Co-Director, ICNARC
Paul is Co-Director, and Clinical Trials Unit Director, at the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC) . Paul is an epidemiologist with over 20 years’ experience of conducting multicentre randomised clinical trials, initially in Cancer, but at ICNARC focussed in adult and paediatric critical care. Paul is currently the Joint-Chief Investigator for the UK-ROX trial (NIHR130508), which is a highly challenging trial within the critical care setting, using extensive data collected routinely by the national clinical audit for critical care (Case Mix Programme) database.
Paul is the lead for the Development of an adaptive platform trial in paediatric critical care and sits on the REMAP-CAP International Trial Steering Committee. He sits on both the NIHR Critical Care National Specialty Specialty Group, which has responsibility for overseeing delivery of studies on the NIHR portfolio for critical care, and the UK Critical Care Research Group.