Speakers
Dr Sarah Burgess
Dr Daniele Bryden
Dr Segun Olusanya
Abstracts
The Intensive Care Society Resident Doctors Professional Advisory Group proudly presents the latest edition of The Cauldron at SOA25.
This year’s theme, “Mind the Gap: Combating Differential Attainment,” challenges us to confront the persistent disparities in training outcomes, career progression, and leadership representation across gender, ethnicity, disability, and international medical graduate status within intensive care medicine.
Abstract submitters were invited to propose strategies that can be implemented at institutional and national levels to address these gaps—and to consider how we can measure the impact of these interventions to ensure fair and equal opportunities for all resident/training doctors pursuing a career in critical care.
The highest scoring abstracts have been invited to speak at the session, followed by questions from a judging panel. The winning submission will be announced during the SOA25 Closing Plenary on Thursday 3 July 2025.
We are also delighted to welcome Dr Daniele Bryden (Dean of FICM) to open the session with a keynote talk: “Closing the Gap: Addressing Differential Attainment in Critical Care.”
Speakers:
1. Krithi Ravi: Differential attainment or differential reward: the urgent need for a paradigm shift in Intensive Care education and training.
2. Thomas Baumer: Equality of opportunity – why data underpins everything
3. Chris Thorne: Differential attainment in Advanced Life Support: Can we close the gap?
4. Hannah Wilkin Crowe: Sponsorship Scheme Proposal
Sarah grew up in the West Country and qualified from the University of Cambridge in 2012. She decided that critical care was for her after watching a registrar do an RSI on a general medical ward and deciding this was the coolest thing ever! She has worked in Lancashire, Cambridgeshire, the West Midlands and London where she currently works as dual trainee in anaesthesia and ICM (she no longer approves of intubating patients on medical wards...) She was elected to the ICS Trainee Advisory Group in late 2020, where she works for the education team.
Dr Daniele Bryden is a Consultant and honorary senior lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine in Sheffield since 2001 and Dean of FICM.
Prior to becoming FICM Dean, she worked within the Faculty as Vice Dean, Chair of the Careers, Recruitment and Workforce committee and led national ICM recruitment. Other roles have included lead Regional Advisor for ICM, and ICM Regional Advisor for Yorkshire and Humber. Her clinical and research interests are focused on decision-making and frailty assessment in critical care, medical professionalism and leadership. Her other previous roles have included a secondment to NHS Resolution as an Assessment and Intervention Advisor, an Associate Postgraduate Dean for HEE Yorkshire and Humber and National Critical Care Tutor for the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
She is proud to be a committed trainer and ICM educational supervisor, and when not working can usually be found pottering in the greenhouse or busy on her allotment.
Segun is a newly appointed Intensive Care Consultant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, with special interests in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), clinician wellbeing, point of care ultrasound, equality/diversity/inclusion, and online education. His real claim to fame is running an award winning wedding cake and confectionery business with his wife, Fehintola; he primarily functions as Chief Taster, and occasional Dish Washer.
Completed dual training in hepatology and intensive care medicine in some of London’s major teaching hospitals.
Works as a critical care consultant at King’s College Hospital across both general intensive care and liver intensive care. Is currently the Clinical Lead for the King’s Liver Intensive Therapy Unit, which has a long history of spearheading research and innovation in the management of complex patients with acute liver failure and chronic liver disease. Her areas of specialist interest include pregnancy related acute liver failure, acute on chronic liver failure, use of extracorporeal support in acute and chronic liver failure as well as management of systemic diseases affecting the liver such as HLH and haematological malignancies