Speakers
Tasneem Pirani
Stream 3
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
Ned Gilbert-Kawai is a Consultant in Critical Care Medicine & Anaesthesia at The Royal Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Ned completed his PhD at University College London on the effect of hypoxia on microcirculation and then undertook a Masters in Genomic Medicine at Imperial College London. He was the Chief Scientific Officer for the Xtreme Everest 2 expedition (UCL Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment (CASE) Medicine, 2013), and has since maintained an interest in both cardiovascular physiology and genomic medicine. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Intensive Care Society and an examiner at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Exams.