Speakers
Professor Leanne Aitken
Professor Shondipon Laha
Professor Marlies Ostermann
David Sapsford
Stream 2
This session will examine current sedation and delirium practices in the ICU, highlighting key drivers, barriers, and opportunities for improvement. It will explore the evolving evidence base (including findings from the A2B trial) and their implications for clinical decision-making. The session will also present recent NIHR research on UK delirium practices, including qualitative insights, intervention mapping, and the latest ICS guidelines for delirium prevention and management.
Professor Leanne Aitken is a critical care nurse (Australia) after spending 12 months in an interim role as Vice-President, Research and 4 years as the Associate Dean, Research, Enterprise & Global Engagement in the School of Health & Psychological Sciences at City St.George’s, University of London. Professor Aitken concurrently holds visiting professorial appointments at Queen Mary University of London, UK, the University of Melbourne, Australia and the Universidad Del Salvador, Argentina.
Professor Aitken has had a varied career in critical care and more recently in research leadership, including roles in practice, management, education and research. Professor Aitken's current research focuses on interventions that can be delivered during and after critical illness or injury to improve recovery after time in the intensive care unit, decision-making practices of critical care nurses and a range of clinical practice issues. Her various roles also incorporate mentoring academic and clinical staff and research students through the research process.
Professor Aitken is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing and the Australian College of Nursing as well as a Life Member and Fellow of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN). She is a co-editor of Critical Care Nursing, a comprehensive text that is now in the 5th edition and is published by Elsevier. She is also a Fulbright Alumnus after receiving a Fulbright Senior Scholarship to undertake research examining recovery after trauma at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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Marlies is a Consultant in Critical Care & Nephrology at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Foundation Trust, London and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.
Following medical school in Goettingen (Germany), she completed her postgraduate training in the United Kingdom and Canada. She is one of the Directors of Research at the Intensive Care Society, and actively involved in the Renal Association. She is Deputy Chair of the AKI working group of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
Her clinical and research interests include acute kidney injury in the critically ill, including biomarkers and long-term complications, and all aspects related to acute renal replacement therapy.
David has been practicing critical care pharmacy since 2003 and now leads a team of ten pharmacists and a pharmacy technician covering the 59 adult critical care beds at Cambridge University Hospitals NHSFT. His particular interests include safe, effective use and stewardship of antimicrobials, and management of pain and delirium in ICU patients.
David is deputy chair of the Intensive Care Society Pharmacy Professional Advisory Group and is delighted to count himself as inaugural ICS Leadership Programme alumni.
David is a member of the ICS Zermatt to Verbier Ski Mountaineering Team for 2024. For more information or to sponsor David, please head to https://www.justgiving.com/page/dfavidsapsford-z2v24
Ben Gibbison is Associate Professor of Cardiac Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Bristol and Honorary Consultant at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. His clinical training was in London, Australia, Cambridge and the South-West. Ben was a full-time NHS Consultant, before moving to be an academic in 2018. He now cares for people before during and after cardiac surgery for half of his time and conducts research for the other half. His research includes physiological mechanisms, data science and applied clinical research (encompassing multi-centre randomised trials).