Professor Shondipon Laha

ICS President and Consultant in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Shondipon is a Consultant in intensive care and anaesthesia at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Intensive Care Society's Honorary Secretary. He is also the Society's Learning Division Chair leading the education and ultrasound programme across the UK.

Shondipon is also Honorary President of the Association of North Western ICUs (ANWICU).

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: @shond3

Dr Andrew Breen

Consultant Intensivist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Andy is a consultant in ICM working in Leeds Teaching Hospitals, having been appointed in 2005. He is Clinical Director for Adult Critical Care in Leeds, and an elected the Intensive Care Society's Honorary Secretary.  He graduated in Liverpool in 1995, where he completed his clinical training in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine.

Andy has strong interest in point-of-care ultrasound, having been a founding member of the FICE committee, current member of the FUSIC committee and co-author of a number of POCUS accreditation programmes. Other interests include ethical decision making and advance care planning, the science of quality improvement and IV fluids education.

: @ICUbreeno

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.