Speakers
Professor Marlies Ostermann
Research
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.
Dr Flower is a Specialty Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine in London and a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, based at the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute. His doctoral research focuses on mechanisms of immune dysregulation in severe acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure and is supported by Cambridge University's first Centre for Pandemic Risk Management Doctoral Research Fellowship.
His clinical and research interests centre around the pathophysiology and management of ARDS and cardiogenic shock. He has also been involved in several critical care ultrasound initiatives, including leading a large national study investigating echocardiography in shock (NEAT-ECHO) and serving as lead editor of the textbook Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Intensive Care.
Dr Flower currently serves as Co-Chair of the UK Trainee Research in Intensive Care (TRIC) Network, Academic StR Representative to the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, and International Subcommittee Lead for the American Thoracic Society Critical Care Assembly’s Early Career Professionals Working Group. He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Intensive Care Society, a member of the Intensive Care Society’s EDI Working Party, and has received the Intensive Care Society's ICU People Champion Award and the Association of Anaesthetists’ Kathleen Ferguson Award for his work addressing health inequity.