Speakers
Dr Parjam (PJ) Zolfaghari
Plenary
Have journal articles run their course? Will artificial intelligence just do the dissemination? Where does the author fit in?
In this engaging closing plenary, Mike Charlesworth will share insight and experiences of good and bad, successful and not so successful dissemination strategies, illustrating that a one size fits all approach no longer works. This session will certainly make you think outside the box!
PJ was born in Iran and moved to the UK when he was 11 years old. He studied medicine at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ (UMDS) and after initially training to be a surgeon, he switched to anaesthesia and critical care medicine training in East London. He did his PhD with Mervyn Singer at UCL on mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis and multiorgan failure before starting his consultant post at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, London. His interests are metabolic response in critical illness and trauma. His current main focus is his passion for teaching: he runs the Critical Care MSc at Queen Mary University London and is a senior lecturer in the Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group at QMUL. He is also one of the associate editors of BJA Education. He was Programme Director for three editions of SOA (2023 to 2025) and is very excited to bring education, research and debate to this multi-professional meeting, as well as great social events in the evenings (another one of his passions!).
Mike is a consultant in cardiothoracic anaesthesia, intensive care medicine and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). His clinical interests are around VV-ECMO, mechanical circulatory support, heart/lung transplantation and major cardiac surgical care. He is passionate about education and leads the local teaching programme as well as being a newly appointed FFICM Examiner.
He has been an Editor of Anaesthesia for eight years and has contributed more broadly through highlighting the importance of scientific dissemination in the research process. He enjoys running most days but was built for comfort, rather than speed.