Speakers
Professor Brenda O'Neill
Professor David McWilliams
Professor Zudin Puthucheary
James Bruce
Hall 1
From fragmented studies to a coherent field: rethinking post-ICU rehabilitation
We’re thrilled to introduce brand-new SOA26 content in collaboration with UK Critical Care Research Group (UKCCRG). Across four compelling sessions on Day 2, leading experts will spotlight landmark recent publications, unpack the underpinning science, and bring the evidence to life by exploring its real-world clinical impact.
This is a must-attend series for anyone passionate about staying at the forefront of critical care research and practice. Featured studies include MARCH, BICARICU-2, Andromeda Shock 2, and iRehab.
Learning objectives:
Co-chairs: James Bruce and Zudin Puthucheary
Presentations:
Brenda O’Neill - The iRehab trial - remote multicomponent rehabilitation for survivors of critical illness
David McWilliams - Are We Delivering Rehabilitation in the Right Way—and at the Right Time?
Brenda O’Neill is a Professor in Physiotherapy, and lead for the Centre for Health and Rehabilitation Technologies (CHaRT) School of Health Sciences, Ulster University, Northern Ireland. She leads research focused on the health and rehabilitation of people after critical Illness and people with respiratory conditions. She has expertise with a range of research methodologies and is involved in several multi-centre research programmes funded by the NIHR and is the Chief Investigator of the NIHR HTA funded iRehab trial (NIHR 132871)
David McWilliams is a Professor of Critical Care and Rehabilitation and Clinical Academic Physiotherapist at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and Coventry University's Centre for Care Excellence. He is the chair of the physiotherapy working group for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and Chair of the Intensive Care Society National Rehabilitation Collaborative. David was a member of the guideline development group for the NICE guideline ‘Critical Illness rehabilitation’ and led an NCEPOD study into rehabilitation and recovery following critical illness. David is recognised as an international expert on critical care physiotherapy and rehabilitation, regularly presenting both nationally and internationally on the subject.
Dr Zudin Puthucheary is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine at the William Harvey Institute, Queen Mary, University of London, and a Consultant at the Royal London Hospital Adult Intensive Care Unit. He graduated from Nottingham University in 1997, and moved to London post MRCP in 2000. Following a 3-year stint in Sydney, he started his Respiratory training in Bristol, before completing his critical care training in London. He worked as a Respiratory and Critical Care Consultant at National University Hospital Singapore before returning to the UK.
His research focusses on acquired functional disability, and the use of metabolic, nutritional and exercise interventions to prevent and treat muscle wasting, and has published over 100 papers with a H index of 39. Zudin is a nationally elected Council member of the Intensive Care Society (UK). He was the inaugural chair of the UK National Post-Intensive Care Rehabilitation Collaborative, a multi-professional cross-disciplinary group focussing on rehabilitation and restitution of critical illness survivors. His work on acute muscle wasting has won awards from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine , European Society of Anesthesia, the British Thoracic Society, the Intensive Care Society, The American Society of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition and Zudin was named a Global Rising Star by the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society.
He chairs the UK National Post-Intensive Care Rehabilitation Collaborative, a multi-professional cross-disciplinary group focussing on rehabilitation and restitution of critical illness survivors.
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James is an Occupational Therapist employed within the Intensive Care Unit at Bristol Royal Infirmary Hospital. He works as an ICU clinical specialist in a unique role focused on early rehabilitation, humanistic care, and rehabilitation education across the ICU team. He engages patients in early rehabilitation, screens rehabilitation needs, and delivers rehabilitation throughout the post ICU inpatient pathway.
James has a strong interest in upper limb dysfunction following critical illness, long term functional outcomes, and learning directly from patients to improve acute care practice. He is currently completing a research fellowship to strengthen his research pillar of practice.
He has co-authored the Occupational Therapy chapter for GPICS versions 2 and 3, and the GPICS Rehabilitation chapter version 3. He is an Intensive Care Society council member, deputy of learning in the ICS, associate editor for JICS, a steering group member for the current JLA and ICS adult critical illness research prioritisations and a steering group member for the NCEPOD rehabilitation following critical illness study. He supported the development of the AHP Critical Care Professional Development Framework. He is the Chair of the ICS AHP Professional Advisory Group, co chairs the AHP Critical Care Network for the South West of England and deputy chair of the recent formation of the UK and Ireland OT ECMO network.
Dr Akshay Shah is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Hammersmith Hospital, London and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London.
His main research interests are in (i) finding ways to improve recovery after critical illness and/or major surgery; and (ii) the haematological aspects of critical illness with a focus on: iron deficiency and inflammation, blood transfusion, and evaluating the benefits and risks of common interventions used to treat and prevent bleeding (e.g. platelet transfusions, tranexamic acid). He is an investigator on several NIHR-funded multicentre trials in these areas.
He is also an Editor for Anaesthesia and serves on the NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation funding committee.