Speakers
Dr Luke Flower
Dr Adam Boulton
Katie Nurcombe
Mini-theatre 1
A showcase of another successful year in UK trainee-led intensive care research, featuring exclusive first results from TRIC-MAN. The session also includes the live final of the TRIC Network national project competition, where shortlisted applicants will pitch their ideas to an expert judging panel, and will conclude with an inspiring talk on leadership from the ICS CEO Katie Nurcombe. Learning objectives
1. Gain early insight into the first results from the TRIC-MAN study on antimicrobial stewardship and resistance in the ICU.
2. Participate in selecting the TRIC Network’s next national project through live voting.
3. Discover opportunities to get involved in trainee-led intensive care research across the UK.
4. Learn from the current ICS CEO about their leadership journey and take away practical tips for your own career development.
Chairperson Dr Luke Flower & Dr Adam Boulton
Dr Luke Flower
TRIC Network TRIC Network: a year in review
Dr Oliver Hamilton Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
TRIC-MAN Results
Competition
finalist: 1 Dr Jonathan Blake and Dr Riaz Aziz ACCESS London Kings College Hospital, London Hospital
Intra-Transfer Evaluation and Care (HITEC)
finalist: 2 Dr Richard O'Sullivan Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Evaluating the practice of neuromuscular blockade by infusion within UK Intensive Care Units (TRIC-BLOCK)
Competition
finalist: 3 Dr Jonathan Looms Royal Berkshire Hospital
Assessing the Impact of Poisoned Patients Presenting to Intensive Care Units in the UK (POISON-ICU)
Ms Katie Nurcombe
Intensive Care Society Leadership
Dr Adam Boulton
Closing remarks and judging
Dr Flower is a Specialty Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine in London and a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge’s Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute. His research, supported by Cambridge University's first Engineered Pandemic Research Programme Doctoral Fellowship, focuses on immune dysregulation in severe acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure.
He holds national leadership roles as Co-Chair of the UK Trainee Research in Intensive Care Network and Academic Representative for Specialty Registrars within the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. He also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Intensive Care Society.
Dr Flower also has an interest in critical care ultrasound and shock. He was the national lead for NEAT-ECHO, the largest study to date investigating critical care echocardiography in shock, and Lead Editor of the textbook Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Critical Care.
He is a member of the Intensive Care Society’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Working Party and has received the ICS People’s Champion Award and the Association of Anaesthetists’ Kathleen Ferguson Award for his work to advance healthcare equity.”
Adam is an anaesthetics and intensive care medicine registrar in the West Midlands.
He is currently an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow and undertaking a PhD examining the prehospital critical care response to cardiac arrest.
His clinical and research work focuses on care of the critically ill patient, from their initial prehospital treatment through to post-resuscitation and critical care management.
Adam is an associate member of the ILCOR Education, Implementation, and Teams task force. He is the current co-chair of the TRIC network (Trainee Research in Intensive Care).
Dr Jonny Looms is a senior registrar in intensive care in the Thames Valley deanery with a special interest in clinical toxicology, and has completed fellowships with the West Midlands Poisons Unit and NPIS Birmingham. He is a lecturer on the postgraduate MSc Toxicology program at the University of Birmingham.
He is passionate about improving the interface between intensive care and toxicology, and won last year’s SOA Cauldron Award arguing that every intensive care unit should have a clinical lead for the poisoned patient.