Speakers
Professor Mervyn Singer
Dr Steve Harris
Professor Hugh Montgomery OBE
Professor Hannah Conway
Professor Susanna Price
Professor Lui Forni
Dr Alicia Waite
Hall 1
A high-energy debate session where experts go head-to-head on the future of ICU technology. Topics include:
This session promises robust debate, lively engagement, and thought-provoking ideas.
Chair: Hugh Montgomery
Co-Chair: Alicia Waite
Steve Harris is a Principal Research Fellow in Translational Data Science at UCL, an NHS Consultant in Critical Care, and the Chief Research Information Officer at UCLH Biomedical Research Centre. He has held fellowships from Wellcome, and the Health Foundation, and won more than £10m in grant funding. He is Co-Director of the Central London NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaborative, and co-investigator for CHIMERA, the Wellcome Innovation Flagship Critical Care Asia, and co-leads the NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative for Critical Care. At UCLH, he led the implementation of the Experimental Medicine Application Platform (EMAP) and FlowEHR that aim to bridge the 'AI chasm', and deliver algorithms and inference to the bedside.
Hannah Conway is an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner and Associate Professor of Advanced Clinical Practice, specialising in cardiothoracic critical care. As National Lead for FUSIC® Heart and Chair of the Advanced Practitioners in Critical Care Professional Advisory Group, she champions the development of critical care education and professional standards.
Professor Susanna Price trained at King's College London, and continued training in cardiology and intensive care medicine at a number of centres, including St Thomas', St George's and Royal Brompton hospitals, London. During her cardiology training, she undertook a fellowship in echocardiography at the Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam and on completion of her training, she was awarded the Jill Dando GUCH fellowship, allowing her to train for a further two years in imaging and management of the critically ill grown-up congenital heart disease (GUCH) patients.
She has extensive expertise in critical care cardiology, including extracorporeal support and adult congenital heart disease, as well as echocardiography for valvular heart disease and intensive care/peri-procedural transoesophageal echocardiogram.
Professor Price is Chair of the Pan-London Cardiogenic Shock Board, NHS London, aiming to improve survival of patients with cardiogenic shock. She is Vice President of the European Society of Cardiology, sits on the on the global ELSO board of directors, is a member of ECMONet, as well as a WHO advisor for acute cardiovascular disease, and a Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal. She received Honorary Membership of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) for her exceptional contribution to the ESICM and the speciality of intensive care medicine over a prolonged period.
Professor Lui Forni trained in intensive care and nephrology at St Thomas’ and St George’s Hospitals. He was appointed Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal Surrey Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2014 and joined the new School of Medicine at the University of Surrey in 2023. A founding member of the AKI section of ESICM, he went on to chair the group, later serving as Chair of Research and then Secretary of the Society. He is currently President-Elect of the International Society of Critical Care Nephrology.
His research interests all aspects of acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapy. Professor Forni has also advised NCEPOD, been a faculty member for ADQI, contributed to the NHS England “Think Kidneys” programme, served as an elected member of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, and remains an active member of the UK AKI Clinical Studies Group.
He remains cursed by his support of Tottenham Hotspur and lack of musical ability obvious when you hear him play guitar. Or sing.
Alicia Waite is a speciality registrar in Intensive Care Medicine in the North West of England. Alicia completed her medical degree at Imperial College London, where she also undertook an intercalated PhD investigating the pathophysiological mechanisms of ventilator-induced lung injury. Her research interests have since evolved to focus on post intensive care syndrome and the long-term outcomes of survivors of critical illness. Alicia was a co-founder of the Trainee Research in Intensive Care (TRIC) Network, and was awarded the Intensive Care Society Young Investigator Award, which supported the delivery of the network’s first multicentre study examining the psychological impact of COVID-19 on ICU survivors. She is an early career researcher within the UK REMAP-CAP team, an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Intensive Care Society, and a member of the UK Critical Care Research Group Oversight Committee.
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 President Elect of the Intensive Care Society. 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.