SOA24 Congress

Aoife Abbey

Consultant Intensivist,

Aoife Abbey is a Consultant Intensivist at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire. She is an Intensive Care Society, Council member and chair of the Society's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) group. 

Aoife is author of an international published non-fiction book Seven Signs of Life and section editor for From the inside at Intensive Care Medicine

: @whistlingdixie4

Amit Adlakha

Consultant Intensivist ,

Amit is a Consultant Intensivist at the Royal Free Hospital, London, and an Honorary Consultant Lung Transplant Physician at University Hospitals Birmingham. He is a clinical lead for lung utilisation within NHSBT and current chair of the UK Association of Lung Transplant Physicians.

Amit trained in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oxford and London. He undertook an ISHLT travelling scholarship to Toronto General Hospital (2017) and an MRC Chain-Florey PhD fellowship at Imperial College, using computational genomics to study transplant fungal immunobiology (2020).

Hi professional interests are donor optimisation on the ITU and infectious complications in the immunocompromised host.

: @AmitAdlakha1

Jodi Allen

Clinical Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, UK

Jodi is a clinical doctoral research fellow at University College London and speech and language therapist at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in the UK. Her clinical and research expertise lie in the assessment and management of swallowing and motor speech disorders in adults living with neurological and neuromuscular disease. 

Jodi’s PhD is focused on understanding the profile of dysphagia in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1. This involves the use of quantitative muscle ultrasound to assess the size and structure of the muscles involved in swallowing. Jodi has a special interest in the use of ultrasound as a tool to support the assessment and management of speech, voice and swallowing across a variety of client groups. She chairs the International ultrasound SLT working group and has led on the publication of four peer-reviewed publications which explore the utility of ultrasound in this area. 

: @JodiAllenSLT

Tim Astles

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthesia, UK

Tim is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine & Anaesthesia at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Having completed his post-graduate training in the Mersey region, he undertook a fellowship at King’s College Hospital where he developed his interest in major trauma and liver disease in Critical Care.

He is an Intensive Care Consultant at Aintree University Hospital, supporting the hospital’s role as the region’s major trauma centre, tertiary referral centre for head & neck surgery, complex vascular surgery, acute stroke services, as well as a full range of emergency surgical & medical services. He is the department’s major trauma lead and has acted as PI for a number of research trials, mainly relating to major trauma.

His Anaesthetic role is at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital where he works with the Hepatobiliary team in one of the UK’s busiest liver resection units.

Outside of work, Tim & his wife (who is a Consultant in Anaesthesia & PHEM) have two young daughters who ensure there’s never a dull (or quiet) moment at home. He enjoys cooking for friends and cycling (although probably not in the optimal ratio) and is a late convert to skiing.

Mani Bahra

Anaesthetic Trainee , UK

Dr Mani Bahra is an ST6 Anaesthetic Registrar on the North Central London School rotation with special interests in regional anaesthesia, perioperative medicine and medical education. She recently joined the Board of RA-UK as the Trainee Representative and is also a member of the ESRA Residents and Trainees representative group. She is dedicated to ensuring a consistent and equitable approach to teaching regional anaesthesia.

Sekina Bakare

Intensive Care Trainee,

Dr Bakare is currently an Advanced Trainee in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia in Northwest London. She graduated with Honours from the University of Bristol and commenced her career in the West Country before pursuing Specialty Training in Northwest London. As an elected member of the Trainee Advisory Group of the Intensive Care Society and leverages her expertise to contribute actively to the society's Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Working Group. She also holds the additional responsibility of serving as the EDI lead on the Editorial Board for GPCISv3.

Dr Bakare is deeply passionate about advancing Equity in Healthcare and Medical Education, with clinical interests spanning Major General Surgery and Transfer Medicine.

Assuming the role of chairing this study day, Dr Bakare seamlessly integrates her passion for medical education with a steadfast dedication to fostering safe and equitable healthcare practices through multidisciplinary collaboration.

: @sekina_bakare

Rosie Baruah

Consultant Intensivist ,

I am a consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia at the Western General Hospital and Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. My interests include neurocritical care, point of care ultrasound, and gender in medicine. I was chair of the Women in Intensive Care Medicine (WICM) group, a subcommittee of the FICM Career, Recruitment and Workforce Committee from 2017-2020, and stood down from this role to undertake a PhD at the Usher institute, University of Edinburgh to examine the drivers and effects of the gender balance within intensive care medicine in the UK. I am ICM lead for Autistic Doctors International, a peer support and advocacy group.

: @rosieICM

Kris Bauchmuller

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, UK

Kris is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

After medical school in Munich and a PhD in hepatobiliary research, he bimbled through several clinical specialties with posts in Germany, Australia and Cornwall, before finding his love for ICM in Sheffield.

Kris’s clinical and academic interests include critical care management of pulmonary hypertension, hyperinflammation/HLH, ICU management of patients with haematological malignancies and paediatric-to-adult critical care transition. He is a member of the national Hyperinflammation and HLH across specialty collaboration (www.hihasc.org), training programme director for ICM in Yorkshire and the Humber and, most importantly, dad to two brilliant boys aged 13 and 8.

Abi Beane

Reader in Critical Care Medicine,

I am a reader in  critical care medicine and health systems development at the Institute of Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh. I co-lead the Wellcome Collaboration for Research, Implementation and Training for Critical care in Asia and Africa. Under this umbrella, I collaborate with clinicians and research consortiums to develop and implement near real time digital healthcare registries, support scalable population health surveillance, critical care benchmarking and service improvement. My work combines research methods, with a focus on person centred approaches.

: @asiacritical

Danni Bear

Dietitian in Critical Care and ICS AHP Professional Advisory Group, Chair,

Danielle obtained her Nutrition and Dietetics degree at the University of Wollongong and after working for a short time in Sydney, she moved to London and has been the Principal Critical Care Dietitian at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) for the past 11 years. Danielle has recently completed a Health Education England / National Institute for Health Research (HEE/NIHR) Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship where she explored the measurement and prevention of skeletal muscle wasting during critical illness and the effect on recovery. On the back of this, she was awarded the prestigious British Dietetic Association Rose Simmonds Award for the best research publication of 2019. Danielle has been instrumental in guiding critical care dietetic services during the COVID-19 pandemic, being awarded British Dietetic Association Roll of Honour in 2020 and 2021 for her work.

: @danni_dietitian

Monika Beatty

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, UK

I am a Consultant in Critical Care at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.  I am Chair of the FICM Legal & Ethical Policy Unit and hold an MA in Healthcare Ethics and Law from the University of Manchester. I'm an elected member of the FICM Board, sit on the FICM Professional Affairs and Safety Committee and am vice chair of the FFICM SOE examiner's group. I am an author for the FICM midnight law series and recently chaired a multi-specialty working group to develop guidance for the management of patients with severe eating disorders referred to critical care. 

Rob Bevan

President of College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand, Australia

Rob trained in the UK, having originally been in the first year of the combined 'Barts and the London' in 1995. He moved over to NZ in 2004 and dual trained in General Medicine and Intensive Care (FRACP and FCICM) but works full-time in ICU at Auckland Hospital Department of Critical Care Medicine (DCCM)- which is a tertiary ICU providing trauma, neurosurgery, liver and renal transplant and haem/onc services. It was the first ICU set up in Australasia in the early 1960's.  He moved over a year ago from Middlemore Hospital, having spent 6yrs at the National Burns and Spinal ICU.

He joined the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (CICM) as a trainee rep and is the current CICM President over 12yrs. He was the Education lead for the College, and has published on the history of ICU training in Australia and New Zealand, as well as setting up collaborations with the UK. He has recently finished writing the inaugural chapter on 'Obesity' for the next edition of 'Oh's Intensive Care'.

Mahmood Bhutta

Consultant ENT Surgeon, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals

Professor Mahmood Bhutta is a consultant ENT surgeon with over 20 years of experience, based at The Montefiore Hospital, Hove and BMI Goring Hall Hospital, Worthing. He specialises in hearing loss, ear discharge, tinnitus. dizziness, hearing implants and cholesteatoma. He is an expert in treating conditions like glue ear, holes in the eardrum, and earwax buildup, as well as otology (disease of the ear), which he studied in order to gain his Doctor of Philosophy qualification from the University of Oxford. Professor Bhutta is a consultant to the World Health Organisation on the prevention of deafness and hearing loss.

In 2006 Mahmood founded the Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group (hosted at the British Medical Association) in response to labour rights abuses in the manufacture of medical products, including surgical instruments, gloves and textiles.  He works with the NHS, and international procurement organisations and NGOs, to foster better working conditions in healthcare supply chains

Areas of research: Environmental sustainability in healthcare systems; labour rights in healthcare supply chains; ear and hearing care.

Area of expertise: Sustainable healthcare, health systems, ear and hearing disorders

Richard Bourne

Consultant Pharmacist,

Richard is a clinical academic pharmacist specialising in critical care practice. He is a consultant pharmacist in critical care at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and honorary senior clinical lecturer in pharmacy at The University of Manchester.

Richard’s research interests include medicines optimisation and medication safety in the critically ill patient. Richard recently completed a post-doctoral NIHR ICA programme clinical lectureship in which he identified and developed a complex intervention to improve medication safety for intensive care patients transferring to a hospital ward. His current research builds on this, developing related observational and interventional projects to improve patient outcomes post-intensive care.

: @RSBournie

Steve Cantellow

Consultant Intensivist ,

Steve Cantellow is a Consultant Intensivist and Clinical Director of Urgent and Emergency Care at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. He holds the position of Maternity Lead for the East Midlands Critical Care Network and contributes as a member of the Intensive Care Society’s Maternity Working Group and the ESAIC’s Subforum for the Obstetric Patient. Beyond maternal critical care, his interests include transfer medicine and systems-level human factors.

: @SteveCantellow

Tom Chatfield

Tech Philosopher, UK

Dr Tom Chatfield is a tech philosopher, advisor and author of a dozen books exploring digital culture, published in over thirty languages. The most recent, Wise Animals, was published by Picador in February 2024. He's interested in what it means to use technology well. He writes, speaks and consults internationally, with a special interest in critical thinking, Artificial Intelligence and tech ethics. 

He is currently Chair at the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society; Chair of the Copyright Licensing Agency; a member of the British Library Advisory Council; and an Associate at the interdisciplinary think-tank Perspectiva. His recent work around future skills and technology includes designing and presenting the Economist's new critical thinking and Artificial Intelligence business courses.

Tom’s bestselling critical thinking textbooks for SAGE Publishing are used at companies, universities and institutions across the world. He has developed award-winning online courses for universities and businesses; is a past guest faculty member at the Said Business School, Oxford, for its Strategic Leadership Programme; and works as a consultant and advisor with some of the world’s leading companies.

: @TomChatfield

Irfran Chaudry

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Sam Clark

Consultant Intensivist ,

Dr Sam Clark is Consultant in Critical Care at Mid-Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He has a sub-specialty interest in Palliative Care, working regular sessions with the Specialist Palliative Care Team in his organisation. He has led the writing of guidelines with the Intensive Care Society (ICS), including for ‘the transfer of critically ill adults to an outdoor space during end of life care’, and is currently working with multiple organisations to publish guidance for the transfer of critical care patients to their preferred place of death for end-of-life care. Sam is also a Co-chair for the ‘End of life and Palliative Care in Intensive care research Network (EPCIN)’, which serves as an international professional community where the two fields meet.

Alongside these roles, Sam is enthusiastic about the contributions of Critical Care teams towards goals for environmental sustainability. He leads the PPE workstream for the ICS’ Environment and Sustainability Working Group, most notably campaigning locally, regionally, and nationally to reduce inappropriate non-sterile glove use, in collaboration with other organisations including the British Association for Critical Care Nurses (BACCN), and the Infection Prevention Society (IPS). Sam is the co-lead for a recently launched regional sustainability network across Cheshire and Mersey Critical Care Teams (SPIN-CM), and is a contributing author to the new Environmental Sustainability section of the upcoming GPICS Version 3 guidelines. He is also contributing to a collaboration between the ICS and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) to produce an update to the ‘Sustainability Toolkit’.

: @clark_samr

Jon Coles

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine , UK

I completed my clinical and academic training in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine in the Eastern region and was appointed as an Academic Consultant working within the Neurosciences and Trauma Critical Care Unit (NCCU) at Cambridge University Hospitals in 2006. My PhD was in the field of neuro-imaging (MR and Positron Emission Tomography (PET)) following traumatic brain injury (TBI). I was awarded a Clinician Scientist fellowship from the Academy of Medical Sciences/Health Foundation in 2004 and have maintained a research program funded by the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council (UK), European Union, and National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia that examines mechanisms responsible for secondary neuronal injury, their temporal profile, and implications for eventual neurocognitive recovery following TBI. I have published extensively within the field of neurosciences & critical care and am a reviewer for relevant specialist medical journals and national/international grant awarding bodies. In 2022 I was appointed as Clinical Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.

Hannah Conway

Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care and ICS APCC Professional Advisory Group, Chair,

Hannah is an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner and A/Professor in Advanced Clinical Practice, University of Nottingham UK.  

Hannah specialises in Critical Care Echocardiography and Ultrasound and sits on the committee for Focussed Ultrasound in Intensive Care (FUSIC), taking a lead role in FUSIC Heart. Hannah is an approved supervisor and examiner for multiple accredited ultrasound programmes, including BSE and has over a decade of experience in ultrasound education.    

Hannah is a keen clinical researcher and is currently conducting a study into the use of telemedicine to aid echocardiography mentoring on intensive care. Another research interest is characterisation of right ventricular (RV) injury. Hannah is co-chair for PRORVnet, an international RV centric research network and is proud to be an RV defender!  

: @cardiacACCP

Anna Conway Morris

Consultant Psychiatrist in Eating disorders ,

Dr ACM is a consultant psychiatrist in eating disorders at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge. She is a trained child psychiatrist and neurodevelopmental specialist who now works in an adult eating disorders service with a large student population. Dr ACM is the head of school for psychiatry in the East of England and the vice chair of the Eastern Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Her research interest is in compulsive behaviour.

: @AconwayM

Genex Correa

Consultant Intensivist and ECMO, UK

Dr Genex Correa is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and ECMO at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. Genex grew up in Dubai, qualified in Medicine in India and trained clinically in the UK.  She has a special interest in Medical Education and Simulation. Being an international medical graduate herself, Genex believes that an inclusive and diverse workforce is essential for a sustainable future.

: @GenexCorrea

Neil Coulson

Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care ,

Neil is a Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital is a standalone specialist trust providing care for patients in the North West of England and beyond. It provides all the routine cardiac services with specialist expertise in minimally invasive cardiac surgery, major aortic surgery and TAVI.

Neil has a particular interest in critical care echo and ECMO. He enjoys teaching and training and has previously been the College Tutor for anaesthesia training in the department. He is now the Clinical Lead for Critical Care and enjoys the challenges of developing the quality of services there.

Katie Cranfield

Consultant Intensivist and Obstetric Medicine , UK

Katie is an adopted Geordie having graduated in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and completing most of her training in the North East in Intensive Care, Anaesthesia and Obstetric Medicine. She is Consultant at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle-upon-Tyne where she works in both Intensive Care and Obstetric Medicine. Katie has a particular interest in Obstetric Critical Care. She undertook RCP Obstetric Medicine credentialling at St Thomas’ Hospital in London in 2022. Having been involved in setting up the Maternal Medicine Network within the North East and North Cumbria Katie now works as lead Obstetric Physician within the Network. She is an MBRRACE-UK maternal mortality review assessor and an active member of the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS) Steering Committee. Katie has been involved in the creation of a number of national guidelines and publications related to critically unwell obstetric patients and regularly teaches on this topic. Outside of work she loves to bake (complete with sticky fingers and copious sprinkles courtesy of her children), swim and spend time exploring the beautiful North East with her family.

: @CranfieldKatie

Thearina de Beer

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthesia, UK

Dr Thearina de Beer MBChB FRCA DICM FFICM LLM (Health Law) RCPathME , is a Consultant in Anaesthetics and ICM including Neuro-ICM at Nottingham University Hospitals. Thearina is currently Divisional Director for the Clinical Support Division. She is a Medical Examiner at NUH and is deputy lead ME for NUH. She is on the ICS – Legal and Ethical Advisory Group. Her special interests are delirium and the impact on long stay patients, legal and ethical issues around critical and neuro-critical care.

Paul Dean

ICS Honorary Treasurer and Consultant Intensivist , UK

Dr Paul Dean is a Consultant in intensive care at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, and former Chair of the Society's Standards Division. He continues to be responsible for leading national work such as the Guidelines for the Provision of Intensive Care Services (GPICS), setting the standard in which every ICU in the country should operate. 

Paul is also Medical Lead for Lancashire and South Cumbria Critical Care Network.

: @d1975p

Deborah Dykes

Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Critical Care and Respiratory, UK

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Brian Edlow

Critical Care Neurologist , USA

Brian received his B.A. from Princeton University and M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.  He completed an internal medicine internship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, followed by neurology residency and neurocritical care fellowship at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals.  He is currently a critical care neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is Associate Professor of Neurology, Associate Director of the Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, and Director of the Laboratory for NeuroImaging of Coma and Consciousness. 

Dr. Edlow's research focuses on detecting consciousness, predicting outcomes, and facilitating new therapies for patients with severe traumatic brain injury.  His lab’s work has been continuously funded since 2010 by grants from the NIH, DOD, and multiple foundations. He is the recipient of the 2019 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and the 2022 ANA Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award. 

Dr. Edlow serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Neurocritical Care Society’s Curing Coma Campaign, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurotrauma, and is Co-Chair of the NINDS Common Data Elements Project on Disorders of Consciousness.  He also serves as the Principal Investigator of the DOD-funded ReBlast study, which aims to identify diagnostic biomarkers of blast-induced brain injury in United States Special Operations Forces Service Members.

Jill Featherstone

Specialist Nurse in Organ Donation, NHSBT

I joined NHSBT’s Professional Development Team following time as a Specialist Nurse Organ Donation with the Northern Region at James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough. This was following a long career in critical care with a wide range of critical care experience with leadership experience both in critical care and in the volunteer and charity business sector.  

I work collaboratively with national and regional medical leads to develop and deliver training opportunities for NHSBT partners in the clinical areas both in the UK and internationally. This includes the highly regarded and award winning National Deceased Donation Course. This course provides donation education to both adult and paediatric trainees becoming our next generation of consultants. Induction programmes for CLODs and Trust/Health board Organ Donation Committee Chairs are core to local donation service leadership and conference opportunities achieve a wider audience reach. My role also supports a more cohesive multidisciplinary approach across the package of education programmes the Professional Development Team deliver.

Our aim is to build confidence and excellence in donation practice, train in multidisciplinary ways and remain world class by providing a high level of engagement, interest and academic rigour whilst complementing specialist nurse training for a cohesive approach.

I am passionate about the family end of life experience, teamwork, simulation, service improvement and innovation using a wide variety of forums to have the greatest impact and reach as possible.

: @JillFeatherston

Jenny Ferry

Consultant Anaesthetist & Clinical Lead for Acute Pain, UK

Jenny is a consultant anaesthetist working in South Wales, UK. She was elected to the board of RA-UK in May 2023, where she is lead for EDI. Clinical interests include acute pain and regional anaesthesia. She has recently lead the international research priority setting exercise for regional anaesthesia.

Polly Fitch

Clinical Psychologist, UK

Polly Fitch is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working in Adult Critical Care at the Royal London Hospital in East London. Working in this role since 2017 she has responsibility for delivering psychological interventions for patients, relatives, and staff in the Intensive Care Unit. She has particular interests in talking about death and dying in acute health settings including how best to facilitate difficult news conversations and support end of life situations. She has specialist experience of facilitating discussions and decision making around complex medical information in the context of a diverse patient population with differing health beliefs. In addition, she is committed to working with colleagues across the Trust to promote reflection and learning in relation to communicating about death and bereavement, including facilitating Schwartz Rounds, Death Cafes and co-organising the Barts Health Annual Bereavement Conference. She has previously held posts in the Tower Hamlets Palliative Care Team (with specialist input to respiratory services) and the Tower Hamlets Community Learning Disability Service. She retains strong links with health psychologists working across the borough. She is a member of PINC-UK (Psychologists working in Intensive Care), the BPS and is HPC registered.

Tom Fletcher

Reader in Emerging and High Consequence Infectious Diseases , UK

Tom is a Reader in Emerging and High Consequence Infectious Diseases and Director of Global Health Trials Unit. After completing undergraduate training at University of Leeds, Tom undertook his general duties in the Defence Medicine Services and then higher specialist training in Liverpool in Infectious Disease and General Internal Medicine. He was seconded to the department of Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases at HQ WHO for a year before the 2013-15 EVD outbreak in West Africa, during which he and colleagues from the WHO clinical team led a step change in Ebola case management. For his Ph.D. he undertook a Wellcome Trust fellowship investigating the interaction of immune response, viral load and clinical course in a cohort of patients with Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in Turkey. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he returned to HQ WHO clinical team and was deployed to South Korea before returning to support the UK NHS response.

Tom is a senior investigator within the AGILE trial platform(link is external)(opens in a new tab), leading AGILE International and the laboratory pillar. He is the candidate chief investigator on 2 early phase trials of novel therapeutics in COVID-19 in the UK and South Africa. 

His research at LSTM is mainly focussed on High-Consequence Infectious Diseases, where he is the Co-Director of the ACTIVE platform - ACcelerating Therapeutics and dIagnostics in Viral HaEmorrhagic fever. He has active research programmes in Turkey, Sudan and West Africa.

Luke Flower

Critical Care Trainee and Research Fellow,

Dr Luke Flower is a specialty registrar and clinical research fellow in Intensive Care Medicine. He is also Co-Chair of the UK’s Trainee Research in Intensive Care Network, a member of the Intensive Care Society’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Working Group and an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Intensive Care Society.

His research interests include immune dysregulation in acute respiratory distress syndrome and cardiogenic shock. Alongside this he is an enthusiastic ultrasound educator and was the Lead Editor of the textbook ‘Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Critical Care’.

He is passionate about improving LGBTQ+ healthcare and over the past three years has worked with several national organisations to help improve the experiences of LGBTQ+ patients in critical care and received the Intensive Care Society’s ICU People Champion Award for his work.

: @LukeFlower1

Heidi Fritz

Healthcare Programme Director at Greener By Default, USA

Zoe Fritz

Consultant Physician in Acute medicine,

Zoë Fritz is a Wellcome fellow in Society and Ethics, and a Consultant Physician in Acute medicine at Cambridge University Hospital.  Her research is focused on identifying areas of clinical practice that raise ethical questions and applying rigorous empirical and ethical analysis to explore the issues and find effective solutions. Examples of her work include developing and assessing a new approach to Resuscitation decisions (www.respectprocess.org.uk  - she chairs the ReSPECT subcommittee for RCUK); researching how clinicians make decisions to refer and admit patients to ICU; working with colleagues in the faculty of  philosophy  on the relationship between trust, questioning and the issue of “Too Much Medicine’; and considering the legal, ethical and empirical consequences of communicating uncertainty in diagnosis.

Dale Gardiner

Consultant Intensivist and NHSBT, UK

Dr Dale Gardiner is a Consultant in Adult Intensive Care Medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the Associate Medical Director – Deceased Organ Donation at NHS Blood and Transplant.

His professional interests are medical ethics, the diagnosis of death and deceased organ donation.

Dale is a Board Member of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and Chair of the Professional Affairs and Safety Committee. He is co-chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges task and finish group to update the 2008 Code of Practice for the Diagnosis and Confirmation of Death.

Originally, Dale came from Australia but migrated to the UK in 2002.

: @dalecgardiner

Ned (Edward) Gilbert-Kawai

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthesia,

Ned Gilbert-Kawai is a Consultant in Critical Care Medicine & Anaesthesia at The Royal Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.  Ned completed his PhD at University College London on the effect of hypoxia on microcirculation and then undertook a Masters in Genomic Medicine at Imperial College London. He was the Chief Scientific Officer for the Xtreme Everest 2 expedition (UCL Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment (CASE) Medicine, 2013), and has since maintained an interest in both cardiovascular physiology and genomic medicine. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Intensive Care Society and an examiner at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Exams.

Daniel Glaser

Director of Science Engagement at The Royal Institution, UK

Dr Daniel Glaser is director of science engagement at the Royal Institution. He was Founding Director of Science Gallery London and before that Head of Engaging Science at Wellcome Trust. He had a weekly column and podcast series for the Guardian. He was the first scientist to judge for the Booker Prize and Scientist in Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He used fMRI to examine how experience, prejudice and expectation alter the way we see the world. He studied maths and then English literature at Cambridge, doing a masters in machine learning at Sussex.

: @bnglaser

Timo Hannay

Founder of SchoolDash , UK

Timo Hannay is the founder of SchoolDash (https://www.schooldash.com/), an education data analytics and technology firm. He is also a non-executive director of Sage Publishing, Educate Ventures and Arden University, and an advisor to several charities.  In 2023, he convened the AI in Education Summit in London (https://www.edsummit.ai/). Timo was previously the founding managing director of Digital Science and before that variously ran the online business of Nature Publishing Group, worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, wrote for The Economist, and investigated brain physiology at the University of Oxford and Waseda University in Tokyo. He has a lifelong interest in brains, computers and learning of all kinds.

: https://www.schooldash.com/

Trudy Hannington

Senior Psychosexual Therapist, UK

Trudy is a Senior Psychosexual Therapist. She has worked in sexual health for over 25 years, and specialises in combining medical treatments with sex therapy. Trudy was also the specialist psychosexual therapist in the Channel 4 documentary The Week The Women Came.

She leads a team of 4 psychosexual therapists at the Leger clinic in Doncaster (a “one stop shop” for all areas of sexual difficulty, either medical or psychological). Trudy has worked in sexual health for over 25 years and specialised as a psychosexual therapist in 2002 after training at the Porterbrook Clinic at Sheffield. Trudy’s specialist interest is combining medical treatments with sex therapy to optimise outcomes for patients. She is a Senior Accredited Member and Supervisor of COSRT (College for Sex & Relationship Therapists) and Registered with UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy). She is also a member of ATSAC (The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity) and a Committee Member for the British Society of Sexual Medicine.

She won Yorkshire Woman of the Year award in 2004.

Stephen Harridge

Professor of Human & Applied Physiology , UK

Stephen Harridge obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham in after which he undertook post-doctoral research in Scandinavia, initially at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and then at the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre. On return to the UK, he held academic positions at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and in the Department of Physiology at University College London, where he was also a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow.

He was appointed Professor of Human & Applied Physiology at King’s College in 2005 and is head of the Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences. He is also co-Director of Ageing Research at King’s (ARK).  He was Editor-in-Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports from 2012 - 2023.

His research is multi-disciplinary, using single cell through to whole-body exercise physiology approaches. This has primarily been with the aim of increasing understanding of the biology of human skeletal muscle regarding its function and adaptability. A particular focus has been on healthy human ageing, but his research also encompasses the effects of critical illness and the aerospace environment.

David Harrison

Professor of Medical Statistics , UK

David is Co-Director of the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC), Honorary Professor of Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. David joined ICNARC in 2002 following his PhD in biostatistics from the University of Cambridge progressing to Head Statistician before being appointed Co-Director in 2023.

As Head Statistician, David oversaw development of the prognostic models underpinning ICNARC’s National Audit Programme. He also oversees the statistical work of ICNARC’s UKCRC-registered Clinical Trials Unit, with a programme of research including multicentre randomised controlled trials, large multicentre cohort studies and methodological research.

: @DavidHarrison80

Andrew Hartle

Professor of Practice (Anaesthesia) ,

Andrew is an anaesthetist/former intensivist at St Mary’ Hospital, Paddington, Professor of Practice (Anaesthesia) at Imperial College London, Civilian Consultant Advisor to the Royal Air Force, and President of the Triservice Anaesthetic Society.

He’s a Past President of the Association of Anaesthetists and the Royal Society of Medicine Anaesthesia Section, and former Council Member of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists (co-opted).

He was the first out gay man to hold any of those positions.

He served in the RAF from 1984 until 1997 when he was dismissed for being gay.

He’s married to Philip (also an anaesthetist/former intensivist) and owned by Dudley the Airedale (@bletchleybark)

: @startle65

Dan Harvey

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine , UK

Dr Dan Harvey is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals, Hon. Professor at the University of Nottingham, and a member of the UK Intensive Care Society Legal & Ethical Advisory Group. Dan has an active research interest as National Lead for Innovation & Research in Organ Donation for NHS Blood and Transplant, and joint Chief Investigator for the SIGNET study, the world's largest interventional study in organ donation.

Michelle Hatch

Specialty Doctor and and ICS Specialty Doctor Professional Advisory Group, Chair,

Dr Michelle Hatch

Michelle is an SAS Specialty Doctor currently working in Intensive Care Medicine in North Wales.

Michelle qualified in Medicine in Edinburgh in 1989. She took nearly 20 years out of medical practice before returning in 2014. Michelle is the SAS Tutor for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and is the current chair of the Intensive Care Society’s SAS Professional Advisory Group. She is a passionate advocate for the SAS role and for women in medicine.

Rebekah Haylett

Physiotherapist in Critical Care and and ICS Physio Professional Advisory Group, Chair,

: @Becky_HPhysio

Simon Hayward

Specialist Physiotherapist, UK

Simon Hayward is a Specialist Practice Development Physiotherapist in Lung Ultrasound (LUS) at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He studied Physiology (BSc Hons) at Kings College London before reading Physiotherapy (BSc Hons) at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2003.

Most of Simon’s experience has been in acute NHS respiratory services, and he has been using LUS to inform my clinical practice since 2013. In 2016 he initiated a LUS training programme aimed primarily at physiotherapists. To date over 400 Physiotherapists have attended his Introduction to Lung Ultrasound course, which is run around the UK and Europe with clinicians and academics gaining theoretical knowledge and practical skills in LUS.

Simon considers himself an early career researcher and has published numerous studies and reviews around LUS along with a scoping review looking at the use of LUS in physiotherapy practice and a systematic review. More recently he has published qualitative work on the barriers to Physiotherapy LUS implementation. He has been invited to speak and present on LUS at numerous national and international conferences and is considered the leading authority on physiotherapy-led LUS within the UK.

Between 2018 and 2023 Simon was a Focused Ultrasound Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee member as the AHP representative.

: @sonophysio

Julie Highfield

Consultant Clinical Psychologist ,

Dr Julie Highfield is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Lead for Organisational Health in Adult and Paediatric Critical Care, Cardiff. She is the National Project Director for Wellbeing in the Intensive Care Society. She has a long experience of working as a psychologist in medical and health care settings and works closely with staff in their experience of working in healthcare, as well as advising managers on matters of workforce wellbeing. Julie has worked with the British Psychological Society and its Division of Clinical Psychology in Wales. She led the BPS team writing the National Guidance for Staff in the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Julie works with the Welsh Assembly Government in various projects, including as the lead for Critical Care Workforce Task and Finish Group, and Modelling for Rehabilitation for patients post COVID-19, and the Wellbeing Conversation Tool. She has a number of publications and book chapters in the field of critical care, staff wellbeing, and leadership.

: @DrJulie_H

Deborah Horner

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care ,

Deborah Horner is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Deputy Chief Medical Officer.

Her dual interests in Critical Care and Obstetric Anaesthesia have led to an interest in the provision of Enhanced and Critical Care for sick women in her own hospital, regionally and nationally. She is Yorkshire & the Humber Maternal and Enhanced Critical Care (MEaCC) steering group Chair, represents the OAA on the national MEWS working group and Chair of the Intensive Care Society Maternal Critical Care group.

She is married with 2 children and a very spoilt Labrador.

: @hornerdeborah1

Nia Humphry

Consultant Perioperative Geriatrician, UK

Dr Nia Humphry is a Consultant Perioperative Geriatrician, starting the POPS service in Cardiff and Vale University Health Board in 2020. She took on the position of Deputy Chair of the BGS POPS SIG in April 2023 and looks forward to contributing towards the development of POPS services nationally, as well as locally in South Wales.

Alongside clinical work, Nia is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at Cardiff University, delivering components of the MSc in Clinical Geriatrics and supervising students completing postgraduate studies. She has a research interest in the impacts of sarcopenia and nutritional status on older patients undergoing surgery and was awarded a BGS Specialist Registrar Start-Up Grant in 2016.

: @HumphryNia

Richard Innes

Consultant Intensivist ,

I am a consultant in intensive care and a member of the legal and ethics group of the intensive care society having previously been a council member of the ICS.

I am interested in how we make decisions in respect to caring for patients in intensive care in particular appropriateness of medical interventions and futility. I have led a number of legal and ethical seminars on this subject and written a couple of papers bringing together lawyers and clinicians to address complex real life clinical situations that frequent intensive care.

I am also clinical director for research within Somerset Foundation Trust which is now one of the largest hospital trusts in England and oversee development of their research programme.

I live on a small holding in Somerset and keep bees which are plagued by wasps in the summer who steal their honey and kill them in the process. I also host badgers and foxes. They have few obvious morals when it comes to survival and indeed, I no longer keep chickens or ducks as the badgers and foxes will inevitably eat them. For animals and insects’ life is a game of survival driven by an overwhelming desire for food….

Intensive care is  calm, controlled, and ethical in comparison!

: @richardinnes1

Ben Ivory

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist and NHSBT,

: @bennoivory

Monica Jackson

Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia ,

Monica Jackson is consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia at South Tyneside and Sunderland Trust. Having trained in Oxford, UK and Christchurch, NZ she returned to her North East roots for specialty training. Keen on anything that can improve the patient experience in ICU, she is a current member of the FUSIC blocks committee. She has interests in POCUS, education and advanced decision making.

Shevin Jacob

Reader in Sepsis Research, Uganda

Dr Shevin Jacob is an infectious diseases physician who obtained his Doctorate of Medicine at Oregon Health & Sciences University (1999-2004) and a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2002-2003). He underwent post-graduate training in internal medicine at the University of Virginia (2004-2007) and infectious diseases at the University of Washington (UW) (2008-2012), after which he remained as a faculty member within the UW Department of Medicine until 2017. In 2017, he shifted his academic home to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK where he is currently Reader in Sepsis Research.

Dr Jacob currently lives in Uganda where, for over 15 years, he has been conducting research aimed to improve the management and outcomes of patients hospitalized with life-threatening infections in resource-constrained settings. As part of his research portfolio, he has led multinational consortia that focus on strengthening sepsis research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa to uncover and address knowledge gaps along the patient care continuum. Dr Jacob also has over a decade of experience as a consultant to the World Health Organization on a wide range of sepsis-related topics [including case management of viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHF)] and is the co-founder and a Director of Walimu (a Ugandan NGO), the Secretary General for the African Sepsis Alliance and Board and Executive Committee Member for the Global Sepsis Alliance. In 2018, his alma mater, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, recognised his work in sepsis and VHF by awarding him with the Leadership in Public Health Practice Award. 

: @guru_uhuru

Michaela Jones

Lead Nurse Associate Director and ICS Nursing Professional Advisory Group, Chair.,

Michaela is a Lead Nurse Associate Director for North West London Network and is the Chair of the Intensive Care Soceity's Nurse Professional Advisory Group. Michaela has worked in critical care for over three decades where much of her career has been at UCLH, Cambridge and more recently, Southampton. Michaela has always had a passion for education, training and leadership and is a member of the Critical Care Nurse Education Review Forum (CCNERF), a subgroup of Critical Care National Network Nurse Leads Forum (CC3N). 

: @sisterswan

Indra Joshi

Director of Artificial Intelligence for NHSX , UK

Dr Indra Joshi has a unique portfolio with experience stretching across data/AI strategy and implementation. A world-leading expert in digital health and AI technologies, she worked across the global health and AI portfolio of Palantir Technologies to enable better use of data to impact health and care. In 2020 she created the NHS AI Lab, a £250m investment leading to the development and deployment of over 100 AI technologies into UK health and care, whilst determining the right ethical guidance and regulations to protect patients. 

She is a Founding Member of One HealthTech – a network which campaigns for the need and importance of better inclusion of all backgrounds, skillsets and disciplines in health technology. Alongside she is an associate editor for BMJ Leader, a Trustee for the Wellbeing of Women and Academies Enterprise Trust, a former member of the WHO digital health expert group, and most importantly a mum to two wonderful little munchkins.

: @IndraJoshi10

Shireen Kassam

Consultant Haematologist , UK

Dr Shireen Kassam is a Consultant Haematologist, Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician and Visiting Professor of Plant-Based Nutrition. She is founder of Plant-Based Health Professionals UK, a community interest company that provides education on healthy plant-based diets. Her first book, Eating Plant-Based, Scientific Answers to Your Nutrition Questions, co-authored with her sister Zahra, was published in January 2022. She has also co-edited the textbook Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice, published in September 2022,

: @plantbasedhpuk

Justin Kirk-Bayley

Consultant Intensivist & Anaesthetist , UK

Justin Kirk-Bayley is a Consultant Intensivist & Anaesthetist at Royal Surrey NHS Trust in Guildford, UK where he has been Clinical Lead for ICU, and is now Deputy Medical Director. His clinical passion is for pragmatic delivery of point of care ultrasound, having run a training fellowship for over a decade and being a part of the ICS’s FUSIC committee. He has published and teaches ultrasound around the world. As his Trust’s Professional Director for Therapeutics, he is committed to medication safety and optimisation, lecturing internationally about improvement in medication process and has helped found the Turning the Tide group to improve the UK’s use of intravenous fluids. (@Turningthe_Tide)

: @PARADicmSHIFT

Gareth Kitchen

Consultant Anaesthetist , UK

Gareth is a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant Anaesthetist at University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. He completed his PhD at the University of Manchester, funded by an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship. During this time he investigated circadian regulation of pneumonia. 

He also works as a clinician (general and transplant anaesthetist) at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. He was recently awarded £2.5million grant as the Chief Investigator for Protect Airways, part of the “confederation” of Respiratory Critical Care Trials.

: @gazkitch

Jenny Kitzinger

Co-Director, Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, UK

Professor Jenny KItzinger is co-director of the Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre at Cardiff University (cdoc.org.uk) - a multi-disciplinary group of researchers exploring the ethical, legal and social dimensions of vegetative and minimally conscious states. She is co-author of multiple papers about the decision-making process around life-sustaining treatment and particularly the place of a person’s own values in ‘best interests’. This work has informed online training for healthcare professionals (cdoctraining.org.uk) and a website resource for patients’ families (healthtalk.org) which has been used by over 50,000 people and won a BMA award for its information on ethical issues.  

: @JennyKitzinger

Shondipon Laha

ICS President Elect and Consultant Intensivist , UK

: www.ics.ac.uk
: @shond3

Rebecca Langley

Patient Advocate,

Rebecca (37) was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer at the age of 30. 

She underwent surgery leaving her with a permanent ileostomy. 

Following her first chemotherapy treatment she suffered a series of four cardiac arrests. 

Rebecca used her enjoyment of sport to help her in her recovery; completing her first ever triathlon a year after her surgery (10 months after her ICU stay), and ran her first ever half marathon sixteen months after ICU. (After which she was interviewed for ITV national news). 

After her initial recovery, Rebecca has got a DNACPR, Advanced Directive and ReSPECT form. She is passionate about talking about end-of-life planning, and was on a Radio 4 programme ‘Do Not Resuscitate’. She is keen to show that it isn’t a negative to complete such documents, while living life to the max.

She is keen to share her experience of being a patient, and a young woman with a stoma, to help others going through similar journeys. 

: @Resus2Runner

Nazir Lone

ICS Director of Research and Professor of Critical Care and Epidemiology,

Nazir is a Professor of Critical Care and Epidemiology and one of the Intensive Care Society's Directors of Research. Nazir’s programme of research focuses on health services research and health care quality improvement for acutely ill patients. His research aims to directly improve the quality of care for patients before, during and after an episode of acute or critical illness through rigorously conducted research and engagement with key stakeholders. He has a particular research interest in epidemiological methods and using linked 'big' data, multimorbidity and end-of-life care in acute and critical care settings. 

His current programme of work includes NIHR-funded work to apply artificial intelligence (AI) methods in the context of multimorbidity (AIM-CISC) in which he co-leads work to develop AI tools to reduce adverse events. Furthermore, he leads Innovate UK funded work to improve multimorbidity recognition in emergency care settings using data analytics. 

: @ICULone

Dan Martin

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

Dan Martin is a professor in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at Derriford hospital and university of Plymouth. 

His research interest is focused on oxygen physiology; in particular how humans adapt to low levels of oxygen and the potential harm caused by excessive oxygen. He was involved in a series of research expeditions to high altitude with the Xtreme Everest team defining oxygen physiology near the summit of Mount Everest where they recorded the lowest oxygen levels ever reported in humans. The group is studying the key adaptive processes required to survive such low levels of oxygen through a wide range of studies at various altitudes.

He is currently the chief investigator for the NIHR funded UK-ROX trial and EXAKT study in the UK. UK-ROX trial is investigating if giving a little less oxygen than usual to critically ill patients on a mechanical ventilator will improve their survival. The aim is to recruit 16,500 patients from 100 NHS intensive care units. In the EXAKT study we will be investigating the accuracy pulse oximeters in critically ill patients with different skin tones, to answer a very important question about these essential oxygen monitoring devices. 

I am also very interested in exercise and how it can be used to improve clinical outcomes. We have used a tailored exercise intervention to train patients waiting for liver transplantation and I am the co-chief investigator of the NIHR-funded EXALT trial in which we will further evaluate the effect of exercise around the time of liver transplantation. I am also invoked with a study to explore the benefits of exercise programmes in patients awaiting bariatric surgery. 

I am the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia academic training coordinator and Royal College of Anaesthetists Bernard Johnson advisor for academic training. I am passionate about promoting academic training for both doctors in training and allied health professionals. I supervise a number of higher degree students including scientists, medical doctors and allied health professionals. 

I have been the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the Intensive Care Society for the last four years and sit on the Council of the Intensive Care Society. 

In 2015 I was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), for services to the prevention of infectious diseases. This was the result of our work at the Royal Free Hospital in London, caring for patients with Ebola virus disease. 

: @deoxyexplorer

Sarah Mason

Specialist nurse in organ donation, NHSBT

No bio provided

Sandy Mather

Chief Executive, Intensive Care Society

: www.ics.ac.uk
: @sanmather

Steve Mathieu

ICS President and Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Steve Mathieu is the President of the Intensive Care Society.

He is a Consultant in Critical Care at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and the Divisional Director for Clinical Delivery (Critical Care, Anaesthetics, Theatres, Radiology, Pharmacy, Therapies, Blood Sciences and Pathology). He was previously the Clinical Director of Critical Care when the ICU was rated outstanding in all domains by the CQC.

His previous roles for the Society include Congress Director for State of the Art (SOA), Honorary Treasurer and Council Member.

He has interests in patient and staff experience, workforce and operational strategy as well as medical education and information technology. He is a co-founder and senior editor for The Bottom Line and set up and maintains the Portsmouth ICU website.

Twitter: @stevemathieu75

: @stevemathieu75

Tom McCelland

Intensive Care Trainee,

No bio provided

Brendan McGrath

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Brendan qualified from the University of Sheffield and trained initially in general medicine in Yorkshire, the North East and then Australia. He returned to specialise in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, appointed as a consultant at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, at Wythenshawe Hospital in 2009. He was appointed Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC) Honorary Professor in 2022.

Brendan’s research interests in patient safety and airway management led to the initiation of the UK National Tracheostomy Safety Project, collaborating widely in developing educational resources to guide the multidisciplinary response to airway emergencies. Realising that the real work was in prevention of airway emergencies, Brendan helped to develop the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative in 2012, bringing together international expertise from Harvard to Melbourne with the goal of improving tracheostomy care ‘everywhere’ through quality improvement initiatives. Brendan has worked on and led a number of domestic and international quality improvement projects and research studies, securing significant grant funding. 

Brendan and his team have won a number of awards for their work, including:

• Association of Anaesthetists Innovation Award 2023 (Bubble PAPR)
• British Medical Journal Award for Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine Team of the Year 2020
• Intensive Care Society Improvement Project Award 2020
• National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia Research Award 2019 

Outside of medicine, Brendan is entertained by a young(ish) family, plays guitar in the family rock band, "Death Metal Children of Rock," attempts to support Liverpool FC whilst living near Old Trafford, and tries to ride his road bike when it isn’t raining (too hard).

: @BrendanAMcGrath

David McWilliams

Professor of Critical Care and Rehabilitation , UK

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 is currently leading 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

: @Davido744

Reena Mehta

Consultant Pharmacist and and ICS Pharmacy Professional Advisory Group, Chair,

Reena is a Consultant Pharmacist in Critical Care at King's College Hospital in London and Chair of the Intensive Care Society's Pharmacy Professional Advisory Group.

She has worked in Critical Care for the past 15 years, leading and managing the Critical Care pharmacy service, providing vision and shaping its future strategy during a period of significant structural change and expansion. She has co-authored and provided specialist input locally & nationally into areas such as pharmacy critical care workforce, clinical guidelines, and advanced critical care training. Reena is a Principal Investigator on a number of NIHR CRN Portfolio studies.

Her specialist areas of interest are the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F) initiatives, transfer of care around medicines and drug use in extra-corporeal circuits, particularly in renal replacement therapy & ECMO.

Reena is the Pharmacy Lead for the South East London ICS - Critical Care/ODN and a member of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association Expert Development Practice Group. She is currently undertaking an MSc in Health Economics, Policy & Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

: @ReenaM2703

Colin Melville

Medical Director and Director of Education and Standards, GMC

Professor Colin Melville trained in anaesthesia and emergency medicine and became the first substantive Consultant in Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine in Hull in 1996. His work in medical education and leadership developed soon after in 1997, and included roles such as Clinical Director, Medical Director, and Director of Medical Education. Colin was responsible for the local introduction of foundation training in 2005, becoming Foundation School Director shortly afterwards. He also oversaw the delivery of modernising medical careers for Hull and East Yorkshire and helped to develop the final year curriculum for the first cohort of Hull York Medical School (HYMS) students in 2007. 

Following a brief period as Interim Undergraduate Dean for HYMS in 2011, Colin took up a full time clinical academic post in 2012 as Head of MBChB and then Head of Medical Education at Warwick Medical School before moving to Lancaster University in 2015 as Head of Lancaster Medical School. Throughout this period Colin maintained his clinical practise as Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine. 

In January 2017 Colin took up his role as Director of Education and Standards at the GMC where, as a member of the executive, he has made significant contributions to the work of the GMC; overseeing the launch of several key documents in support of postgraduate medical education, the review of Outcomes for Graduates and work to progress the development and delivery of a Medical Licensing Assessment as a common threshold for entry to the UK medical register. 

In 2020 he led the GMC education and ethical standards response to COVID. This included overseeing derogations to ensure progression through postgraduate training was uninterrupted without reducing the GMC standards or impact on patient safety, ensuring the introduction of FiY1 in the 2020 graduating cohort would safely support the NHS response to the first wave of COVID in Spring 2020, and advice for the profession on wide ranging ethical issues. This has formed the basis of ongoing work to make sure the positive benefits are carried forward in changes to the way medical education is structured and delivered, and with a review of its core professional guidance, Good medical Practice. 

In 2018, Colin was made an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, was appointed Honorary Professor of Medical Education at the University of Manchester and expanded his leadership role in the GMC becoming Medical Director alongside his role as Director of Education and Standards. In 2022 he was appointed Visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University. 

He was part of the collaboration that established the NHS Clinical Entrepreneurs Programme in England and remains an active part of the programme. He also provides mentoring and coaching to early career doctors and other professionals to support and encourage the next generation of potential medical leaders. And continues to maintain a portfolio of educational research, co-authoring several papers on new approaches to written assessment. 

You can find Colin on X (@drcolinm) where he posts and shares information on topics related to medical education and the regulatory work of the GMC, but is also known to share pictures of his garden!! 

: @drcolinm

David Menon

Professor and Lead in Perioperative, Acute, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, UK

David Menon is Professor and Lead of the Perioperative, Acute, Critical Care and Emergency(PACE) Section in the Department of Medicine, and Consultant in Neurocritical Care, at the University of Cambridge.  He is Principal Investigator at the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre and at the John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair. He is Chair of the European Brain Trauma Consortium and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Neuro Trauma Society. He serves as Vice-Coordinator CENTER-TBI, a €30 million FP7 European multi-centre study of precision medicine and comparative effectiveness research in traumatic brain injury, as Joint Director of the Cambridge NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma, and Coordinator of the International Traumatic Brain Injury Research (InTBIR) initiative. He was appointed as Emeritus Senior Investigator by the National Institute for Health Research (UK) in 2018.  He leads the Immunology & Biomarkers Work Group in the UK COVID-CNS study, the Imaging Work Group for the GCS-COVID study of the Neuro Critical Care Society, and is a PI on the Immunoglobulin arm of REMAP-CAP. He has over 500 publications in peer reviewed journals, with a ‘h’ index of 123 (Google Scholar) and is listed as a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Clarivate. He has been Principal or Co-Investigator on grants over $50 million over the last 20 years, and has contributed to major textbooks and international guidelines.  He is joint lead author on two Commissioned Issues of the Lancet Neurology on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI; released at the European Parliament in 2017, and at the CENTER-TBI meeting in 2022). He was Executive Editor of the Report of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Acquired Brain Injury.

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1. https://www.center-tbi.eu/
2. http://neurotrauma.world/ 
3. https://intbir.incf.org/
4. https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/traumatic-brain-injury
5. https://www.ukabif.org.uk/campaigns/appg-report/

: @Menon_Cambridge

Victoria Metaxa

Consultant Intensivist and Trauma , UK

Ashnee Metha

Senior clinical fellow in critical care and anaesthesia ,

I completed my training in ITU and anaesthesia in India and have maintained a great interest in trauma anaesthesia and critical care. 2020 marked the end of my one-year fellowship with the Academy of Regional Anaesthesia (AORA) in India. I stayed on as a consultant at the same institute after the fellowship where I trained around twenty fellows and trainees in POCUS and regional anaesthesia annually. I relocated to the UK a year ago and have continued to organise local workshops for regional anaesthesia. I am currently working as a clinical fellow in critical care and anaesthesia at Northampton General Hospital.

Ashley Miller

Consultant Intensivist ,

: @icmteaching

Hugh Montgomery

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine ,

• Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, UCL
• Director, UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance
• Consultant Intensivist, Whittington Hospital
• London Leader, GLA.

Ben Morton

Senior Clinical Lecturer in Critical Care,

I am a senior clinical lecturer in critical care medicine at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, working clinically at the Aintree site of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Since my doctorate was awarded in 2016 I have developed a translation research career focusing on treatment and prevention of severe infection. During this time, I spent two years working at the Malawi-Liverpool Welcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (2019-2021) before returning to Liverpool in July 2021. My current research focuses on controlled human infection models to accelerate vaccine development for respiratory pathogens and developing improved care pathways for patients with multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Website: https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/dr-ben-morton

: @benjamesmorton

Paul Mouncey

ICNARC Co-Director, UK

Paul is Co-Director, and Clinical Trials Unit Director, at the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC) . Paul is an epidemiologist with over 20 years’ experience of conducting multicentre randomised clinical trials, initially in Cancer, but at ICNARC focussed in adult and paediatric critical care. Paul is currently the Joint-Chief Investigator for the UK-ROX trial (NIHR130508), which is a highly challenging trial within the critical care setting, using extensive data collected routinely by the national clinical audit for critical care (Case Mix Programme) database.

Paul is the lead for the Development of an adaptive platform trial in paediatric critical care and sits on the REMAP-CAP International Trial Steering Committee. He sits on both the NIHR Critical Care National Specialty Specialty Group, which has responsibility for overseeing delivery of studies on the NIHR portfolio for critical care, and the UK Critical Care Research Group.

: @paulmouncey

Parashkev Nachev

Professor of Neurology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square

Parashkev Nachev leads a multi-disciplinary research group with 15 years’ experience in the development and application of complex modelling in neurology and neuroscience, spanning representational, predictive, and prescriptive tasks, with scientific, clinical, and operational objectives. The group has been focused over the past five years on building deep generative models of large-scale multimodal volume imaging data operable in real-world clinical environments.

Lorina Naci

Professor of Consciousness and Cognition, Ireland

Lorina Naci is Associate Professor and leader of “Consciousness and Cognition” group at the School of Psychology, at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin: www.lorinanaci.org. She has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of how consciousness emerges from the healthy brain, and the detection of conscious awareness in some brain-injured patients, who appear to be in a vegetative state. Her work has enabled individuals, who had been unresponsive for several years to communicate their thoughts to the outside world. Her recent work focuses on developing novel biomarkers of healthy and disordered cognition in brain-injured and aging populations. Concurrently, she explores the medico–ethical and societal implications of these applications: https://www.tcd.ie/Neuroscience/Ethics/.

A second focus of her work is the investigation of early biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease by combining neuroimaging, clinical, neuropsychological and physiological assessments. In the face of a global dementia pandemic, it is extremely important to understand the earliest cognitive/functional changes, and their underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms. This can lead to earlier diagnoses, potential targets for treatment, and better understanding of the disease itself. This work is carried out in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh, Cambridge and Oxford Universities (UK), within the PREVENT consortium.

Professor Naci’s work is routinely featured in academic textbooks and the international media. In 2017, she received the L’Oréal – UNESCO International Rising Talent Award, and in 2023 became a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. Professor Naci serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Global Brain Health Institute, at Trinity College Dublin and University of California San Francisco, USA, and Council member of ‘Neuroscience Ireland’, Ireland’s national neuroscience society. She is funded by the Irish Research Council, and Enterprise Ireland, the Alzheimer’s Society of the UK, the Wellcome Trust, etc. 

: www.lorinanaci.org

Amy Nash

Intensive Care Trainee,

: @amynashal

Virginia Newcombe

Consultant in Neurosciences, Trauma, Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine, UK

Virginia Newcombe is an academic consultant in Neurosciences and Trauma Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. She holds an NIHR Rosestrees Trust Advanced Fellowship and a Royal College of Emergency Medicine Professor. Her main research interests focus on the use of imaging and biomarkers to understand pathophysiology, prognostication and trajectory of outcome after traumatic brain injury.

: @vfjn2

Helen Newman

Speech and Language Therapist,

Helen has over 20 years experience working as a speech and language therapist (SLT) in the UK and New Zealand. She has worked extensively with patients with a tracheostomy in intensive care, H&N cancer and brain injury rehabilitation. She is a member of the International Group of SLTs Working in Ultrasound, whose pioneering work explores clinical applications of ultrasound in voice, speech, swallowing and tracheostomy. She is committee member and Treasurer of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ Tracheostomy Clinical Expert Network. Helen currently holds an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship, jointly hosted by Barnet Hospital (Royal Free London NHS FT), and the UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science. Her PhD focuses on how to choose the best size tracheostomy tube for adults in ICU, inspired by seeing first hand the effects of tube size on patient experience and recovery. She is passionate about humanising care in the ICU through person-centred, ‘whole-picture’ approaches to management.

: @HelenNewmanSLT

Chris Nickson

Consultant Intensivist , Australia

Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at the Alfred ICU in Melbourne, where he is Deputy Director (Education). He is a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University and is the Lead for the Clinician Educator Incubator programme. He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives. 

After finishing his medical degree at the University of Auckland, he continued post-graduate training in New Zealand as well as Australia’s Northern Territory, Perth and Melbourne. He has completed fellowship training in both intensive care medicine and emergency medicine, as well as post-graduate training in biochemistry, clinical toxicology, clinical epidemiology, and health professions education. He is one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) and is co-creator of LITFL.com. He has developed many critical care courses and has taught around the world. He is passionate about the use of translational simulation to improve systems, processes, and patient care. His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children. 

: @precordialthump

Segun Olusanya

Consultant Intensivist,

Segun is a newly appointed Intensive Care Consultant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, with special interests in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), clinician wellbeing, point of care ultrasound, equality/diversity/inclusion, and online education. His real claim to fame is running an award winning wedding cake and confectionery business with his wife, Fehintola; he primarily functions as Chief Taster, and occasional Dish Washer.

: @iceman_ex

Marlies Ostermann

ICS Director of Research, Consultant Intensivist and Nephrology, UK

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.

: @MarliesOsterman

Robert Parker

Consultant in Critical Care and Respiratory , UK

Robert is a consultant in Critical Care and Respiratory Medicine at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Apart from critical care he has a major interest in weaning and long-term ventilation in Liverpool and the North West Regional Spinal Injures Centre in Southport. He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Liverpool active in both research and teaching.

Prashant Parulekar

Consultant in Intensive Care, Acute & General Internal Medicine ,

Prashant is a Consultant in Intensive Care, Acute & General Internal Medicine at William Harvey Hospital (East Kent Hospitals). He is an honorary senior lecturer at Queen Mary University London (QMUL), giving lectures regarding the role of echocardiography in resuscitation and chairing tutorials on diagnostics and imaging modalities in resuscitation. He teaches and lectures at both regional and national ultrasound and echo conferences and courses.

He is member of the national Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee and is BSE Level 2 accredited in Critical Care Echocardiography. He is a FUSIC & FICE (Focused Intensive Care Echocardiography) supervisor & mentor and runs national FUSIC courses. He is published in research in the use of echo and ultrasound in Intensive Care and Acute Medicine and in the assessment of haemodynamic status using echo.

Prashant was the Chief Investigator (CI) for the national lung ultrasound and echo CORONA study (COre ultRasOund of covid in iNtensive care & Acute medicine) assessing the lung ultrasound features and the incidence of left and right ventricular dysfunction in COVID ICU patients. He is the creator and co-host of Ultra Live, the world’s first live POCUS gameshow at the SOA this year. 

: @parulekar8550

Natalie Pattison

Professor of Clinical Nursing , UK

Professor Natalie Pattison is a clinical academic who has worked clinically in cancer, critical care and critical care outreach. She is a Professor of Clinical Nursing with a joint appointment across the University of Hertfordshire and East and North Herts NHS Trust. Natalie also holds a Researcher in Residence (ICU) position at Imperial College London, working in the CATO team, with an honorary contract with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She is the clinical lead for critical care follow-up services, combining this with a research role. Her research interests focus on her clinical area of critical care and critically ill ward patients, end of life in critical care, and disability in critical care. She is widely published in critical care supportive care.  She is Chair of the National Outreach Forum, immediate past-Chair of UK Critical Care Research Group, and the UK Critical Care Nursing Alliance. She is also Deputy Lead for the National Institute for Health Research National Specialty Group for Critical Care.

: @drnatpat

Amit Pawa

Consultant Anaesthetist,

Amit is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Lead for Regional Anaesthesia at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, & also works at Cleveland Clinic, London. 

He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.

He is an Ultrasound Guided Regional Anaesthesia (UGRA) enthusiast and was the first ever fellow in Regional Anaesthesia at Guy's & St Thomas'. He holds the ESRA European Diploma in Regional Anaesthesia (EDRA)

Additionally, Amit has been: President of the London Society for Regional Anaesthesia (LSORA) ands President of RA-UK, as well as a council member of the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia (ESRA).

Amit has created a series of Ultrasound Regional Anaesthesia Video tutorials on YouTube, and has an active social media profile and uses his X account to help share knowledge of Regional Anaesthesia, the occasional Dad Joke, and a few of his attempts at poetry! His most recent project has been creating a Regional Anaesthesia Podcast called “Block It Like It’s Hot”

He  has numerous publications in regional anaesthesia covering General Anaesthesia-Free Breast Surgery and fascial plane blocks, and has authored numerous review articles, editorials, guidelines and Delphi consensus projects on aspects of regional anaesthesia.

: @amit_pawa

Marcus Peck

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Marcus Peck is a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at Frimley Park Hospital (Surrey, UK), chair of the Intensive Care Society (ICS)’s Focused Ultrasound for Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee, and author of the OUP textbook 'Focused Intensive Care Ultrasound'. He is a passionate ultrasound trainer and teaches widely. Marcus sits on several national committees, including the ICS Council and British Society of Echocardiography’s Professional Standards Committee, delivering UK ultrasound training and quality assurance. He relishes breaking down organisational barriers, and dreams of the day when bedside ultrasound is normal practise for all frontline clinicians.

: @ICUltrasonica

Joanne Pons

Senior Sister in Critical Care, UK

Jo is a Senior Sister in Critical Care at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. 

She graduated from Sheffield University in March 2000 and has worked in Critical Care for 24 years. For the last 8 years Jo has been involved in the transition of paediatric patients into adult Critical Care services and she provides a nurse led transition service which supports all aspects of the patients journey from pre planning through to supporting the MDT post transition.  

Jo also specialises in digital integration and co-leads the Critical Care digital service. She manages several quality initiatives including the Critical Care follow up service, audit services and Critical Care elective booking service. 

She is mum to 3 lovely children and to her feline companions.  

Zudin Puthucheary

Consultant Intensivist , UK

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. 

: @Zudin_P

Emma Ridley

Critical Care Clinical Dietitian & Senior Research Fellow, Australia

Emma is a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Fellow and leads the Nutrition Program at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Emma has 19 years of clinical dietetic experience, including as a senior dietitian in the ICU at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. After completing her PhD in 2018, Emma’s primary research interest is the effect of long term nutrition interventions for the critically ill. Emma is internationally recognized as a critical care dietitian and researcher, ranked in the top 1% on Expertscape for critical care and many clinical nutrition topics and regularly presents both nationally and internationally. Emma has more than 100 peer reviewed publications and has been a named investigator on more than $>10 million dollars of research funding, including $4.2 million as CIA).  Emma is CI-A on the recently completed INTENT trial that is investigating a whole-hospital nutrition intervention in critically ill patients (NCT03292237) and was awarded a MRFF 2022 Clinician Researcher: Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health grant of $1.49 million titled "A national platform for improving quality of nutrition care for critically ill adults and children".

: @ICUnutrition

Louise Rose

Professor of Critical Care Nursing, UK

Kathy Rowan

Director of the NIHR HSDR Programme and Director of ICNARC, UK

Professor Kathy Rowan is the Director of the NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research Programme, Director of the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC), Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Adjunct Professor (Research) at Monash University, Australia.

In 1994, following her PhD from the University of Oxford, Professor Rowan founded ICNARC, an independent, not-for-profit, scientific organisation to facilitate improvements in the structure, process, outcomes and experiences of critical care - for patients and for those who care for them. ICNARC manages a broad programme of clinical audit and clinical/health services research, nationally and internationally.

Professor Rowan was awarded the Humphry Davy Medal by the UK Royal College of Anaesthetists (2004), completed a Harkness Fellowship (2005), received the President’s Prize with honorary life membership of the UK Intensive Care Society (2019) and Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Queen’s Birthday Honours’ List 2021) for services to research and intensive care.

: @KathyRowan101

Antonio Rubino

Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist and Intensivist, UK

Antonio Rubino is a cardiothoracic anaesthetist and Intensivist at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. He is clinical lead for Organ Donation for the Eastern Region as part of the National Transplant service. He is Intenisve Care Society's national lead for the focused transoesohpageal echocardiography (fTOE) program. His research interest include critical care ultrasounds, ECMO and cardiothoracic donor organs optimisation.

: @AEA_rubino

Euan Sandilands

Consultant Physician, UK

Euan is a Consultant Clinical Toxicologist and past Director of the Edinburgh unit of the National Poisons Information Service (NPIS). The NPIS provide clinical advice to healthcare professionals across the UK on the management of poisoned patients via the online database TOXBASE, and a national 24-hour telephone line.

He is one of a small team of toxicologists providing direct clinical care for patients admitted to Scotland’s only dedicated poisons unit in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, while also contributing to the national on call rota providing clinical advice to healthcare professionals across the UK.

He has a keen interest in medical education. He is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer with the University of Edinburgh and the Assessment Lead for Edinburgh Medical School. He also sits on the Medical Schools Council national standard setting committee for the upcoming UK MLA exam.

Sara Scott

Consultant Intensivist ,

Sara graduated from Queen’s University, then moved to the North East of England for her postgraduate training. She was elected onto the Trainee Professional Advisory Group in 2019. She has CCT’d in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia in April this year and has recently taken up a consultant post at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead.C

Anil Seth

Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience , UK

Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than twenty-five years. He is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind and Consciousness, a European Research Council Advanced Investigator, and Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness. He has published more than 200 research papers and has been recognized by Web of Science, over several years, as being in the top 0.1% of researchers worldwide. A former Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow, in 2023 he was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for his services to public outreach. His two TED talks have been viewed more than fourteen million times, he has appeared in several films, and he has written for Aeon, The Guardian, Granta, New Scientist, and Scientific American, and he is lead scientist on the Dreamachine project. Prospect Magazine listed him as one of the Top 25 global thinkers for 2024. His book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller and a 2021 Book of the Year for The Economist, The New Statesman, Bloomberg Business, The Guardian, The Financial Times and elsewhere.

: @anilkseth

Mike Smith

Senior Lecturer Cardiff University, UK

Stephen Spencer

Intensive Care and Acute Medicine Trainee, Malawi

I am an intensive care and acute medicine registrar, and a Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme in Blantyre, Malawi. Prior to moving to Malawi, I conducted research in Madagascar (2015-2021), and completed an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

My current research focuses on multimorbidity-associated emergency hospitalisation with a focus on development of health-system pathways and disease management in sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, I lead a cohort study to understand pathology and outcomes of hypoxaemic patients in Malawi; and I co-lead the ultrasound arm of the BREATHE trial (Building Respiratory support in East Africa Through High flow versus low flow oxygen Evaluation).

: @StephenSpencerA

Jennie Stephens

Consultant in Intensive Care and Acute Medicine , UK

Jennie is a Consultant in Intensive Care and Acute Medicine in, the sometimes sunny but always beautiful, Cornwall in Southwest England.

She is an avid point of care ultrasonographer and teaches bedside scanning on a regular basis.  She was a founding member of three of the major working groups for point-of-care ultrasound training in the UK (FUSIC, FAMUS and CACTUS).  She continues to contribute educational material, time and enthusiasm to all three. 

She has an interest in enhanced care delivered outside of the critical care setting. She has contributed to recent national guidance from the Society of Acute Medicine and Intensive Care Society helping define how this is best delivered.

She is mum to two young boys, cross-fit enthusiast and occasionally competent gardener.

Philip Stiles

Philip Stiles’ principal research area is in the management of people, primarily around the subjects of talent and performance management, and culture. His research takes in all levels of the organisation, from the board through to front-line staff, to gain a rounded view of the key processes and practices. He has worked with many organisations on issues of people management and change management, including the NHS, both within hospitals and with GP surgeries.  He has won awards for his research and for his teaching at Cambridge.

Ganesh Suntharalingam

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

Anna-Liisa Sutt

Speech and Language Therapist,

: @MsAnnaLiisaSutt

Lucy Swinburn

Paediatric Critical Care Nurse, UK

Lucy has worked in the Paediatric Critical Care Unit for 20 years. After completing her nursing degree in Birmingham (back in the day when nursing degrees were a new concept) she moved back to Derbyshire and started as a Band 5 staff nurse.

As the PCCU Transition Nurse she works closely with young people and their families who require regular care on PCCU, usually due to long-term respiratory failure.

Other interests include staff health and wellbeing, the Psychological impact of working in PCCU, Safeguarding, Debriefing, Band 6 Nurse Development and Developmentally appropriate Healthcare for young people.

Ema Swingwood

Consultant Physiotherapist, UK

Ema is a Consultant Therapist (Physiotherapist by background) in Critical Care at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. Her area of clinical expertise and interest is ventilation, weaning and complex airway clearance. 

Having completed the Advanced Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy Msc programme at University College London (UCL) in 2012, Ema has continued her research focusing on the use of Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation (MI-E) and other cough augmentation strategies. Her current PhD work focuses on the use of MI-E in the intubated population which is funded through the NIHR Clinical Academic Research Fellowship pathway. 

Extra-curricular activities include contributions to the Undergraduate Physiotherapy programme at the University of the West of England, and post-graduate teachings at University College London and Brunel University. She sits on the Intensive Care Society Physiotherapy Professional Advisory Group and Education Committee, the Equity, Diversity and Belonging Committee of the CSP, and ICUsteps support group network. She has been part of the multi-professional authorship for BTS/ICS documents related to Respiratory Support Units and Weaning Centres. Most recently, she is part of the NHSElect working group for the development of a Critical Care Capability Framework.

: @emaroids1

Kate Tantam

Specialist Intensive Care Sister, UK

Kate is a Specialist Sister in ICU in Plymouth.  Her role is to support patients, loved ones and staff pre and post ICU discharge.  She is a nurse researcher in rehabilitation after critical illness and the founder of the #Rehablegend campaign. The campaign shares patient stories to share best practice, improve patient experience, support quality improvement and clinical research and raise awareness of the importance of rehabilitation for all.  Her work was recognised with a Parliamentary Award for care and compassion in 2019, National Patient Experience Award in 2019.  Her work during 2020/2021 supporting patients with COVID saw her awarded with a British Empire Medal for services to improve patient experience.  She is the deputy chair of the National Rehabilitation Collaborative and is keen to develop national work to support recovery after ICU.

: @tantamkate

Rachel Thomas

Consultant Transplant Surgeon , UK

Rachel Thomas is a Consultant Transplant Surgeon in Edinburgh Transplant Centre and a lead surgeon in the National Organ Retrieval Service. Rachel trained in Edinburgh and Glasgow transplant units and completed her fellowship in Oxford Transplant Centre, focusing on pancreas transplant.

Rachel completed her MD in 2013 at University of Edinburgh. For this, Rachel was Chief Investigator for the HOT study (Heme Oxygenase 1 in renal Transplant) looking at ways to protect deceased donor renal transplants from inevitable ischaemic injury. This work led to funding for a multicentre trial and Rachel was awarded the Moynihan Prize from ASGBI.

Her current QI interest is in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) and a successful pilot was completed in 2021, which has now changed standard renal transplant practice and she is part of NHSBT Guideline committee and ERAS Society Guidelines lead. Rachel’s current research interest is in the impact of Normothermic Regional Perfusion retrieval technique on quality of kidney grafts.

Rachel also has an interest in teaching and mentoring and holds an honorary contract with University of Edinburgh. She regularly teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students locally and nationally and is a tutor on Edinburgh Surgical Sciences programme.

Rum Thomas

Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care ,

Rum is a Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care and Deputy Medical Director at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust. She is Clinical Lead of Yorkshire & Humber Paediatric Critical Care Operational Delivery Network, Training Advisor for Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health’s Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine Intercollegiate SAC, as well as Clinical Member of the Clinical Reference Group of Paediatric Critical Care – NHS England.

Her clinical interests include transition from paediatrics to adult critical care and diabetic ketoacidosis where she has co-authored national guidelines for both. Her focus is also to promote equitable access to health care for children and young people.

Her other interests include development and training of postgraduate doctors in paediatrics and paediatric critical care, improving patient safety and quality of care, as well as increasing awareness of sepsis and its management. And, walking in the Peak District, travel and photography.

: @rum_thomas11

Rob Tobin

Partner at Kennedys Law,

Rob leads Kennedys’ healthcare team in Cambridge. He advises NHS Trusts on healthcare law, medical negligence litigation, end of life decisions, judicial reviews, consent and capacity to treatment, inquests and mental health and capacity law. Working with NHS Resolution he manages a team of lawyers working on clinical negligence claims of the utmost severity, including cerebral palsy, neurological injuries, neonatal deaths and psychiatric injuries. He has a specialist practice in medical treatment cases involving declarations to treat and withdrawal of treatment and lectures on these topics. He is legal advisor to the Intensive Care Society’s LEAG and to Thrive LDN, a mental health taskforce.  He sits on the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust clinical ethics advisory group. During the pandemic, Rob actively advised the ICS and the National Executive Critical Care Committee. Rob’s recent high profile cases include: AH v Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2021) – obtaining a declaration to withdraw ventilation from a 56 year old, described as “the most complex COVID patient in the world” and Tafida Raqeeb v Barts Health NHS Trust and others (2019) – complex Judicial Review and treatment case concerning withdrawal of life sustaining treatment for 5 year old Muslim child.

Sarah Wallace

Consultant Speech and Language Therapist,

Sarah Wallace OBE FRCSLT is a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester and honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. She specialises in Critical Care and has over 30 years of clinical experience as an SLT. After training in Manchester, Sarah has worked in hospitals and Non-Government Organisations in the UK, Singapore, Grenada (WI) and Cambodia. Whilst working clinically in cardiothoracic, ECMO and general critical care in Manchester, she also teaches and conducts research internationally, focussing on laryngeal injury, dysphagia and communication issues post intubation and tracheostomy. She has over 60 publications, several top cited articles winning awards from the BMJ and the ICS. She holds expert advisor roles with the Intensive Care Society (ICS), the National Tracheostomy Safety Project and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and has contributed to many policies, guidelines and initiatives including GPICS, FEES, NCEPOD and the ICS National Rehabilitation Collaborative. Sarah is also an Associate Editor for JICS. She has pioneered new treatments for laryngeal recovery in ICU, setting up the first FEES service in Asia and the UK and supports SLT service development in the UK, Sweden and Chile. 

Tim Walsh

Professor of Critical Care,

Tim Walsh is Professor of Critical Care at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Consultant in Critical Care at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He is also Director Innovation for NHS Lothian, and Health Innovation South East Scotland. He is Head of the Academic Dept of Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, and Co-director of Acute Care Edinburgh a multidisciplinary research grouping in the University of Edinburgh Usher Institute.

Tim leads a multidisciplinary clinical research group with interests including transfusion medicine, sedation in the critically ill, recovery from critical illness and the epidemiology and prevention of ICU acquired infection. He has a particular interest in large pragmatic clinical trials, complex health intervention trials, and the evaluation of novel diagnostics and technologies in acute care. He is a past Chairman of the NIHR UK Critical Care Research Network and UK Critical Care Research Group.

Manni Waraich

Consultant Neuro Intensivist ,

Manni Waraich is a consultant neuro intensivist and clinical lead for neurocritical care at the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square London having previously been a consultant at Southampton Wessex Neurosciences ICU. She is the national lead for the ICS FUSIC brain module which is currently under development with a release date late spring/early summer 2024. She has written chapters on neurocritical care and brain ultrasound for the Oxford Handbook of Anaesthetic Emergencies; Neurology: A Queen Square Textbook and Point of Care Ultrasound in Critical Care.

: @ManniWaraich

Carly Welch

Consultant Geriatrician, UK

Carly is a Consultant Geriatrician at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at King's College London having completed her Higher Specialist Training in Birmingham. During training, she completed a PhD at the University of Birmingham on the subject of acute sarcopenia. She also co-founded the Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative and was the previous Chair of the BGS Trainees Council. She now works clinically in Geriatric-Oncology Liaison, and acute "front door" frailty. She is the Chief Investigator for the FORCE:SEE Study and a member of the European Academy for Medicine of Ageing, following completion of this course in 2023.

: @CarlyWelch_42

Ingeborg Welters

Clinical Academic in Intensive Care Medicine

Ingeborg Welters finished her specialist training in Anaesthesia at University Hospital Giessen, Germany, in 1999 followed by fellowships in Intensive Care and cardiac anaesthesia. She obtained her MD (Dr. med.) for work on haemostatic and immune changes during heart surgery and was awarded the venia legendi (PhD equivalent) in anaesthesia for researching effects of anaesthetics on leukocyte function and gene transcription. Funded by the German Research Society (DFG) she worked as visiting scholar at State University of New York for 12 months. She also completed a Master degree in management of health and social care organisations with honours. In 2005 she moved to Liverpool to continue her career as clinical academic in Intensive Care. She was appointed as Associate Professor for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany, and promoted to Personal Chair in 2009.

Ingeborg’s research interests focus on cardiovascular dysfunction in acute illness. Her research has been funded by NIHR, the British Heart Foundation and EU Horizon 2023.

: @IngeborgWelters

Manoj Wickramasinghe

Anaesthetic Trainee ,

Manoj is an Anaesthetic trainee in West Yorkshire. His interests include point of care ultrasound, critical care echocardiography and all things physiology. He set up and is the course director of the Leeds FUSIC course which has been running since 2019. He is passionate about medical education and recent interests and involvements include setting up ORCA (an interactive online resource for radiology education in acute care) as well as becoming an editor at criticalcarenorthampton.co.uk.

: @Manoj_wickram

Jonny Wilkinson

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist,

: @Wilkinsonjonny

Clare Windsor

Consultant Intensivist, Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

Clare is a Consultant in ICM & Anaesthesia in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, having been appointed in 2014 and is a current ICS Council Member.

She has a keen interest in patient safety and governance, taking the lead for Critical Care Governance since 2015 and being an active member of the ICS Standards & Guidelines Committee.

She is a strong advocate for the care of young adults as they transition into the care of Adult Critical Care and was the lead author for the joint national guidelines between the ICS and PCCS (Paediatric to Adult Critical Care Transition).

Other interests include Organ Donation, having been a Clinical Lead for Organ Donation since 2019, and a representative of the ICS on the National Organ Donation Committee.

: @ClareMWindsor

Nicky Witton

Senior Lecturer Critical Care, UK

Nicky is a Senior Lecturer at Keele University who started her career in Critical Care in the late 1980s in the Midlands on a general Intensive Care Unit, before combining with the Cardiac ITU in early 2000. During this time, she completed her post registration Intensive Care course for adults, BSc (HONS) Nursing Studies and Post Graduate Diploma in Education. In clinical practice, she had special interest in advanced life support, obstetrics and paediatrics. Nicky completed her shortened course in Intensive Care for Children at Great Ormond Street.

Moving into higher education in 2008, Nicky has developed the post registration programmes in Critical Care, and Advanced Critical Care Practitioner (ACCP), and acute care for midwives. Remaining passionate about critical care education, Nicky works with the Critical Care National Nurse Leads (CC3N) and the Education Forum, working collaboratively in developing the National Standards for Adult Critical Care Education and the associated clinical competencies Steps 1,2,3,4, and bespoke competencies relating to cardiac and obstetrics. She was also part of the team developing the educational framework for Nursing Associates in Critical Care.  

In 2020, continuing with apprenticeship development, Nicky was part of the national trailblazer group for the Enhanced Clinical Practitioner standard and has since developed the Enhanced Clinical Practitioner BSc and Post Graduate Diploma for a wide range of healthcare practitioners commencing in September 2022, one of the first HEIs to deliver this standard. This includes routes for Critical Care and neonatal nurses. 

Nicky is a Senior Fellow with the Higher Education Academy. Nicky’s research and publications focus on Moral Distress, the critical care work environment and curriculum design. She is currently undertaking her Doctorate in Education with a focus on Critical Care nurses’ longevity in clinical practice.

Rachel Wong

Consultant Intensivist, Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, and ECMO,

: @RachelWongLiene

Hannah Wunsch

Consultant Intensivist , USA

Hannah Wunsch is a critical care doctor and Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Anaesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Born in Boston and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hannah attended Harvard College, graduating with a BA in Biology. She attended Washington University School of Medicine and received a Master's Degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She completed an anaesthesia residency and critical care fellowship at Columbia University. She was on faculty in the Department of Anaesthesiology at Columbia and then at the University of Toronto where she held a Canada Research Chair, before moving to Weill Cornell Medicine in 2023.

Hannah holds research funding from the NIH, US Department of Defense and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her work focuses on the delivery and outcomes of critical care using large databases. Her research has been published in The Lancet, JAMA, BMJ and many specialty journals. 

Hannah is the author of the book The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care. Her writing has also appeared in The Globe & Mail, The Literary Review of Canada, McSweeney's, and other journals. She lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the village of Woods Hole on Cape Cod, Massachusetts

: @wunschcritcare

Parjam (PJ) Zolfaghari

SOA Programme Director and Consultant Intensivist,

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 is the current programme director of SOA 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!). 

: @PJZolfaghari