ICS Cast

Alastair Proudfoot is a general and cardiac intensivist at Barts Heart Centre. He has a clinical and research interest in the management of cardiogenic shock and both short term and durable mechanical circulatory support

Dr Michael Griksaitis joined University Hospital Southampton in 2011, and is experienced in all aspects of paediatric critical care. He has a particular interest in paediatric cardiac patients. He is passionate about teaching and training, both at an undergraduate and postgraduate level. He is an Honorary external clinical lecturer at Durham University, Clinical lead for organ donation (paediatrics) at University Hospital Southampton and Co-lead for paediatric critical care outreach in the Wessex and Thames Valley Operational Delivery Network

Emma Ridley, ANZIC-RC, Monash University and Alfred Health

Emma leads the ICU Nutrition Research Program at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia and has 13 years of clinical dietetic experience, including as a senior dietitian in the ICU at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. Emma’s research interests include the clinical application of indirect calorimetry, as well as the effect of optimal nutrition delivery on short and long-term outcomes in ICU patients. Emma was awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship in 2011 to investigate the role of indirect calorimetry internationally and regularly delivers invited national and international presentations. Emma is on the management committee for the TARGET trial (the largest blinded enteral nutrition trial conducted in critical care) and has been a named investigator on $6.2 million dollars of research funding, including a project based on findings from her PhD of $2.3 million dollars (NCT03292237).

Dale Needham is the 2018 David Bennett Speaker

In conversation with Charlotte Summers

Alex is an Intensive Care specialist working in Wellington, having trained in London, Melbourne and New Zealand. He has been involved in the design and implementation of Rapid Response Systems in several different hospitals. Because of this, he is clinical lead for the New Zealand Health Quality & Safety Commission’s national ‘Deteriorating Patient’ programme. In his spare time, when not walking his dog or his children, he builds websites & designs logos for Wellington ICU’s prodigious research department. He has nearly written a lot more research papers & as such needs to spend less time on Twitter. He also once ventilated a chimpanzee but it didn’t end well (for the chimp).

Dr Murray is a Chartered and Registered Health Psychologist with an interest in social inequalities in health, wellbeing in medical students and doctors, and doctor patient communication. She has a long-standing interest in the wellbeing of healthcare professionals and since starting work at Barts and the London she has been developing her research in the area of moral injury. As well us undertaking research on this issue, she works with NHS staff to develop workshops and seminars which focus on psychological wellbeing and moral injury. Her early research was in chronic pain and its effect on doctor-patient communication and she has a background in psychological intervention in cardiac care and training NHS staff in communication skills. She Health Psychology to MBBS students and Physician Associates at Barts and she is course leader for the iBSc in Medical Education.

This talk from SOA2018 brings adaptive physiology to life. Mel Wilson is an Olympic Rowing Medallist. Watch the Rio race here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paRQ7IgYLhk

Tom Evens is an Emergency Physician at Imperial College Healthcare, and also a consultant in Prehospital Care at Barts Health and London’s Air Ambulance.

He leads the Human Performance workstream at London’s Air Ambulance, and is a convenor of the London Performance Psychology Symposium for the Institute of Prehospital Care.

With a background in the sport of rowing, he has coached elite athletes in Australia and the UK. He has coached a World Cup Silver medal, and his athletes have gone on to win Olympic and World Championship medals. In the course of this work, he developed an interest in sports physiology, performance psychology, and ergonomics.

Tom now works with UK Sport, the FA and other elite organisations to support coaches to apply the performance lessons from successful medical teams to their own work.

Mark Homer - Following a brief career in teaching, Mark has worked for British Rowing for 11 years, supporting the team as a physiologist through 3 Olympic cycles and directly at the Beijing, London and Rio Games. During this time he completed a PhD titled ‘Determinants of Rowing Performance – Implications for Developing Rowers’. He has recently become the Head of High Performance Science & Medicine, tasked with leading the various support services and coordinating the research and innovation strategy in preparation for the Tokyo Games.

Melanie Wilson - is a double Olympian, and won an historic silver medal in the Rio Olympic Games, rowing as part of the women’s eight. She studied medicine alongside her training for both Olympics, and now works at a hospital in North West London, with aspirations to train in anaesthetics. She’s interested in the cross over between sports and medicine, in particular teamwork and performance under pressure. She has presented at conferences focusing on using skills from different industries and applying them to clinical performance.

This is Hallie Prescott's presentation from the opening plenary session at the Intensive Care Society State of the Art Meeting 2018

Dr. Hallie Prescott is an Assistant Professor in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan and staff physician at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital. She leads grants on post sepsis morbidity and hospital performance measurement from the US National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs. She is an expert in long-term outcomes and recovery after sepsis, with a focus on preventable hospital readmissions. She is co-chair of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines, inaugural Lowry-Fink fellow of the International Sepsis Forum (2017-2019), a former ANZICS Intensive Care Global Rising Star fellow (2015), and winner of the Early Career Achievement award from the American Thoracic Society’s Critical Care Assembly (2018).

SOA18. Session 1: Opening Plenary

Welcome Gary Masterson (ICS President) & Steve Mathieu (ICS Programme Director)

Session 22.3: Making it physical: ICU design - Danny Bryden, UK