Translational research innovation using virtual reality and 3D printing to facilitate multiple surgical teams in 23 hour operation to separate conjoined twins

Mark Wilson is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Pre-Hospital Care Doctor. He is Professor of Brain Injury at Imperial College and the Gibson Chair of Pre-Hospital Care in the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. His area of interest is the hyper-acute management of brain injury and hypoxic brain injury. He has worked extensively overseas including with NASA (investigating intracranial pressure in Astronauts) and on many expeditions. He is co-founder and medical director of GoodSAM (www.goodsamapp.org) - a global platform that crowd sources trained responders in emergencies and enables urgent telemedical assessment of patients.

Dr. Michael Stein is CEO and Co-Chairman of Valo Therapeutics. He is a business leader and strategic adviser with C-suite experience in healthcare. Michael was the founding CEO of OxStem Ltd, an award-winning biotechnology spin-out from the University of Oxford. He has served as founding CEO for Doctor Care Anywhere, acquired by Synergix in 2015. In 2001, he co-founded the Map of Medicine Ltd (the Map) with University College London. As founding CEO (and later CMO), the Map was nationally licensed across NHS England (2005-15) and acquired by Hearst Business Media (HBM) in 2008, after which Michael transitioned to executive vice-president of healthcare innovation.

Mary Anne Hilliard currently serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC. Committed to the concept that the best way to manage risk is to prevent it, she has led local and national grant funded initiatives to share risk data and advance “high reliability principles” in order to reduce serious adverse events and associated malpractice harm. Rahul Shah is Chief Counsel and Vice President for Medical Affairs at Children’s National Hospital, Washington DC. He is recognized as a leader in patient safety and quality improvement and has chaired and serves on myriad national committees related to patient safety and quality improvement. Under his leadership, Children’s National has received numerous safety and quality distinctions.

Steve Richards is one of Britain’s leading political commentators and broadcasters. He writes columns for the Guardian, Independent and FT. He is a presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Week in Westminster and has presented BBC series on Blair, Miliband, Corbyn and May.

British Labour Party politician, academic and journalist who served in the Labour Government for five years. He served as Secretary of State for Transport from 2009 to 2010, and Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission from 2015 to 2017

British Airways 747 Captain, 28 years flying experience, 20 years as a Trainer. Director of Aviatours Fly with Fear, running Flying with Confidence courses for BA for 25 years. First Class Honours Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering

Jo is one of the UK’s leading barristers specialising in child protection law rising to prominence for her work in contentious cases involving complex medical evidence and the death of a child. She acted in the case of Islington v Al Alas and Wray which brought the issue of Vitamin D deficiency and rickets masquerading as shaking injuries to medical and public attention. Her practice encompasses cases involving the death of / catastrophic injuries to a child, NAI, TRIAD , FII , child sex abuse, ritualized abuse , FGM though to ISIS radicalisation cases. Jo acted for 77 families in the Hillsborough Inquest’s charged with scrutinising the adequacy of the emergency medical response to the disaster.

Claire is a Consultant in Prehospital Care with London’s Air Ambulance (aka London HEMS) and in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Trauma at Kings College Hospital. She also has 19 years of military experience, including numerous operational deployments, and has been the Clinical Governance Lead for the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT). International experience of prehospital care and trauma systems, including fellowships in Baltimore, and in both military and civilian environments, have given her extensive experience to bring to her current roles and in addition as the Medical Adviser to the armed police in London.

For the last decade, Dr Clare Gerada has led the largest physician health service in Europe and led the Royal College of General Practitioners between 2011-2013, only the second women in history at its head. Clare trained in group analysis and uses her experience from this field to help understand why doctors are so unhappy. Clare is proud that she is still a front line GP and just passed her 26th year mile stone working in the same GP practice in South London.