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The Faculty Board

	Professor Julian Bion (Dean) Biography Julian Bion is Professor of ICM at the University of Birmingham, honorary consultant in ICM at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, co-director of R&D and deputy director of the Birmingham Clinical Research Academy. As a member of the IBTICM he led the writing of the first competency-based curriculum for ICM. As President of the ESICM (2004-6) he established the European Critical Care Network and led development of the CoBaTrICE programme. He is senior clinical lead for the NPSA project. In 2004 he was presented with the Shubin-Weil Award for Excellence by the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He gave the Gilston lecture and received honorary membership of the ICS in 2009. His research interests include quality improvement and patient safety in acute care and the patheogenesis and prevention of multiple organ failure. Register of Interests: No competing interests and no paid relationships with industry Intensive care medicine Patient safety and reliability of care Professionalism, education and training Systems management and health services research Infection Control Prevention of Multiple Organ Failure
	Professor Timothy Evans (Vice Dean) Biography Timothy Evans is Medical Director, Director of Research, and Deputy Chief Executive of the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. He is Head of the Unit of Critical Care, Imperial College School of Medicine, and Consultant in Thoracic and Intensive Care Medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital, London UK. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, an NIHR senior investigator, and Academic Vice-President of the RCP (London). He qualified at the University of Manchester and undertook training in general medicine at the London postgraduate teaching hospitals. He completed a PhD at the University of Sheffield and was MRC Travelling Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. His research interests include the vascular biology of sepsis and the pathophysiology of acute respiratory distress syndrome. Register of Interests: Medical Director (Executive Trust Board member) Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust (from 1.4.04 Acting, 1.4.05 substantive) Deputy Chief Executive Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust Director of Research, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust Academic Vice President, Royal College of Physicians (2009- ) NIHR Senior Clinical Investigator (2010- ) Member, Editorial Board, American Journal of Physiology (2000- ) I hold no shares in relevant companies, nor investments in other vehicles likely to constitute a conflict of Interest
	Dr Anna Batchelor Biography Qualified MB ChB Sheffield 1980; Trained in Sheffield, Leicester and Newcastle; FRCA 1985; One of first cohort of Joint Accreditation Committee [JACIT] trainees in ICM; Consultant Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Royal Victoria Infirmary Newcastle upon Tyne since 1993; ICS Council 2000-2008, President 2005-7; RCOA Council 2008-present. Register of Interests: Intensive care medicine including training, workforce and organisational issues Chair, National Workforce Reference Panel for Critical Care Safety and quality in the whole hospital not just in critical care and theatre and how anaesthesia and ICM can contribute to that Anaesthesia for endocrine surgery including phaeochromcytoma Anaesthesia and critical care for burns Anaesthesia for minimally invasive lower gastrointestinal surgery Interests;Skiing and sailing
	Dr Simon Baudouin (Chair FICMTAC) Biography Simon Baudouin is Senior Lecturer in Critical Care Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He trained in Respiratory and General Medicine at the Brompton and Kings College Hospitals, London and in Critical Care Medicine, as a JACIT trainee, at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals. His research interests include Acute Lung Injury, the innate immune system in the critically ill, the genetics of sepsis and outcomes following critical illness. He is Chairman of the FICM Training & Assessment Committee (formerly IBTICM), Specialty Lead for the Northumberland Tyne & Wear Critical Care CLRN Research Network, Council Member of the Intensive Care Society and Chair of the ICS Standards, Safety and Quality sub-committee. Register of Interests: No competing Interests Research interests in sepsis, long term ventilation and ITU organisation and outcomes
	Professor Chris Lavy Biography Chris Lavy is an orthopaedic surgeon in Oxford and holds honorary professorships at Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He trained as a GP initially then moved to orthopaedic surgery with junior posts in Oxford, Norwich and Cambridge. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at University College Hospital and The Middlesex Hospital in 1992. He was a founding fellow and council member of the College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa. For this he received the OBE in 2007. He has been a Hunterian professor and is an elected council member of the RCS England. He is senior author in a new book of vivas for the FRCS(Orth). He was involved in setting up an orthopaedic hospital in Niger which opened in October 2010. Register of Interests: None Declared
	Dr Mike McAlindon Biography: Mike McAlindon is a Specialty Registrar (ST6) in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in the West Midlands Deanery. He graduated from the University of Manchester Medical School in 2005, and completed Foundation Training in the North West before moving to the West Midlands in 2007. He is currently training within the Birmingham School of Anaesthesia, gaining FRCA in 2009 and MRCP(UK) in 2012. Mike has been ICS Trainee Committee Linkman for the West Midlands Deanery since 2011 and has recently been elected to the Faculty board as Trainee Representative Register of Interests: FICM Trainee Representative ICS Trainee committee Linkman for the West Midlands deanery Focussed Echocardiography Education and Training in ICM
	Professor David Menon Biography David Krishna Menon trained in Medicine, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Jawaharlal Institute in India, Leeds General Infirmary, The Royal Free Hospital and Addenbrooke's Hospital, and was an MRC Research Fellow at the Hammersmith Hospital. He is Professor and Head of the Division of Anaesthesia, Principal Investigator in the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, and Co-Chair of the Acute Brain Injury Program at the University of Cambridge; and Professorial Fellow in the Medical Sciences at Queens' College, Cambridge. In 2006 he was appointed to the British Oxygen Professorship at the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He serves on the ICNARC Board, as Co-Chair of the Executive Board of the European Brain Injury Consortium, and on the Executive Board of the International Neurotrauma Society. He is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and an NIHR Senior Investigator. Register of Interests: Neurointensive care, Traumatic brain injury, Subarachnoid haemorrhage, Metabolic brain imaging ( MRI and positron emission tomography) Brain monitoring Regulatory aspects of research (Mental Capacity Act, Human Tissue Act, Data Protection Act, Clinical Trials Directive) Research and research training in critical care ICU follow up and sequelae of critical care Mechanisms of anaesthesia and consciousness
	Professor Michael Mythen Biography Michael 'Monty' Mythen is Smiths Medical Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, University College London; Director Joint UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Unit; National Clinical Lead Enhanced Recovery Partnership Programme, Department of Health; and Editorial board member for the BJA. Monty completed his UK anaesthesia fellowship [FRCA] in 1990, gained an MD in 1995 and was appointed assistant professor at Duke University Medical Centre, North Carolina, USA before returning to the UK in 1998. His research interests including: peri-operative fluid management, haemostasis in the critically ill, endotoxin and endotoxin immunity and the determinants of post-operative morbidity and mortality. Monty served as an elected Council Member of the ICS from 2004 to 2001 and is currently chair of the Intensive Care Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board. Register of Interests: Smiths Medical Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, University College London (UCL) Honorary Consultant Anaesthesia and Critical Care UCL Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust. Director, Centre for Anaesthesia UCL. Director of Research and Development UCLH NHS Foundation Trust. Director Joint UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Unit. National Clinical Lead – UK Department of Health; Enhanced Recovery Partnership Programme. Board Member, Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement, USA. Chair of the Intensive Care Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board. Chair of the Improving Surgical Outcomes Group. Editorial board member: British Journal of Anaesthesia; Critical Care. Co-Chairman Evidence Based Peri-operative Medicine (EBPOM) annual meeting and website. Research Council of the National Institute Academic Anaesthesia. Examiner for European Diploma of Intensive Care Medicine. Consultant for Aqix Ltd Research Education Grants: Smiths Medical. Deltex Medical Group Plc. Honoraria for Speaking: Fresenius Kabi B Brain Baxtex
	Dr Patrick Nee Biography Patrick Nee is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine at Whiston Hospital, Merseyside and Visiting Professor of Emergency Medicine at Liverpool John Moores University. He qualified from Liverpool University in 1982 and trained in general and emergency medicine, anaesthesia/ICM and surgical specialties before taking a combined post in EM and ICM in 1994, the first of its kind in England. He is the first Honorary President of Emergency Physicians in Intensive Care [EPIC]. He is a member of the Board of the CEM and of the Review Advisory Group of the Emergency Medicine Journal. He sat on the National Expert Group that reported as Comprehensive Critical Care in 2000 and the NICE Guideline Development Group on Acutely Ill Patients in Hospital, 2007. More recently he has been involved in the DH Clinical Advisory Group setting ICM standards for trauma care in England. Register of Interests: Visiting Professor of Emergency Medicine Liverpool John Moores University 2010-2014 Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. Whiston hospital, Merseyside Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University of Liverpool. Examiner, Specialist Examination in Emergency Medicine (FCEM). Examiner, UKDICM, EDIC and FFICM examinations Former Chair Northwest Regional Board, College of Emergency Medicine. Former Council Member, College of Emergency Medicine. Member, Review Advisory Group, Emergency Medicine Journal. College representative, adult critical care services. Member, UK Surviving Sepsis Campaign Steering Group. Member, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Clinical Guideline Development Group. Reported as Acutely ill patients in hospital, 2007. Member, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Clinical Guideline Development Group Intravenous Fluid Therapy 2011- Honorary President; Emergency Physicians in Intensive Care (EPIC) 2007-. Member; North West Regional Guidelines Development Group on Major Haemorrhage 2010- Member; Clinical Advisory Group (Acute Care and Surgery), Trauma Care in England. Department of Health 2009-10 Founding Faculty member; Intercollegiate Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM). 2010- Chair, Membership Advisory Group, FICM 2011- Interests; Resuscitation of critically ill adults and children No competing interests and no paid relationships with industry
	Dr Graham Nimmo Biography Graham Nimmo is a Consultant Physician in ICM and Clinical Education in the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. He trained in Medicine, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He gained MRCP(UK) in 1985 and FFARCSI in 1996. He completed an MD at the University of Edinburgh in 1996 and was elected FRCP(Edin) in 2002. He represented the RCPE on IBTICM from 2003-2010. Since 2000 he has been an active member of faculty at the Scottish Clinical Simulation Centre and currently chairs the SICS Education and Training Group and the Scottish Clinical Skills Network. He edits the Lothian Adult Medical Emergencies Handbook and (with Professor Mervyn Singer) The ABC of Intensive Care. Special interests include education, clinical decision making, handover, and end of life care. He is studying for a Doctorate in Education (EdD) in the Institute of Education at the University of Stirling. Register of Interests: No competing interests and no paid relationships with industry Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Clinical Education, Western General Hospital Edinburgh Joint Lead for Advanced Critical Care Practitioners, RCoA Deputy Director Scottish Clinical Simulation Centre, Fort Valley Royal Hospital Chair Scottish Clinical Skills Network Chair Scottish Clinical Decision Making Group Host and examiner MRCP Examiner DICM Host and examiner EDIC Interests :handover, decision making, diagnostic error, end of life care, teaching and training, simulation
	Dr Alison Pittard (Lead RA in ICM) Biography Alison Pittard qualified in Leeds in 1988, became a consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in 1997 and was awarded an MD in 1998. She is passionate about education and training, starting off as ICM Tutor, before becoming RA for West Yorkshire and being elected as the Lead RA in ICM in 2008. During this time she represented Tutors and Regional Advisors at the IBTICM and continues to do so on the Faculty Board. Alison took up the post of Associate Postgraduate Dean in the Yorkshire and Humber Deanery in 2009. She is currently an examiner for the RCoA and the FICM and is involved in implementation of the new CCT curriculum and development of the FFICM exam. Register of Interests: No competing interests Training and Education FRCA Examiner DICM/FFICM Examiner Associate Postgraduate Dean (Yorkshire and Humber Deanery) Recruitment - selection tools ICU Follow up Sepsis Interests: Singing, skiing, running and bell ringing
	Dr Carl Waldmann Biography Carl Waldmann has been a Consultant in ICM and Anaesthesia at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading since joining as Director of ICU in 1986. Apart from his interests in the management of Head Injured patients in a DGH, the procurement and implementation of a Clinical Information System in ICU, his passion has been setting up and running an ICU follow-up clinic in Reading. From May 2007 to May 2009 he was President of the ICS, editor of Care of the Critically Ill and until 2004 the editor of JICS. Carl was also was Chair of the section of Technology Assessment and Health Informatics [TAHI] of the ESICM until 2008. He is a member of the PACT editorial board and editor of the Oxford Desk Reference Law and Ethics in Intensive Care textbook. Carl also has an interest in pre-hospital care and is club doctor for Leyton Orient FC. Register of Interests: Obstetric critical Care on Maternity Critical Steering group OAA, AAGBI, ICS RCOG. Paediatric Critical Care in DGH setting, on PICS Council as co-opted member Editorial activity with JICS ICU Follow up and rehabilitation Health Informatics in Critical Care Sedation in Critical Care Health Technology Assessment Head Injury management in a DGH ICU setting Regionalisation
	*Professor Mark Bellamy (Co-optee, President of the ICS)* Mark Bellamy has been President of the ICS since 2012 and a Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia at St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, since 1993, where he has also been the Professor of Critical Care since 2004. Mark was also an FRCA examiner between 2002 – 2012 and formerly Council at the Anaesthetic Research Society. He is also Chair of the ICS and Foundation Research Grants Committee and sits on the National Transfusion Committee, SHOT steering group, and National Commissioning Group for blood. Mark is a published author on the following topics: inflammation, ischaemia-reperfusion injury, liver transplantation, major haemorrhage. Register of Interests: Examiner RCoA Receive book royalties (Oxford University Press) in respect of bulk purchase of books, Baxter Received payment for attendance at a focus group, Roche Previously received honorarium/expenses for speaking/chairing meetings, Baxter
	*Dr Jane Eddleston (Co-optee, DH Representative)* Biography Jane Eddleston is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine in Manchester Royal Infirmary, Clinical Director of Critical Care and Head of Division. She is also the Clinical Lead for the Greater Manchester Critical Care Network and was the Department of Health Advisor for Critical Care from 2005 till March 2011. She has extensive Clinical and Managerial experience in Critical Care and Acute Care. Register of Interests: No paid relationships with industry Clinical Head of Division (Clinical & Scientific Services) Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2006 to date. Clinical Lead for Greater Manchester Critical Care Network 2000 to date Clinical Lead for Clinical Governance for Greater Manchester Major Trauma System Interests: Recognition of deteriorating health on wards. Clinical Lead for NICE 50; Development of Patientrack system. Rehabilitation following Critical illness; member of NICE 83 Clinical panel. Holder of NIHR grant “REMAIC” Obstetric Critical Care member of Steering group for Maternity Critical Care
	*Dr Mike Fried (Co-optee, President of the SICS)* Biography Mike Fried received a BSc(Hons) in pharmacology from the University of Edinburgh in 1977. He read medicine at University College Medical School, London, graduating in 1982. His trainee years were spent in London, Bath, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Since 1986 he has been a consultant in anaesthesia and critical care at St John's Hospital, Livingston. His major interest is transport medicine. Currently, he is the clinical advisor to the Scottish Government Gealth Department's national review of retrieval services, a member of the Scottish Ambulance Service's air re-procurement board and a member of the Care of Burns in Scotland [COBIS] steering group. Register of Interests: No competing interests and no paid relationships with industry Interests: Anaesthesia & critical care of burns/ Transport medicine/Undergraduate education Consultant in Anaesthesia & Critical Care Medicine, St John’s Hospital, Livingston Hon Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh Member, Scottish Ambulance Service Clinical Advisory Group Member, Care of Burns in Scotland steering group Clinical Adviser to ScotSTAR (Scottish Specialist Transport And Retrieval service) implementation board Clinical Adviser to the Scottish Air Ambulance Service re-procurement board President, Scottish Intensive Care Society
	*Gp Cpt Neil McGuire (Co-optee, Defence Medical Services)* Neil McGure has been a serving Officer in the Royal Air Force Medical Service [RAFMS] since 1986. Since September 2007 he has been the Defence Consultant Advisor [DCA] in Anaesthesia, Pain Management and Critical Care to the UK Surgeon General. In May 2011 he was appointed as the Senior Consulatant in the RAFMS. As DCA Neil is responsible for all anaesthetists within Defence Anaesthesia. He oversees training, consultant placements in the NHS, and advises on operational deployments. Neil has been Honorary Consultant in anaesthesia and ICM at the John Radcliffe, Oxford since 1995.
	*Dr Alasdair Short (Co- optee, Workforce Planning Lead)* Biography Consultant Physician in Intensive Care Medicine and Deputy Medical Director, Broomfield Hospital, Chemsford, Essex; Chair of the Board of Management of the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre since 1994; Graduated from Edinburgh Medical School 1975; Postgraduate Training: Intenal Medicine and Nephrology - Edinburgh; Intensive Care Medicine - Victoria Hospital London Ontario with the late Bill Sibbald; FRCPC 1982; FRCP(Edin) 1986; FRCP(London) 1992; FRCA (hon) 2002. Consultant Appointment 1984; Secretary and Treasurer, ICS 1990-1995; IBTICM 1994-2004 (Chairman 2001-2003). Examiner RCP 1995-present; AoMRC Working Party - A Code of Practice for the Diagnosis of Death 2005-2007. PACT Chapter on Acute Renal Failure (jointly with Claudio Ronco) 2002. Register of Interests: Chair, Board of Management of the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre Examiner, MRCP, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Acute Renal Failure Early recognition of critical illness Patient outcome following Intensive Care
	*Mr Peter Rees (Co-optee, Lay Representative)* Peter Rees is a retired Primary Headteacher with a particular interest in the health and allied services, especially for the young and elderly. A recent positive experience of anaesthesia following a fracture began his interest and involvement with the RCoA as a Patient Liaison Group member. He works as a University Tutor for the Institute of Education at Reading University on the Graduate Teacher Programme, for the University of Winchester on the BA Primary Teaching degree and Chairs a Sure Start Children's Centre Partnership Board in Winchester. He is also an Independent Member of the Adoption Panel for Hampshire County Council.

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