Core Committee
CHAIRS
Kate Grailey FRCA
Chair
Anaesthetic Registrar and Trainee Representative for Barts and the London School of Anaesthesia. PLAN Core Committee Member and lead for AVIATOR.
Clare Morkane FRCA, FFICM
Vice Chair
Anaesthetic trainee with the North Central School of Anaesthesia in London. PLAN core committee member and lead for iOPS.
Sibtain Anwar PhD FRCA
Consultant Lead
Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care, and Lead for Clinical Research at Bart’s Heart Centre.
NORTH CENTRAL
Julia Denham-Hermetz FRCA
Anaesthetic trainee with the North Central School of Anaesthesia in London.
Jez Fabes MA BM BCh PhD FRCA
NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia in the North Central School. Jez is undertaking an MSc in Perioperative Medicine and has research interests in coagulopathy, transplant anaesthesia and perioperative medicine
Dan Martin PhD FRCA FFICM
North Central consultant lead
Senior Lecturer / Honorary Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at University College London and the Royal Free Hospital.
Links:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anaesthesia/people/martin
NORTH WEST
Alex Wickham BSc (Hons) MBBS FRCA
Anaesthetic Registrar in the Imperial School of Anaesthesia and PLAN core committee member. Lead for QUINCE and iHypE.
Links:
http://www.i-hype.org/
http://www.uk-plan.net/QUINCE
Helen Laycock BSc FRCA
Previous Vice Chair
Helen is a clinical lecturer in pain medicine and anaesthetic registrar in the Imperial School of Anaesthesia. She is a core committee member and was the co-lead of PAINT.
Vimal Gover MB ChB (Hons) BSc (Hons) MRCP FRCA MD (res)
North West consultant lead
Consultant Anaesthetist at Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. North central PLAN consultant lead.
Links:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vimal_Grover
SOUTH WEST
Peter Odor BM BCh MA FRCA
Past Chair
Anaesthetic Registrar and co-lead for quality improvement in the St. George’s School, London. Peter is undertaking an MSc in Perioperative Medicine and has research interests in regional and obstetric anaesthesia. He is the lead for DREAMY.
Links:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Odor2
Matt Oliver MBChB FRCA AFHEA(UCL) PhD
Engagement Lead
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Matt was the first HSRC NELA Research Fellow in 2012 and has been NELA’s Research Lead since 2017. In 2017 he completed a UCL Health Services Research PhD investigating organisational determinants of mortality after emergency laparotomy, before being appointed UCL’s NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in anaesthesia.
Matt has been on the PLAN committee since 2016 and promotes trainee engagement in research both locally and across the region. He enjoys sharing his experience in methods, statistics and data analysis for surgical outcomes and health services research
Carolyn Johnston FRCA MA (Oxon)
South West Consultant Lead
Consultant St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust with special interest in quality improvement.
Links:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carolyn_Johnston2
SOUTH EAST
James O’Carroll FRCA
Trainee in Anaesthesia and Intensive care. Previously a research fellow studying the epigenetic and immune responses to surgery and trauma at the William Harvey Research Institute. Co-Lead for AVIATOR
Liana Zucco FRCA
Anaesthetic registrar in South East London, with an interest in prehabilitation, quality improvement, trainee well being and constantly exploring how I can learn from fellow colleagues in other hospitals and other specialties, to promote higher standards of care … and get it right, first time!
John Cronin MSc MRCP(UK) FRCA
Anaesthetic Registrar in South East London with a specialty interest in cardiothoracic anaesthesia. Research interests include pulmonary aeration and perfusion during ventilation and space physiology.
Mitul Patel MB BCh BSc FRCA
Anaesthetic Registrar in the South East School of Anaesthesia with a specialty interest in cardiothoracic anaesthesia. I also have a keen interest in perioperative medicine and am currently undertaking an MSc.
Phil Hopkins PhD FRCA MRCP FFICM DICM
South East Consultant Lead
Consultant & Hon Senior Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine, Anaesthesia & Trauma at Kings College Hospital. Research Lead for the ACET Research team in Critical Care at KCH and Joint CRN lead for Critical Care for London South.
NORTH EAST
Queenie Lo FRCA
Events Lead
Anaesthetic registrar in Barts and the London School of Anaesthesia, OAA trainee rep. Currently undertaking a fellowship i patient safety.
Benjamin Post FRCA
Anaesthetic and Intensive Care Registrar in Barts and the London School of Anaesthesia.
Chloe Baker BA MPH MRCP
Anaesthetics Registrar in Barts and the London School of Anaesthesia.
Anil Visram BSc FRCA
North East Consultant Lead
Consultant at the Royal London Hospital. Specialist interests in neuroanaesthesia and paediatric anaesthesia research.
ORIGINAL FOUNDER
David Highton FRCA FFICM
ST7 Trainee in Anaesthesia and Critical Care. PhD candidate, Institute of Neurology, UCL following completion of NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Anaesthesia.
Links:
https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=DHIGH82
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Highton
