Former Committee Members

We are grateful to all of the following who have previously served upon the PLAN committee.
ORIGINAL FOUNDERS

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

Helen Laycock FRCA FFPMRCA PhD
Imperial School of Anaesthesia. Founding member, North West Lead (2013-2019), Vice Chair (2016-2018)
Links:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Helen-Laycock
PREVIOUS COMMITTEE MEMBERS

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

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

Oliver Boney FRCA
Anaesthetic Registrar in Barts and the London School of Anaesthesia.
Leonora Bowen FRCA
Anaesthetic trainee with the North Central School of Anaesthesia in London.

Stuart Connal MBChB BMedSci(Hons)
Anaesthetic registrar in the North Central School of Anaesthesia.

John Cronin PhD MRCP(UK) FRCA
Chair
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.

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

Agnes Fong MA BM BCh FRCA
Anaesthetic Registrar and Trainee Representative for St George’s School of Anaesthesia

Sham Karmali MBBS BSc MRCP FRCA FFICM FHEA DLM
Anaesthetic and Intensive Care Registrar in the Imperial School of Anaesthesia. Subspecialty interest in anaesthesia for head and neck surgery and perioperative medicine

Queenie Lo FRCA
Anaesthetic registrar in Barts and the London School of Anaesthesia, OAA trainee rep. Currently undertaking a fellowship i patient safety.

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.

Matt Oliver MBChB FRCA AFHEA(UCL) PhD
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The first HSRC NELA Research Fellow (2012) and NELA’s Research Lead since 2017. Matt completed a UCL Health Services Research PhD investigating organisational determinants of mortality after laparotomy, before being appointed UCL’s NIHR ACL in anaesthesia. He has been on the committee since 2016 and promotes trainee engagement in research. He enjoys sharing about statistics & data analysis for health services research.

Benjamin Post FRCA
Anaesthetic and Intensive Care Registrar in Barts and the London School of Anaesthesia.

Emma-Jane 'EJ' Smith MRCP FRCA FFICM
Anaesthetic and ICM registrar in South East London. Interests include human factors, resuscitation, obstetric anaesthesia and maternal critical care

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!

Steve Howey FRCA PGDip (Periop)
Higher Anaesthetics Registrar in North Central London School

Shaun May MBChB (hons) FRCA
Anaesthetic Registrar within North Central London School. PhD candidate at William Harvey Research, Queen Mary University of London.

Aidan Fullbrook FRCA
Anaesthetic Registrar, St George's School of Anaesthesia. Interests include perioperative medicine, medical education and quality improvement. Recently completed a perioperative medicine fellowship in Wellington, New Zealand.

Adam Samways BSc MBBS FRCA
Anaesthetic Registrar, St George's School Of Anaesthesia.

Louise Nolan BSc MBBS FRCA DTMH
Anaesthetic Registrar and Trainee Representative for St George’s School of Anaesthesia. Interests include paediatric anaesthesia and perioperative anaesthesia.

Urvi Sanganee
Vice Chair
Anaesthetic registrar in the Imperial School of Anaesthesia and current airway fellow at Charing Cross Hospital. Interests include complex airway, education and peri operative medicine.

Abtin Sadeghi MB BChir FRCA
Anaesthetic Registrar in the Imperial School of Anaesthesia and Clinical Teacher in Clinical Science Integration at Imperial College School of Medicine.

Leda Lignos BSc MBBS FRCA
NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia and registrar in Imperial School of Anaesthesia with specialty interests in paediatric and neuroanaesthesia. Research interests include neuronal pathways of sleep and general anaesthesia.

Nicole Greenshields FRCA
Registrar in Imperial School of Anaesthesia. Specialist interest in perioperative medicine and completed the UCLH fellowship. Nicole is currently writing up her dissertation for the masters on enhanced recovery

Sarah Tian BSc MBBS FRCA
Anaesthetic Registrar and Trainee Representative for Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Sarah Eshelby BSc MBBS FRCA
Anaesthetic Registrar in London and South East. Interests include advanced airway and paediatric anaesthesia.