Centre for Research and Improvement Executive Management Board.
The Centre for Research and Improvement (CR&I) is governed by its Executive Management Board. Members include the leads for its constituent projects, including the National Audit Projects, National Emergency Laparotomy Audit, Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme, and Sprint National Anaesthesia Projects.
The Board has several trainee members, who are either CR&I Fellows undertaking research linked to one of these core projects, or are representatives of the Research and Audit Federation of Trainees or the National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia.

Prof Iain Moppett
CR&I Chair

Prof Joyce Yeung
CR&I Director

Prof Mark Edwards
CR&I Deputy Director
The Executive Management Board is comprised of:
- Clinical Lead of the 8th National Audit Project (NAP8)
- Chair of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA)
- Co-Chair of Patient, Carer and Public Involvement and Engagement in Research (PCPIE)
- Representatives of PatientsVoices@RCoA
- Director of the Perioperative Medicine Clinical Trials Network (POMCTN)
- Chief Investigator of the Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme (PQIP)
- Chair of the Quality Improvement Working Group (QIWG)
- Chief Investigator of SNAP3 (Sprint National Anaesthesia Project 3: Frailty and Delirium)
- RCoA Associate Director of Clinical Quality and Research
- RCoA Council Research Lead
- RCoA Director of Clinical Quality and Research
- RCoA Head of Research
- RCoA Research Manager
- RCoA Research Project Coordinators
Contact the CR&I team at cri@rcoa.ac.uk