Nick studied as an Engineer and using his problem-solving mindset has started numerous ventures, blending technology and media. During the pandemic he co-founded a free-to-trainees virtual reality surgical training experience ‘VRiMS’, live broadcasting over 200, 360° cadaveric surgical and global health procedures to healthcare professionals around the world. His latest venture, ExR, builds upon 360°VR, bringing accessible, immersive education to a true-VR resource. Clients include Stryker, Olympus, BMA, ECS and CRUK as well as BBC, Disney, Google and EMI. He is a qualified winter and international mountain leader, guiding expeditions all over the world.

During her anaesthetic career which has spanned almost 40 years, two countries and 3 cities, Dr Zoka Milan has practised both clinical and academic anaesthesia in equal measure.

Zoka's clinical work is mainly anaesthesia for liver transplantation, hepato-pancreatic-biliary surgery and in early years, ICU patients. She has undertaken teaching, training and examining duties on a national and international level.

Zoka has also participated in many research studies and is published in peer-review journals. She reviews other colleagues’ articles in addition to being an editor and also a member of the editorial boards for several journals.

Zoka supports international exchange and medical professionals from undeveloped countries.

Felicity Plaat is a consultant anaesthetist at Queen Charlotte’s & Hammersmith Hospitals in London, specialising in obstetric anaesthesia. She is immediate past president of the Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association, elected Council member of the RCoA and on the Editorial board of IJOA.

She is an assessor for MBRRACE, represents obstetric anaesthesia at the RCoA’s Anaesthesia Clinical services accreditation scheme, and is one of the editors of GPAS obstetrics chapter.

An obsession with safe maternity care has resulted in many years’ involvement in multidisciplinary training both in the UK and in resource poor and conflict zones across the world. Current areas of interest include multidisciplinary management of the obstetric critically ill patient and victims of trauma and reducing the incidence of pain during Caesarean section.

Honey Thomas is a Consultant Cardiologist based within Northumbria Healthcare NHS foundation trust in the North East of England.  She completed cardiology training and a postgraduate MD qualification in the North East, developing a subspecialty interest in heart failure and advanced rhythm management/complex device implantation. 

She introduced and leads the local service for implantation and follow up of complex cardiac devices.  She jointly leads cardiology research within Northumbria healthcare and act as Principal Investigator on several multicentre NIHR trials.  She is a member of the examination board for the British Heart Rhythm Society professional accreditation qualification. 

She has worked closely with the British Heart Rhythm Society to develop and share a national guidance document for perioperative management of cardiac implantable electronic devices.  She has a major interest in atrial fibrillation and is passionate about improving the quality of care in this area, developing local and regional pathways to try and optimise the care of patients with AF.  She currently chairs the cardiac rhythm management subgroup of the Northern England Clinical Network specialty group.

Dr Plummer is a dual trainee in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in the East Midlands. Having come to medicine from a background in geophysics, he now has particular interests in neuroscience critical care, maternal critical care, and transfer medicine. His research focuses on organ donation and identifying risks to patients before, during, and after critical care.

In particular, he aims to understand the long-term consequences of critical care admissions, with the goal of both informing patients of the risks, and attempting to attenuate these. He is also passionate about the application of research methodologies, especially using data-driven insights and mixed or qualitative methods, to empower and inform quality and service improvement.

Dr Agnes Watson qualified in 1990 from Leeds Medical School and has worked as a Consultant Anaesthetist at the St Andrew’s Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, Chelmsford since 2002. Her clinical interests are in burns anaesthesia and intensive care management and she chairs the monthly morbidity and mortality meetings for the burns unit. 

She also has an interest in paediatric anaesthesia especially for cleft surgery. She enjoys teaching and training, was previously college tutor and runs a regional airway training course and multidisciplinary simulation training sessions in burns critical care management. 

Dr Taylor-Smith is an Anaesthetic Registrar with a strong interest in environmentally sustainable healthcare. She was one of the inaugural Chief Sustainability Officers’ Clinical Fellows between 2021-22, working with the national  Greener NHS team on projects related to environmentally sustainable anaesthesia including nitrous oxide waste and sustainable models of care delivery. 

She also founded the Green Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Network in the West Midlands (GAIN-WM) in 2020. The network offers peer support and education to anaesthetists and intensivists in the region, helping to link trainees with dedicated consultant representatives to support sustainable quality improvement. Dr Taylor-Smith is particularly interested in psychological responses to climate change and how to support and empower everyone to make the necessary behavioural and mindset changes required to meet 'net-zero'.

Dr Kennedy has been a Consultant Anaesthesist for 24 years, and lead anaesthetist for the south west regional bariatric surgery service since setting it up in 2004. He founded SOBA (Society for Obesity and Bariatric Anaesthesia) in 2009 and was Chairman till 2014.

Lectures and teaches regularly and has written several book chapters on obesity anaesthesia. He is an exponent of total intravenous anaesthesia in the morbidly obese.

His non clinical work includes several roles in NHS regional commissioning, NHS national Independent Funding Review Panel, and involvement advising several of start up medtech companies.

Dr Abbott completed his undergraduate training at the University of Oxford and a PhD at Queen Mary University of London. He is a registrar and an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia in central London. He uses epidemiological methods to investigate the health and well-being of patients undergoing surgery, which includes interventions to improve postoperative survival and reduce perioperative complications.

His research interests include perioperative myocardial injury, sub-clinical cardiac failure, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, autonomic dysfunction, postoperative pulmonary complications and the impact of COVID-19 on surgery. He is the Social Media editor at the British Journal of Anaesthesia.

Dr O’Brien is from Dublin and works as a specialist in anaesthesia and intensive care, at Cork University Hospital. He served as head of department there for over 10 years and is currently Vice President of the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland.

He completed intensive care fellowship training in Melbourne, and is an examiner in both anaesthesia and intensive care with the CAI and Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of Ireland.