• Current Role: Consultant Anaesthetist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary (since 2009)
• Academic Title: Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow (since 2021)
• Qualifications: BSc (Hons) Pharmacology, MBChB (Hons), MRCP (UK), FRCA, EDRA
• Subspecialty Expertise: Regional anaesthesia, acute pain, vascular access and orthopaedic anaesthesia
• Research: Internationally recognised for work on regional anaesthesia, particularly brachial plexus blocks for arteriovenous fistula surgery; over 50 peer-reviewed papers and major NIHR-funded trials as co-investigator
• Editorial Roles: Associate Editorial Board member, British Journal of Anaesthesia; Editor, BJA Education
• Leadership: Past President, Regional Anaesthesia UK (2021–2024); Board member, European Society of Regional Anaesthesia
• Awards & Distinctions: Multiple undergraduate medals, bursaries and passes with distinction from the University of Glasgow
• Teaching: Regular invited lecturer at international and national anaesthesia and regional anaesthesia meetings; extensive undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience
• Professional Memberships: Royal College of Anaesthetists, Association of Anaesthetists, ESRA, ESAIC, RA-UK and others
• Interests: Advancing patient outcomes through regional anaesthesia, education, clinical governance, and collaborative international research

Dr. Nuala Lucas is a Consultant Anaesthetist at London North West University Healthcare Trust. Her major interest is obstetric anaesthesia. She is the President-elect of the Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association and chairs the Education Subcommittee. Nuala is the anaesthetic co-lead for the UK Confidential Maternal Death Enquiries (MBRRACE-UK). She is a senior editor for the International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia. Her research interests include airway management in obstetric anaesthesia and complications of obstetric anaesthesia. In 2020 she was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to anaesthesia during the COVID19 pandemic. In 2021 she was awarded the Featherstone Professorship by the Association of Anaesthetists.

Dr. Nicholas Dr Nicholas Barrett is a consultant in critical care medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust who trained in both anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney Australia. He is Clinical Director for Respiratory and Critical Care at Guy’s and St Thomas' and has particular interests in severe cardio-respiratory failure, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and extracorporeal CO2 removal (ECCO2R), including its provision in pregnancy. He is a specialist advisor to NICE and the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch. He is past-chair of EuroELSO, the organization supporting the development of ECMO in Europe and provides advice to ECMO programmes around the world.

• Director of Health Emergency, Ministry of Public Health, Qatar (2023–Present)
• Senior public health leader with extensive experience in emergency preparedness, vaccination programs, and national health policy
• Former Head of Vaccination Unit, Ministry of Public Health, Qatar (2016–2023)
• National Lead for COVID-19 Track & Trace and Rapid Response Team during FIFA World Cup 2022
• Former Head of Medical Services, Qatar Airways Medical Services (2008–2016)
• Medical Officer at Alba Health Care Center and Gulf Air Medical Center, Bahrain
• Doctor of Medicine (MD), Arabian Gulf University
• MSc in Healthcare Management, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Bahrain
• Arab Board Certified in Community Medicine
• Diploma & Membership in Travel Medicine, RCPSG Glasgow
• Published researcher in public health, vaccination, COVID-19, and aviation medicine
• Member of Qatar Doctors Association and international aviation & travel medicine bodies

Director, Anesthesia for Bronchoscopic Surgery, Director and QIO, Center for Sedation, | Departments of General Anesthesiology and Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, USA Basem B. Abdelmalak, MD, FASA is a professor of anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He has served in the Department of General Anesthesiology as a Staff Anesthesiologist since 2001. Currently he leads Anesthesia Services for Bronchoscopic Surgery as a NORA service and is the Director of the Center for Sedation implementing the anesthesiology oversight for procedural sedation. He frequently performs the Therapeutic Whole Lung Lavage procedure to treat pulmonary alveolar proteinosis patients.

Dr. Abdelmalak is board-certified in Anesthesiology and fellowship trained in Critical Care medicine. His many clinical interests include anesthesia for ENT and bronchoscopic surgery, difficult airway management.

He served the Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists as its president in 2015 and currently serves the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) as the Vice-chair of the educational track subcommittee on Ambulatory Anesthesia, the Society for Head and Neck Anesthesia (SHANA), as a founding member, and its president.

Dr. Lorenzo Ball, born 1984, is Assistant Professor in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Genova and Intensivist at the Intensive Care Unit of Policlinico San Martino Hospital in Genova, Italy.

He obtained his PhD degree at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His main areas of research and clinical activiy are focused on respiratory failure, respiratory monitoring and mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit and the operating room.

Dr. Salman Al-Sabah graduated from Kuwait Medical School. He completed his residency in General Surgery and Fellowship in Minimal Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at McGill University, Canada. He completed a Master of Management and Health Leadership at McGill University, Canada and a Master of Science in Clinical Service Operations at Harvard University, USA. He has contributed to several international presentations as a speaker, moderator, and publication in the field of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery. He is the President of the Authority for Medical Responsibility (AMR) Kuwait, the past Chairman of Surgery, and the Director of Surgical Research at Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Hospital, Kuwait. He was an associate professor and the Assistant Vice Principal for Research and External Collaboration at Kuwait University. He also is a visiting professor at international universities, including Harvard University's Brigham and Women's Hospital. His principal clinical foci are Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Advanced Endoscopy, Medical law, Health Policy, and research.

Additionally, Dr Al-Sabah is on the editorial board and reviewer of international peer-review journals. He is a board member, founder and past President of the Gulf Obesity Surgery Society, founder and past President of the Kuwait Association of Surgeons (KAS), and the past Governor of the American College of Surgeons. He was instrumental in establishing The Women Surgeons Committee in December 2018, representing the interest of the Women Surgeons of Kuwait in the KAS regionally and internationally. Additionally, he established the Kuwait bariatric surgery registry and is a member of the registry committee tasked with establishing a global registry of bariatric surgery for the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO), serves as an editor and peer reviewer of its journal, and is president of first IFSO-MENA conference in Kuwait. The global registry impacts policy and decision-making and furthers research to tackle the burden of obesity. In addition to a growing body of research of 120 publications and 5 books, Dr Al-Sabah’s research has been influential in establishing international guidelines in the fields of gastroenterology and metabolic and bariatric surgery. He is a recipient of multiple research grants and has received over 100 invitations and served as an expert speaker and moderator at conferences worldwide, including as faculty, and organized and presided over numerous national and international conferences. He has developed 2 patents in the field of surgery and basic sciences.

• Worked as a senior registrar in Al-Adan hospital serving in ICU and operating theatre from 2015 until 2016 when joined KOC.
• 2016 - Current: Working in Kuwait oil Company (KOC) as a Consultant in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Team.
• Worked at Jaber Alahmad hospital - Ministry of Health as a consultant Critical care during COVID-19 pandemic for 2 years.

Ellen O'Sullivan trained in anaesthesiology and intensive care in UK and USA and is now a Consultant Anaesthesiologist at St James’s Hospital Dublin, Ireland affiliated to Trinity College Dublin. She specializes in airway management and is Director of the Fellowship in Advanced Airway Management and Simulation.

She is Past President of the Difficult Airway Society and was appointed DAS Professor of Anaesthesia & Airway Management.

Prof O’Sullivan is Past President of the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland and is now Airway Lead Advisor to the College & runs the CAI national airway training. She has a substantial portfolio of clinically relevant research and has co-authored more than 140 scientific papers (H-Index 22), books, website modules etc Clinically she has developed a worldwide reputation in airway management and has lectured and taught workshops internationally. She was a member of the ASA Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway and also sits on the Project for Universal Airway Guidelines Group (PUMA) guideline group. She is an Executive Director of WAAM (World Alliance for Airway Management) and co-chaired the World Airway Meeting, WAMM1, in Dublin 2015 and WAMM2 in Amsterdam 2019. A particular interest of Prof O’ Sullivan’s is Global Anaesthesia and supporting education and training in low & middle income countries. This has led to her involvement in a number of projects in Malawi & Uganda including the Global Capnography Project (GCAP)

• Consultant Cardiologist – Ahmadi Hospital, Kuwait Oil Company (2019 – Present)
• Specialist Cardiologist – Ahmadi Hospital (2014 – 2019)
• Senior Registrar in Cardiology – Ahmadi Hospital (2010 – 2014)
• Registrar in Cardiology – Alsalam Hospital (2004 – 2010)
• • June 2024- EACVI Adult transoesophageal Echocardiography certification – valid till June 2029
• April 2023- European Diploma in Advanced critical care Echocardiography (EDEC) From European society of intensive care
• May 2022-Acute cardiovascular care certification From Association for Acute Cardiovascular Care/ESC
• Sep 2018 - USMLE all steps (United state medical licensing examination)
• March.2018 -ECFMG certification (Educational Commission for foreign medical graduate)
• Aug 2017 -FRCP- (Fellowship of Royal College of physician – Edinburgh)
• Dec. 2012 -Acute Medicine certification- Royal College of physician - United Kingdom
• Nov. 2011- MRCP- (membership of Royal College of physician – United Kingdom )

• Consultant in Anaesthesia and PICU Retrieval RHSC Edinburgh
• Fellow Royal College of Anaesthetists, London (June 2009)
• Pre-registration House Officer
• Senior House Officer Medicine
• Senior House Officer Anaesthesia
• Specialist Trainee Anaesthesia

David Vaughan is a consultant anaesthetist at Northwick Park and St Marks Hospitals in Middlesex. He qualified and trained in London and was appointed as a consultant to lead the head and neck anaesthesia service.

His research and teaching interests are videolaryngoscopy, complex and awake airway management and the obstetric airway. He is an active member of DAS with whom he was an author on the awake intubation guidelines and acts regularly as an advanced airway skills trainer for DAS, the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Association of Anaesthetists.

He is a lifelong Crystal Palace fan and views their continuing Premiership status with deep suspicion. He spends his spare time watching rugby, walking, playing tennis badly, going to the theatre and wishing there was more time in life to do these things. His wife is a remarkably tolerant woman.

• European Diploma in Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography (EDEC) 2019
• European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine ( EDIC) April 2009
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh (FRCP Edin) 1996
• Specialist degree in internal medicine (Lebanese board )from the American University in Beirut, 1990-1993
• M.B.B.C.H - Cairo University, Faculty of Medicine, Egypt. November 1981. (Degree awarded)

Areas of Interest: Airway Management including but not limited to Apnoeic Oxygenation, Awake Tracheal Intubation, Videolaryngoscopy, Supraglottic Airways and Human Factors and although he finds every part of these aspects of management fascinating, his overwhelming interest is in improving the safe airway management of the patients under his care.

Alistair McNarry has been a Consultant Anaesthetist in Edinburgh since March 2006 where he regularly provides anaesthesia for patients undergoing head and neck surgery. Having initially graduated from Cambridge University, he went on to undertake anaesthetic training in the East of England before moving to London where he worked as a Registrar and also as an Airway Fellow at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

He was appointed as in inaugural National Airway Lead (a joint position between the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society) in 2016 and served for seven years ensuring dissemination of good practice in airway management across the UK. He is delighted that the Airway Leads concept has now spread to other countries around the world with the primary aim of making airway management safer. He was awarded the Royal College of Anaesthetists Medal for his work in this field.

He has contributed to 5 sets of Guidelines, including 4 for the Difficult Airway Society. He has written and co-authored several manuscripts and contributed several book chapters.

Dr. Eric You-Ten, MD PhD FRCPC, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He completed medical school and anesthesia residency at the University of Toronto, as well as a PhD in Immunology from McGill University. Dr You-Ten is currently the Program Director of the Anesthesia Residency, as well as, the Program Director of the Advanced Airway Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is actively involved in medical education and was a Royal College Anesthesia Examiner. His research has focused predominantly on airway management, ultrasound, and education. He has published in various high impact anesthesia journals including Anesthesiology, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Anaesthesia, Anesthesia & Analgesia and have received numerous research grants.

Dr. Hegazy is currently a Consultant Intensivist & Department Head of the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit (CSICU) at Madinah Cardiac Centre, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). He also maintains a part-time position as a Critical Care Consultant and Anesthesiologist with London Health Sciences Center and is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

He completed his Anesthesia Residency and Clinical Fellowships in Cardiac Anesthesia, Neuroanesthesia, and Critical Care Medicine at Western University, Canada. He was subsequently appointed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Western University with a cross-appointment to the Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine on July 2014. During his time as Assistant Professor, he completed a Masters of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2018. He then worked briefly as a Teaching Assistant at Harvard in 2018. He was subsequently promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor at Western University, Canada in July 2021. He relocated to Saudi Arabia in July 2022. He held the position of Medical Director of the CSICU at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in Riyadh, KSA until July 2024. Subsequently, he relocated to Madinah Cardiac Centre (MCC), Madinah, KSA. He is currently the Department Head of the Cardiac Surgery ICU at the MCC.

Dr. Hegazy maintains a varied clinical practice in the areas of General Critical Care, Cardiac Critical Care, and Anesthesia. He held multiple leadership roles in both the Division of Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Anesthesia at Western University. He served as the Critical Care Competence-Based Medical Education Lead and was the inaugural Chair of the Competence Committee for the Division of Critical Care Medicine. He also served as the Education Director for the Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Unit for many years. He is dual Royal College certified in both Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology. He is a clinician-teacher and his areas of interest include critical care ultrasound, postcardiac arrest care, and cardiac critical care. He is also an active researcher who has published multiple research articles and numerous book chapters.

Dr. Sylvie Aucoin is an anesthesiologist at The Ottawa Hospital and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. She completed anesthesiology residency at Dalhousie University and a Perioperative Medicine fellowship at University of College London Hospital (UCLH) with an accompanying MSc in Perioperative Medicine. Her areas of interest are perioperative frailty, virtual post-surgical care and anesthesiology human resources. She currently serves as the Chair of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society Hospital Chiefs of Anesthesia Section and the Vice-Chair of Ontario’s Anesthesiologists. She has been the co-lead for the Virtual Recovery After Surgery program at The Ottawa Hospital since 2021 and is the primary investigator for the VICTORY Randomized Trial (Virtual, Innovative, postsurgical Care To Optimize Return home for older people with frailtY).

Dr. Egan completed his undergraduate education at Brigham Young University, graduating Magna Cum Laude in the humanities. He attended medical school at the University of Utah School of Medicine where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha academic honor society. After completing a preliminary general surgery residency at the University of Utah, Dr. Egan sought postgraduate training in anesthesiology and critical care which he completed at Stanford University. Following residency he pursued fellowship training in clinical pharmacology also at Stanford. He recently completed intensive physician executive training at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Egan is currently staff physician and chair at the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. His clinical practice focuses on neurosurgery and obstetric patients. He is past President of the Medical Staff and Chairman of the Medical Board, and served for over a decade as the Chief of Neuroanesthesia.

• Canadian and American Board Internal Medicine – 1998- Mcgill university
• Adult Critical Care Fellowship- Mcgill University - 2000
• Former Head of Anesthesia and Critical Care department AL-Amiri Hospital – Kuwait- from 2008- 2020
• Chair of faculty of Adult Critical Care since 2013
• Head of examination office –KIMS since 2014
• Local and regional speaker – critical care conferences
• Clinical instructor – Medical Student – FOM – Kuwait since 2001
• Clinical tutor – critical care since –2001 - KIMS

• Oct. 2022 till now: Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa.
• July 2025: Anesthesiology Undergraduate Medical Education Director, University of Ottawa.
• January 2024: Obstetrics anesthesia fellowship site lead, Civic campus, The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa.
• August 2023: Clinician Investigator, Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
• May 2023: Member of the Anesthesiology Residency Program Education Committee; Vascular anesthesia education module lead, University of Ottawa
• May 2023 - June 2025: Undergraduate Medical Education site coordinator, Civic Campus, Department of Anesthesia, The Ottawa Hospital

Dr. Jim Down is a consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia at University College London Hospitals and author of two books; ‘Life Support, Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis,’ (Viking, Penguin 2021) and ‘Life in the Balance, A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care.’ (Viking, Penguin 2023). He is Trust clinical lead for organ donation, chair of the Hospital Guidelines Committee and the departmental weekly scientific meetings and is consultant representative on the Trust Wellbeing committee. He was previously divisional director of the Intensive Care Unit and chair of the consultants’ group.

In the course of a thirty-year career he has attended a train crash, treated victims of the 7/7 London Bombings and looked after poisoned Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko. Alongside his clinical work during the Covid pandemic he was appointed Hospital lead for medical ethics.

His interests include medical ethics and law, clinical decision making, staff mental health and medical story telling. In 2023 he gave the Aneurin Bevan Lecture at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival and in 2024 delivered a Tedx Lecture in Manchester.

He lives in North London with his wife and sixteen-year-old twins and can be found most mornings shivering at his local Lido.

Institute Chair for Anaesthesia and Critical Care at the Cleveland Clinic London since 2019 and Academic Professor of Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Institute of Medicine. He was previously a Consultant and lecturer in anaesthesia and critical care in St Georges University hospital in London for 19 years. He is a Past President of the Association for Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care in the UK and a previous editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia Education and Echocardiography Research and Practice. He led the Royal College of Anaesthesia ‘Guidelines for Providers of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia’ for a few years with an interest in quality and the external review process. He is an author of the two international cardiac ERAS guidelines, first published in JAMA and a founder member of the cardiac ERAS advisory group. He was a current member of the EACTAIC and ESICM echo sub-committees and has helped in the successful establishment of the ESICM EDEC echocardiography accreditation. Nick has published over 100 peer reviewed articles and chapters and has been invited to lecture at ACTACC, EACTAIC, ESAIC, SCA, ESICM, IACTA conferences amongst others. He is recognised for his national and international leadership in cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care, cardiac ERAS, haemodynamics, clinical quality, echocardiography, research and education.

Avery Tung, MD, FCCM, an anesthesiologist and intensivist, has been appointed Chief of the Section of Critical Care in the Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care (DACC), effective July 1, 2021. He has served as the director of critical care services for the University of Chicago Medicine’s Burn and Complex Wound Center from 1998 to 2019 and has been the Quality Chief for the department of Anesthesia since 2007.

Tung is a past President of the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) and past Chair of the Critical Care Educational Track of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual meeting. He has contributed broadly to the improvement of critical care through other leadership roles, including ASA guideline task forces for procedural sedation, difficult airway management and central line insertion, and the 2013 SCCM task force for guidelines for pain, analgesia, and delirium management in the ICU.

He has served on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s anesthesiology and respiratory therapy devices panel and the general hospital and personal use devices panel and on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services technical expert panel for sepsis outcome measures. Dr. Tung is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine, a prestigious credential that demonstrates a commitment to critical care excellence.