Speakers
Session 1: ICU, Thursday 23rd, 8.30 AM
Professor Paul Dargan
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Professor Dargan is a Consultant Physician and Clinical Toxicologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. He has an active research programme in clinical toxicology with research collaborators in the UK, Europe, North America, Africa, Australasia and Asia across a range of projects related to recreational drug toxicity, new psychoactive substances, self-poisoning and heavy metal toxicity; he has had over £9.2 million in research funding in the last 10 years and has published over 380 peer-reviewed papers.
Professor Dargan is a Commissioner to the UK Commission on Human Medicines, and an expert advisor to a number of UK and International bodies including the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
He is President Elect of the European Association of Poisons Control Centres and Clinical Toxicologists (EAPCCT)
Session 1: ICU, Thursday 23rd, 8.30 AM
Doctor Sam Shemie
Division Director of Pediatric Critical Care, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University Health Centre Associate Investigator, McGill University Health Centre Research Institute Professor of Pediatrics, McGill University
Honourary Staff Physician, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
Medical Advisor (Deceased Donation), Canadian Blood Services.
Dr. Shemie’s area of interest is organ replacement during critical illness and the continuum between life, death and oxygen delivery. He is a pediatric critical care physician and ECMO specialist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University Health Centre. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University and honourary staff in the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto. He is medical advisor, deceased organ donation, with Canadian Blood Services. His academic focus is advancing the science and practice of deceased organ donation. His research interests include the clinical and policy impact of organ failure support technologies, the development and implementation of national ICU-based leading practices in organ donation and research at the intersection of end-of-life care, death determination and deceased donation.
Session Keynotes:The Trainee Perspective, Thursday 23rd, 2.00 PM
Doctor Sean Casey
Paediatrician, National Lead NCHD Fellow 2023-2024
Dr. Casey (MB BCh BAO MRCPI Paediatrics) completed his Paediatric HST in July 2023 and is one of NDTP’s current National Lead NCHD Fellows (2023-24). He has extensive involvement to date in the domain of Physician Wellbeing in Ireland, having established the RCPI Trainee Wellbeing Committee in 2018 and chaired it from 2019-2023. Recognising the need to standardise wellbeing supports across medical training bodies, he co-founded and currently co-chairs the Forum’s National Committee for Wellbeing of Doctors in Ireland (2020- present).
In addition to his clinical interest in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, he completed a Fellowship in Healthcare Management Consulting with PwC (2022-23) to further his skills in leadership and management.
He has spoken at numerous national and international conferences on the topic of physician wellbeing and is honoured to bring his reflections to the 2024 CAI Congress.
Session: The Patient Voice, Thursday 23rd, 11.15AM
Susanna Stanford (via zoom)
Following experience of neuraxial anaesthetic failure during a caesarean section for a Caesarean section in 2010, Susanna became interested in patient safety. She campaigned for, and co-authored, the Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association guidance for the testing of neuraxial blocks and management of block failure, published in Anaesthesia in March 2022. She continues to present, in the UK and internationally, to raise awareness of inadequate neuraxial anaesthesia. Susanna is an ambassador for the Clinical Human Factors Group. Her interests include working on multiple national projects to improve patient safety, including as a co-author of the National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs2), and research to improve care in obstetrics. In 2021, she made a film 'Managing Adverse Events', with Sarah Seddon, to draw together the patient and clinician perspectives in the aftermath of harm
Session: Post Operative Neurocognitive Disorders/ Acid Base in The OR Friday 24th, 11.15 AM
Doctor Pádraig Ó Scanaill
Consultant in Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Dr. Pádraig is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin. He completed his postgraduate anaesthesia training in Ireland and has completed a postgraduate fellowship in Perioperative Medicine at University College London Hospitals.
Pádraig’s interests include medical education, trauma, and the delivery of perioperative care to the high-risk surgical patient.
Session 2: FPM, Friday 24th, 11.15 AM
Professor Fiona Fenton
Consultant Psychiatrist in the HSE National Drug Treatment Centre and Beaumont Hospital
Prof Fiona Fenton is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the HSE National Drug Treatment Centre and Beaumont Hospital.She is the College of Psychiatrists’ tutor in the HSE NDTC and is an Adjunct Clinical Lecturer/Assistant Professor in UCD. Having initially trained in General Practice, she trained in Psychiatry in Scotland.
She sits on the National Oversight Committee in the Department of Health, which is tasked with a review of the National Drugs Strategy. She chairs the Strategic Implementation Group 3 which is developing integrated care pathways for high-risk drug users to achieve better health outcomes.
Session: Post Operative Neurocognitive Disorders/ Acid Base in the OR, Friday 24th, 11.15 AM
Professor Anthony Absalom
University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen University, Netherlands
Prof. Anthony (Tony) Absalom studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and underwent specialist training in anaesthesia and intensive care in East Anglia and Scotland in the UK.
He has been Professor of Anaesthesiology at the UMCG, Netherlands since 2009. His clinical interests are procedural sedation, anaesthesia for neurosurgery, and intravenous anaesthesia techniques. His research interests are pharmacology and neuroscience. He is a former editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, and is now financial director of the BJA Company. Over the years he has been President of the Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia, vice-president of the World Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia, Chairman of the Neuroanaesthesia Section of the Dutch Association of Anaesthetists and Chair of the General Anaesthesia Scientific Sub-committee of the European Society of Anesthesiology.
AMONG OTHER SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Doctor Tom Howlett
Adjunct Associate Professor University College Dublin ASM 2024, Ireland
Doctor Brian O'Brien
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at Cork University Hospital, Ireland
Doctor Eoin Kelleher
Doctoral Research Fellow in Dep of Clinical Neuroscience at University of Oxford, UK
Professor Michelle Chew
Academic Chair and Professor in Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Acute Care at Linköping University Hospital, Sweden
Professor Gareth Ackland
Professor of Perioperative Medicine at the William Harvey Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London, UK
Professor Fiona Fenton
Consultant Psychiatrist in the HSE National Drug Treatment Centre and Beaumont Hospital, Ireland