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Members of the Department

Consultants

Dr Robert Axe

Dr Justine Barnett

• GMC number 6051860
• MB ChB (Hons) FRCA, FFICM
  
• Special interests: Intensive Care Medicine, Educational supervision
  
• Departmental responsibilities: Clinical governance lead for Critical Care

Lt Col Claire Cameron

• GMC number 6103787
• MBChB BSc PGCert (university of Bristol) FRCA
  
• Specialist interest: Military Anaesthetist
• Airway lead
• Clinical Interests: Head and Neck/Max fax/ENT, colorectal, trauma and education

Prof. Tim Cook

• GMC number 3261734
  
• Cambridge/London Universities. BA (Hons Cantab.), MBBS (Hons.), FRCA, FFICM
  
• Intensive Care Medicine/Enhanced Recovery /Advanced Airway /Emergency Laparotomy 
  
• Departmental lead for Research, Departmental lead for Enhanced Recovery.
• College roles: Director of the National audit project (NAP) programme ; Advisor on Airways; Safe Anaesthesia liaison Group /
• Health Service Research Centre Executive Board Member.
  Clinical: Intensive Care Medicine/ Enhanced Recovery / Airway / Emergency Laparotomy.
• Research:  Major Complications of anaesthesia / Airway Management / Regional anaesthesia /Awareness / Emergency Laparotomy / Litigation.

Dr Michael Coupe

• GMC number 4194602
  
• MBChB Birmingham FRCA FFPMRCA FFICM
• Specialist areas : Pain Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, regional anaesthesia, educational supervision
  
• Departmental responsibilities: Lead for regional anaesthesia
  
• Other professional responsibilities:
  
• Areas of clinical interest: Interventional pain medicine, cancer pain management, philosophy of pain, regional anaesthesia, developing-country anaesthesia.

Dr Tim Craft

• GMC number 2826147
  
• MB BS University of London
  
• Other professional responsibilities: Executive Medical Director, RUH Bath NHS Foundation Trust
  

Dr Richard Edwards

• GMC number 6106082
  
• MBBS (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), MSc (University of East Anglia).
  
• Orthopaedics and regional anaesthesia
  
• Responsible for medical students

Dr Andy Georgiou

• GMC number 6051980
  
• MBChB (Bristol) BSc(Hons) FRCA EDIC DICM FFICM.
  
• Specialist areas : Intensive Care Medicine
  
• Areas of clinical interest: Major theatre cases, critical care medicine

Dr Stuart Gold

• GMC number 4324915
  
• MBChB (Dundee), FRCA (London)
  
• Departmental responsibilities: Regional Anaesthesia, Enhanced Recovery, Clinical Lead, Day Surgery.

Dr Alex Goodwin

• GMC number 2719896
• St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School,University of London. M.B., B.S., D.A. (U.K.), F.F.I.C.M., F.R.C.A., R.C.Path.M.E.
• Specialist Interests: Orthopaedic Surgery, Day Case Anaesthesia, Education and Leadership.
• Immediate past Clinical Director
• Lead for ECT Anaesthesia
• Medical Examiner (R.C.Path.M.E.)
• National Roles: Clinical Coordinator National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death. Royal College of Anaesthetists Consultant Appointments Assessor. Premiership Rugby Independent Match Day Doctor.

Dr Kim Gupta

• GMC number 3354915
  
• Bristol, MBChB (Hons), FRCA, FFICM
  
• Specialist areas – Intensive Care Medicine
• Departmental responsibilities - Trust Clinical Lead for Organ & Tissue Donation
• Areas of clinical interest; Intensive Care

Dr Jeff Handel

 

 

 

 

Dr Rowan Hardy

• GMC number  4035419
  
• MA MB BS MRCP FRCA FFICM, Cambridge University & Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, London.
  
• Specialist areas: Paediatrics & Intensive Care
  
• Departmental responsibilities: Clinical Lead for Paediatrics
• Other professional responsibilities: AAGBI Independent Practice Committee
  
• Areas of clinical interest: Paediatric anaesthesia, pre-operative assessment, care of older people for hip fracture surgery

Dr William Headdon

• GMC number 6154173
  
• MBBS (Hons), FRCA, FFICM, Peninsula Medical School
  
• Specialist areas: intensive care medicine
  
• Departmental responsibilities : IT Lead
  
• Areas of clinical interest : digital transformation and IT, teaching, educational supervision

Dr Paul Hersch

• GMC number 3523988
  
• MBChB (Hons) Cape Town FRCA
  
• Specialist areas: Paediatric Anaesthesia
  
• Departmental responsibilities : Chairman
  
• Areas of clinical interest Paediatric, regional and endocrine anaesthesia. Difficult airway management. Preoperative assessment.

Dr Clare Hommers

• GMC number  4536532
  
• BM BS BmedSci (Nottingham), DTM&H,  MRCP, FRCA, EDIC, DICM, FFICM
  
• Specialist areas: Intensive Care Medicine and paediatrics
  
• Departmental responsibilities: Educational supervisor, deputy faculty tutor Intensive Care Medicine/trainee rota coordinator Intensive Care Medicine
  
• Clinical interests: Airway management, trauma, pre-hospital medicine and anaesthesia in low resource environments

Dr Katharine Howells

• GMC number 6130110
  
• MBBS BSc FRCA (Imperial College London) FFPMRCA
• Specialist areas: Pain Medicine
  
• Departmental responsibilities: Teaching
  
• Other professional responsibilities: Founder & Director nationally run course "Anatomy for Anaesthetists"
• Clinical interest: persistent post-surgical pain, Persistent post-surgical pain

Dr Lesley Jordan

• GMC number 3240148
• Mb ChB. ( Leicester) , FRCA ( London )
  
• NHS Improvement QSIR Associate
• Specialist areas:  Obstetric Anaesthesia
  
• Quality Improvement - Quality Service Improvement and Redesign (QSIR)  Associate and member NHSi QSIR College
  Departmental responsibilities: Corporate Role : Trust Patient Lead
  Department: QI Faculty Lead ,Emergency laparotomy Lead
• Other professional responsibilities: Trust Sepsis and AKI Lead
  F1 QI Programme Lead
  Junior Doctor QI Lead
  Trust Natsips Lead
  Perioperative Safety Lead
  Lead RUH Quality Improvement Training Programme (QSIR)
  Member Health Foundation Q initiative
  Secondary Care Adviser Gloucester CCG
• Areas of clinical interest: Obstetric Anaesthesia,Sepsis ,Emergency Laparotomy, Day surgery

Dr Fiona Kelly

• GMC number 4127778
  
• MA MBBS MRCP FRCA DICM FFICM. Qualified 1994, having trained at St John's College, Cambridge and St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London
• Specialist areas : Intensive Care Medicine, paediatric anaesthesia, airway management
  
• Departmental responsibilities: Educational supervisor
  
• Other professional responsibilities: Chair, Difficult Airway Society human factors working group
  
• Areas of clinical interest: Human factors, education and training

Dr Ian Kerslake

• GMC number 6120388
  
• BSc(Hons) MB ChB(Bristol) FRCA FFICM
  
• Specialist areas : Intensive Care Medicine
  
• Departmental responsibilities: Lead Clinician
  
• Departmental responsibilities: Lead Consultant for Critical Care
• Areas of clinical interest: Obstetrics

Dr Rebecca Leslie

• GMC number 6075795
• BM BS (University of Nottingham), BMedSci (University of Nottingham), FRCA, PGDip Periop Med.
• Specialist areas : Perioperative medicine & Obstetric anaesthesia
• Departmental responsibilities: Co-clinical Lead for Pre-operative Assessment.
• Areas of clinical interest: Pre-operative assessment, major theatre cases, colorectal surgery, gynae-oncology.

Dr Chris Marsh

• GMC Number 6051699
  
• MBChB FRCA (Bristol)
  
• Specialist Areas - Obstetrics, Paeds, Simulation
  
• Departmental Responsibilities - Lead Clinician Obstetric Anaesthesia
  
• Other Professional Responsibilities - Speak RcOA FRCA Course,
• Research Interests in Obstetric Anaesthesia
  
• Areas of Clinical Interest - Obstetric Anaesthesia, Paediatric Anaesthesia, Simulation, Human Factors

Dr Mel McDonald

• GMC number 4624244
  
• MBChB, BSc (Hons) Bristol, MRCS, FRCA
  
• Obstetric Anaesthesia
  
• Responsible for co-ordinating training in obstetric anaesthesia for junior anaesthetists within the department.
  
• Maternal Critical Care, Difficult Airway Management

Prof. Jerry Nolan

• GMC number 2805063
  
• MB ChB (Bristol); FRCA FRCP FFICM FRCEM (Hon)
  
• Specialist areas : Intensive Care Medicine
  
• Departmental responsibilities: Chair Resuscitation Committee, Chair Transfusion Committee
  
• Other professional responsibilities: Honorary Professor of Resuscitation Medicine, University of Bristol; Chair European Resuscitation Council; Editor-in-Chief Resuscitation journal; Chair Steering Group of the National Cardiac Arrest Audit, Executive Committee Member of the Resuscitation Council (UK)
  
• Areas of clinical interest: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Dr Andrew Padkin

 

 

 

 

Dr Charlie Pope

• GMC number 7015057
• MBBCh FRCA FFICM PgCert Clinical Education
• Specialist areas : Intensive Care
  
• Areas of clinical interest:
  Intensive Care Medicine, Point of Care Ultrasound, Paediatrics

Dr Jonathan Price

• GMC number 6077001
• MBChB BSc MRCP FRCA FFICM (Bristol)
• Specialist areas : Intensive Care Medicine
  
• Departmental responsibilities: n/a
  
• Other professional responsibilities: n/a
  
• Areas of clinical interest: Trauma, Pre Hospital Medicine, Anaesthesia for major surgery.

Dr Chris Seller

• GMC number 4208084
  
• MB BS London, FRCA.
  
• Specialist Interest: Airway, Obstetrics
  
• Chairman of Department
  
• Examiner for the FRCA
  
• Clinical Interest: Airway, Endocrine
  

Dr Tom Simpson

• GMC number 3548286
  
• BSc MBBS ASM FRCA FFICM, St Marys Hospital University of London
  
• Specialist areas: Intensive Care Medicine and Paeds
  
• Departmental responsibilities Educational Supervisor
  
• Other professional responsibilities Training Programme Director
• Severn Deanery Specialist Programme
  
• Areas of clinical interest : Bariatrics, Paediatrics and Difficult airways

Dr Mark Sheils

• GMC number 6155644
  
• MbChB, FRCA, FFICM. University of Birmingham Medical School
  
• Specialist Area: Intensive care medicine
  Clinical interest: critical care echocardiography, education supervision

Dr Andrew Souter

• GMC number 3191402
  
• MB ChB Edin 1986
  
• FRCA 1992
• FFPMRCA 2007
  
• Pain Clinic
  
• Lead Clinician Pain Clinic
  
• Areas of interest: Back pain, neuropathic pain, cancer pain,
  pre-operative assessment.

Dr Peter Steed

• GMC number 7016785
  
• MBChB (Hons) BSc (Hons), FRCA (University of Bristol)
  
• Areas of Clinical Interest: Regional anaesthesia, obstetric anaesthesia, difficult airway management

Dr Vivienne Thomas

• GMC number 3549342
  
• MB BS , FRCA
• Specialist areas : obstetrics and paediatrics
  
• Departmental responsibilities: endoscopy sedation service

Dr Malcolm Thornton

• Lead clinician
• GMC number 4067742
  
• MB.,ChB. F.R.C.A
  
• Interests: ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia; ultrasound guided vascular access; difficult airway management; awake upper limb surgery
• Departmental Responsibilities: Clinical Governance Lead for Anaesthesia

Dr Damien Wood

• GMC number 4268952
  
• MBBS (Qld Uni), FANZCA

 

 

 

 

Non-Consultant Career Grade Anaesthetists

Dr Rachel Awan

• GMC number 4093732
  
• MBBS (University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1994) FRCA
• Departmental responsibilities:
  Other professional responsibilities: Chair of the Staff and Associate Specialist Committee , Member of the Local Negotiating Committee
  
• Areas of clinical interest: Obstetric anaesthesia, Pre operative assessment

Dr Muhammad Asif

• GMC number 4593490
  
• MBBS: University of Punjab, Lahore Pakistan
  MCPS( Anaesthesia and Intensive care) College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan
  DA London RCOA
  MRCA, RCOA
  
• Specialist areas:  Regional Anaesthesia

Dr Kamran Banan

• GMC number 6070260
• Qualified in Anaesthetics in 1993, Iran.
  
• Passed : FRCA 1 and final FRCA
  
• Specialist areas :  Orthopaedics, maternity, general surgery
  

Dr Pete Forster

 

 

 

 

Dr Sarah Keeley

• GMC number 3587403
  
• Qualified St Bartholomew's Medical School, London MBBS; FRCA Part 1 and 2
  
• Areas of interest: Obstetrics

 

 

Dr Steve Laver

 

 

 

 

Dr Terren Ku

• GMC number 6160809
  
• MBBS at Barts and The London Medical School, Queen Mary University.
  
• Areas of clinical interest: Obstetrics Anaesthesia

 

Dr Malar Vizhi

• GMC number 5198048
• MB BS University of Madras
• General Anaesthetist - special interest in Trauma and Orthopaedics.

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