2010 Conference Speaker Profiles

Checklists, Guidelines and Protocols - Embedding Patient Safety.

20 December 2010, the Royal College of Physicians.

London Deanery's 4th Simulatuion Confernece.

Speaker Profiles:

•  Ajit Abraham MS, MA(Med.Ethics & Law), FRCS(General Surgery) is a Consultant Hepato-pancreato-biliary Surgeon at Barts and the London NHS Trust ( BLT) . He is the Clinical Lead for General and Digestive Surgery and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University London. He is also the Quality and Safety Lead for Digestive Diseases and a faculty member at the NHS Institute of Improvement. He has had a long standing interest in quality improvement and patient safety issues, and championed the Trust-wide implementation of the WHO checklist at BLT.
  

• Meredith Allen, Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care, The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust; MB.BS, FRACP, FRCPCH, PhD.  Meredith trained at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne before moving to the UK to work at Great Ormond Street Hospital Critical Care (8 years) & the Royal Brompton PICU (4years).  She is Joint-Founder & Director of the successful SPRinT Programme which provides multi-disciplinary teams with weekly full-immersion simulation.   The SPRinT programme provides training for >350 staff members/year (including Consultants) across the trust (incl PICU, Ward, Theatres/Recovery, Cath Lab, CT/MRI scanner).

• Yogen Amin BSc, MB ChB, FRCA is a Consultant Neuroanaesthetist and Neurointensivist at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London and The Institute of Neurology. He is Chair of the NHNN/ION research Ethics committee, and is  involved in medical education at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.  As member of the UCLH Education team, he facilitates on After Action Review, WHO surgical checklist, UCLP Staff College and is lead for the Ward Safety Checklist programme, with a primary focus on leadership, human factors and behaviour.

• Sonal Arora is a Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College, London and a General Surgery Registrar in NW Thames. Sonal leads the research team within the Simulated Operating Theatre at St. Mary’s Hospital. Her PhD focuses upon the use of innovations in training to enhance surgical performance and patient safety.   Sonal has numerous publications in these disciplines and her work has attracted prestigious awards at a national and international level. Sonal holds the Surgical Education Research Fellowship (awarded by the Association of Surgical Education, USA) and is also a clinical advisor to the World Health Organization where she has lead the development of a Global Curriculum for Patient Safety Research.

• Carol Barnes is a chartered psychologist and coach, with a doctorate that explored decision making under pressure. Outcomes from her PhD supported Inspector Training for public disorder at Police College. Since 1992 she has worked with a wide range of organisations in the private and public sectors as coach, facilitator, trainer and consultant. A large proportion of her work is about personal and leadership development through coaching and training with NHS consultants, General Practitioners, Chief Fire Officers and Police Inspectors. Previous coaching assignments include Police, Local Government, London Underground and The Met Office. A visiting lecturer for Kent Business School, Canterbury, she has delivered development modules for The Kent Leader Programme. Memorable projects include design and implementation of appraisal system for Teenage Cancer Trust, design of the Selection and Recruitment Journey for Lloyds TSB Asset Management. Current projects include content design for e-programmes around Appraisal supervision, Trainees in Difficulty for Post Graduate Dental Education for South Yorkshire and East Midlands Deanery.  Away from work, Carol has recently married and likes to spend time with her new husband at their second home in Italy.  She also loves to windsurf and ski and enjoys country sports whenever the opportunity arises.

• Karen Barry holds a BA (hons) degree in Communication Processes. She joined the Interactive Studies Unit at the University of Birmingham in September 2001 and is the Unit manager there. As well as co-ordinating the role play team, overseeing the Unit’s administration and managing the support team Karen is involved with role player recruitment and training.  Karen is additionally involved in innovative clinical skills teaching, and has been one of the leads in Birmingham in setting up the Clinical Skills Programme for Medical and Physician Assistant (PA) students. These programmes include ACEs, life models and gynaecological teaching associates (GTAs), and Karen has shared her experiences of this work at a number of international symposia. Karen is currently Chair of the International Committee for ASPE (Association of Standardised/Simulated Patient Educators).

• Fee Berry has been working in virtual worlds like Second Life for the past seven years.  She has worked for the owners of Second Life as a builder, was an official mentor in Second Life for four years, and has a passionate interest in the uses of virtual worlds for education.  For the past two years she has been working with Mediverse to build medical training environments.

• Graham Braithwaite is Head of the Department of Air Transport and Professor of Safety and Accident Investigation at Cranfield University. He completed a BSc and PhD at Loughborough University focusing on safety management within the transport sector and moved to Australia in 1997 to work on a variety of human factors projects within aviation maintenance, flight operations, air traffic control and the railway industry. In 2003, he moved to Cranfield University, home of the world-famous Aircraft Accident Investigation course and led the development on new multimodal investigation courses as well as the world's first MSc programme for transport accident investigators. He was made Professor in 2006 in recognition of this work. Graham has conducted research for regulators, operators and maintainers around the world and trained safety professionals in UK Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Sweden and Germany.

• Martin Bromiley is “Dad” to a young family.  Professionally he is an airline pilot with a background specialising in human factors.  He currently operates a mix of long and short haul from London Heathrow.  Prior to flying he had a successful career as a Training Consultant working in a range of industries.  He focussed on decision making, communication and leadership skills development.  In 2005 his wife and “Mummy” to Victoria and Adam, died during a routine hospital procedure.  A subsequent independent review and Inquest established her death was the direct result of human error and failings in non-technical skills.  Martin started to research the culture in healthcare around safety and human factors and recognised that although there were pockets of excellence the NHS was culturally a long way behind most other high risk industry.  As a result of his experiences he has been one of the founder members of the Clinical Human Factors Group, a non profit making charitable trust who aims to advise and promote best practice around human factors.  www.chfg.org  Since then the Group have promoted human factors at the highest levels in healthcare, making a significant contribution to current thinking.  This can be seen in the most recent All-Party Health Select Committee Report and the maiden speech of the new Secretary of State for Health; but also more significantly across many frontline clinicians to whom the term human factors is becoming more common place.

• Simon Brownleader is a GP trainer based at the James Wigg Practice in London. He is a founding member of Mediverse and has an interest in virtual environments and education.
• Dr Margarita Burmester is Joint Director of SPRinT (Simulated Paediatric Resuscitation Team training). SPRinT is an in situ simulation programme teaching Crisis Resource Management. Embedded training promotes patient safety and excellence in education by reproducing realistic events in a real environment to real multidisciplinary team members. This programme has been commended by the London Deanery for its outstanding contribution to 'Excellence in Education' (2009). Dr Burmester is a consultant paediatric intensivist at Royal Brompton Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College. She underwent her first simulation experience in 2004 during her 2 year Consultant sabbatical at Childrens’ Hospital Boston, and has maintained links with that simulation programme, inviting faculty over for training of the entire SPRinT team.

• Ian Curran is Dean for Educational Excellence and Head of Innovation at the London Deanery. He is Clinical Lead for London's award-winning Simulation and Technology-enhanced Learning Initiative (STeLI). STeLI is a flagship project of NHS London's workforce development strategy. STeLI promotes patient safety and excellence in education by harnessing advanced educational techniques and technologies such as simulation and e-learning.

• Emma Evans has been a Consultant Anaesthetist and Simulation Faculty member at St George's, London, since 2005.  Appointed Lead for Simulation in 2008, developing lab-based multi-professional Obstetric Simulation there she moved on in 2010 to develop mobile ward-based simulation for obstetric teams as part of a STeLI endorsed project.  She is currently leading an Ethics Committe approved research project within this field due to by completed in May 2011.

• Kevin Fong is a consultant anaesthetist at University College London Hospital.  He holds degrees in astrophysics, medicine and aerospace engineering and has worked with NASA's Human Adaptation and Countermeasures Office at Johnson Space Center in Houston and at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.  He is currently an honorary senior lecturer in physiology at UCL and is interested in the principles of risk management and mitigation.

• Nick Fry began his career with the Ford Motor Company in 1977 as a graduate trainee after gaining a degree in Economics from the University of Wales. Over the next 24 years he held a variety of positions within Ford in Product Development, Marketing, Manufacturing and at Aston Martin where he was Managing Director. Nick worked with Ford in the UK, Detroit, USA, and Cologne, Germany where he spent his final two years with the company as Product Planning and Business Director for Ford Europe.  In January 2001, Nick joined Prodrive in the role of Managing Director where he was responsible for leading Prodrive's expansion into outsourced engineering services as well as maintaining the company's position in premier division motorsport. During this time the team won the World Rally Championship twice with client Subaru, the GT Sports Car Class at Le Mans with Ferrari, Saloon Car Races with Ford in Australia as well as numerous other events. Nick also took on the responsibility of Managing Director of the BAR Honda Formula One Team as part of a Prodrive management agreement to restructure the team.Instrumental in negotiating Honda's subsequent purchase of the team, Nick became CEO of the Honda Racing F1 Team in 2005. He was the helm for the team's first victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix in August 2006 and remained in his position as Chief Executive following the transfer of ownership from Honda and the creation of the Brawn GP Formula One Team in March 2009. Brawn GP with engine partners Mercedes-Benz went on to achieve eight Grands Prix victories in the 2009 Formula One season, winning the Constructors’ Championship and the Drivers’ Championship with Jenson Button. For 2010, Nick continues in his role as Chief Executive Officer for MERCEDES GP PETRONAS, in addition to being a shareholder of the team and a Board Member of Mercedes GP Ltd.

• Elizabeth Haxby MBBS, MSc, FRCA is the Lead Clinician For Clinical Risk at the Royal Brompton Hospital. She was a consultant adult and paediatric cardiothoracic anaesthetist  for four years until 2002 but now devotes her time solely to clinical risk management, patient safety and medico-legal work. She is a member of the Improvement faculty of the NHSIII and the faculty of the Leadership in Patient Safety programme. She is also a member of the Core team for Patient Safety First   with a focus on Leadership and junior doctors. She lectures widely and has a particular interest in patient safety, consent, clinical risk assessment and  evidence-based risk management as well as training. Her Masters Dissertation focused on how staff record adverse events in clinical records. Her publications include papers on safety in clinical practice, particularly fibreoptic bronchoscopy for which she was an advisor to the European Respiratory Society Working Group, clinical risk management and training in risk management. She is a honorary senior lecture at the National Heart and Lung Institute and  has just completed a   Master’s in Medical Ethics and Law.

• Andy Mitchell, joined NHS London as Medical Director in 2009. His has worked in the Armed Services and remains a civilian adviser to the Defence Medical Services. As Joint Service Clinical Director he was responsible for world wide intensive care retrieval of sick children. In 1997 he established the Central South Coast Paediatric Intensive Care network and chaired through seven years of development. In 2006 he began working as Associate Medical Director at Great Ormond Street, where he facilitated the London children's pathway group as part of the NHS Next Steps review. He was a member of the London Clinical Advisory Group, and co-directs the Health care for London Children's project. He continues in part time general paediatric practice.

• Dai Morris was born in Cardiff, and spent his first 18 years in and about the city. He has a Degree in Physics and a Doctorate in Solid State Physics, both from the University of Oxford. After a short spell as a post-doctorate tutor and researcher at Oxford, he joined the UK MoD in 1989. Dai has experience across the MoD, including short periods with all three UK armed services attached as a civilian technologist. His technical career stated at the then Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, later QinetiQ, at Malvern. There, he conducted a programme of research on Radar Systems, and was involved with a number of European and US defence and civil electronics companies. After serving as part of the MoD Head Office Staff in Whitehall, in June 1998 Dai was seconded to become a business development manager for a defence research organisation with a £100M turnover. In June 2000 Dai returned from that secondment and joined the UK MoD Science and Technology Review Team as Deputy Director. The team considered how well the MOD’s current and future science and technology requirements were met by existing arrangements and made a number of recommendations on improvements.  Dai became the Head of Research Collaboration Policy in the UK MoD in May 2002, responsible for setting and implementing the UK MoD’s Research Collaborative policy with other Governments and Industry. Dai was appointed Director, Analysis Experimentation and Simulation in January 2006. In late 2008, Dai’s Directorate reformed as the Directorate of Equipment Capability (now Head of Capability) for Joint Training, Evaluation and Simulation under the MoD’s ‘Through Life Capability Management’ initiative. He is responsible for planning Joint Training, Simulation and Test & Evaluation capabilities for the UK MoD. Dai also has responsibility for pan-MoD simulation policy, and the policy for MoD’s core retained Test and Evaluation capabilities. Dai is married to Alison, with two children (Richard 18, and Abigail 16). He is a keen archer and fencer, but most of his spare time is currently spent converting their house from an estate agent’s nightmare into a family home.

• Fiona Moss is the Director of Medical and Dental Education Commissioning for London.  She is the editor of the Postgraduate Medical Journal, a member of the Royal Society of Medicine Press Board and sits on the Editorial Board of the BMJ.  In 2006 Fiona was awarded a CBE for services to medicine.  Fiona became one of London's Postgraduate Deans in 2004 before accepting the position of Director in May 2010.  Whilst at the Deanery, Fiona has established London's Specialty Schools and in 2009, with NHS London she set up the Darzi Fellowship Programme.  Between 1991 and 2006 Fiona was a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Central Middlesex Hospital in addition to being an Associate Postgraduate Dean for London.  During this time she was also Director of Clinical Studies (DCS) for undergraduate medical students at Central Middlesex and chaired the Imperial College DCS committee.  From 1992 until 2004, Fiona was founder editor of Quality and Safety in Health Care, a BMJ Publishing group journal.  Since 1994, she has been on the Strategic Advisory Group of the International (previously European) Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care.  She is a former member of NHS London's Education Strategy reference group. Fiona's interests include postgraduate and undergraduate medical education, the quality and safety of healthcare and the relationships between organisational development, education and quality improvement. 

• James Reason was Professor of Psychology at the University of Manchester from 1977 until 2001, from where he graduated in 1962. Among his publications are books on motion sickness, absent-mindedness, human error, aviation human factors and managing the risks of organisational accidents. He has worked in a wide variety of hazardous industries, though patient safety is now his primary concern. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Royal Aeronautical Society and the British Academy. He received a CBE in 2003 for his services to reducing the risks in health care. In 2006, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

• Nick Sevdalis is an Experimental Psychologist, currently Senior Lecturer in the Division of Surgery of Imperial College London and, within the Division, lead of the Non-Technical Skills and Simulation Research Group. Nick has also been affiliated with the Research and Development Section of the National Patient Safety Agency, where he was developing and evaluating evidence-based patient safety interventions (2006-08). Nick's research interests focus on (i) non-technical skills and teamwork assessment and training with particular focus on simulation and (ii) error analysis. Nick has published extensively in these research areas, and has attracted significant funding to support his research (including EPSRC, MRC, ESRC, NIHR and the London Deanery). Nick is also the lead of the Research Methods and Applied Statistics taught modules of a number of postgraduate Masters courses offered by the Division of Surgery. Nick is also supervising Doctoral, postgraduate (MSc, MEd) and undergraduate (BSc) students in Surgery, Medicine, and Psychology.

• Rob Smith is the Director of System Strategy & Development at NHS London, and is currently responsible for coordinating the commissioning of education for the whole of the NHS workforce in London. Rob’s Education Commissioning Team and Workforce Planning Team, working alongside Deanery and Medical School colleagues, currently operate the £1bn Multi-Professional Education and Training (MPET) Budget. He and his team are working on a major programme to reform the London Education Commissioning system. Rob has worked exclusively within the NHS since 1987 and has worked in the field of workforce and education planning since 2002, initially in the role of Director of Finance and Contracting in North East London Workforce Development Confederation.  Prior to this, his background was as a senior finance professional in both service commissioning and service provision organisations. In particular, he led the process for the re-provision of mental health services from large institutional settings to community services during the early 1990s.
  

• Judy Walker, (Bachelor of Humanities (Hons) in Education University of London; Certificate of Professional Development in Executive Coaching, University of Strathclyde'; Certificate in Specialised Play for the Hospitalised Child PDP Level 5Southwark College of Further Education London); Since April 2009 Judy has been working in the Education Transformation Team at UCLH to lead, manage and deliver After Action Review (AAR) programmes for staff at UCLH and other NHS settings and to work with external companies to develop and implement further education opportunities building on the (AAR) model.   This work developed out of her leadership role in the Paediatrics and Adolescent Division at UCLH for a team of 16 Hospital Play Specialists and nationally on behalf of her professional group as the Chairman of the National Association of Hospital Play Staff. Through this she successfully negotiated with the Department of Health for improvements in paediatric services. She has published books and papers and spoke regularly at national and international conferences throughout her first career.

• Dr Veronica Wilkie is a GP in Worcestershire and a Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick Medical School. She has been a trainer and a GP tutor before working at the West Midlands deanery to deliver education and training for doctors in all specialities in evidence based medicine and healthcare management and leadership. Since joining Warwick Medical School in 2007 she has worked on a project with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the NHS institute, and as part of a project team has developed the Medical Leadership Competency Framework and Medical Leadership Curriculum (www.institute.nhs.uk/medicalleadership)

• Connie Wiskin PhD MPhil ILT (Institute of Learning and Teaching) is co-founder of the ISU, a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Communication, and School Academic Lead for The Elective. Connie holds a PhD [College of Medical and Dental Sciences] on the consistency of role play simulation to measure performance in high stakes consulting medical examinations.  She has taught at Birmingham since 1991, and during that time has devised and implemented hundreds of clinical communication programmes, including interactive management skills (eg leadership, coaching, appraisal and performance management). Additionally, in 1994 Connie founded a training company specialising in interactive management programmes. She remains on the board, which keeps her abreast of innovations outside of the public sector in the UK and overseas. Connie is an advisor on assessment techniques and examiner training, with current consultancies including the West Midlands Postgraduate Deanery and the Royal College of Dental Surgeons. She has presented her work at over 40 international meetings and symposia, and her communication research and commercial DVD authorships are widely disseminated.

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1 March 2010, The Royal College of Physicians
London Deanery’s 3rd Annual Simulation Conference.

Speaker Profiles:

Rajesh Aggarwal
Rajesh Aggarwal began his medical training at Selwyn College, Cambridge University and completed clinical studies at The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, graduating with Honours. Subsequently he has completed surgical training in London teaching hospitals, and a PhD thesis at Imperial College London entitled ‘A Proficiency-Based Technical Skills Curriculum for Laparoscopic Surgery’. His work has been published in over 70 peer-reviewed papers, including Annals of Surgery, the British Medical Journal and New England Journal of Medicine. Dissemination of research is actively pursued through membership of committees directed by the Department of Health, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons and the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, together with the delivery of presentations to a number of audiences worldwide.

Dr Fernando Bello
Fernando Bello is a Senior Lecturer in Surgical Graphics & Computing at Imperial College London. He is co-director of Imperial's MSc in Surgical Technology and also involved in its Masters in Education (MEd) in Surgical Education. His research in the area of simulation in healthcare spans across technology and education, including development and validation of simulator prototypes for a number of surgical procedures, exploring the integration of simulation and context via Patient Focused Simulation, and use of simulation in e-learning.

Dr Chris Chin
1999 - Attended Anaesthesia Crisis Resource Management Training Course in Palo Alto, California, USA under tutelage of Prof. David Gaba.
2001 – Attended Bristow’s helicopters debriefing course run by Human Factors experts LMQ
2002 – Appointed Associate Director Barts and London Simulation Centre.
2004 – Developed and deliver Paediatric Emergencies Anaesthesia Training in the Simulator and the multidisciplinary Paediatric Emergencies Refresher Training Courses.
2004-2008 – Collaborate in a successful series of applications to GSTT Trust and Charity for funding and space to develop a Simulator Centre Business plan, purchase a simulator manikin, and to fund and build a Simulation Facility on the St Thomas’ site.
2005 – Collaboration with simulation centres from Copenhagen and Tuebingen to develop and deliver basic and advanced Simulation TTT courses throughout Europe (EuSim Group).
2005 – Collaboration with UK simulation centres to develop a national course MEPA (Managing Emergencies in Paediatric Anaesthesia).
2007/9 – Successfully applied for London Deanery funding, following which designed and directed construction of the Guy’s Simulation Facility.
2008/9 – Successful application to deliver London Deanery Faculty Development courses.

Dr Mehrengise Cooper
Mehrengise Cooper is a consultant in Paediatic Intensive Care Medicine at St. Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.  She underwent her first simulation experience as an ICU Fellow at the Children's Hospital in Boston in 2000.  She has been training trainee paediatricians through simulation since 2005.  Mehrengise is Simulation Lead for the London Deanery School of Paediatrics.

Dr Ian Curran
Dr Curran is Head of Innovation & Associate Dean for Postgraduate Medicine at the London Deanery. He is Clinical Lead for London's award-winning Simulation and Technology-enhanced Learning Initiative (STeLI). STeLI is a flagship project of NHS London's workforce development strategy. STeLI promotes patient safety and excellence in education by harnessing advanceD educational techniques and technologies such as simulation and e-learning.

Dr Curran is a consultant anaesthetist with sub-specialty interest in chronic pain management at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he is also Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Education and Senior Examiner at the Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is also a council member of the Academy of Medical Educators.

Dr Annie Cushing
Dr Annie Cushing,  Ph.D. FDSRCS, BDS, is Reader in Clinical Communication Skills, Head of the Clinical and Communication Skills Unit and Lead for the CETL (Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Clinical and Communication Skills) at Barts and the London, School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.
 
With considerable experience of curriculum design and delivery in undergraduate and postgraduate medical & dental education she has developed programmes using simulated patients for learning and assessment of consultation skills. She is an adviser to the Professional Linguistics Assessment Board (PLAB) OSCE panel of the General Medical Council UK, training adviser to the National Clinical Assessment Service and a member of the Royal College of Physicians Working Party on ‘Improving communications between doctors and patients’.

Dr Peter Dieckmann
Peter has been working with training simulation since 1999. His research focuses on understanding simulation as a social practice, trying to optimize the interplay of concepts and technology as well as using simulators to understand human error. His special interest is the merits of unrealism of simulation. Peter works with the Danish Institute for Medical Simulation (DIMS) in Herlev, Denmark.

Dr Ashley Fraser
Ashley Fraser is a histopathologist and Medical Director of NHS Employers working with employers to help them understand and contribute to changes in the recruitment, training, regulation and career structure of the medical workforce. This includes providing guidance to NHS organisations and representing NHS organisations’ views to policy makers.

Rachel Gill
Lead for METS, background as ICU Sister, experienced resuscitation training officer, previous Clinical Skills Lead. Completed Training the Trainers at Bart’s and the London Simulation Centre. Currently enrolled in Masters in Clinical Education at the Institute of Education.

Nicholas Gosling
Nicholas Gosling is Head of Clinical Skills and Simulation at the St George’s Advanced Patient Simulator centre.  He also sits on the project board for the London Deanery’s Simulation and Technology-enhanced Learning Initiative (STeLI).

Professor Sean Hilton
Sean Hilton is Deputy Principal of St. George’s, University of London, and institutional lead for Education. He qualified MB.BS (London) in 1974, and has been a General Practitioner in Kingston upon Thames since 1979.  At St. George’s, he was appointed as Professor of Primary Care in 1993; Dean of Undergraduate Medicine from 1997-2002; and Vice-Principal (Teaching and Learning) from 2004-2007. A non-executive Board member of the St. George’s Healthcare Trust since 2003, he is an elected member of the Council of the Academy of Medical Educators (AME), and has an interest in standards in medical education and elearning. He is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners Professional Development Board, and chairs one of its sub-committees for revalidation support, Essential Knowledge Updates.

He is particularly interested in personal and professional development for medical students and doctors. He was a member of the Royal College of Physicians’ Working Party on Medical Professionalism from 2003-5 and recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship to study medical professionalism in the USA and Australia in 2002-3.

Dr Peter Jaye
Peter Jaye is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS trust. He has been working in simulation since 2001 and is now Director of simulation at GSTT and Leads simulation for King's Health Partners. He is the Simulation lead for the College of Emergency Medicine and the London School of Emergency Medicine.

Dr Roger Kneebone
Roger Kneebone trained first as a general surgeon and then as a general practitioner. In 2003 he joined Imperial College London, where his research focuses on simulation and the contextualisation of clinical learning. He has developed innovative approaches to learning and assessing clinical procedures, using hybrid combinations of models and simulated patients. Roger directs Imperial’s Masters in Education (M Ed) in Surgical Education.

Dr Nick Lock
Nick Lock qualified as a diagnostic radiographer in 1979 after several clinical posts began working in education at the South West Thames School of radiography in 1984, in 1993 when deputy principal the school moved into Kingston University and he developed an interest in e learning. His current role is split between radiography and the Engineering faculty where he is the blended learning lead. His role is to evaluate, develop and integrate e learning technologies.

Professor Elisabeth Paice
Professor Elisabeth Paice is Acting Director of Medical and Dental Education for NHS London, on secondment from her position as Dean Director of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education for the London Deanery.  This role involves managing postgraduate training for over 10,000 doctors and dentists. She was born in Washington DC, brought up in Canada, and studied medicine in Dublin and London. She became a Consultant Rheumatologist in 1981 and a postgraduate dean in 1995.  She was Chair of the Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans of the UK (COPMeD) between 2006 and 2008. She was the originator of the Hospital at Night concept; chaired the first PMETB working party on Generic Standards and the working group that developed the PMETB/COPMeD National Trainee Survey.  She has published papers on a range of topics to do with medical careers, in particular focusing on the factors that cause stress among doctors and dentists and how they can be mitigated.

Vishal Patel MRCS

Vishal is a clinical research  fellow at the Department of Surgery at Imperial College, registered for an MD(res) degree .
His primary research interest is in the development and application of innovative virtual world technologies within different facts of medical education.
Prior to his research he was a basic surgical trainee in the former Hammersmith Hospitals NHS trust (now Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust).
Vishal is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Rob Smith
Rob Smith is Head of Education Commissioning and Workforce Planning for NHS London.

Dave Taylor
Dave Taylor is Programme Lead for the Medical Media and Design Laboratory (MMDL) in the Division of Surgery at Imperial College London. This research group's mission is to develop ground-breaking applications for virtual worlds with a focus on interactive 3D simulations of clinical scenarios, collaborative working and the visualisation of future health care delivery models, products and service innovations.

In 2006 Dave initiated and ran the UK National Physical Laboratory's Virtual Worlds business, and is a founder of the SciLands, a Second Life continent for Science and Technology. In previous lives Dave has been Vice President of Global Web for a leading multinational and managed Letraset's European Software business, working with Adobe Systems, Pixar and Apple Computer in the 80's and 90's.

Dave has a BSc in Mathematics and an MSc in Experimental Psychology.

Dr Libby Thomas
Libby Thomas has been a South-East Thames Emergency Medicine SpR since 2006. She started a Fellowship in Simulation and Education under the London School of Emergency Medicine in March 2009. She has been doing simulation full time since then based mainly at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital working on projects at a local, pan-London and National level. She is also doing a part time MA in Clinical Education at the University of London.

Sir John Tooke
Until 30 November 2009, Professor Sir John Tooke was Dean of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. In January 2010 he took up post as Vice Provost (Health) and Head of the Medical School at UCL. Sir John is the immediate past Chair of the Medical Schools Council and Chair of the UK Healthcare Education Advisory Committee (UKHEAC). He is a member of the National Institute for Health Research Advisory Board and the Health and Education National Strategic Exchange (HENSE). In 2006 Sir John led a High Level Group for the Chief Medical Officer on Overcoming Barriers to Clinical Effectiveness and in 2008 he chaired the Independent Inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers leading to the publication of ‘Aspiring to Excellence’. He was recently invited by Government to join a High Level Panel, representing Medicine, on Fair Access to the Professions for which the Final Report ‘Unleashing Aspiration’ was published in July 2009.

Nic Turley
Nic Turley is the Deputy Head of the Human Factors Group for NATS where he has special responsibility for the co-ordination of the Human Performance Improvement Programme across the company. Nic has more than 20 years experience in the application of Human Factors to the procurement, development and operation of complex human/machine systems. Prior to joining NATS in 2003 Nic worked on a number of IT and defence projects including Naval command and control systems; reconnaissance and intelligence gathering technologies and transportation.
For 3 years, Nic was Associate of the British Safety Council and developed a toolkit for assessing and developing positive organisational safety culture. Nic is currently providing consultancy to a programme of safety culture enhancement activities across ATC providers in Europe where Nic is helping senior managers and Board members to develop improvement plans to overcome the cultural vulnerabilities within their organisations.
Nic is responsible for setting the standard for Human Factors activities across NATS and is leading work on understanding the future role of the human in ATC 2030.