Dr Agwada-Akeru is Consultant orthogerician, 
Clinical effectiveness and  orthogeriatrics lead , BARTS Health fragility fracture service Whipps Cross Hospital London.

Dr Tim Ambrose is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with interests in clinical nutrition, intestinal failure and inflammatory bowel disease. He qualified in medicine from The University of Edinburgh and completed his training in Gastroenterology in Oxford and the wider Thames Valley region. He undertook a Fellowship in Intestinal Rehabilitation at St Mark’s Hospital, London, and in Intestinal Transplantation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge (2014-2015). He was awarded his DPhil from The University of Oxford (2018). He chairs the Small Bowel & Nutrition committee of the British Society of Gastroenterology and sits on the committee of the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Medical section.

Jugdeep Dhesi, PhD FRCP 
Jugdeep is a consultant geriatrician working in the innovative and award-winning POPS (Perioperative medicine for Older People undergoing Surgery) service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. 
She is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at King’s College London and Associate Professor at University College London, with research interests including preoperative assessment and optimisation, health services research focusing on perioperative pathways and postoperative delirium. 
She has wide education and training portfolio, having established the first Allied Health Professional, Foundation and Specialist Registrar training programmes in perioperative medicine, co-authored e-learning modules, MSc modules and multiple textbook chapters.  
Her national roles include President for British Geriatrics Society, Deputy Director for Centre for Perioperative Care and has involvement in a variety of steering, advisory and guideline groups (NELA, RCoA, BGS and NICE).

JAcademic geriatrician researching delirium in longitudinal cohorts.

Kariem is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Cleveland Clinic London, as well as an Honorary Reader at King’s College London. He is the Clinical Service Lead as well as the Research and Development Lead for Theatres, Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’. His interests include regional anaesthesia, airway management, perioperative medicine and research delivery. He is the Scientific Officer for the Difficult Airway Society, Senior Editor of Anaesthesia Journal; developed multiple innovations for practice; has written four books and several book chapters; and is very well-published in peer-reviewed literature. Kariem was awarded the 2022 Featherstone Professorship by the Association of Anaesthetists

Dr Gemma Hughes is Associate Professor, Healthcare Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Healthcare, Innovation, Policy and Management at the University of Leicester School of Business. She leads, with Dr Tim Stephens, the NIHR-funded study: Understanding opportunities for enhancing shared decision-making for high risk patients considering major surgery through changes in organisational and clinical contexts (OSIRIS B).

Antony Johansen has worked in the trauma unit of the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff since 1994, and was appointed as the UK’s first full-time consultant orthogeriatrician in 1997. He co-authored the 2007 British Orthopaedic Association’s ‘Blue Book’, the 2011 NICE hip fracture guideline, and since 2013 has been orthogeriatric lead for the National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) at the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Dr Johnson is a Consultant anaesthetist and clinical lead of THIS Institute Learning system to improve the timeliness of emergency laparotomy.

Dr Margot Lodge is a consultant geriatrician and early career researcher. Margot works clinically at The Alfred, where she is the Traumageriatrics Service clinical lead and Perioperative Medicine Service geriatrician lead. Margot is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University and her postdoctoral work utilises implementation science and mixed methods research in the perioperative and acute trauma settings. 
Margot is Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Perioperative Care Special Interest Group. Her policy and professional contributions extend to committees from the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Victorian Perioperative Consultative Council

Dr Loh is a research fellow with NELA and an anaesthetic trainee, currently based at St George’s Hospital, London. Since starting her fellowship with NELA in 2022, she has been actively involved in the development and implementation of the NoLap audit. She is currently doing a higher degree in research looking at variations in care between emergency laparotomy and NoLap patients.

Professor Scarlett McNally BSc MB BChir FRCS(Tr&Orth) MA MBA FAcadMEd HonMFPH MRSPH
Orthopaedic surgeon and Deputy Director of the Centre for Perioperative Care www.cpoc.org.uk 
Professor Scarlett McNally is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Eastbourne (since 2002), Deputy Director of the Centre for Perioperative Care (find lovely FREE resources at www.cpoc.org.uk), Honorary Clinical Professor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and President of the Medical Women’s Federation. Previously an elected Council member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2011-2021). She has an MA in Clinical Education and an MBA in health service management. BMJ columnist – all FREE at www.bmj.com/search/advanced/mcnally. Lead author of the Academy’s Exercise the miracle cure.
Perioperative care = patient preparation + shared decision-making + team-working + pathways. This can halve complications and increase happiness and empowerment. See also: NatSSIPs. 
Frequent speaker and regular writer - on careers, diversity, bullying, sustainability, perioperative care, pathways, myeloma, exercise, active travel, leadership and how to fix the NHS. Publications at www.scarlettmcnally.co.uk and Twitter @scarlettmcnally. Mother of 4 adults. Had stem cell transplant. 4th Dan Karate black belt and 3 electric-cycles.

Ramani is a clinician scientist and health service leader. She is the National Clinical Director for critical and perioperative care for the NHS in England, a Professor at UCL and a consultant in anaesthetics, perioperative and critical care medicine. She leads research collaborations in patient safety, clinical trials and basic / translational research funded by the UK’s National Institute for Health Research. 

She is married to a very patient and supportive inventor and lives in Sussex with him and their adopted children aged 4, 7 and 8. She was awarded the honour of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2021 for services to anaesthesia, perioperative and critical care. 

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Iain Moppett is Professor of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Nottingham, a consultant anaesthetist at Nottingham University Hospitals, and Director of the Centre for Research and Improvement at the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

He has a long-standing interest in improving care for people with hip fracture through research, audit and quality improvement. His research includes the Nottingham Hip Fracture Score and clinical trials of goal-directed fluid therapy, femoral nerve blocks, intravenous iron, intravenous lidocaine and dexamethasone. He has co-authored guidelines for perioperative management of people with hip fracture for the Fragility Fracture Network and the Association of Anaesthetists.

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Iain’s role at the Centre for Research and Improvement encompasses audits such as NELA, National Audit Projects, using ‘big data’ to help understand how healthcare delivery affects perioperative outcomes, and helping clinicians use data to improve patient care. He is Chief Investigator for the 3rd Sprint National Audit Project (SNAP3) investigating the associations between frailty, multimorbidity and outcomes after surgery in older people.

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He has a long-standing interest in safety around the time of surgery and is chair of the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) working group revising the National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures.

Dr O'Connor an ST6 trainee in Geriatric Medicine, currently working in Brighton. For the past 6 months she has been working in the frailty surgical liaison service. They provide specialist geriatric and medical input for older people living with frailty who are admitted under the care of the general surgeons.

Dr Jude Partridge works as a consultant geriatrician with the Perioperative care of Older People undergoing Surgery (POPS) team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK where she leads on the POPS-vascular service. She is an honorary senior lecturer at King’s College London with research interests in health services research, delirium and frailty in the perioperative setting.

Usama is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery on the Royal London Rotation.

Dr Frances Rickard is a Consultant Geriatrician with a special interest in Major Trauma and Perioperative Medicine. She trained in the South West and is now works at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.

She is a committee member for the British Geriatric Society POPS special interest group, as well as interim secretary for the newly established European Geriatric Medicine Society Periop SIG. 

Her special interest is in the management of older people with chronic subdural haematoma and c spine fractures; she is currently involved in national and international consensus statement work in these areas.

Dr David Shipway is a Consultant Physician & Perioperative Geriatrician, who specialises in the medical care of frail and multi-morbid patients suffering major trauma. 

David trained at Oxford University and completed his postgraduate training at hospitals throughout London. He undertook specialist fellowship training in perioperative medicine before becoming a consultant. Since then, he has developed perioperative medicine services in Bristol for frail patients admitted with major trauma, and those undergoing vascular, colorectal, orthopaedic, plastic, breast and urological surgery. 

He is currently Co-Chair of both British and European Geriatric Medicine Societies' Perioperative Medicine Groups, and has contributed to UK and European guidelines on management of Chronic Subdural Haematoma.

Louise Silva graduated from the University of Liverpool with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) and a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Translational Medicine. She commenced her surgical training in the South West of England, subsequently continuing in Wales, where she undertook research and completed her PhD, focusing on the psychosocial outcomes following emergency laparotomy. Her research interests include the connection between the gut and mental health, as well as patient experience of surgical care. Miss Silva is also a surgical fellow for the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) and is passionate about advancing surgical care through a deeper understanding of the psychological and social dimensions of patient outcomes.

Dr Emma Sutton is a clinical-academic Physiotherapist  working in the United Kingdom. She qualified as a physiotherapist in 2001 from the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol. She completed a Masters (Advanced Practice) in 2009, a PhD at the University of Leicester on Quality Improvement in Surgery in 2017 and a clinical lectureship with the clinical trials unit at the University of Warwick (2021). She is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Emma’s current role is clinical academic lead for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Institute of Translational Medicine) and she is also an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Birmingham. Emma chaired the West Midlands Hub for the UK’s Council for Allied Health Professions Research 2019-2023 and she is a member of Q community – a connected community aiming to improve health care quality across the UK. Emma chairs the international Fragility Fracture Network – Fragility Fracture Recovery Research (FFRR) Special Interest Group and she lead the production of the global supplement Fragility Fracture Network: innovations in healthcare improvement | BMJ Open Quality . In 2023 and contributed to the book ‘Dysmobility in Geriatrics’ (Springer) 2024. She was Chief Investigator on a HRA approved mixed methods Research Study called ARTHUR (avoiding readmission after hip fracture) which closed to recruitment in September 2024. Her publications and research covers a wide sphere including: patient and public involvement, reducing re-admission after hip fracture, prehabilitation for elective hip and knee surgery, and ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery).

Dr Swarbrick is a ST6 anaesthetic resident doctor who is currently undertaking a out of programme experience doing a PhD with Professor Iain Moppett at the University of Nottingham. She is the National Trainee Lead for SNAP-3 a UK-wide study looking at the impact of frailty, multimorbidity and delirium on older surgical patients. She is a Centre for Research and Improvement Fellow at the RCoA. Her clinical work is based in Exeter. They recently had their first SNAP-3 publication in the BJA, there will be more to come soon!

Mr Tsang is a consultant neurosurgeon and the clinical lead for major trauma, subspecialising in craniofacial and spinal trauma as well as CSF disorders. He works very closely with his surgical liaison colleagues and they have several joint publications on the care of the elderly trauma patient. In his spare time, he is also the quality assurance lead for the neurosurgery specialty advisory committee (SAC), associate editor for Trauma and a surgeon for the FIA.

Dr. Surabhi Varma is a consultant geriatrician and trauma director at West Middlesex University Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Iain is a Consultant Geriatrician and spent the first 10 years as a consultant working within orthogeriatrics. More recently he now works in acute frailty and runs an acute frailty unit, intermediate care ward and hospital at home service. 
Since being a consultant he has run a movement disorder clinic and sees patients with a range of conditions but mostly Parkinsonian disorders. 
Iain has written the first book chapter on Geriatric Medicing in Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine and is editor for the geriatric medicine section of the Medicine journal. He is vice president for the British Geriatric Society and TPD for trainees that require additional support.