XXXVII^th Edinburgh
Anaesthesia Festival
20-22 August 2025

Kate is the Clinical Lead for Realistic Medicine in NHS Highland. She is also an Educational Lead with the Scottish Quality & Safety Fellowship and leads on the service design element of the programme. She has an interest in Peri-operative Medicine, particularly shared decision making, service improvement & redesign and reducing inequalities in experience & outcomes. She completed a Fellowship in Adelaide Women and Children’s Hospital in 2021, during which she developed her interest in clinical hypnosis & Nocebo effects, leading her to co-author Anaesthesia’s most viewed paper of 2022. She is currently completing the BSCAH Clinical Hypnosis PGCert while enjoying being back in the Scottish Highlands, exploring it by bike, boot and board.

For the past 25 years she has led a range of studies to prevent or treat the main modifiable risk factors for Non-Communicable Diseases including cancer, diabetes and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases with a particular focus on tobacco, alcohol, diet and inequalities in health. More recently she has been involved in studies to address or better understand responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Professor Bauld is Director of the SPECTRUM Consortium, involving 10 UK Universities and partner organisations funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership. She is a former Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Health and the World Health Organisation on tobacco control. Between 2014 and 2021 she combined her academic roles with serving as Cancer Research UK’s cancer prevention adviser. She is a member of research funding committees in the UK and Canada, and is a Trustee of Diabetes UK and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Faculty of Public Health, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Social Sciences.

Twitter: @LindaBauld

Rajinder Singh Chaggar is a Consultant Anaesthetist, Airway Lead at Northwick Park Hospital and founder of NEO (Northwick Education in Oxygenation) Workshops. NEO has grown to be one of the largest free MDT workshops in the UK having had over 1200 delegates since its launch. As lead for the evolving Video Classification of Intubation (VCI) Score and the recent DAS Videolaryngoscopy Documentation survey, Raj strives to improve use and communication of videolaryngoscopy.

Keywords: Sikhi, Family, Karate, Kobujutsu, JDM Cars

Twitter handle: @AnaesthetiSingh

Dr Church is a consultant in pulmonary vascular and respiratory medicine. He trained in Glasgow, Cambridge, Papworth and Sydney. He has completed a PhD in understanding the basic mechanisms of inflammatory signaling in pulmonary vascular remodeling. He has a keen interest in both clinical and basic science research and is a principal investigator on a number of important clinical trials including looking at novel anti-inflammatory strategies to treat pulmonary hypertension. His basic science research focuses on the interplay of inflammation and hypoxia on the pulmonary vascular cells in particular the pulmonary artery fibroblast. He is one of three consultants in the Scottish Pulmonary Vascular Unit which is the national referral centre for the Scottish Population. This unit investigates and manages all patients in Scotland with pulmonary hypertension. He is also one of the principal clinicians involved in management of venous thromboembolic disease in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and is secretary of the Glasgow Thrombosis committee. He is involved in the planning force for the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) and associate editor for BMC Pulmonary Medicine. More recently he has become the chair of the BTS pulmonary vascular specialist group.

Twitter: @acchurch1

Stuart is the Chair of the Association of Anaesthetists Trainee Committee. After completing Academic Foundation Training in the West of Scotland, he came to Edinburgh to continue a Clinical Research Fellowship in Critical Care before accepting his specialty training posts. His interests include diversity in healthcare, teamworking and leadership, the role palliative care in critical care, and bedside ultrasound.

Twitter: @scotgasdoc

In his academic role, he strives for excellence in Health profession education through simulation-based education. He is an internationally recognised scholar in simulation and it’s underpinning theory and practice. With over 100 publications, international prizes and awards – he is passionate about enhancing simulation in all healthcare domains. In has led the development of a pioneering simulation centre ‘The KN Cheung and SK Chin InterSim simulation’ at Queen’s University Belfast. This cutting edge interprofessional simulation centre harnesses the power of simulation, technology and pedagogy to enhance health profession education for contemporaneous clinical practice.

Twitter: @DrGerryG

Dr Neil Grubb has served as a Consultant Cardiologist at the Edinburgh Heart Centre since 2001. He is an EHRA accredited specialist in Cardiac Electrophysiology and experienced in catheter ablation of SVT, atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation (including cryoablation) and ventricular tachycardia. Dr Grubb is an EHRA accredited Cardiac Device specialist experienced in pacemaker and ICD implantation and cardiac resynchronisation therapy. He provide the East of Scotland with lead extraction service and is experienced in mechanical and laser extraction techniques. Dr Grubb is Principal Investigator for the Scottish national pilot screening for atrial fibrillation in primary care. Additionally, he serves as postgraduate educational supervisor for south-east Scotland Deanery and undergraduate tutor for the University of Edinburgh Medical School. Finally, Dr Grubb has been principal author, chapter author and contributor for several medical textbooks and publications in the field.

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Dr Heidemann was born in Germany and completed his undergraduate medical training with a final year at the Westminster Medical School in London. Following 18 months in Orthopaedic Surgery, Medicine and Cardiology he undertook his specialist training in anaesthesia in London, Newcastle and Edinburgh. After two years as a Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia he was appointed as a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Royal Infirmary and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He specialises in thoracic anaesthesia, anaesthesia for head & neck cancers and obstetric anaesthesia but also has regular commitments in the acute pain service, emergency and trauma surgery. Dr Heidemann has an interest in airway management and regularly teaches advanced airway techniques. He contributes to undergraduate medical teaching at the University and is a regular examiner for the MBChB (medical school final exams) and on the Final FRCA viva course as well as an instructor and Course Director for the mMOET course. Dr Heidemann will retire from his substantive post later this year.

NBT is the largest trust in the southwest of England serving half a million people with around 1000 inpatient beds. I have been the lead anaesthetist for bariatric surgery at NBT for the past 10 years. Over that time the surgical weight management service at NBT has grown to become a high-volume service, up to 200 bariatric surgical procedures per annum, with over 80% patients having a 23 hourstay. The team have improved theatre efficiency and turnaround times and run” fast track” courses for visiting weight management teams from across the UK. I also am involved in teaching and training the wider healthcare audience to help increase the understanding of causes of complex obesity and reduce the stigma and discrimination our patients routinely face. As well as bariatrics I have regular sessions in obstetrics, robotic urology, preoperative assessment, and radiology.

I trained in medicine and anaesthesia in Glasgow, London & Edinburgh & was appointed as a Consultant in Livingston in 2012. My main work interests are continually evolving but I enjoy head & neck, obstetrics and regional anaesthesia. I have been the lead for Special Needs Dental Anaesthesia since 2015.

Beyond work, I am fond of running and the outdoors and have a love of the arts & culture. I am currently working to improve my skills in windsurfing.

....handling patients with all sorts of AIRWAY-challenges at the Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet – referral center for Ear-Nose-Throat- /Maxillo-Facial-/Trauma- and Cancer- patients in the Capital Region of Denmark. Michaels professional dedication is optimizing the MANAGING OF THE DIFFICULT AIRWAY in all its aspects and different settings and he drives continuous research, development and international collaboration all over the world. He is heading the annual Scandinavian, international, course “Airwaymanagement for Anaesthesiologists” backed by the webpage www.airwaymanagement.dk, offering free educational resources. Michael is a member of the Board of Directors of both EAMS (European Airway Management Society, past president) and SAM (Society for Airway Management, USA) and co-editor of the new textbook “Core Topics in Airway Management!” that summons up what a clinician really needs in 2023 in order to safely manage the airway of his patients.

I am a Consultant Endocrinologist at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. I studied at Aberdeen University and did my initial medical training in Glasgow before moving to Edinburgh for specialty training. I was awarded a PhD in Glucocorticoid Physiology from the University of Edinburgh in 2018. My clinical work includes general endocrinology and diabetes with subspecialty interest in renal diabetes and adolescent diabetes care. I am clinical lead for the Inpatient Diabetes service at the Western General Hospital.

Born (anaesthetically) in Forth Valley and raised in the west. Worked at Glasgow Royal as a consultant for 5 years and developed a keen interest in Prehabilitation, high risk assessment, culture at work and now know far more about aerosol than I ever wished. For entertainment (or because I’m nuts) I run despite multiple surgeons questioning if I should and am at my happiest in the trails and forests, especially if there’s mud involved. For the past few years I’ve worked towards an MSc in Sports and Exercise Science and Medicine and can be found in multiple meetings banging on about Prehab. My opinions are my own and sometimes based on science.

I'm a consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and a Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine consultant with the Great North Air Ambulance and Medic One. I also work as a consultant with the RIE major trauma service. I was the ED lead for the RIE E-CPR service and I'm part of a multidisciplinary team working to develop an E-CPR strategy for Scotland.

Twitter handle: @lylemoncur

Mary is an Associate Professor at the University of Leicester where she is Simulation Lead for Leicester Medical School. Mary has recently retired as a ConsultantAnaesthetist and Associate Medical Director at the University Hospitals of Leicester. She was Chair of the OAA/DAS Obstetric difficult airway guidelines which were published in 2015. She was awarded the 2019 DAS Professor of Anaesthesia and Airway management.In October 2022, she was awarded a fellowship of the European Airway Management Society. She completed a Masters in Medical Law and Ethics at the De Montfort University in 2014. Previously she held the following posts: Hon Secretary of DAS, College tutor, OAA Committee member, primary and final RCoAFRCA examiner, part time lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics at De Montfort University and president of the Leicestershire Medicolegal Society. Her hobbies include flying and she holds a private pilot’s licence (PPL).

Having trained in Medicine and Anaesthesia up and down the east coast of Scotland, I landed the Advanced Pain Fellowship in SE Scotland in 2013. I have worked as a Consultant in St John’s Hospital in Livingston since 2015 and have developed the Pain service there. I still very much enjoy Anaesthesia and my regular list is Special Needs Dentistry.

Outside work, my main passion is music, especially rock music and I love live performance. And like my co-presenter, Dr Audrey Jeffrey, I’m a huge fan of the Foo Fighters.

Mark qualified from Bristol Medical School in 1993 MB ChB with an intercalated degree in psychology. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and a member of the Royal College of Physicians. He trained in Pain Medicine in Edinburgh and Auckland, New Zealand. He has a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh.He has been a Faculty of Pain Medicine board member and examiner for the FFPMRCA. He received a FPM commendation in 2016 for contributions to acute pain medicine in the UK. His research interests includethe transition from acute to chronic pain, perioperative analgesia and optimising inpatient pain services at an organisational level.

He trained in Anesthetics in South-East Scotland, Singapore and London. He completed an advanced fellowship in major trauma anesthesia at the Royal London Hospital before joining the Trauma Anesthesia Group at the Royal London Hospital as a consultant. His interests include major trauma anesthesia, resuscitation, trauma team performance and trauma education.

Twitter: u01bms

Sneh has an interest in Head and Neck anaesthesia and a passion for improving the delivery of training. She is a course director for the Imperial Novice Course and the North West London Obstetric Anaesthesia Education Project. She is also part of the team who organises the Northwick Education in Oxygenation workshops. Sneh is involved in the VCI Project which is investigating the Video Classification of Intubation score. Of her responsibilities, the one she takes most seriously is her role as the departmental social secretary!

Twitter handle: @LondonSneh

His clinical interests include major burns, regional anaesthesia and healthcare technology, increasingly in the sustainability field. Being abysmal at work/life balance, he hasn’t got nearly enough spare time, but what exists he prefers to spend in the NZ outdoors or tinkering with a troublesome old car.

Twitter: @matttnz

Nick Tennant was appointed to Head of Legal Services at the MDU in April 2023 after 15 years at the organisation. The MDU’s in-house legal department supports doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals facing negligence claims, GMC and GDC investigations, criminal investigations and inquests. The team has gone from strength to strength since it was first established thirty years ago.

Ankur Teredesaiis the CEO of CueZen Inc., and tenured professor at the University of Washington (UW). His research has resulted in design and development of numerous novel predictive models across the continuum of care.The deployment of these models has not just improved clinical outcomes for global health but was done while ensuring that such AI is as fair, as equitable andas affordable as possible given the data and system constraints.

In 2015, Prof. Teredesaispun-out from UW, the first ever healthcare AI cloud platform startup KenSci, which was acquired by a large US based health system in 2021. Ankur’s work has resulted in over 100publications and several patents.Prior to UW, Ankur held industry appointments at IBM and Microsoft.

Today, Ankur is on a mission topersonalize the delivery of digital therapies. His researchenables generation of novel clinical pathways and insights from data to reduce clinician fatigue and improve patient outcomes. His visionis that digital therapies will only be effective by using AI to make such therapies more personal,equitable, andscalable forlarge nation scale populations. At CueZen, Teredesai and his team are bringing to life this mission of personalized behavior change using Generative AI for medicine.