Keynote Speakers
Dr. Imran Ahmad
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Dr. Ahmed is a Consultant at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London and its Deputy Clinical Director specializing in difficult airway management. He serves as the clinical lead for airway management at the Trust and was the education lead for the Guy’s advanced airway fellowship for over 10 years. Dr. Ahmed is the Immediate Past President of the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) UK, having been the Honorary Secretary and DAS committee member for 13 years. He is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London.
Dr Ahmed has over 3000 citations and 100 peer reviewed publications, which include three DAS guidelines (2015 intubation guidelines, 2018 ATI guidelines, and 2020 post thyroidectomy haematoma guidelines). The 2015 DAS Guidelines paper was awarded the top cited airway paper ever by the British Journal of Anesthesia in its 100-year history. Additionally, he was awarded ‘Anaesthesia Journal paper of the year 2020’ for the Intubate COVID study, and 2nd ranked paper in 2022 for the AEROCOMP study. |
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As a contributor to numerous airway management books, Dr Ahmed is chairing the DAS group commissioned to update the 2015 intubation guidelines and is currently involved in writing pre-hospital and obesity airway management guidelines.
Prof Ellen O’Sullivan, FCAI, FRCA, FCPSP (hon), FCANECSA (hon)
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Prof Ellen O’Sullivan is Past-President of the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland (CAI) and was the first female and anaesthesiologist to chair the Forum of Irish Post Graduate Training Bodies. She was also Vice President of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland. She is presently the National Airway Lead Advisor for the CAI, which has designated airway leads in all teaching departments in the country. A consultant anaesthesiologist at St James’s Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, Prof O’Sullivan has a subspecialty interest in airway management. She is Director of the Fellowship in Advanced Airway Management and Simulation which she set up and has been running for over 15 years and has supervised both local and international fellows. A founding member and Past President of the Difficult Airway Society, (DAS), she now represents the DAS as its International liaison officer. She was appointed DAS Professor of Anaesthesia and Airway Management in 2018.
Prof O’Sullivan is an Executive Director of WAAM (World Alliance for Airway Management) who co-chaired the 2015 World Airway Management Meeting (WAMM1) in Dublin, WAMM2 in 2019 in Amsterdam, and co-led the 2024 World Congress of Anesthesiology airway management section. She was among the first international members of the ASA Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway (published in Anesthesiology in 2021), was a founding Director of the International Airway Management Society (IAMS) and recipient of IAMS distinguished contribution award in 2018. Clinically she has developed a worldwide reputation in airway management and has lectured and taught workshops internationally. She has a substantial portfolio of research and has authored more than 100 scientific papers with over 100 citations. |
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Global Anaesthesia advancement and supporting provider education and training in low- and middle-income countries is of particular interest to Prof O’Sullivan. For the past 25 years she worked on education projects in Malawi and Uganda. She is most proud of having been involved in establishing and supporting the College of Anaesthesiologists of East, Central & Southern Africa (CANECSA). In March 2022 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of CANECSA, among the first recipients of this award. Prof O’ Sullivan has received a number of awards including the AAGBI John Snow Medal from the Association of Anaesthetists, The Dudley Buxton Prize from the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and the DAS Macewen medal for contributions to airway management. She also received the British Journal Anaesthesia Prof Cecil Gray Gold medal in 2024.
Dr. Nick Eustace
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Dr Nick Eustace is a Consultant Anaesthesiologist currently working at UPMC Santry, Children’s Health Ireland @ Temple Street and Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital. Dr Eustace qualified from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and following his Intern Year he completed a Masters in Medical Science (Pharmacology) in University College Dublin. He completed the National Anaesthesia Specialist Training Scheme in Ireland, obtained his Fellowship in Anaesthesia in 1999 and Fellowship In Intensive Care Medicine in 2002. Dr Eustace then completed a Fellowship in Paediatric Critical Care at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
Dr Eustace developed an interest in teaching and resuscitation, teaching on many APLS courses and specifically Malignant Hyperthermia following a case early in his consultant career. Dr Eustace has presented on his experience to help others develop their Malignant Hyperthermia protocols and raise awareness of at risk patients and avoidance of triggers in susceptible patients. In addition Dr Eustace has become a hospital lead in Sustainability in Healthcare and specifically Anaesthesia and Theatre. |
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