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Sina Kahen has over a decade of experience in healthcare and AI, with roles in international sales, innovation management, and commercial strategy for established medical device companies and start-ups.

His education includes an MBA from Imperial College Business School and a Biomedical Sciences degree from Royal Holloway University of London.

Sina is also a published author, speaker, and workshop co-ordinator on all things relating to AI, healthcare, and finding meaning.

James M. Lang, Ph.D., is a former Professor of English and the founding Director of the D’Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption University in Worcester, MA. He is the author of six books, the most recent of which are Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It (Basic Books, 2020), Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2016), and Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty (Harvard University Press, 2013). He has conducted workshops on teaching for faculty at more than two hundred colleges or universities in the US and abroad, and consulted for the United Nations on the development of teaching materials in ethics and integrity for college faculty.

Kate Denning has been working with ALSG as our director of education since 2018. However we have a long shared history, as Kate has also been one of the Generic Instructor Course (GIC) educators for 20 years. With a Masters in adult learning and a PhD in group dynamics, Kate brings a fresh perspective and is adept at differentiating process from content. Her skillset compliments that of the rest of the ALSG team, trustee board and working group membership by creating a bridge between our aspirations to teach up-to-date clinical content and capitalise on advances in medical education. Kate’s focus is always on the learner experience and how we can maximise that and with that in mind she works closely with the medical editor, learning technologists and development coordinators to maintain an overview of all of our courses and developments.

As well as being passionate about learning and education, Kate enjoys the company of her adult children whenever possible, cycling, cold water swimming, and living on a small holding in Devon.

Following a career as an engineer in the Royal Navy Alan became an Operating Department Practitioner working in the northwest of England. A passion for education led him to pursue a career as a Resuscitation and Simulation Officer. He has instructed on most national resuscitation courses and has been fortunate to be involved in their delivery and development in Greece and Cyprus.

From 2010 to 2017 he worked at Salford Royal managing learning and development functions, supporting quality improvement collaboratives, and maintained a clinical role responding to medical emergencies.

In 2017 he made the move to the southwest as Head of Education at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Alan is also an Educator working with the Advanced Life Support Group and Resuscitation Council (UK) supporting the delivery of the Generic Instructor Course.

Anita Banerjee FHEA, FRCP is an Obstetric Physician and Diabetes and Endocrinology Consultant. She is an Honorary Reader in Obstetric Medicine, at King’s College London and Deputy Director of Medical Education at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She is the Secretary of the MacDonald Obstetric Medicine Society. She is one of the central physician assessors for the UK confidential maternal deaths enquiry. She has published articles, guidelines and book chapters on a wide variety of medical conditions in pregnancy. She is one of the leading authors of the RCP Acute Care Toolkit on managing acute medical problems in pregnancy. She is on the steering committee for mMOET,. Her main interests are high risk pregnancies and education

I moved over to the UK in 1992 after qualifying as a nurse in the Netherlands. I have been an emergency nurse for nearly 30 years and have just qualified as a paediatric advanced clinical practitioner. I work in the children’s and young people’s emergency department at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, a busy trauma centre. I became an APLS instructor in 1996 and have seen the organisation grow and develop over those years. I’m now one of three course directors in Nottingham and enjoy ensuring that my colleagues follow the same principles as instructed on APLS. I’m also a mum and I run.

Tony graduated University College Cork in 1997. He came to the UK to complete a higher specialist training scheme in emergency medicine and stayed as he was offered a job post training in Salford. Tony has an interest in major incident planning/response and pre-hospital care. Tony has also worked as MERIT doctor with NWAS and is currently chair of the MIMMS working group.

Ben Symon is the Clinical Director of Simulation at Mater Hospital in Brisbane, Australia and a Paediatric Emergency Physician and Simulation Consultant for Children's Health Queensland. He is co-producer of the simulation podcast Simulcast where he facilitates a monthly journal club on simulation literature and is faculty for the Debriefing Academy. He is faculty for the APLS educational skills development course, where he coaches on feedback and learning conversations. Ben is fascinated by the ways our words and behaviours connect and sometimes disconnect us from our learners and patients, and aims to find ways to empower us all to connect better in meaningful ways.

Julia is a paediatric consultant in London and one of the founder members and trustees of the charity Newborn, Infant and Child Health (NICHE) International. NICHE's mission is to improve the care of newborn infants in resource poor areas of the world, thereby working towards a reduction in neonatal mortality rates. We do this by training local healthcare professionals to facilitate the Neonatal Care Course in their own healthcare facilities. As all good teachers know, we learn as much as we teach on our trips overseas. We are delighted to be talking about our overseas colleagues' role in helping us to be "even better instructors".

Dr Alistair Morris is a Trustee of NICHE International delivering the ALSG / MCAI Neonatal Care Course in Africa and then training local instructors using the GIC to continue the delivery of course in country. This has successfully been done in Cameroon and Liberia and currently the charity is starting a project in Uganda. He is an APLS Instructor and Course Director, ALS and GIC Instructor. He is a general consultant paediatrician at Calderdale Royal Hospital and is the Medical Director of Mountain Rescue England and Wales.

Katja started her career as an attorney-at-law and completed her education with an MBA from INSEAD. As a mother of two kids she recognised the severe lack of support for children and youth medicine in Switzerland and has been dedicating herself to preserving access to paediatricians since 2011, when Swiss Medi Kids AG, a walk-in clinic for children was founded. Since then, Swiss Medi Kids has become an important provider of child health care in Switzerland with 3 clinics in big Swiss cities. For many years, Swiss Medi Kids has also been responsible for APLS-courses in German speaking Switzerland, running two courses a year. During the Ukrainian crisis, Swiss Medi Kids initiated the addition of Ukrainian subtitles to the APLS course videos together with the support of ALSG, thereby providing many Ukrainian doctors and nurses with the instruments to treat children in the right way.

Following a career as an engineer in the Royal Navy Alan became an Operating Department Practitioner working in the northwest of England. A passion for education led him to pursue a career as a Resuscitation and Simulation Officer. He has instructed on most national resuscitation courses and has been fortunate to be involved in their delivery and development in Greece and Cyprus.

From 2010 to 2017 he worked at Salford Royal managing learning and development functions, supporting quality improvement collaboratives, and maintained a clinical role responding to medical emergencies.

2017 he made the move to the southwest as Head of Education at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Alan is also an Educator working with the Advanced Life Support Group and Resuscitation Council (UK) supporting the delivery of the Generic Instructor Course.

Brendan qualified from the University of Sheffield and trained initially in general medicine in Yorkshire, the North East and then Australia. He returned to specialise in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, appointed as a consultant at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, at Wythenshawe Hospital in 2009. He was appointed Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC) Honorary Professor in 2022. Brendan’s research interests in patient safety and airway management led to the initiation of the UK National Tracheostomy Safety Project, collaborating widely in developing educational resources to guide the multidisciplinary response to airway emergencies. Brendan collaborated with Rescape Innovation and ALSG to develop new Virtual Reality modules for tracheostomy training in 2022, evaluating the participant experience with a research project. Outside of medicine, Brendan is entertained by a young(ish) family, plays guitar in the family rock band, "Death Metal Children of Rock," attempts to support Liverpool FC whilst living near Old Trafford, and tries to ride his road bike when it isn’t raining (too hard).

Elliott is a Registrar in intensive care and anaesthetics in the North West. Elliott will be assisting Brendan McGrath in the Virtual Reality Tracheostomy Training session.

Simon is an ST5 Anaesthetic trainee working in the North West of England. He has a keen interest in medical education and is excited by the role technology could play in improving it.

Russell is currently at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in the role of Clinical Educator and lead for Technology Enhanced Learning. Meeting the challenges of improving teaching provision and the learning experience with the aid of current and emerging technologies and enabling learners to access information in new and exciting ways. Having always possessed a passion imagery, expression and learning his role appears to fit.

Having a background in critical nursing led him to transition to Nurse specialist for Paediatric Resuscitation in 2007 and later Resuscitation Training Officer. Russell is a course director for APLS and GIC, and an instructor for ALS and EPALS. Outside of Liverpool he was able to facilitate the development and implementation of APLS courses in Kanti Children’s Hospital in Nepal. In 2016 Russell became a trustee for Lagan’s Foundation, a charity that provide specialist home and community respite care services to families of children aged 0-19 with complex health conditions.

Mo Elriedy serves as a consultant anaesthetist and assumes the role of simulation lead at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. His journey commenced during his tenure as an anaesthetic trainee in the West Midlands, where he cultivated an earnest fascination for simulation's profound impact on healthcare education and training. Infused with a penchant for technology, he embarked on a mission to foster the integration and advancement of technology within the realm of simulation.

Throughout his career, Mo has led and presented an array of pioneering projects. His contributions encompass the development of immersive 360-degree tours geared towards enhancing safety, the application of 360-degree videos for more effective debriefing sessions, and the exploration of extended reality's potential within the sphere of simulation.

Mo Elriedy's journey is characterised by his fervent commitment to leveraging simulation and technology to elevate the standards of healthcare education and training.

Tony graduated University College Cork in 1997. He came to the UK to complete a higher specialist training scheme in emergency medicine and stayed being offered a job post training in Salford. Tony has an interest in major incident planning/response and pre-hospital care. He has worked as a MERIT doctor with NWAS and is currently chair of the MIMMS working group.

I am a single speciality intensive care medicine trainee in Bristol. My interests are in neuro-critical care, education and well-being. I became interested in health inequalities and following the Covid-19 pandemic. I am also the director of WARD (well and resilient doctors): a peer support group and well-being service across NHS England South West.

Outside of work, you can find me entertaining a toddler or in the great outdoors.

Brodie Paterson is an Emergency Medicine Consultant with over 25 years of pre-hospital experience. He’s a GIC instructor and MIMMS and APLS course director.

During Covid, he and Dave Bywater wondered how they could keep MIMMS alive in the depths of lockdown. They used MS Teams to deliver a one-day MIMMS that subsequently developed into a hybrid course allowing F2F and remote participation during the same course.

We’re looking forward to sharing the learning outcomes and how this can be used to share ALSG learning to remote and rural communities.

Dave has worked with the Scottish Ambulance Service since1996, qualifying as a Paramedic in 2001. He has experience working in remote and rural as well as urban areas across Scotland. He has had previous roles as a Paramedic Practitioner, Special Operations Paramedic, Clinical Advisor and Practice placement Educator. As the Consultant Paramedic for Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA), Dave assisted in the delivery of the Scottish Ambulance services commitments to the Scotland OHCA strategy, representing the OHCA team at local, national, and international levels. He is also responsible for Paediatric care within SAS. Dave is a reservist with the Scotland Charity Air Ambulance service. A member of BASICS Scotland for many years, as a voluntary responder in rural Scotland and a member of the BASICS Scotland education faculty, Dave directs as well as teaches Pre-Hospital Emergency Care, Pre-hospital paediatric life support and major incident management courses. When not working, he is mostly chasing his next whisky…

I joined the NHS in 1992 as a Student Paramedic for Greater Manchester Ambulance Service. I qualified as a Paramedic in 1994 and progressed through the service as a Clinical Practice Supervisor and Assistant Operational Manager. In 2012 I was appointed to the role of Paramedic Pathfinder Area Manager for Greater Manchester for North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), becoming the Regional Manager in 2015, and the service lead for See and Treat (maintaining patients at home following a face to face assessment after calling 999).In 2017 I completed my Masters Degree in Leadership at Lancaster University whist also the Frailty lead and was part of the Transformation team at NWAS. In 2018 I rolled out MTS training across NWAS for front line paramedics to aid their decision making during a face to face assessment, and Pathfinder training to the services Emergency Medical Technicians.

I am currently the Clinical Quality and Patient Safety Assurance Manager for the North West Ambulance and NHS 111 Commissioning Team and The Pathfinder Advisory Group Chair for ALSG and their Board member for Pre-Hospital care.

I am an Advanced Paramedic and Clinical Lead both in the NHS and privately for the Charity Hatzola Manchester. I am the North West of England representative for the College of Paramedics and have been in the Ambulance Service for 14 years.

After starting my career as a Paramedic, I have worked in various management roles as a Senior Paramedic and now Advanced Paramedic where I am the Clinical Lead of Stockport City and South Manchester and the Clinical Lead of Hatzola Manchester which is a volunteer ambulance charity based in North Manchester. As part of my role with Hatzola Manchester I have been working with ALSG for the past 3 years improving the clinical governance processes in Hatzola and ensuring we improve patient safety through the use of validated clinical assessment tools.

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Conferences and events

2023 Conference Speakers

RCEM Annual Scientific Conference 2023

Study days and workshops from The Royal College of Emergency Medicine