This Years Speakers
Spotlight on: Dr Jack Parry-Jones
President of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (UK)
Consultant in Adult Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine November 2025-June 2026
Chair Small Units Advisory Group (SSUAG) 2022 - 2025
Dr. Jack Parry-Jones FRCP EDIC FCICM is a consultant in Adult ICM in Cardiff; a large intensive care service including major trauma, neuro-critical care, CAR T therapies, and Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OOHCA).
He trained in medicine, anaesthesia, and ICM. He is firmly committed to the development of ICM as a UK specialty in its own right with a College of Intensive Care Medicine that equally represents all our members and strongly advocates for the speciality and our member’s careers.
The keys to the development of Intensive Care Medicine in the UK are the College’s professional standing with other medical specialties which includes our professional standards, education and examinations, improved patient and public involvement and closer links world-wide with other intensive care organisations.
It is our pleasure to have Dr Parry-Jones join us at CRIT SE where he will open with a national perspective on intensive care medicine: where the specialty has come from, the opportunities ahead, and the role of trainees and future consultants in shaping its next chapter.
Spotlight on: Prof Mike Grocott
Professor Mike Grocott is Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton and a Consultant in Critical Care Medicine at University Hospital Southampton. He is Director of the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre and an NIHR Senior Investigator, with internationally recognised expertise across perioperative medicine, critical care, hypoxia, prehabilitation, integrative physiology, clinical trials, health services research and health economics.
His career has combined major national leadership with ambitious translational research. He has served as Vice-President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, Trustee and elected Council Member, founding Director of the NIAA Health Services Research Centre, founding Chair of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit, and Vice-Chair of the Centre for Perioperative Care.
Professor Grocott is also the founding Chair of the Xtreme Everest Oxygen Research Consortium. In 2007, he summited Everest as leader of the Caudwell Xtreme Everest medical research expedition, using high-altitude physiology as a powerful model for understanding hypoxia, human performance and critical illness.
At CRIT-SE, Professor Grocott joins our academic research discussion, bringing a rare perspective that spans the ICU, national research infrastructure, perioperative systems and the physiology of extreme environments.
Spotlight on: Prof Ahilanandan Dushianthan
Professor Ahilanandan Dushianthan is a Consultant in Intensive Care and Respiratory Medicine at University Hospital Southampton, with clinical work spanning the General Intensive Care Unit and Surgical High Dependency. He joined University Hospital Southampton in 2016 and combines frontline critical care practice with an active translational research portfolio. He also serves as a faculty tutor for ICU trainees at UHS.
Professor Dushianthan’s work sits at the interface of respiratory medicine, intensive care and experimental medicine, exploring how lung injury develops and how therapies might be better targeted for critically ill patients, with a research portfolio spanning severe respiratory failure, acute lung injury, ARDS, pneumonia, ventilation, surfactant biology, and the mechanisms of hypoxia and hyperoxia in critical illness.
At CRIT-SE, Professor Dushianthan joins our academic research discussion, bringing deep expertise in respiratory failure, ARDS, lung biology and translational critical care research.
Spotlight on: Prof Kordo Saeed
Professor Kordo Saeed is a Consultant Clinical Microbiologist at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Professor at the University of Southampton School of Medicine. He works within the Department of Infection at UHS, where he is clinical director for bacteriology and laboratory lead for bacteriology.
His clinical and academic interests focus on infections in intensive care, antimicrobial stewardship, rapid diagnostics, biomarkers, sepsis, infection control, and orthospinal and major trauma-related infections. He is also clinical lead for the implementation of respiratory metagenomics in critical care at University Hospital Southampton.
Professor Saeed has published widely across infection control, antibiotic stewardship, bone and joint infection, sepsis and critical care infection. Internationally, he chairs the Rapid Diagnostics and Biomarker Working Group of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and serves as secretary for its Bone and Joint Infection Working Group.
At CRIT-SE, Professor Saeed will bring a distinctive perspective from microbiology, infection science, antimicrobial resistance and global critical care, exploring the practical and ethical challenges of delivering high-quality healthcare in resource-limited settings.
Spotlight on: Prof Charlotte Summers
Professor Charlotte Summers is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute. She is an academic intensivist whose work focuses on improving outcomes for patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure, acute lung injury, ARDS and critical illness.
A Southampton alumna, Professor Summers graduated in Biomedical Sciences and Medicine from the University of Southampton before undertaking a PhD at the University of Cambridge alongside specialist training in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine. She went on to become the UK’s first NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine, and has held major academic awards including a Fulbright All-disciplines Scholar Award and a Wellcome Trust Fellowship for Postdoctoral Clinician Scientists.
Her research bridges discovery science, translational medicine and clinical critical care, with particular expertise in inflammation, respiratory infection, lung injury and the mechanisms underlying severe hypoxaemic respiratory failure. She is also Chief Investigator of HEAL-COVID and contributes to national research leadership, including as NIHR Research Delivery Network National Specialty and Settings Lead for Critical Care.
In 2026, Professor Summers was appointed as the next Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton, returning to her alma mater from Cambridge. At CRIT-SE, she brings a uniquely broad perspective across intensive care, respiratory failure, clinical academia and the future of translational critical care research.
Spotlight on: Dr Dave Slessor
Dr Dave Slessor is a Consultant in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. He is also Founder and Senior Editor of The Bottom Line, the internationally used critical care evidence appraisal resource.
Through The Bottom Line, Dr Slessor has helped make major critical care, emergency medicine and perioperative medicine research accessible to busy clinicians. The project provides structured, practical summaries of important papers, translating new evidence into clinically useful take-home messages.
His interests span intensive care medicine, emergency medicine, perioperative medicine, pre-hospital care and evidence-based practice. His work is particularly relevant to clinicians trying to keep pace with a rapidly expanding literature while still making pragmatic bedside decisions.
At CRIT-SE, Dr Slessor will bring the perspective of an intensivist and evidence communicator, helping us think clearly about how we appraise, interpret and apply critical care research.
Spotlight on: Dr Flower
Dr Luke Flower is a Specialty Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine and a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, based at the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute. His doctoral research focuses on immune dysregulation in severe acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure.
His clinical and research interests centre on the pathophysiology and management of ARDS and cardiogenic shock. He has published and taught across acute respiratory failure, point-of-care ultrasound, echocardiography in shock and critical care medicine.
Dr Flower has also contributed significantly to national critical care ultrasound work, including leading the NEAT-ECHO study, a large UK multi-centre observational study exploring how echocardiography is used in patients with shock in critical care.
At CRIT-SE, Dr Flower will bring the perspective of an emerging academic intensivist working at the interface of ARDS.
Spotlight on: Dr Samantha Harmer
Dr Samantha Harmer is an Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care doctor with a specialist interest in motorsport medicine, event medicine and trauma care. Alongside her NHS clinical work, she serves as Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Silverstone, bringing together emergency medicine, intensive care, trauma care, event medicine and motorsport safety.
Her motorsport medicine work spans major UK circuits and multiple racing disciplines, including Formula 1, Formula E and drag racing.
Dr Harmer’s work sits at the sharp end of high-performance clinical decision-making: delivering rapid assessment, resuscitation and team-based emergency care in dynamic, time-critical environments. Her perspective bridges the resus room, the ICU, the trackside medical team and the wider systems that keep competitors, staff and spectators safe.
At CRIT-SE, Dr Harmer will join Dr Clare Morden in exploring the interface between intensive care, emergency medicine and motorsport, and what critical care teams can learn from medicine delivered at speed, under pressure and in complex operational settings.
Spotlight on: Dr Clare Morden
Dr Clare Morden is a Consultant in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine at Salisbury District Hospital, with a specialist interest in Emergency Medicine, resuscitation, and pre-hospital care.
Alongside her NHS work, Dr Morden has built a distinctive career in motorsport medicine. She has served as Chief Medical Officer at Brands Hatch, provides medical support across UK motorsport events, and has worked internationally as a race doctor in Formula E and as Series Doctor for the International E-TCR Series.
Her work bridges high-acuity critical care, emergency response, extrication medicine and the unique operational demands of motorsport. She is also involved with FIA Girls on Track UK, helping inspire and support wider participation in motorsport and motorsport medicine.
At CRIT-SE, Dr Morden will bring a fascinating perspective from the interface of intensive care, emergency medicine and elite motorsport, exploring what high-performance clinical teams can learn from medicine delivered at speed, under pressure and in complex environments.
Spotlight on: Dr Jack Broadfoot
Dr Jack Broadfoot is a Consultant Medical Oncologist at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. He specialises in the care of patients with urological malignancies, including prostate, kidney, bladder and testicular cancer, and is regional lead for patients with metastatic penile cancer.
He began oncology training as a clinical fellow at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Cancer Centre in London before joining University Hospital Southampton in 2016 as a specialty registrar in medical oncology. He subsequently worked across regional hospitals including Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth and Salisbury, completed a two-year research fellowship in the Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, and was appointed as a consultant medical oncologist in 2023.
In 2022, Dr Broadfoot sustained a severe spinal cord injury following a cycling accident. His subsequent recovery, rehabilitation and fundraising work for the spinal ward that cared for him have given him a powerful dual perspective as both clinician and patient.
At CRIT-SE, Dr Broadfoot will share a deeply personal perspective on critical illness, trauma, rehabilitation and recovery, challenging us to think about what patients and families experience beyond the resus room, operating theatre and ICU.
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