Ram Adapa
Talk: TIVA for Craniotomy
Thursday 26th November, 14:52-15:04, Estuary Suite 

Dr Morgan Back
Talks: TIVA for Spontaneously Breathing Patients 
Thursday 26th November, 14:40-14:52, Estuary Suite
 
SIVA Survey of TIVA RSI Practice
Friday 27th November, 9:40-10:05, Estuary Suite

 

Dr Mark Barley
Talk: TIVA For The Elderly and Frail
Thursday 26th November, 13:42-13:54, Estuary Suite

Mark is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust where he is both the equipment and airway lead. His clinical interests are anaesthesia for major head and neck surgery, upper GI and emergency surgery. 

As the Honorary Secretary of SIVA (the Society For Intravenous Anaesthesia) he is duty bound to be a TIVA DIVA. He’s a keen advocate of personalised anaesthesia for all patients and is regularly evaluating and adopting the latest technologies to optimise care. He is a well known educator both nationally and internationally on TIVA and pEEG topics.

Dr Peter Brooks
Talk: TIVA in Kids
Thursday 26th November, 13:30-13:42, Estuary Suite

Dr Brooks is based at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London (since 2004) as a Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist. Over the past decade, he has worked to promote paediatric TIVA in the UK/Europe/US and has assisted others in implementing the technique into their practice. Dr Brooks has previously held the position of Lead Training Program Director at the Imperial School of Anaesthesia in London. Currently, he is a member of the Scientific Committee for the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists and recently joined the committee of the Society of Intravenous Anaesthesia in the UK. Dr Brooks' training took place in London, and completed fellowships at Great Ormond Street Hospital and at British Columbia's Children's Hospital in Vancouver.

Dr Rob Fleming
Talk: Teaching TIVA
Thursday 26th November, 14:28-14:40, Estuary Suite

Prof. Chris Frerk
Talk: Human Factors
Friday 27th November, 12:15-12:40, Estuary Suite

Chris Frerk is a consultant anaesthetist in Northampton. He has been using TIVA for more than 35 years starting with the Bristol regime (with no processed EEG monitoring!), moving on to the first TCI Diprifusor pumps from the day of launch in the UK and many other devices since then.
He is the current chair of Martin Bromiley's charity the Clinical Human Factors Group

Dr Shaman Jhanji
Talk: VITAL TRIAL: Effect of Anaesthetic Technique on Outcomes
Thursday 26th November, 16:35-17:00, Estuary Suite

Dr Shaman Jhanji is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care at the Royal Marsden and Reader at the Institute of Cancer Research.

He was awarded a PhD from the University of London following research into microvascular abnormalities associated with surgery and critical illness undertaken at the William Harvey Research Institute.

He leads the perioperative and surgical research unit at the Royal Marsden and chairs the National Cancer Prehabilitation collaborative. He is co-theme lead for cancer treatment effects within the Biomedical Research Centre at the Royal Marsden / ICR. His current research interests relate to the impact of surgery and the perioperative pathway on cancer biology and patient outcomes. He is leading basic science, translational and pragmatic clinical trials with collaborators from throughout the UK and internationally.

Prof. Alain Kalmar
Talk: Environmental Impact of Propofol
Friday 27th November, 11:30-11:55, Estuary Suite

Dr Alain Kalmar is an anaesthesiologist and associate professor at Ghent University, where he lectures and conducts research at the intersection of anaesthesia, environmental sustainability, and biomedical engineering. He holds dual PhDs in Medicine and Engineering, and is internationally recognised for his expertise on the ecological impact of anaesthetic practices. Dr Kalmar has authored over 20 A1 publications on the climate effects of volatile anaesthetics, PFAS pollution, and life cycle assessment of medical devices. He has served as guest editor for Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, curated a full issue on sustainable anaesthesia, and frequently contributes as a peer reviewer and invited speaker. Through his academic work, clinical practice, and advocacy, he actively promotes evidence-based, cost-effective strategies to reduce the environmental footprint of anaesthesia without compromising patient care.

Dr Stuart McPhail
Talk: Same Patient Refilling of TIVA Syringes: A Survey of UK Practice
Friday 27th November, 10:05-10:30, Estuary Suite

Stuart is an anaesthetic registrar in the Peninsula Deanery. He has an interest in perioperative medicine, health economics and sustainability.

Enzo Minghella
Talk: TIVA In Small / Large Animals
Thursday 26th November, 13:54-14:16, Estuary Suite

Dr Marieke Niesters
Talk: Ketamine and its Metabolites
Friday 27th November, 14:40-15:00, Estuary Suite

Marieke Niesters, MD, PhD, is an anesthesiologist and pain specialist and Head of Research at the Department of Pain Medicine at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam. She is also Research Director and Head of Pain Research at the Centre for Human Drug Research (CHDR) in Leiden.

Dr. Niesters obtained her MD and MSc degrees with honors from Leiden University in 2010 and her PhD with honors in 2014. She subsequently trained in Anesthesiology and specialized in Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Leiden University Medical Center, where she served as Head of Pain Medicine and Head of Education for Pain and Palliative Medicine from 2020 to 2025.

Her research focuses on the pharmacology of pain treatment, spanning early-phase clinical drug development to clinical studies in patients with acute and chronic pain. A particular focus is on understanding and predicting both the analgesic effects and adverse effects of analgesics, including opioid-induced respiratory depression. Her work combines experimental pain models, quantitative sensory testing, respiratory physiology, and clinical pharmacology to improve the development and safe use of analgesic treatments.

David Obert
Talk: Ketamine Effects of the EEG
Friday 27th November, 14:20-14:40, Estuary Suite

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​David Obert, MD, is an anaesthesiologist and intensivist at the Technical University of Munich and a Cardiac Anaesthesia Fellow at the German Heart Center Munich. His research focuses on the neuroscience of general anaesthesia, particularly intraoperative EEG monitoring, anaesthetic-induced unconsciousness, and neurocognitive recovery from anaesthesia. His work combines clinical EEG research with experimental neuroscience to better understand brain-state transitions during induction and emergence from general anaesthesia.

Prof. Jaideep Pandit
Talk: Do Muscle Relaxants Alter Depth of Anaesthesia?
Thursday 26th November, 16:10-16:35, Estuary Suite

Jaideep J Pandit is Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Oxford, NHS Consultant at Oxford University Hospitals and a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. He trained in Medicine at Oxford with a Double First in Physiology and Medicine. He has served as Clinical Director of Operating Theatres and as Clinical Advisor to NHS England for Theatres. In addition to medical qualifications he holds a prize-winning doctorate in operations (systems) management from the Said Business School and an MBA with Distinction.
He is the first non-American to serve as Editor-in-Chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia, the world’s oldest anaesthesia journal, in over 100 years.
He has received the Royal College Gold Medal 2023 and the Association of Anaesthetists’ Magill Medal 2023 – both these organisations’ highest awards. He is currently BH Robbins Visiting Professor 2026, Vanderbilt University, USA.

Dr Nicholas Richards
Talk: The Diverse Effects of Ketamine, Jack-of-all Trades
Friday 27th November, 14:00-14:20, Estuary Suite
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I am a Clinical Researcher working in Adult Critical Care at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and the Leeds Institute of Medical Research. My research interests are in sedation for patients undergoing mechanical ventilation and improving long-term patient outcomes and experiences. Over the past six years I have focused on exploring the use of ketamine sedation on ICU as part of my doctoral research, and have gone on to set up the UK's first prospective study of ketamine sedation (SHOCK-ICU).

A/Prof. Chantelle Rizan
Talk: The Throwaway Culture: From Health and Environmental Harm to Circular Solutions
Friday 27th November, 11:55-12:15, Estuary Suite

A/Prof. Chantelle Rizan is an Associate Professor and Head of Clinical Transformation Research at the Centre for Sustainable Medicine, National University of Singapore. She is a UK medical doctor and undertook a PhD using life cycle assessment to evaluate strategies to mitigate the carbon footprint of products in the operating theatre. Her research focuses on an evidence-based approach to transitioning to sustainable models of high quality, appropriate surgery, founded on circular economy principles. A/Prof. Rizan strives to translate her research into change in surgical practice and real world emission reductions, for example as Academic Chair of the national Green Surgery Report, and as Senior Advisor for the Intercollegiate Green Surgery Checklist. As Technical Director of Lancet MedZero, A/Prof Rizan has helped provide clinicians with customisable carbon analytics of thousands of healthcare products and pharmaceuticals. Her work has been cited in national and international policy, including WHO, UN Environment Programme, and UK Government Design for Life, and she led a policy report for NHS England evaluating ways to integrate environmental impact into healthcare procurement decisions. A/Prof. Rizan received the Hillary International Health and Care Leadership Award in 2022 and the Adam Weiler Doctoral Impact Award in 2021 for outstanding academic impact.

Prof. Robert Sneyd
Talk: Hunting for New Hypnotics - A Thirty Year Perspective
Thursday 26th November, 15:45-16:10, Estuary Suite

Professor Robert Sneyd MA MB BChir MD FRCA SFHEA DL PhD
Robert Sneyd is Emeritus Professor at the University of Plymouth, UK where he served as Executive Dean for the Medical and Dental Schools.  As a leader in anaesthesia, he was a Director of the European Society of Anaesthesiologists and Vice President of both the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. 
Since working in Pharma in the mid 80’s he has been involved in all aspects of developing medicines and adjunct technologies. He led the first human administration of three novel intravenous aneesthetics and has been involved with several others. He particularly appreciates bridging gaps between non-clinical researchers (chemists and engineers) and clinicians and patients. He led the 2013 UK national sedation review for the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges which produced the current UK sedation guidelines. As Emeritus Professor he works internationally to support the development of new medicines and is a regular scientific reviewer for the BJA. researchportal.plymouth.ac.uk/en/persons/j-robert-sneyd/publications/ 

Dr Hugo Vereecke
Talk: TIVA In Patients Living With Obesity
Thursday 26th November, 14:16-14:28, Estuary Suite

Dr. Hugo E.M. Vereecke, MD, PhD is a consultant anesthesiologist at the general hopital AZ Sint-Jan Brugge in Bruges, Belgium and an assistent professor in anaesthesia at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is an experienced lecturer and educator in the domain of anaesthetic pharmacology.  He volunteered in several professional societies among which president (2021-2022) of the International Society of Anaesthetic Pharmacology (ISAP), lead of the subcommittee pharmacology in forum 4 (2024-2027) of the European Society of Anesthesia and Intensive care (ESAIC) and  board member of EuroSIVA (2023-current).