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PQIP Project Team	Role/Representing	Bio
Dr Ramani Moonesinghe	PQIP Chief Investigator	Ramani is a Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at University College London Hospitals (UCLH)). She is Director of the NIAA Health Services Research Centre based at the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and Director of the NIHR funded UCLH Surgical Outcomes Research Centre. Ramani was a Council Member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists between 2008 and 2012. In 2016 she was appointed as Associate National Clinical Director for Elective Care at NHS England. Ramani's academic interest is Health Services and Improvement Research in perioperative medicine, in particular, risk stratification and outcome measurement with a view to improving the quality of care for patients undergoing major surgery. In 2015 she began a 3-year fellowship in Improvement Science with the Health Foundation; the focus of her fellowship is developing PQIP and studying how clinicians use data for quality improvement, testing new methods of helping them.
Dr Helen Ellicott	PQIP Fellow	Helen graduated in 2009 from Brighton Sussex Medical School and went on to work in the East of England deanery before moving to Sussex in 2014. She is an anaesthetic trainee (ST5) in Kent, Surrey and Sussex doing an academic clinical fellowship. Helen’s main role in PQIP is developing quality improvement interventions to drive change and improve patient care. Her other research interests are through her work with collaborative trainee research networks.
Dr Samantha Warnakulasuriya	PQIP Fellow	Samantha graduated from the University of Oxford Medical School in 2009. Following an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in York, where she undertook research in risk assessment and goal directed fluid therapy; she completed her anaesthetic training in the South East of Scotland School of Anaesthesia. Within PQIP, Samantha will be developing and delivering strategies to implement and sustain local quality improvement programmes using PQIP data.
Dr Georgina Singleton	PQIP Fellow	Georgina is an anaesthetics registrar in the East of England deanery. She has a special interest in perioperative medicine and is undertaking a fellowship at the HSRC working with the PQIP team. Georgina's main role within PQIP involves qualitative research methods to explore the use of data for quality improvement.
Dr Duncan Wagstaff	PQIP Fellow (2016-2019)	Duncan was primarily involved in the set-up and ethnographic evaluation of PQIP. He's an Anaesthesia trainee (ST5) in North Central London, currently finishing an Academic Clinical Fellowship and about to begin an MD(res) using qualitative methods to explore the use of data for quality improvement. His other academic interests include Health Economics and Global Anaesthesia.
Dr James Bedford	PQIP Fellow (2016-2019)	James graduated from Peninsula Medical School in 2007. Since then he has spent time training in Anaesthesia in the Yorkshire and Humber Deanery before moving to London in 2013. He is currently an ST5 dual trainee in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in the South East School of Anaesthesia, London. He has also spent time working in Intensive Care at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia. James' main role in PQIP involved quantitative data analysis which will inform the quality improvement initiatives.
Dr Arun Sahni	PQIP Fellow (2016-2019)	Arun is a junior doctor in anaesthetics and acted as PQIP Fellow for three years before returning to clinical practice in 2019.
Dr Louise Bates	CPOC Fellow	Louise Bates is the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) Fellow. She is an Anaesthetic ST7 in the Wessex Deanery with clinical interests in perioperative medicine, obstetrics and developing world anaesthesia.
Dr Katie Samuel	TRIPOM Chair	Katie is an anaesthetic registrar in the Bristol School of Anaesthesia, and works as part of the PQIP team as chair of TRIPOM (Trainees with an Interest in Perioperative Medicine). She also represents anaesthetists in training with the RCoA as a member of the Anaesthetists in Trainee committee, and is lead educator for the RCoA/UCL 'Perioperative Medicine in Action' massive open online course.
Mr James Goodwin	Head of Research, RCoA	James is Head of Research at the Royal College of Anaesthetists, looking after departmental strategy, budgets, projects and managing the team. James oversees the delivery of the College’s research objectives, including PQIP, the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA), the National Audit Projects (NAPs) and Sprint National Anaesthesia Projects (SNAPs). James manages the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) and the Health Services Research Centre (HSRC).
Mr Martin Cripps	Developer, Net Solving Ltd	Martin is a Senior Consultant at Net Solving specialising in online data collection tools for audits, questionnaires and registries. Previous IT experience includes insurance, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, travel and digital media. More recent projects include National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA), Sentinel Stroke National Audit Program (SSNAP) and the UK Cystic Fibrosis Registry.
Ms Sharon Drake	Director of Research & Clinical Quality, RCoA	Sharon Drake is Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Clinical Quality and Research at the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCOA). Sharon leads on the formulation of RCoA strategy, policy and plans in respect of standards, quality improvement, safety and research and is a member of the RCoA Senior Management Team. Sharon has worked in the education and healthcare sector for the last 23 years, both as an educator and a senior manager. The last fifteen years have been spent working at Board level with two of the largest medical Royal Colleges, delivering and supporting medical education, training and healthcare policy in a challenging and changing landscape.
Ms Alexandra Brent	PQIP Study Coordinator, RCoA	Alexandra is the current PQIP coordinator, having also acted as the coordinator between 2016-18. Over the past year, she has coordinated the activities of the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC), before returning to her role with PQIP in April 2020. She can be contacted via the Helpdesk at pqip@rcoa.ac.uk.
Mr Trevor Corrithers	PQIP Helpdesk Administrator, RCoA	Trevor oversees the PQIP Helpdesk and is the initial contact point for anybody participating, or with an interest, in PQIP. He can be contacted at pqip@rcoa.ac.uk.
Dr Dermot McGuckin	NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow	Dermot qualified from Queen's University Belfast in 2008 and began his anaesthetic training in the Central London School of Anaesthesia in 2011. He is currently an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at University College London with an interest in data science and health services research, particularly in relation to perioperative risk prediction and outcomes measurement.
Mr Jose Lourtie	Clinical Audit Manager, RCoA	Jose is the Project Manager for the National Emergency Laparatomy Audit (NELA) and holds responsibility for data governance and linkage with NHS Digital on the PQIP Project Team.
Ms Cristel Santos	Data Analyst, RCoA	Cristel manages all aspects of data analysis for both PQIP and NELA, working alongside Dr Martin to provide the statistics needed for the quarterly and annual reports of both projects.
Dr Peter Martin	Lecturer in Applied Statistics, UCL	Peter is a Lecturer in UCL’s Department for Applied Health Research, and also acts as the statistician for the NIAA’s Health Services Research Centre. He supports the data analysis for PQIP, and is a project team member of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA). As a statistician, Peter is involved in a wide variety of studies in health care, epidemiology, and psychology. Currently his work currently focuses on the monitoring and evaluation of health services, outcomes after surgery, the evaluation of psychological therapies, and mental health epidemiology. He is a member of ChAPTRe, the Child Attachment and Psychological Therapies Research Unit based at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
Dr David Gilhooly		Dr David Gilhooly was an HSRC (PQIP) Fellow who died unexpectedly in 2019. He was born in Ireland and trained as an undergraduate at St James' College Dublin, subsequently training as an anaesthetist. He came to London initially to do a clinical fellowship and was then appointed as an HSRC fellow, undertaking research based on PQIP towards an MD(Res) degree at University College London. He was appointed as a consultant anaesthetist at University College Hospital in 2018 but continued to work academically as well, and he remained a valued member of the research teams at UCL and the HSRC until his untimely death.