Consultant Anaesthetist at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Scotland. He trained in anaesthesia in the Scotland and Australia and has particular interest in anaesthesia for Head and Neck surgery, advanced airway management and paediatric anaesthesia. Barry is past Honorary Secretary and President of DAS and founder of the Scottish Airway Group. He has worked on several DAS Guidelines, most recently chairing a DAS working group developing guidance on the Ethics of Airway Management. Barry has published on airway management and speaks and teaches on the airway around the world. His other passion involves two wheels.

I work in Bath and am a full time District General Hospital consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine. I have been fortunate to have been centrally involved in five Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) National Audit Projects learning from major complications of anaesthesia: as clinical lead for NAP3 and 4 (NAP3 - epidurals/spinal anaesthesia, NAP4 - airway management) and as co-lead and director of the program for NAP5-7 (NAP5 - accidental awareness during general anaesthesia – undoubtedly the most ‘patient facing’ of all NAPs to date - NAP6 - perioperative anaphylaxis and NAP7- perioperative cardiac arrest (published in November 2023). These big projects involve the nation’s anaesthetists and intensivists collaborating to shine a light on patient-centred aspects of anaesthetic practice and safety. They are a form of professional-citizen science and are recognised to have changed the landscape of anaesthesia clinical practice and anaesthesia research engagement, both in the UK and beyond. The projects have all had important lessons for clinical care beyond anaesthesia including in critical care and emergency medicine. During the COVID-19 pandemic I undertook considerable supporting roles in addition to clinical work as an intensivist. My interests included the differential impact of COVID-19 on healthcare staff (especially ethnic minority and first generation migrants), aerosol science and clinician safety, survival from ICU and airway management. These remain important topics to reflect on and understand better in the interpandemic period to ensure we are better prepared next time. I contributed data to the COVID-inquiry that was extensively discussed during phase 3. My early career research centred on airway management (particularly supraglottic airways used for routine surgery, attempting to learn more about those that do work and ensure that those that did not were reported as such) and emergency laparotomy (including early work that contributed to the setting up of NELA in the UK and subsequent local evaluation of bundles of care and patient outcomes). Like many colleagues I have an overall interest in improving safety and quality in anaesthesia and intensive care using a bottom-up approach.

Consultant anaesthetist in St James's Hospital in Dublin. Sub-specialty interests include complex airway management, simulation and cardiothoracic anaesthesia.

Dr Catriona Ferguson MB BS, FRCA, is a Consultant Anaesthetist at The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, London, United Kingdom. With 35 years of experience in anaesthesia and 25 years as a consultant. She is a specialist in anaesthesia for Ear, Nose and Throat and Head and Neck surgery. With a special interest in jet ventilation and the difficult airway. Dr Ferguson has several publications in anaesthetic and surgical journals and regularly lectures both Nationally and internationally on the subjects of anaesthesia for the difficult airway and jet ventilation. She is a co-organiser of the ENT seminars at the Association of Anaesthetists, The Head and Neck Masterclass at the Royal Society of Medicine and The Altered Airway Day at UCLH.

David Bogod retired as a consultant obstetric anaesthetist in Nottingham in late 2020. During his career, he served time as Editor-in-Chief of Anaesthesia, President of the Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association, Vice-President of the Association of Anaesthetists and Member of Council of the Royal College. In his medicolegal capacity, he has provided opinions in over 800 claims in medical negligence, criminal cases, Coronial Inquests and Professional Regulator investigations. In trying to derive patient safety lessons from his experiences, he has lectured and published widely and has met with occasional success in pushing the agenda in areas including unrecognised oesophageal intubation, inadequate supervision of trainees and pain during Caesarean section.