Old, round and creaky-jointed head and neck anaesthetist. Interested in airway visualisation, teaching advanced airway skills in a useable way, rugby, the arts and burgundy. Not necessarily in that order. Rubbish at tennis. Lifelong Crystal Palace supporter

Prof Ellen O’Sullivan, FCAI, FRCA, FCPSP(hon),FCANECSA(hon) A consultant anaesthesiologist at St James’s Hospital in Dublin Ireland Prof O’Sullivan specializes in airway management. She is Director of the Fellowship in Advanced Airway Management and Simulation which she has been running for over 15 years & has supervised both local & International fellows. She is a founding member and Past President of the Difficult Airway Society, DAS, and is now the DAS International liaison officer. She was appointed DAS Professor of Anaesthesia & Airway Management in 2018. Prof O’Sullivan is an Executive Director of WAAM (World Alliance for Airway Management) and co-chaired the World Airway Management Meeting, WAMM1, in Dublin 2015 and WAMM2 in Amsterdam 2019 & was the co-lead for the airway management section of the recent World Congress of Anesthesiology . Prof O’Sullivan was involved in the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland (CAI) as Chair of Examinations and President. She was also Vice President of the Association of Anaesthetists. She is presently the Airway Lead Advisor for the CAI which now has airway leads in all teaching departments in the country. Airway & simulation training is mandated for all college trainees & Prof O’Sullivan co-ordinates the Airway Leads training day and the National Airway Masterclass. A particular interest of Prof O’ Sullivan’s is Global Anaesthesia and supporting education and training in low & middle income countries. For the past 25 years she has worked on education projects in Malawi & Uganda including Lifebox and more recently the Global Capnography Project. She is most proud of having been involved in the establishment and supporting of CANECSA (College of Anaesthesiologists of East, Central & Southern Africa). In March 2022 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of CANECSA, one of the first recipients of that award. Clinically she has developed a worldwide reputation in airway management and has lectured and taught workshops internationally. She has a substantial portfolio of clinically relevant research and has authored more than 100 scientific papers with h-Index 29, & with > 100 citations. One of the publications was the most cited airway management paper in the BJA in its 100 year history, with a citation index of 1600. (Publication list available on request)

Nicholas graduated from the Royal Free Hospital in 1993 and undertook anaesthetic training in the Central London School of Anaesthesia. In 2003, he was appointed as a Consultant Anaesthetist at the West Suffolk Hospital, and in 2022 he was appointed as Associate Medical Director. Nicholas has been instrumental in transforming the perioperative management of patients with diabetes over the past 15 years. His concepts on reduced reliance on intravenous insulin, and increase reliance on modification of normal medication have increasingly been adopted. He has co-authored all the UK guidance on perioperative management of diabetes, and is the lead anaesthetist for the CPOC diabetes workstream. As modern perioperative management of diabetes relies on the manipulation of patient’s usual diabetes medicines, by default he has cultivated an interest in the perioperative management of the GLP 1RAs. Consequently he contributed to the CPOC statement on the perioperative management of GLP 1RAs, and is the college representative for the consensus Delphi guidelines on the perioperative management of GLP 1RAs In June 2023, he was appointed the Featherstone Professorship by the Association of Anaesthetists for his work in perioperative medicine. In his spare time, he is a scuba diving instructor.