Looking Out

Dr. Hilary Edgcombe is a consultant anaesthetist at Oxford University Hospitals. She is holds a Masters in Global Health from Kings College in London and runs the well-established “Anaesthesia in Developing Countries” Course in Uganda amongst many other things. She is a member of the leadership team of the Oxford University Global Surgery Group, and supervises the Global Anaesthesia trainees in Oxford

Professor John A Myburgh AO, is the Director of the Critical Care Division at the George Institute for Global Health.

He is also Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University of New South Wales and Senior Intensive Care Physician at the St George Hospital, Sydney.

Dr Norton is an infectious disease epidemiologist, and Head of the COVID-19 Research Coordination and Learning Initiative (COVID CIRCLE).

This is a joint initiative between the UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) and the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R) established to coordinate funding efforts, connect networks of researchers, and collate learnings to inform future epidemic and pandemic responses with a focus on lower-resource settings.

Dr. Rebecca Inglis is an intensive care doctor researching ways to improve the care of critically ill patients in low resource settings. She has spent the past 4 years doing a DPhil in Laos with the Oxford Tropical Medicine Network, and is currently working with the WHO on COVID-19 response.

Mike English is a UK trained paediatrician who has worked in Kenya for over 20 years supported by a series of Wellcome fellowships. His work often takes Child and Newborn Health as a focus but increasingly tackles health services or wider health systems issues. He works as part of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) in collaboration in Kenya with the Ministry of Health and a wide set of national and international collaborators. His work focuses predominantly on improving care in African District Hospitals.

Take a trip with the team to see what a difference the work of our sponsored charity Safe Anaesthesia Worldwide can make. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/saww

Non-physician anaesthetists make up the majority of the anaesthetic workforce across Africa.

Find out more in this interview with Mary, the Africa Representative on the Executive Board of the International Federation of Nurse Anaesthetists (IFNA).

Dr Shamambo is a consultant anaesthetist from Zambia, and has acted as the lead for critical care anaesthesia at University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka.

She also plays a key role in the Primary Trauma Care project in Zambia, and recently completed the Western Sussex Hospitals Leadership Fellowship here in the UK.

A former aeronautical engineer, Robert Neighbour now is the CEO of Diamedica, a medical equipment company specialising in the needs of the developing world.

In 2008, two thirds of the world’s population purchased just 4% by value of the global output of anaesthesia machines. The remaining 96% of mainstream produced anaesthesia machines cannot even be used in most of the places where those 4.5 billion people live, where gas and electricity supply are unreliable.

Robert is a tireless supporter of anaesthetists in the developing world. His machines have been used in over 80 countries to deliver over 3 million anaesthetics globally, mostly in low resource settings

Dr Rob Wise is an anaesthetist and intensivist currently working in Oxford. He has previously been Head of Clinical Critical Care, Edendale Hospital in Durban South Africa, alongside working at the Department of Anaesthetics and Critical Care, University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Rob does research in Critical Care, Emergency Medical Care, and Anaesthesia.

Linden is an Anaesthetic Registrar in Oxford Deanery where she was the first Academic Clinical Fellow in Global Anaesthesia and is current OxDAT Trainee lead for Education. She took a year out of training to work with Mercy Ships in Madagascar, working alongside theatre teams from 20 hospitals nationwide. This project included nationwide introduction of the WHO surgical Safety Checklist and Lifebox pulseoximeters, and the first published national benchmarking of surgical and anaesthesia systems in a LMIC using the Lancet Commission markers of accessible, affordable, and safe emergency surgical care.

Søren was the second Academic Clinical Fellow in Global Anaesthesia in the Oxford Deanery where he is currently a Fellow in Simulation and Education. He is a UK trained anaesthetist who has been involved with a variety of anaesthetic QI projects in Zambia and South Africa and taught on WFSA SAFE Obstetric Anaesthesia courses in Nepal and Cambodia. Recently he has published on humanitarian surgical care provision, and continues to be involved with research projects relating to anaesthesia care in low resource settings and the humanitarian sector.

Talitha is an ST7 dual Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Registrar in the Oxford Deanery. Following attending Oxford's Anaesthesia in Developing Countries Course in Mbale Uganda, she elected to select "Anaesthesia in Developing Countries" as one of her higher modules within the RCOA curriculum. During this time she was the Global Anaesthesia Development Program Fellow for 7 months in Addis Ababa.

Peter Brindley is first and foremost, a full-time Critical Care Physician. His clinical duties involve both General Systems Intensive Care and Neuro Sciences Intensive Care.

Academically, Peter is a Professor in Critical Care and an Adjunct Professor in Ethics. His publications centre on resuscitation; its education and its ethics. Peter is a founding member of the Canadian Resuscitation Institute, its current vice-chair, and a current advisor to several national and international education groups. He is a former Medical Lead for Simulation; a former Education Lead for his University School, and a former Program Director. Peter’s greatest achievements are two little kids, in whom he delights. These wise critics care little about what titles he may or may not hold.