PLAATAG

Pan-London Academic Anaesthesia Training Advisory Group (PLAATAG)

PLAATAG is an advisory group to the London Academy of Anaesthesia which seeks to co-ordinate, develop and enhance training in Academic Anaesthesia in the London Schools of Anaesthesia. In particular it aims to make best use of existing training resources, encourage co-operation between schools and units and advise on the development of additional training resources

Key Achievements

• Establishing an academic TPD in anaesthesia - Dr Ramani Moonesinghe

• Coordinating NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship appointments in Anaesthesia

• Trainee PeriopResearch Forum. www.periopresearch.com

• Pan-London Perioperative Audit and Research Network (PLAN). www.uk-plan.net

• London Anaesthesia Yearbook 2014. 

• https://secure.synapse.nhs.uk/pages/group_3856/d50ad702063c61635fffe819e1fdacf6

Membership

• Professor Martin Smith
  Chair, UCL ACF Programme Director

• Dr Gareth Ackland
  Senior Lecturer, UCL

• Dr Peter Brodrick
  Head of the London Academy of Anaesthesia

• Dr Anthony Gordon
  Senior Lecturer, Imperial

• Dr Phil Hopkins
  Consultant, King’s College Hospital

• Dr Martin Kuper
  Consultant, Whittington Hospital

• Dr Nandor Marczin
  Imperial ACF Programme Director

• Dr Daniel Martin
  Senior Lecture, Royal Free Hospital

• Dr Ramani Moonesinghe
  Academic Training Programme Director

• Dr Rupert Pearse
  Senior Lecturer, QMUL, Consultant Barts Health

• Dr Masao Takata
  Imperial, Head of Academic Anaesthesia

• Dr Suellen Walker
  Institute of Child Health, UCL

• Dr Peter Odor
  Trainee representative

• Dr Harriet Kemp
  ACF trainee representative

• Simon Rose
  Shared Services Senior Operations Manager

• Richard Sams
  Shared Service Academic Training

• Nadine Engineer
  Shared Services Academic Lead

• Sara Couchman
  Shared Services Operations Officer