Dr Carl Waldman
Dr Carl Waldman
Carl Waldmann has been a Consultant in ICM and Anaesthesia at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading since joining as Director of ICU in 1986. Apart from his interests in the management of Head Injured patients in a DGH, the procurement and implementation of a Clinical Information System in ICU, his main passion has been the setting up and running of an ICU Follow-up clinic in Reading, where he sees around 100 new patients annually. He was a member of ICS Council until May 2006, where his main duties were as Hon. Treasurer and Chair of the Meetings Committee. From May 2007 to May 2009 he was President of the ICS. He was the Editor of Care of the Critically Ill and until 2004 the Editor of JICS. In 2011 he became Co-Editor of JICS with Neil Soni. Carl was also Chair of the section of Technology assessment and Health Informatics (TAHI) of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine until 2008 and in 2012 became the UK representative on the ESICM council. He wa a member of the PACT editorial board and recently was editor of the Oxford Desk Reference textbook and also co-editor on the Law and Ethics in Intensive Care textbook. In 2010, Carl was invited to be a founding member of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) Board for which he was Chair of the Professional Standards Committee. In October 2013, Carl was elected Vice-Dean and in 2016 he became Dean of the Faculty of Intensive care Medicine. He was elected as the Treasurer of the ESICM. 2015-2018. Carl has been elected 2019 to be Chair of the Critical Care Leadership Forum (CCLF) which ensures all national medical, nursing and Allied Health professional organisations involved in Critical Care are regularly engaged with each other to ensure a unified approach to the Care of the Critically ill patients nationwide.
President
Ms Evgenia Anikina
Evgenia Anikina
Ms Evgenia Anikina is a Consultant retinal and cataract surgeon at the Royal Berkshire NHS Trust. She has trained at Cambridge University and in London, including specialist fellowships at Moorfields Eye Hospital, the leading ophthalmic centre in the UK. She has multiple clinical and surgical areas of interest, in particular the medical and surgical treatment of diabetic eye disease, treatment of sub-macular haemorrhage and intraocular lens exchange/secondary lens implants. She is leading several research projects is has published in peer reviewed journals. She holds a number of positions of responsibility, including in the Ophthalmology section of the Royal Society of Medicine and as a representative of Great Britain on the Savate kickboxing international medical committee. She is passionate about medical education and holds a number of educational roles, including acting as an Educational Supervisor to specialist ophthalmic trainees in the region, serving as an examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and being a member of the RCOphth Clinical Skills Faculty, supervising microsurgical skills courses.
MA(Cantab) MB BChir FRCOphth RPS Secretary
Dr Nikki Dunne,
Nikki Dunne
Nikki joined RBH as an Oncoplastic Consultant Breast Surgeon in 2015, but did her Basic surgical training rotation at RBH from 2004-2007 in various departments, as well as 18 months of her Higher surgical training. She completed her training with an Oncoplastic Fellowship in Sheffield. She was coerced into becoming Secretary of the RPS in 2016/2017 by the President at the time Steve Courtney who was one of her colleagues in Breast surgery. The role was somewhat undersold to her and incorporated the role of treasurer and general organiser, but she took it on and set to on making changes. Nikki became Clinical lead of the Breast Surgery department in January 2019 and has led the service through many changes. As the workload from the Clinical lead role increased, Nikki was glad to step down from her role of Secretary as Jen came on board, but remains an active member of the RPS Committee as treasurer.
The Treasurer.
Dr Tom Dehn
Tom Dehn
Tom qualified in 1977 from St Bartholomew’s Hospital (SBH), University of London. MB BS. Conjoint Diploma LRCP MRCS. He gained his FRCS in 1978, his MS (London) in 1985. Tom has received many prizes including First place and Silver Medal, Primary FRCS Ireland 1977, Royals Society Medicine, Coloproctology section. Trainee prize 1986, Corrie Prize SBH 1982 Luther Holden Scholarship SBH 1982 and the Golden Endoscope, Storz, 2017. He has conducted surgical training in Southampton General Hospital Salisbury General infirmary, St Bartholomew’s and Hackney Hospitals, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, John Radcliffe Hospital/Oxford University Nuffield Dept of Surgery. He became Consultant General Surgeon, Royal Berks Hospital 1990-2013. His other notable achievements include : Member, Grey Turner Surgical Society 1995-2016, Secretary 2013-2016. Hunterian Professorship, RCS 2008. Twelve National/International Trainee Prizes won. Plenary and Opening Speaker, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Conference , Perth. 2008. First Calman Programme Director and Chairman, General Surgery Higher Surgical Training Programme, Oxford Deanery. 1996-2001. Tom was the Co-President of the Reading Pathological Society 2018-2019 and its President from 2019-2021
The Ex President
Dr Atul Kapila
Atul Kapila
Dr Atul Kapila has worked in the Trust since 1996. He spent 13 years as a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care and as Regional Advisor in Intensive Care Medicine for the Oxford Deanery. He currently works clinically in Anaesthetics and as the Trust Research and Development Director. He is also the Anaesthesia, Pain and Perioperative medicine lead for the NIHR Thames Valley and South Midlands Clinical Research Network. He set up and led an active intensive care research programme and has been principal investigator for numerous clinical trials. He has a keen interest in sepsis management, sedation practices, difficult airway management, TIVA (Total Intravenous Anaesthesia), anaesthesia for vascular surgery and medical informatics. More recently with the growing collaboration with the University of Reading he is a member of the Healthcare Innovation Partnership and a keen supporter of the jointly funded research projects that have been awarded in competitive rounds of applications. His first contact with the Reading Pathological Society was in 1994 when as a senior registrar he attended the annual dinner. Convinced of the importance of the such a fun social event he began organising the dinner in 2006.
Regional Advisor
Dr Kathy Krzeminska
Kathy Krzeminska
The RPS President and Been a Consultant In ICM.
Professor Ketan Patel,
Ketan Patel
Ketan gained a BSc in Biochemistry from University of Kent and a PhD in Genetics from Imperial College London for his research into the causes of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. His has thereafter almost always focused on conducting research into skeletal muscle. He trained under a number of eminent developmental biologists and embryologists including Lewis Wolpert, Cheryll Tickle, Jonathan Cooke and Bodo Christ when he gained his passion for embryology and stem cell biology. He has now refocused his research to investigate mechanisms that underpin post-natal muscle growth with the aim of developing therapies for muscle wasting diseases. Ketan has published over 200 papers in international peer reviewed journals.
University of Reading Representative