Resuscitation Council UK has an Executive Committee, who have a wide range of clinical expertise that they use to advise the Board of Trustees as well as the wider staff team.
The Executive Committee consists of a maximum of 28 people, 12 of whom are elected from and by Full members of Resuscitation Council UK. We are also driven by the guidance and expertise of our subcommittee members, who use their specialist knowledge to inform our key projects.
Professor Andy Lockey is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust. He is also an Associate Dean for Health Education England (covering Yorkshire and the Humber). He first became involved with Resuscitation Council UK in 1993, when he became an ALS Instructor, going on to join the ALS Subcommittee as a doctor-in-training representative in 1998. He also acted as Chair of the ALS Subcommittee for seven years, steering the evolution of the ALS course through two guideline changes. Prior to becoming President, Andy held the posts of Vice-President and Honorary Secretary, during which he led a whole-scale review of the membership structure for the Council. He is a vocal advocate for training all children in CPR and defibrillator awareness.
Professor Gavin Perkins is Deputy Dean at Warwick Medical School and Director of Warwick Clinical Trials Unit. He works clinically as Professor of Critical Care Medicine at University Hospitals Birmingham and West Midlands Ambulance Service. He serves as a Non-executive Director at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. He previously chaired the ALS Subcommittee, developing, evaluating and implementing the e-ALS course. He is currently Chair of the Community and Ambulance Resuscitation Committee for the Resuscitation Council UK; Director of Science and Research with the European Resuscitation Council and Co-chair for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. He has an active research portfolio in cardiac arrest which includes the PARAMEDIC trials and the OHCAO Registry.
Professor Charles Deakin is Consultant in Cardiac Anaesthesia and Cardiac Intensive Care at University Hospital Southampton, Professor of Resuscitation and Prehospital Emergency Medicine at Southampton University and Divisional Medical Director of South Central Ambulance Service. Charles has been a member of RCUK’s Executive Committee since 2001 and previously chaired the ALS Committee for the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Co-chairing the ILCOR ALS Committee for the 2005 and 2010 Guidelines revision. His research interests include pre-hospital airway management, drugs and mechanical devices in ALS, defibrillation, and the delivery of bystander resuscitation instructions by telephone.
Professor Ian Maconochie is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial Academic Health Sciences Centre. He is Co-chair of the Paediatric Section of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) and Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Ian is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York. Ian is Registrar for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the current President of the Paediatric Section of the European Society of Emergency Medicine.
Kevin Mackie has been with Resuscitation Council UK since 1993, first as an ALS Instructor and Course Director, before becoming an Educator in 2003 and a Lead Educator in 2015. As an Educator, Kevin has facilitated many courses and is Educational Adviser to the Advanced Resuscitation of the Newborn Infant (ARNI) course. He is a member of the e-ALS review Working Group and occasional adviser to the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Subcommittee. His particular interest is in debriefing candidates engaged in medical simulation. Now a freelance consultant in medical education and company director, Kevin also spent nearly 25 years in the Royal Air Force.
Dr Joyce Yeung is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and an Associate Professor at University of Warwick. She chairs the Immediate Life Support and led the development of e-ILS as well as e-ALS update. Joyce is also a member of the ALS Subcommittee, a Fellow of European Resuscitation Council, and an Expert systematic reviewer and Scientific Advisory Committee member for International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR).
Dr Jasmeet Soar is a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. He has had numerous roles and responsibilities with RCUK since 2000, including Chair (2009-2012), Vice-Chair (2007-2009, 2012-2013), ILS Subcommittee Chair (2004 to 2016) and Guidelines 2015 Working Group Chair. He currently chairs the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Subcommittee and the Quality Standards Working Group, and is a member of the CARe and Research and Development Subcommittees. Jas helped to develop both the iResus and Lifesaver apps. He also has a number of national and international resuscitation roles. He is an Editor for the journal Resuscitation, ALS Co-chair for the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), and ALS Task Force Chair for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR).
Dr Sophie Skellett is a Consultant in Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care and the Associate Medical Director for Leadership and Professional Affairs at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). Sophie has been instructing in Paediatric Advanced Life Support since 1998 and supported the development of the RCUK EPALS course. She is committed to constantly improving the course to achieve the best outcomes for the acutely unwell child and infant. Sophie is Chair of the Resuscitation Committee at GOSH and current deputy Chair of the Resuscitation section for the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care. She was the PI for the in-hospital THAPCA trial at GOSH and currently participates in the international quality improvement collaborative PediResQ in conjunction with Children’s Hospital Philadelphia.
Dr Joe Fawke is a Consultant Neonatologist at University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester. Joe was one of the originators of the ARNI course, co-editor of the ARNI course manual and Chair of the ARNI working group. He became chair of the NLS Subcommittee in 2018. As part of a wider interest in medical education, Joe is a Paediatric Training Programme Director for Health Education East Midlands. His clinical interests include resuscitation, simulation based training and neonatal neurodevelopmental follow up. He was a NICE Guideline Committee member for the Developmental Follow up of Children and Infants born Preterm, and he is Chair of the NICE Neonatal Parenteral Nutrition Guideline Committee.
Professor Jonathan Wyllie has been a Consultant Neonatologist at the James Cook University Hospital since 1994 and was Clinical Director of Neonatology until May 2017. He is Professor of Neonatology and Paediatrics at Durham University. He has a long-standing interest in resuscitation and neonatal haemodynamics as well as an interest in paediatric cardiology. He was one of the originators of the Newborn Life Support (NLS) course in the UK and Europe. He is Chair of the NLS Subcommittee, a previous Chair and now a member of the Advanced Resuscitation of the Newborn Infant (ARNI) Working Group, and Science Co-chair of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) NLS Science and Education Committee. He is an invited board member of the ERC. He was European Co-chair of the ILCOR neonatal task force for the evidence evaluation process of 2010, 2015 and continues as Vice-Chair of the ILCOR neonatal task force at present. He is co-author of newborn resuscitation Guidelines for Europe and the UK for 2005, 2010 and 2015. In 2010 he was awarded the Fellowship of the European Resuscitation Council for services to resuscitation and in 2015 given honorary membership of Resuscitation Council UK. In 2018 he was elected as an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Jonathan was President of RCUK from 2017 -2021 and Vice-Chair of RCUK from 2021 - 2022. In his spare time, he enjoys walking, mountain biking and, more recently, photography.
Professor Jerry Nolan is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, and Honorary Professor of Resuscitation Medicine at the University of Bristol. He trained at Bristol Medical School (MB ChB 1983) and undertook anaesthesia and critical care training in Plymouth, Bristol, Bath and Southampton, and at the Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore. Jerry is Chair of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), and has previously been Chair of Resuscitation Council UK, and Co-chair of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR). In 2016, the American Heart Association gave Jerry a Lifetime Achievement Award in Cardiac Resuscitation Science. Jerry is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Resuscitation and has authored over 300 original papers, reviews and editorials on subjects including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, airway management, and post-cardiac arrest treatment.
Dr Zoë Fritz is a Consultant Physician at Cambridge University Hospitals and a Wellcome Fellow in Bioethics, based between Warwick and Cambridge Universities. She became interested in the possible negative effects of DNACPR orders while working as a Registrar in Acute Medicine and Intensive Care, and has conducted research on the use, ethics, and understanding of DNACPR orders. She and her colleagues in Cambridge have developed and assessed an alternative approach to DNACPR orders, the Universal Form of Treatment Options (UFTO) which contextualises the resuscitation decision amongst other treatment decisions and is completed for all patients.
Joanna has a background in Intensive Care, Resuscitation and Emergency department as a nurse and a business manager. She has a Masters in Business Administration and, as a company Director, her business delivers resuscitation services to primary care, secondary care and mental health organisations. She is a Senior Lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical school where she runs a post graduate module in Debriefing and Feedback. She is fellow of the higher education academy and an Educator for RCUK.
Her educational philosophy the belief that adult learning is facilitative approach that should empower learners. As a qualified coach, she combines her knowledge and beliefs to support her educational work. Her project work includes Project Lead for the feasibility study for setting up CPRO, and the subsequent launch and implementation of the organisation. More recently she has been working with Health Education England on a project looking at the behavioral changes of the multi-disciplinary team in GP practices after undertaking in-situ medical emergency simulation.
Serena Cottrell was a member of the Executive Committee from 2009-2018 and re-joined in 2019. She has a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in paediatrics with dual accreditation in both paediatric emergency medicine and paediatric intensive care. She currently works in Portsmouth at the Queen Alexander Hospital as a consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine. She was lead for resuscitation for eight years for University Hospitals Southampton from 2004 to 2012, has directed APLS and instructed on ATLS for over a decade, and for five years taught all the consultant staff in Southampton on a local bespoke resuscitation course.
Serena is lead of the Collaborative Child and Young Person’s Advance Care Plan Group. She is a member of the RCUK Patient Advisory Group and the ReSPECT group. She also leads on the Restart a Heart medical student programme at Southampton University.
Dr Joseph De Bono has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2019. He is a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
Prior to his time at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, he trained across the country in Cambridge, Oxford and London. He was awarded the British Heart Rhythm Society Young Investigator award for his research into the cardiovascular consequences of exercise training.
Joe specialises in the treatment of abnormal heart rhythms and has a particular interest in the management of arrhythmias in patients with Adult Congenital Heart Diseases.
Dr Keeble trained in Cardiology within the London Chest Hospital, and performed international fellowships in Australia and Switzerland. He was appointed as a consultant cardiologist (heart expert) in 2014 and is a specialist in heart artery stent implantation both in stable patients with chest pain (angina) and in patients presenting to the Essex cardiothoracic centre with heart attacks (blocked arteries).
He has a strong research interest in heart attack and cardiac arrest medicine, and is a recognized UK and European expert in the field. He is a Senior researcher at the Anglia Ruskin School of medicine and has supervised 7 MD / PhD students in the last 5 years.
He is Chair of the BCIS focus group on Out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), and a founding member of the International Task Force for Cardiac Arrest Recovery (ITCAR), both formed to improve standards of acute care and long term follow up of cardiac arrest survivors and families.
Dr Vix Monnelly works as a Consultant Neonatologist in a regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Vix has been a member of the NLS Subcommittee since 2015, and the ARNI Subcommittee since 2017. An experienced NLS and ARNI Instructor, Vix co-authored the NLS 2015 and 2021 guidelines and was part of the editorial group for NLS and ARNI manuals. One of Vix’s interests is increasing inclusivity through social media. She is part of the ILCOR (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation) Social Media working group. Vix is also passionate about reducing health inequalities, as she manages the consequences of these in her day to day work.
Alan is a registered nurse with over 25 years of experience in resuscitation and education as an emergency care nurse, Resuscitation Officer and academic. Alan’s association with Resuscitation Council UK began in 1994 on an ALS course when he was recommended as an Instructor, and subsequently as a paediatric and GIC Instructor and ALS Regional Representative. Alan moved to higher education in 2006, educating future health professionals and completing a doctorate investigating how students and tutors design web-based learning resources. Alan is a Senior Fellow for Advance HE, and provides resuscitation education to the public through sports clubs.
James has worked as a Resuscitation Officer in several NHS Trusts in Yorkshire for the past 18 years. James is a Course Director for ALS and GIC and a member of the ALS Subcommittee. Since 2018 he has been the ALS Regional Representative for Yorkshire. As an Executive Member, James is keen to continue Resuscitation Council UK’s work to raise awareness of the need for CPR and AED training, and to address health inequalities and diversity.
Chris Smith is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Medicine, dividing his time equally between clinical practice and academia. He completed a PhD in Health Sciences in 2021. His research interests concern improving the community response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, particularly the use of public-access Automated External Defibrillators.
His interest in resuscitation began at medical school where he taught and later chaired a peer-led BLS/AED course. He is now involved in efforts with Resuscitation Council UK to facilitate peer-led resuscitation training in medical students across the UK.
He is also a member of the CaRE subcommittee and instructs ALS and EPALS.
Sheila Turner is currently the Lead for Resuscitation at Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist cardiothoracic hospital. She has been a Resuscitation Officer for 18 years in both District and Specialist Trusts. Sheila has worked actively with CPRO and Edited the British Journal of Resuscitation alongside the co-ordination on the CPRO conferences. She has been a co-opted member of the Executive Committee since 2012.
