About Us

WAAREN Committee

Helen Iliff

CT3 Anaesthetics

Co-chair of WAAREN.

Research: Chair of the 2021 management of haematoma after thyroid surgery DAS, BAETS and ENT-UK consensus guidelines working group. Difficult Airway Society (DAS) trainee representative (2020-2022). She has been the Welsh regional lead for the Aerocomp project and Training in Paediatrics (TRIP) Study. 

Gianluca Trisolini Longobardi

ST6 Anaesthetics

Committee details: Member since 2021, previous social media rep

Research: Lead investigator for Aerocomp at CAVUHB 

Interests: Airway, Major Trauma, Education

Charlie Dunn 

CT3 ACCS Anaesthetics

Committee details: Member since 2023

Also secretary for JAW and a trainee network lead.

Research: Associate PI for the 3rd Sprint National Anaesthesia Project (SNAP-3). 

Published in EJA, BJA, TACC & Patient Educ Couns.

Interests: I have a BSc in Clinical Epidemiology and am interested in Public Health.

Josh Patch

General committee member


Info: ST6 anaesthetist and keen, if unfit, cyclist. Interested in anaesthetic based research, currently associate PI for VITAL study.

Josh.d.patch@gmail.com

Catherine Griffiths


ST7 Anaesthetics


Areas of interests: difficult airways, paediatric anaesthesia, perioperative medicine and teaching


Research experience: PREdS (local lead), PQIP, ITACS, CAVIAR, SNAP-2, iHypE
Wareen member since 2023

 

 
Michael Coulton
 
CT3 Anaesthetics 
 
Committee details: Member since 2023
 
Research: TRN lead for REPACC.
Local Lead investigator for PREDs and AEROCOMP at Hywel Dda
 
Interests: Regional anaesthesia, airway, paediatrics, education 

Luke Nicholson

Anaesthetic Core Trainee in South West Wales.

I’m helping the WAAREN team keep the website up to date and make it a place where anaesthetists interested in getting involved can find resources and more info. If you have any thoughts or suggestions for the website please get in touch!”

Matthew Irvine

ST5 Anaesthetics

General committee member with interest in development of the website and other social media platforms. Anaesthetic interest in Regional anaesthesia, POCUS and difficult airways.

Research: MRes examining genetic background to age-related macular degeneration, PREdS, PQIP

magirvine@doctors.org.uk