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.
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
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