FENELLA GILL
Associate Professor Acute Paediatric Nursing, Perth Children’s Hospital and Curtin University
Fenella Gill’s clinical background is paediatric intensive care nursing. Her PhD work developed Australian practice standards for graduates of critical care nurse education (critical care qualification). Fenella also led the development of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses Standards for Specialist Level Critical Care Nurses and the College’s Position Statement on Critical Care Nurse Education. Fenella is the paediatric Editor for Australian Critical Care journal.
Fenella holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor Acute Paediatric Nursing, Perth Children’s Hospital and Curtin University and her research program focuses on using implementation science to promote evidence based practice and improve patient safety, the involvement of parents in early recognition and response to clinical deterioration and improving patient and family experience in hospital. She currently leads a West Australian statewide approach to the early recognition and response to paediatric clinical deterioration inclusive of family involvement.
MARIA CRUZ MARTIN DELGADO
Intensive Care MD PhD. Master in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety. Master Bioethics and Law. Head of Intensive Medicine Service Hospital Universitario de Torrejón (Madrid). Associate University professor (U Francisco de Vitoria). Director Healthcare Area ISDE. Past- President of Spanish Society of Critical Care (2017-2019) and President elect of Pan American and Iberian Federation of Critical Care Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine (FEPIMCTI) (2021-2023) Member Project HU-CI
She has participated as a speaker in numerous national and international conferences in the field of intensive medicine especially in the field of quality and patient safety She has more than 100 PubMed indexed publication and she is reviewer in different national and international journals. Expert in the area of Patient Safety, organ donation procedure, humanization health system, and clinical simulation. She has participated in different research projects in the management of critical patients.
VAGIA T CAMBELL
Vagia is the Clinical Manager of the Critical Care Unit at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga. She has over 19 years of experience with a focus in critical care medicine, providing clinical, educational and administrative leadership to diverse interprofessional teams. She obtained her Diploma in Respiratory Therapy in 1999 at the Michener Institute for Applied Health in Toronto, followed by her BHA studies in Health Administration at Ryerson University and most recently completed her MSc at the University of Toronto with a focus in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety.
She has chaired Acute Resuscitation Committees, is a member the MOHTLC Emergency Medical Assistant Team and managed the Critical Care Response Teams at THP for over two years.
MICHAEL DEVITA
Michael DeVita is a critical care and palliative care physician working at Harlem Hospital Medical Center in New York City, where he is Director of Palliative Care Services. Dr. DeVita has been involved in Rapid Response Systems since its inception, and has been actively publishing in the field for years. The lead editor of the first manual of Rapid Response, he has since led publication of the first and best selling textbook in the field, as well as its second edition. The inaugural President of the International Society for Rapid Response Systems, Dr. DeVita has been honored by the Royal College of Physicians and the Society of Critical Care Medicine for his work on Rapid Response Systems. He recently contracted and survived COVID, and returned to work where he continues to care for the critically ill, including those with COVID.
MANDY ODELL
Nurse Consultant, Critical Care, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading, UK
Mandy has worked in critical care for nearly 40 years; including both intensive care and critical care outreach. She has been a nurse consultant since 2001. Her main focus is the improvement of the care of critically ill patients on the general wards through expert role modeling, education, and support; as well as the facilitation and development of Critical Care Outreach, Advanced Nurse Practice and Hospital at Night.
Mandy was the Chair of the BACCN from 1999-2002, secretary of NORF between 2005-2006, the first nurse member of the Intensive Care Society Council from 2008 – 2011 and an inaugural member of the International Society for Rapid Response Systems from 2013. Her PhD research focused on ward nurses compliance with rapid response protocols, and following on from that has set up the first system in the UK that allows patients and their families to directly call the Critical Care Outreach team. Her team won a national award for this ‘Call 4 Concern’© (C4C) service in 2011.
SHANNON FERNANDO
Shannon Fernando is an Emergency Medicine physician and fellow in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital. He obtained his Medical Degree at Queen’s University and completed a Master of Science degree at the University of Toronto. During the course of his training, Shannon has published over 60 papers. His research interests include critical illness in the emergency department, rapid response systems, and critical care in vulnerable populations.
TINA SOSA
Dr. Sosa is a Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellow and Quality Scholar at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, OH, USA. Prior to fellowship she completed pediatric residency and chief residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her research and quality improvement projects focus on the prediction and prevention of clinical deterioration in hospitalized children, spanning the extent of rapid response systems to include prognostication tools, early warning scores, and medical emergency teams. She is currently leading work to improve situation awareness for high acuity patients at risk for deterioration outside of the intensive care unit. In addition, she has led quality improvement work to improve situation awareness for hospitalized children receiving high risk medications and medical devices. Her clinical research is currently funded by the Academic Pediatric Association Young Investigator Award.
TIMOTHY O’SHEA
Tim O’Shea is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. He is an internal medicine and infectious diseases consultant with the Hamilton Shelter Health Network and his practice focuses on the care of patients affected by poverty, addiction and mental health diagnoses.