Our Committee

Gary Mills ( Secretary)

Gary was Regional Advisor for Intensive Care Medicine for South Yorkshire for 9 years and is now Chair of the South Yorkshire CLRNs for Anaesthesia/Perioperative Medicine/Pain and for Critical Care Medicine and a member of the National Specialty Group for each research area. He is an Honorary Professor in Critical Care Medicine and Perioperative Medicine at Sheffield University and has a PhD in respiratory physiology and critical care based research from work carried out in the respiratory muscle laboratory at The Royal Brompton Hospital, London. He is also one of the lead examiners for the FFICM exam. He is the UK National Lead for the European PROVHILO study, is a member of the GAINS (Genomics in sepsis) management committee and recently chaired the launch of the European Charter for the inclusion of older people in clinical trials and presented this to the EU Parliament in Brussels. He has held a number of EPSRC research council grants for research into intelligent systems applied to the respiratory system and critical care.

Cameron Weir (Treasurer) BSc (Hons) MBChB FRCA PhD

Consultant Anaesthetist in Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee. He also holds a position as Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer within the Institute of Academic Anaesthesia, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Dundee. His research and clinical interests include: basic sciences, molecular mechanisms of anaesthesia, anaesthetic allergy and anaphylaxis; regional anaesthesia and anaesthesia for hepato-biliary surgery.

Helen Galley (Grants Officer) BSc, PhD

Professor in the Academic Unit of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Aberdeen. Her research interests are inflammatory responses of sepsis- particularly of oxidative stress in mitochondria and the use of antioxidants targeted to mitochondria as therapeutic approaches. Helen first presented at the ARS in Aberdeen in 1995 as a newly appointed lecturer and this is her second terms of office as a member of the ARS Council. She represents the ARS on the NIAA Research Committee and is also a member of the Intensive Care Society Research Committee.

Graeme McLeod (Committee Member)

Consultant and Honorary Clinical Reader, Institute of Academic Anaesthesia, Centre for Neuroscience, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee. Research interests include ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia and the pharmacodynamics of local anaesthetics for perineural and neuraxial block. He is an associate researcher within the Ultrasound research team at the Institute for Medical and Surgical Technology, University of Dundee. This team is currently validating Thiel cadavers as a simulator for regional anaesthesia, developing new imaging technologies such as enhanced elastography and designing new ultrasound probes specifically for anaesthesia.

Nigel R Webster (Committee Member)

Professor Webster joined the University of Aberdeen in 1994 as the first established Chair in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. His PhD was from Leeds in the Department of Biochemistry and he worked as MRC Scientist at the Clinical Research Centre, Harrow. His research interests involve the study of inflammation and infection in the critically ill patient. He has an international research and teaching reputation in the area of intensive care medicine. He has significant experience of national and international collaborative clinical trials as researcher, principal investigator and chair of data and safety monitoring committees. He has had a long-standing interest in the ethics of research trials having been chair of the Grampian Joint University and NHS Research Ethics Committee and currently is a member of the Scottish Multicentre Research Ethics Committee. He is Chairman of the Board of the BJA and chairs the Directors of the BJA.