Speakers

Lesley Colvin is a Consultant/ Senior Lecturer in Pain Medicine in the University Dept of Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK and Royal College of Anaesthetists Macintosh Professor 2005/2006. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1990 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 1994. She then completed a PhD thesis on the spinal mechanisms of neuropathic pain, under the supervision of Prof Arthur Duggan, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh. She is a member of the new Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Regional Advisor in Pain Medicine for the South East Scotland School of Anaesthesia. She is currently serving on the Professional Standards Committee for the Faculty of Pain Medicine; is a member of the Scottish Executive Steering Group in Chronic Pain and sits on the Scottish Advisory Committee for the Royal college of Anaesthetists. She has developed the Edinburgh Translational Research in Pain (E-TRIP) collaboration, a research grouping within Edinburgh integrating clinical and basic science research in the field of Pain Medicine. She currently works full time in the Lothian Chronic Pain Service and the University of Edinburgh. Her current research interests include cancer pain, acute and chronic neuropathic pain, phantom limb pain, opioids in chronic pain, pain and drug dependency and pain assessment. She works closely with other members of E-TRIP using a bench to bedside approach aiming to rapidly translate exciting basic science findings into clinical developments.

Paul Flecknell qualified from Cambridge Veterinary School in 1976. He is a Diplomate of the European Colleges of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia and Laboratory Animal Medicine. He is an honorary Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal medicine and an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He and his research group have received a number of awards for contributions to animal welfare. He is currently Director of the Comparative Biology Centre at the University of Newcastle and is Professor of Laboratory Animal Science. His main research interests are anaesthesia and analgesia of all species of animals and in particular the development of methods of pain assessment.

Anita Holdcroft, the Emeritus Professor of Anaesthesia at Imperial College London, is a clinician specialising in acute pain medicine especially in females. She was the Secretary then Co-Chair of the International Association for the Study of Pain Special Interest Group on Sex, Gender and Pain from 1999 to 2005. Now she is Past President of the Forum on Maternity and the Newborn and President Elect of the Section of Anaesthesia at the Royal Society of Medicine. Her laboratory and clinical pain research has attracted government and charitable grants. As author/editor she has written books such as ‘Principles and Practice of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Analgesia’, ‘Core Topics in Pain’, ‘Crises in Childbirth’. Other publications include chapters on 'Sex and Gender Differences in Pain' in Wall and Melzack’s Textbook of Pain and papers on gender medicine particularly relating to women and childbirth. As a spin off from her research she champions academic women’s employment issues.

Emma Love graduated from the University of Glasgow Veterinary School in 2000 and completed a residency in veterinary anaesthesia at the University of Bristol. She is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia. Emma is currently a Clinical Fellow (Lecturer) at the University of Bristol and is also completing a PhD on the development of novel methods of pain assessment and the analgesic efficacy of opioids in horses.

Dr Andy Lumb, Consultant Anaesthetist at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals. My medical and post-graduate training were both in London, before I returned to my native Yorkshire for a Consultant post in 1994, specialising in anaesthesia for vascular and thoracic surgery. My research interests focus on respiratory physiology and its application to anaesthesia. I am involved in medical education at all levels from medical school admissions to teaching anaesthetic trainees, and am an examiner for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. I am author of Nunn’s Applied Respiratory Physiology and have lectured worldwide on clinical anaesthesia and respiratory physiology.

Alistair McKenzie was born and educated in Zimbabwe. He qualified and practised as a pharmacist before obtaining his medical degree, after which he proceeded to specialist training in anaesthesia. He became a Consultant Anaesthetist first in Zimbabwe and subsequently in Scotland. He is currently Lead Obstetric Anaesthetist at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, where his other sessions include pain management, and one of the honorary staff of the University of Edinburgh. His research interests extend to risk management and the history of anaesthesia; he is the Honorary Editor of the History of Anaesthesia Society and the Honorary Archivist of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.

Martina graduated from the Veterinary University in Vienna, Austria in 1996. Over the following 10 years she was involved in the building-up of the Clinic of Veterinary Anaesthesia and perioperative Intensive care in Vienna. She completed her alternative route residency spending several months at the Veterinary Faculty of the University in Bern, Switzerland. "Ini" became a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia and is exploring the "British way" of veterinary anaesthesia as senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool since 2007. Her main research interests are neuromuscular blocking agents and monitoring and lung ventilation.

Craig Mosley graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph where he also completed a residency and Master’s of Science program in veterinary anesthesia. It was during this time that he first began pursuing his interest in reptile anesthesia. Following graduation, Craig has spent time in several position including: practicing critical care medicine in a private referral hospital in Santa Cruz, California, as a clinical instructor at the Ontario Veterinary College and as an assistant professor in anesthesia at Oregon State University. Craig is currently practicing as a clinical anesthesiologist with Canada West Veterinary Specialists in Vancouver Canada. Throughout this time Craig has continued to maintain his interests in reptile, wildlife and zoo animal anesthesia.

Jo Murrell joined the University of Bristol in 2007 as a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia. She is a specialist veterinary anaesthetist, primarily based at the veterinary school in Langford, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, but is also a member of the Neuroscience research group based at Bristol School of Medical Sciences.
Jo's fundamental research interests are focused on mechanisms of pain perception using electroencephalographic techniques, particularly cortical evoked potentials. She also participates in more applied projects based at the veterinary school which centre on improving analgesia provision in different species, and investigating the welfare implications of routine husbandry procedures.

Bruno Pypendop obtained his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Liege in 1992. After a short interim in private practice, he started working as a small animal clinical anesthesiologist at the University of Liege. At the same time, he started his Doctorate in Veterinary Sciences (Belgian equivalent of a PhD) in clinical pharmacology. He completed his doctoral thesis and received his research degree in 1999. In August 1999, he moved to the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, for a residency in anesthesia and critical patient care. He completed the residency program in 2002 and obtained board certification by the American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists in 2003. After completing his residency, he was hired by the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis, as a lecturer (clinical instructor) in anesthesia. In 2004, he was hired by the same institution as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to the Associate Professor rank in 2007. His research focus is the clinical pharmacology of anesthetic and analgesic agents in animals, with an emphasis on cats.

Peter Sandoe was educated at the University of Copenhagen (MA in philosophy 1984) and at the University of Oxford (D.Phil. in philosophy 1988). He is Professor in Bioethics at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen; and he is the director of the Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment (CeBRA), an inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional research centre founded January 2000. Since 1990 the major part of his research has been within bioethics with particular emphasis on ethical issues related to animals, biotechnology and food production. He is committed to interdisciplinary work combining perspectives from natural science, social sciences and philosophy. Together with Stine B. Christiansen, he is the author of Ethics of Animal Use (Blackwell, 2008) and has published many articles and books covering his wide range of research interests. See www.bioethics.kvl.dk for a full list of publications.

Lynn was awarded a B.Sc Honours in Marine Biology from University of Liverpool and a Ph.D in Animal Behaviour and Physiology from University of Glasgow. Held postdoctoral positions at the University of Manchester and the Roslin Institute investigating fish behaviour and phyiology. Awarded a 5 year NERC fellowship at University of Liverpool to conduct research in the molecular signatures of aggression and dominance in fish. Currently a research fellow at Liverpool examining personality, pain, fear and stress in fish with relevance to understanding fish welfare. Also hold a senior lectureship at the University of Chester where I am developing new degree programmes in animal management and fish welfare.

Dominic Wilkinson is a neonatologist and Nuffield medical research fellow at the University of Oxford. He is working towards a doctorate in bioethics, looking at the ethical implications of the use of neuroimaging in newborn intensive care. He has has completed specialist training in neonatal intensive care in Melbourne as well as training in adult and paediatric intensive care units. He has a particular interest in the ethical issues in end-of-life care in newborn infants, and has previously completed a Masters degree in Human Bioethics at Monash University (Melbourne).
http://oxford.academia.edu/DominicWilkinson

Duncan Young is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthetics at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where he has worked for more years that he is going to confess to. He is currently Clinical Director for Critical Care Services at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust. Until recently Duncan acted as Director of Research for the UK Intensive Care Society, and in that role led on UK-wide studies of tracheostomy timing, high frequency oscillatory ventilation, and long term outcome from intensive care. Duncan also works part time for the University of Oxford and so qualifies for the title of Senior Clinical Lecturer.