Resuscitation Council UK has an Executive Committee, who have a wide range of clinical expertise that they use to advise the Board of Trustees as well as the wider staff team.
The Executive Committee consists of a maximum of 28 people, 12 of whom are elected from and by Full members of Resuscitation Council UK. We are also driven by the guidance and expertise of our subcommittee members, who use their specialist knowledge to inform our key projects.
Professor Gavin Perkins is Deputy Dean at Warwick Medical School and Director of Warwick Clinical Trials Unit. He works clinically as Professor of Critical Care Medicine at University Hospitals Birmingham and West Midlands Ambulance Service. He serves as a Non-executive Director at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. He previously chaired the ALS Subcommittee, developing, evaluating and implementing the e-ALS course. Prior to becoming President in 2025, Gavin served as Vice President for two years. He is currently also Chair of the Community and Ambulance Resuscitation Committee for the Resuscitation Council UK; Director of Science and Research with the European Resuscitation Council and Co-chair for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. He has an active research portfolio in cardiac arrest which includes the PARAMEDIC trials and the OHCAO Registry.
Dr Joe Fawke is a Consultant Neonatologist at University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust and became Vice President of RCUK in December 2025. He is an Executive Board Member and Chair of the RCUK Newborn subcommittee, which covers the NLS, ARNI and OHNLS courses. He co-edits the NLS and ARNI manuals and teaching materials and is an active course director and instructor. He successfully led a funding bid which is supporting the development of e-learning materials, a recertification NLS course and standardised NLS annual update training materials. Joe is a member of the ILCOR NLS task force and the ERC guideline writing group. Other current roles are Head of the East Midlands School of Paediatrics, RCPCH Training and Quality Board member and clinical research lead for the Leicester Neonatal Service. He has previously been a member and a Chair of NICE clinical guideline committees.
Professor Andy Lockey is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust. He is also an Associate Dean for Health Education England (covering Yorkshire and the Humber). He first became involved with Resuscitation Council UK in 1993, when he became an ALS Instructor, going on to join the ALS Subcommittee as a doctor-in-training representative in 1998. He also acted as Chair of the ALS Subcommittee for seven years, steering the evolution of the ALS course through two guideline changes. Andy served as President of Resuscitation Council UK in 2024 before stepping back into the role of Vice President in 2025. Prior to his presidency, he held the post of Vice-President from 2021-24, and Honorary Secretary before that, during which he led a whole-scale review of the membership structure for the Council. He is a vocal advocate for training all children in CPR and defibrillator awareness.
Professor Charles Deakin is Consultant in Cardiac Anaesthesia and Cardiac Intensive Care at University Hospital Southampton, Professor of Resuscitation and Prehospital Emergency Medicine at Southampton University and Divisional Medical Director of South Central Ambulance Service. Charles has been a member of RCUK’s Executive Committee since 2001 and previously chaired the ALS Committee for the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Co-chairing the ILCOR ALS Committee for the 2005 and 2010 Guidelines revision. His research interests include pre-hospital airway management, drugs and mechanical devices in ALS, defibrillation, and the delivery of bystander resuscitation instructions by telephone.
Professor Ian Maconochie is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial Academic Health Sciences Centre. He is Co-chair of the Paediatric Section of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) and Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Ian is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York. Ian is Registrar for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the current President of the Paediatric Section of the European Society of Emergency Medicine.
Kevin Mackie has been with Resuscitation Council UK since 1993, first as an ALS Instructor and Course Director, before becoming an Educator in 2003 and a Lead Educator in 2015. As an Educator, Kevin has facilitated many courses and is Educational Adviser to the Advanced Resuscitation of the Newborn Infant (ARNI) course. He is a member of the e-ALS review Working Group and occasional adviser to the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Subcommittee. His particular interest is in debriefing candidates engaged in medical simulation. Now a freelance consultant in medical education and company director, Kevin also spent nearly 25 years in the Royal Air Force.
Dr Joyce Yeung is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and an Associate Professor at University of Warwick. She chairs the Immediate Life Support and led the development of e-ILS as well as e-ALS update. Joyce is also a member of the ALS Subcommittee, a Fellow of European Resuscitation Council, and an Expert systematic reviewer and Scientific Advisory Committee member for International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR).
Dr Jasmeet Soar is a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. He has had numerous roles and responsibilities with RCUK since 2000, including Chair (2009-2012), Vice-Chair (2007-2009, 2012-2013), ILS Subcommittee Chair (2004 to 2016) and Guidelines 2015 Working Group Chair. He currently chairs the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Subcommittee and the Quality Standards Working Group, and is a member of the CARe and Research and Development Subcommittees. Jas helped to develop both the iResus and Lifesaver apps. He also has a number of national and international resuscitation roles. He is an Editor for the journal Resuscitation, ALS Co-chair for the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), and ALS Task Force Chair for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR).
Professor Jonathan Wyllie has been a Consultant Neonatologist at the James Cook University Hospital since 1994 and was Clinical Director of Neonatology until May 2017. He is Professor of Neonatology and Paediatrics at Durham University. He has a long-standing interest in resuscitation and neonatal haemodynamics as well as an interest in paediatric cardiology. He was one of the originators of the Newborn Life Support (NLS) course in the UK and Europe. He is Chair of the NLS Subcommittee, a previous Chair and now a member of the Advanced Resuscitation of the Newborn Infant (ARNI) Working Group, and Science Co-chair of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) NLS Science and Education Committee. He is an invited board member of the ERC. He was European Co-chair of the ILCOR neonatal task force for the evidence evaluation process of 2010, 2015 and continues as Vice-Chair of the ILCOR neonatal task force at present. He is co-author of newborn resuscitation Guidelines for Europe and the UK for 2005, 2010 and 2015. In 2010 he was awarded the Fellowship of the European Resuscitation Council for services to resuscitation and in 2015 given honorary membership of Resuscitation Council UK. In 2018 he was elected as an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Jonathan was President of RCUK from 2017 -2021 and Vice-Chair of RCUK from 2021 - 2022. In his spare time, he enjoys walking, mountain biking and, more recently, photography.
Professor Jerry Nolan is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, and Honorary Professor of Resuscitation Medicine at the University of Bristol. He trained at Bristol Medical School (MB ChB 1983) and undertook anaesthesia and critical care training in Plymouth, Bristol, Bath and Southampton, and at the Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore. Jerry is Chair of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), and has previously been Chair of Resuscitation Council UK, and Co-chair of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR). In 2016, the American Heart Association gave Jerry a Lifetime Achievement Award in Cardiac Resuscitation Science. Jerry is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Resuscitation and has authored over 300 original papers, reviews and editorials on subjects including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, airway management, and post-cardiac arrest treatment.
Dr Zoë Fritz is a Consultant Physician at Cambridge University Hospitals and a Wellcome Fellow in Bioethics, based between Warwick and Cambridge Universities. She became interested in the possible negative effects of DNACPR orders while working as a Registrar in Acute Medicine and Intensive Care, and has conducted research on the use, ethics, and understanding of DNACPR orders. She and her colleagues in Cambridge have developed and assessed an alternative approach to DNACPR orders, the Universal Form of Treatment Options (UFTO) which contextualises the resuscitation decision amongst other treatment decisions and is completed for all patients.
Dr Joseph De Bono has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2019. He is a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
Prior to his time at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, he trained across the country in Cambridge, Oxford and London. He was awarded the British Heart Rhythm Society Young Investigator award for his research into the cardiovascular consequences of exercise training.
Joe specialises in the treatment of abnormal heart rhythms and has a particular interest in the management of arrhythmias in patients with Adult Congenital Heart Diseases.
Dr Vix Monnelly works as a Consultant Neonatologist in a regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Vix has been a member of the NLS Subcommittee since 2015, and the ARNI Subcommittee since 2017. An experienced NLS and ARNI Instructor, Vix co-authored the NLS 2015 and 2021 guidelines and was part of the editorial group for NLS and ARNI manuals. One of Vix’s interests is increasing inclusivity through social media. She is part of the ILCOR (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation) Social Media working group. Vix is also passionate about reducing health inequalities, as she manages the consequences of these in her day to day work.
Alan is a registered nurse with over 25 years of experience in resuscitation and education as an emergency care nurse, Resuscitation Officer and academic. Alan’s association with Resuscitation Council UK began in 1994 on an ALS course when he was recommended as an Instructor, and subsequently as a paediatric and GIC Instructor and ALS Regional Representative. Alan moved to higher education in 2006, educating future health professionals and completing a doctorate investigating how students and tutors design web-based learning resources. Alan is a Senior Fellow for Advance HE, and provides resuscitation education to the public through sports clubs.
Therese has 25 years of experience in resuscitation, intensive care, and coronary care, working across both the NHS and private sector. She is currently the Resuscitation Services Manager at Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust and has served as the Regional Representative for South West Thames since 2019. Therese is a firm believer that everyone should have the skills to save a life, and she is excited to be working with the Resuscitation Council UK in advancing their mission.
Chris Smith is an Emergency Medicine doctor dividing his time equally between clinical practice and academia. His main research interests concern improving the community response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and, in particular, widening access to public-access Automated External Defibrillators.
He is the chair of the Resuscitation Council UK CARe subcommittee and the co-director of the England and Wales Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes (OHCAO) registry at the University of Warwick.
He also works with Basic Life Support groups for the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR).
Paul has been a Resuscitation Practitioner since 2011 with a background in acute, community and prehospital care. In NHS roles, he has worked across a number of specialities including medicine, palliative care and cardiology. He instructs and directs across a number of resuscitation, trauma and resilience courses together with the GIC. Maintaining a prehospital role, Paul has worked within fire services, search and rescue teams and HM Coastguard.
He has an interest in the development of the Resuscitation Practitioner role across all settings, and as Chair of the Resuscitation Practitioner's Forum (RPF), he oversees projects to enhance resuscitation practice and collaboration across the UK.
Kate is a Dental Care Professional with over 30 years’ experience. She supported the General Dental Council in making defibrillators a mandatory requirement in all dental practices.
For more than 15 years, she has delivered CPR and life-support training and serves as an Instructor with the Resuscitation Council UK. Her commitment is deeply personal: she survived a cardiac arrest at 29. Now 50, she actively supports other survivors, offering first-hand insight into their challenges and the importance of timely, effective resuscitation.
Kate is part of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest UK team, where she helps raise awareness, provides peer support, and advocates for accessible, high-quality resuscitation education.
Angela Jones, a Senior Nurse with over 25 years in resuscitation services, is based in Cardiff and leads national efforts to improve resuscitation practice in Wales. As Chair of the Welsh Resuscitation Forum, Ang champions best practices and improved survival outcomes. She is widely respected for her leadership, clinical expertise, and commitment to innovation and collaboration. Her mission is to ensure every patient receives the highest standard of resuscitation, making a lasting impact across the nation. Ang is also an active member of the Advanced Life Support (ALS) subcommittee and played a pivotal role in the four-nation collaboration that established the Resuscitation Practitioner Forum (RPF).
Dr Carmel Oliver is a trainee anaesthetist in the South-West currently working at the Royal United Hospital in Bath. She is inaugural chair of the Early Careers Forum. Her professional interests include anaesthesia, advanced care planning and post-resuscitation care.
