Resuscitation Council UK is governed by a Board of Trustees. Our President, Vice-President, Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Secretary are all elected by Full members of Resuscitation Council UK. Up to three additional Trustees can also be selected by the elected Trustees.
Our Board guarantees that Resuscitation Council UK is well-managed, governed well and provides skills and expertise that are integral to our work as an organisation.
Professor Gavin Perkins is Dean of Medicine at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick. He works clinically as a Professor of Critical Care Medicine at University Hospitals Birmingham and serves as a Non-executive Director at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. Within Resuscitation Council UK, he chaired the ALS Subcommittee, developing, evaluating, and implementing the e-ALS course, and was the inaugural chair of the Community and Ambulance Resuscitation Committee. He was Vice-President between 2022 and 2024. He was recognised by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation as a resuscitation giant. In addition to these roles, he is 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, including the PARAMEDIC trials and the OHCAO Registry.
Dr Joe Fawke is a Consultant Neonatologist at University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester. Joe was one of the originators of the ARNI course, co-editor of the ARNI course manual and Chair of the ARNI working group. He became chair of the NLS subcommittee in 2018. As part of a wider interest in medical education, Joe is a Paediatric Training Programme Director for Health Education East Midlands. His clinical interests include resuscitation, simulation-based training and neonatal neurodevelopmental follow-up. Joe is a member of the ILCOR NLS task force. He was a NICE Guideline Committee member for the Developmental Follow up of Children and Infants born Preterm, and he is Chair of the NICE Neonatal Parenteral Nutrition Guideline Committee.
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.
Mark Webster has been a trustee of RCUK since June 2024 and is also a member of the Research and Development Sub-Committee. In addition, he holds a number of board appointments in the charity and educational sectors, is a university guest speaker and MBA mentor. This all follows a 35-year executive career in the European medical devices industry, most recently as International Vice President of a US-based resuscitation equipment manufacturer. Mark brings a wealth of commercial experience and industry knowledge along with a deeply-held passion for supporting healthcare professionals and lay rescuers in improving resuscitation outcomes.
