Advanced Life Support subcommittee

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Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine 

Jas is a consultant in anaesthetics and intensive care medicine at Southmead Hospital, Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. Jas has a major interest in cardiac arrest and resuscitation and has had a number of national and international roles. He has been a past chair of the Resuscitation Council UK, the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Task Force Chair of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, and the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) ALS Science and Education Committee. He recently led and completed the Royal College of Anaesthetists National Audit Project on Perioperative Cardiac Arrest, and was lead author for the ERC ALS Guidelines in 2025. He is an editor of the journal Resuscitation and an Honorary Professor at The Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School. Jas's interests include the use of data to improve care, and ensuring we have evidence based resuscitation guidelines and training that improve the outcomes that matter to patients. 

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Senior Nurse, Resuscitation Service

Angela Jones is an experienced Senior Nurse with more than 25 years dedicated to the advancement of Resuscitation Services across Wales. Based in Cardiff, she has built a distinguished career centred on improving patient outcomes through excellence in resuscitation practice, education, governance, and service development. As Chair of the Welsh Resuscitation Forum, Ang provides strategic leadership to a network of professionals committed to delivering safe, effective, and evidence-based resuscitation care. Throughout her career, Ang has championed innovation, collaboration, and continuous quality improvement, working closely with healthcare organisations, national bodies, and multidisciplinary teams to drive improvements in standards and practice. Her expertise spans clinical leadership, instructor development, audit, and policy implementation, ensuring that healthcare professionals are equipped with the skills and knowledge required to deliver high-quality care during critical situations. Widely respected for her compassionate leadership style and commitment to professional development, Ang is passionate about supporting colleagues and fostering strong partnerships across NHS Wales. She believes that every patient deserves the best possible chance of survival and recovery following a life-threatening event. Through her dedication, vision, and influence, Ang continues to shape the future of resuscitation services, helping to improve outcomes and save lives across the nation. 

Consultant Anaesthetist

Prof Anil Hormis is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a Consultant in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) at the Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance. He has been an ALS Instructor since 2001 and has been working in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine for over 25 years. He also led the development of the new RCUK Out-of-Hospital ALS Course (OH-ALS). 

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Anaesthetic Registrar

Carmel is an anaesthetic registrar in the South West and has spent many years working as a paediatric ICU nurse. She is very proud to be the inaugural chair of the Early Careers Forum as well as sit on the ALS subcommittee. Her interests include all things resuscitation, as well as classical music and being outside.

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Advanced Paramedic

Chris an Advanced Paramedic in Prehospital Critical Care with East Midlands Ambulance Service and a volunteer Critical Care Paramedic with LIVES. He has more than a decade of experience delivering enhanced and critical care across the East Midlands including on HEMS, HART and ground-based response. Chris currently works frontline clinical response on a regional advanced paramedic car as well as working on the critical care desk, providing senior support in the emergency operations centre including the identification of high-acuity patients, coordination of critical care resources and senior clinical advice to ambulance crews. His interests include out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, advanced resuscitation, airway management and improving access to timely specialist care. Chris holds an MSc in Prehospital Critical Care in Norway and the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is an Advanced Life Support Instructor, Associate Post Graduate Lecturer in Prehospital Care at several universities.

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Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Registrar

Chris is a dual-trained Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Registrar based in Bristol with a specialist interest in resuscitation and post-resuscitation care. He has been involved with Resuscitation Council UK for 12 years as a trainee representative on the ALS Subcommittee. Chris has contributed extensively to the ALS course, including developing assessment and educational materials, co-authoring Resuscitation Guidelines, and has led four national ALS course evaluation projects. An experienced ALS and BLS instructor, Chris has a particular interest in resuscitation education, quality improvement and equity in education. He is a Director of RMD (Resuscitation Mentorship Development) at the University of Bristol and has held a number of educational and leadership roles. He is passionate about translating evidence into high-quality resuscitation education and improving outcomes from cardiac arrest at scale.

Senior Clinical and Education Fellow in Cardiothoracic Critical Care

Dr Daniel Jafferji is a Senior Clinical and Education Fellow in Cardiothoracic Critical Care at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where he focuses on postgraduate medical education with special interests in faculty development, the use of simulation as a targeted educational modality and the integration of point-of-care ultrasound into clinical decision-making. He completed his Acute Care Common Stem anaesthetic training in the East of England and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Education from the University of Cambridge. He is a Bye-Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he supervises physiology to undergraduate medical and veterinary students.

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Consultant Interventional Cardiologist 

David is Professor of Medical Education at the University of Nottingham, School of Medicine, and Vice Dean of Clinical Affairs. He is an Honorary Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the Lincolnshire Heart Centre and Honorary Dean of Clinical Medicine at Lincoln Medical School. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. He is a member of the British Cardiovascular Interventional Society (BCIS) and sits on the Clinical Standards Working Group. He has a passion for Advanced Life Support training and education, having taught and directed ALS courses for over 25 years. He currently sits on the Advanced Life Support Subcommittee of the Resuscitation Council UK. David specialises in coronary intervention with a large general cardiology practice. He has a passion for all aspects of medical education, including digital platform education with a focus on cardiology. His research interests are in the selection for medical school and the psychometric aspects of assessments. He is local Principal Investigator for the Orion 4 trial, in collaboration with the Clinical Trials Unit in Oxford, UK. When not working he can be found park-running, walking his family dog, Stanley or playing saxophone badly!

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Dean of Medicine / Intensivist

Professor Gavin Perkins is Dean of Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick, Honorary Professor of Critical Care Medicine at University Hospitals Birmingham, Non-Executive Director at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, and a leading international authority in resuscitation science and emergency care. His research focuses on improving outcomes from cardiac arrest and other life-threatening emergencies through high-quality clinical trials, implementation science, and health service innovation. Professor Perkins has led and contributed to numerous national and international studies that have shaped resuscitation practice and guidelines worldwide. He has held senior leadership roles within the Resuscitation Council UK, the European Resuscitation Council, and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR), helping to develop evidence-based recommendations used by healthcare professionals across the globe. A highly cited researcher, Professor Perkins has published extensively in leading medical journals and secured significant funding from organisations including the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). His work has influenced policy, clinical practice, and public awareness of cardiac arrest, bystander CPR, and defibrillation. In recognition of his contributions to medicine and resuscitation science, Professor Perkins was awarded an MBE and has received a number of national and international honours, including the American Heart Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He remains committed to advancing research, education, and public engagement to improve survival and outcomes from cardiac arrest and other medical emergencies.

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Lead Resuscitation Practitioner

With over 20 years’ experience in the field of resuscitation practice and education, James is still passionate about the topic and more than ever feels that life support education is an essential skill that everyone should learn. He has been an ALS Regional Representative for Yorkshire since 2018, ALS Subcommittee member since 2019, and an RCUK Executive Committee member from 2020-23. In addition, James has been fortunate to support the development of two sets of ALS guidelines, supported new course designs and course materials, and worked with all course centres within Yorkshire over the years as Regional Representative. His areas of special interest are around the management of the deteriorating patients, in situ simulation and championing ReSPECT.

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Consultant - Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine

Dr John Walls is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine at University Hospital Southampton and with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance.

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Intensivist

Joyce Yeung is an Honorary Consultant in Critical Care and a Professor in Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Warwick, UK. She leads the Emergency, Prehospital, Perioperative and Critical Care (EPPiC) Research group at Warwick Medical School. Joyce is the current chair of Immediate Life Support Subcommittee at RCUK and a Fellow of ERC. She sits on ILCOR Board as the Honorary Secretary and a member of its Scientific Advisory Committee.

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Professor in Emergency and Critical Care

Keith is a Professor in Emergency and Critical Care, based in the Emergency, Prehospital, Perioperative and Critical Care (EPPiC) research group at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit. Until recently, he was also a critical care outreach nurse. His research focuses on the patient journey of critically ill patients from the pre-hospital setting to post-discharge care. He has a particular interest in cardiac arrest. Keith also holds volunteer roles with the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation and European Resuscitation Council. Keith is director of Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium-UK (ROC-UK).

Head of Resuscitation Education and Operations

Michelle is Head of Resuscitation Education and Operations at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. A former acute medicine and coronary care nurse, she has worked in resuscitation since 2004 and became Lead Resuscitation Practitioner in 2015.

She is an RCUK ALS, EPALS and GIC Instructor and Course Director, ERC ALS Instructor, Chair of the West Midlands Regional Resuscitation Practitioners Group, RCUK Regional Representative, and a member of the ALS Subcommittee. Her interests include resuscitation education, educational methods, post-event debriefing and human factors, and how these can influence learning, team performance and patient care.

Resident Doctor and Paramedic

Steven is a resident doctor and experienced paramedic in the North of England, who sits on the Advanced Life Support subcommittee and Early Careers Forum within RCUK. In addition to his hospital role as a doctor, he is active in event medicine and frontline ambulance provision working towards being part of an enhanced care team. He enjoys bringing a unique perspective to his role in RCUK; drawing experience from both professions to contribute to the best guidance and care for critically ill patients. Outside of medicine he enjoys being outdoors - sailing, climbing and mountaineering with an ever spiraling coffee interest featuring among all of them. Combining his passions for adventurous activities, youth work and medicine, he volunteers for the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust as a Medic-Mate/Crew leader – assisting young people that have had cancer and their siblings on outdoor trips to enjoy life beyond cancer. 

Consultant Cardiologist and Intensivist; Professor of Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine

Susanna Price is a Consultant Cardiologist and Intensivist at Royal Brompton Hospital and Professor of Practice (Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine) at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London. Her clinical and academic interests include cardiac critical care, cardiogenic shock, resuscitation, mechanical circulatory support and peri-procedural echocardiography. She chairs the NHS London Cardiogenic Shock Board and has contributed to the development of national and international approaches to the organisation and delivery of care for critically ill cardiovascular patients. She is a Vice President of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), member of the Board of Directors of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) and a Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal. 

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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.