executive
Dr Richard Birks (President)
Dr David Whitaker (Immediate Past President)
Dr Iain Wilson (Honorary Treasurer)
Dr Ian Johnston (Honorary Treasurer Elect)
Dr Leslie Gemmell (Honorary Secretary)
Dr William Harrop-Griffiths (Immediate Past Honorary Secretary)
Dr Ellen O'Sullivan (Honorary Membership Secretary)
Dr David Bogod (Editor in Chief Anaesthesia)
Prof David Rowbotham (Vice President)
Prof Alastair Chambers (Vice President)
Prof Michael Wee (Vice President)
President
Dr Richard Birks
Email:President@aagbi.org
 Dick Birks is Consultant Anaesthetist to the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. He has been on Council since 1997. He was Honorary Treasurer of the AAGBI (2002 - 2006) and Vice President 2006-2007. His interests include Obstetric and Upper GI Anaesthesia. A former Honorary Secretary to the Obstetric Anaesthetists Association he is currently a Primary FRCA examiner.
Immediate Past President
Dr David Whitaker
Email: via secretariat@aagbi.org
 David Whitaker was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1984 and elected to the AAGBI Council in 1997 and Executive in 2001. Previously he has been Honorary Secretary, AAGBI representative on the GAT Committee, AAGBI Seminars Coordinator, and Chairman of the Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists. He has been a Member of the Steering Committee of NCEPOD since 2002. His clinical interests are cardiac anaesthesia and intensive care, acute pain, and blood conservation.
Honorary Treasurer
Dr Iain Wilson
Email: HonTreasurer@aagbi.org
 Dr Iain Wilson is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Joint Medical Director, at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. He is Chairman of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists Publications Committee and an editor of the Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia. His interests include anaesthesia in resource poor environments.
Honorary Treasurer Elect
Dr Ian Johnston
Email: via secretariat@aagbi.org
 Ian Johnston is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness with specialist interests in obstetric and regional anaesthesia. Prior to election to Council of the AAGBI in 2002 he served on the committee of the Scottish Society of Anaesthetists and, following devolution, was elected to the first Scottish Standing Committee of the AAGBI.
Honorary Secretary
Dr Leslie Gemmell
Email: HonSecretary@aagbi.org
 Dr Les Gemmell is a consultant anaesthetist/intensivist in the North East Wales Trust. He qualified from St. Mary’s Hospital London in 1974 and trained in Torbay, Sheffield, Leeds, Cardiff and Natal University. His clinical interests are critical care, outreach services and major upper GI surgery. He is currently Honorary Secretary Elect and Chair of Safety of the AAGBI. He is Clinical Director of Surgery, Anaesthetics, Theatres and Critical Care and Associate Medical Director in charge of Risk Management and Safety at the Wrexham Maelor Hospital. He is a Council Member of Age Anaesthesia and associate editor of the BJA’S Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain. His work at the AAGBI has included membership of 6 Working Parties and is currently chair of the DNAR in the Perioperative Period Working Party. His outside interests include rugby, golf and cooking.
Immediate Past Honorary Secretary
Dr William Harrop-Griffiths
Email: via secretariat@aagbi.org
 Will Harrop-Griffiths is a Consultant Anaesthetist at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. Before taking up his post as Honorary Secretary, he was an elected member of the Council of the AAGBI. He has been editing Anaesthesia for the last eight years and still enjoys it. His interests include obstetric anaesthesia, vascular anaesthesia, horse-riding and not falling off his motorbike. His passions include regional anaesthesia, his family and English grammar.
Honorary Membership Secretary
Dr Ellen O'Sullivan
Email: honmembsecretary@aagbi.org
 Dr Ellen O’Sullivan is currently a Consultant Anaesthetist at St James’s Hospital, Dublin, where she was Clinical Director from 2000-2003. She trained in anaesthesia in the UK and spent 10 years as a Consultant and Lecturer at the University Hospital Aintree, Merseyside. Her clinical/ research interests include Airway Management, ophthalmic regional anaesthesia, and Total Intravenous anaesthesia.
She is an elected council member of the College of Anaesthetists, RCSI, and is presently Chairman of the Examination Committee. Dr O’Sullivan has recently been appointed as Secretary of the Anaesthesiology board of the UEMS (union of European Medical Specialists).
Dr O’Sullivan was elected council member of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) from 2001 to 2005 and again in 2007, and chaired the International Relations Committee of the AAGBI for three years. She has recently completed a four year term as Convenor of the Irish Standing Committee of the AAGBI.
She is presently co-ordinator of the Overseas Anaesthesia Fund (OAF) and involved in the Global Oximetry project.
Editor in Chief Anaesthesia
Dr David Bogod
Email: anaesthesia@nottingham.ac.uk
 David Bogod is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Nottingham City Hospital with a special interest in obstetric practice. He is Editor-in-Chief of Anaesthesia, the official journal of the Association of Anaesthetists, and was previously the Chair of the Obstetric Sub-Committee of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiology. His other interests include medico legal matters, consent issues and the ethics of research and clinical practice.
Vice Presidents
 David Rowbotham is Professor of Anaesthesia & Pain Management (Honorary Consultant) in Leicester. He qualified (1978) and trained in Sheffield. His clinical interests are the management of chronic and acute pain. He is currently the Clinical Director of the Leicestershire, Rutland & Northamptonshire Comprehensive Research Network. He is an elected member of the Council of the Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Anaesthetists and Anaesthetic Research Society. He is Editor-in-Chief of Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain, British Journal of Anaesthesia Board member, Advisor to the British National Formulary and member of the Scientific Committee of the International Association for the Study of Pain. He is the editor of several major textbooks and has published widely on the pharmacology and management of pain. His work at the AAGBI includes Chair of the Research Committee and membership of several committees. His non-medical interests include cycling and golf.
 Alastair Chambers has been a member of AAGBI Council since 1999 and sat on Executive from 2003-2007; previously he was Chairman of the Events Committee. Currently he is a Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Management, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary & a Honorary Clinical Professor, University of Aberdeen . Other interests include serving as an Editor of Anaesthesia since 2000 and a Board Member of the Medical & Dental Defence Union of Scotland since 1996.
 Michael Wee is a consultant anaesthetist at Poole Hospital. He was elected to AAGBI Council in 2003 and HCSA Council 2007. He has served as Standards Committee chair (2005-2007) and member of the Safety, Welfare, SAS, Patient Liaison & Independent Practice committees. He was past honorary secretary of the OAA. Clinical interests include obstetric anaesthesia, hip revision surgery, patient information and research. He is an examiner of the Final RCoA exams. Leisure interests include aerobiking and sea fishing.
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