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Professor
Ramani Moonesinghe
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PQIP
Chief Investigator
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Ramani
is a Professor of Perioperative Medicine at UCL and Honorary Consultant in
Anaesthesia, Perioperative and Critical Care Medicine at UCL Hospitals. She is
also the National Clinical Director for Critical and Perioperative care at NHS
England.
She
leads and supports research across the translational pathway from device
development and validation through to clinical trials and policy research.
Professor Ramani Moonesinghe University College London Profile
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Dr
Scott Weerasuriya
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PQIP
Fellow 2025-26
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Scott
is an ST5 Anaesthetic Resident in the London School of Anaesthesia (South East
Rotation). he is currently undertaking an out-of-programme fellowship with the
PQIP team.
His
clinical interests include perioperative medicine, complex airway management,
major surgery and he is currently conducting research in the field of health
economics.
Outside
of work, he is a keen marathon runner - a true anaesthetic stereotype!
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Dr Duncan Wagstaff
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PQIP
Fellow 2015-18
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Duncan
helped set up PQIP and completed a PhD exploring how PQIP data were used for
local quality improvement. He is now a consultant anaesthetist at UCLH and
honorary associate professor at UCL.
He is
currently using mixed-methods to study quality improvement in critical care in
low and middle-income countries, healthcare inequalities in perioperative care
in the UK and the adequacy of neuraxial anaesthesia during caesarean
deliveries.
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Dr James Bedford
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PQIP Fellow 2016-19
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James
graduated from Peninsula Medical School in 2007 and trained in Perioperative
Medicine in London. He is currently a Consultant in Anaesthesia and
Perioperative Medicine at University College London Hospitals NHS trust.
James
has been involved with the Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme for
several years, including time as a PQIP Research Fellow, and continues to
contribute to the central project team. He completed a PhD at UCL in 2025,
examining the use of risk-adjusted postoperative outcome data to support local
quality improvement.
His
work within PQIP focuses on quantitative data analysis and the development of
reporting and feedback tools to help clinical teams understand and improve
perioperative care.
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Ms
Sharon Drake
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Interim
Chief Executive Officer, RCoA
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Sharon
is currently the Interim Chief Executive Officer at the Royal College of
Anaesthetists. She has held the position of Deputy Chief Executive and Director
of Clinical Quality and Research, leading the formulation of RCoA strategy,
policy and plans in respect of standards, quality improvement and safety and
research.
She
has worked in the education and healthcare sector, both as an educator and a
senior manager. She has extensive experience working at Board level with two of
the largest medical Royal Colleges delivering and supporting medical education,
training and healthcare policy in a challenging and changing landscape.
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Mr Jose Lourtie
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Head
of Research, RCoA
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Jose
is the Head of Research at the Royal College of Anaesthetists, looking after
departmental strategy, budgets, projects and managing the wider team.
Jose
oversees the Centre for Research & Improvement (CRI) and the National
Institute for Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) and projects such as the National
Audit Projects (NAPs), the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA), the
Sprint National Anaesthesia projects (SNAPs) and National Clinical Audit of
Perioperative Care (NCAPC).
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Ms Chloe Brown
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Research
Project Coordinator, RCoA
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Chloe
is the Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme coordinator. She looks after
the daily operations and administration of the project. She is responsible for
the data reporting, along with study amendments, onboarding of new sites and
quality assurance activities.
She
has extensive experience in data analytics both within the private and
not-for-profit sectors in Sydney and Paris. Before joining PQIP, she worked in
the FRCA examination delivery team for the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
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Ms Natalie Meilutis
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Research
Project Assistant, RCoA
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Natalie
is the project assistant for PQIP, supporting participating sites by managing
the PQIP inbox and helping sites navigate the webtool. She assists clinical
teams and local investigators by responding to queries, setting up user access,
and ensuring the smooth running of day-to-day study operations.
She is
well versed in the research space, coming from a background in consumer
research within the private sector.
For
any questions regarding the project, please get in touch with Natalie at
pqip@rcoa.ac.uk
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PQIP Core Project Team
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Past and Present
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S Ramani Moonesinghe, Duncan Wagstaff, James Bedford, Arun Sahni, Dermot McGuckin, David Gilhooly, Cristel Santos, Jonathan Wilson, Peter Martin, Georgina Singleton, Kylie Edwards, Rachel Baumber, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Samantha Warnakulasuriya, Jenny Dorey, Irene Leemans, Martha Belete, Eleanor Warwick, Michael Argent, Rachael Brooks, Adam Firth Hunt, Eimear Lusby, Bo Hou, Aimen Al-Eryani, James Durrand, Dominic Olive, Scott Weerasuriya, Chloe Brown
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