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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 JamesDurrand
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PQIP Fellow 2024-25
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James is a specialty trainee in anaesthesia in the North East of England with clinical and academic interests in perioperative medicine and major surgery. Following an NIHR anaesthesia-focused clinical fellowship on preoperative exercise testing and training, he completed his PhD, centred on the co-design, development and feasibility testing of a digitally facilitated, multi-behavioural prehabilitation programme.
As PQIP fellow, his research was focused on the association of socioeconomic position with preoperative characteristics of participants. He has continued to develop this work as a member of the NIHR HIPPOCRATES study team, involving the co-design and testing of perioperative interventions to improve outcomes for patients from more deprived backgrounds.
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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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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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Ms Sharon Drake
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Project Director of Clinical Quality and Research, RCoA
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Sharon is the 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.
He 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 the Royal College of Anaesthetists' Research department, she worked in the FRCA examinations delivery team, managing the Primary MCQ and the Final CRQ.
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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 problem shooting queries and navigation of the webtool. She assists clinical teams and local investigators by 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.
Please get in touch with Natalie in the first instance for questions about the project at pqip@rcoa.ac.uk
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Past and Present
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PQIP Core Project Team
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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, Natalie Meilutis |
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