Stuart Gillon, Specialty Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London,Chris Wright, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow,Cameron Knott, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine & Medical Donation Specialist, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria,Mark McPhail, Speciality Registrar and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Liver Intensive Therapy Unit,, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London,Luigi Camporota, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London

Stuart Gillon is a Specialty Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine. He graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2005 and has undertaken post graduate training in Glasgow, Perth, Melbourne and London. He is currently in the final year of the new British stand-alone Intensive Care Medicine training programme in London. His subspecialty interests include critical care echocardiography, severe cardiorespiratory failure and extracorporeal support.

Chris Wright is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow. He completed dual training in Intensive Care Medicine and Acute Medicine in London and West of Scotland deaneries. His interests within critical care include respiratory failure, medical high dependency, and global intensive
care.

Cameron Knott is an intensive care physician with ongoing and developing interests in clinical education, simulation-based workplace inter-professional education, simulation for testing clinical systems, clinical communication skills, and quality and safety improvement processes. He practises in Australian tertiary metropolitan and regional intensive care medicine.

Mark McPhail is a trainee in intensive care medicine and gastroenterology in London. He graduated from Strathclyde University in 1997 with a PhD in molecular physics and in 2004 from Glasgow University medical school. During his joint training he has undertaken postdoctoral research funded by the Wellcome Trust to further his interest in outcome prediction in liver failure syndromes, hepatic encephalopathy and muscle wasting in critical illness.

Luigi Camporota is Consultant Intensivist at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital and honorary senior lecturer at King's College London. After his Medical Degree in Italy, Luigi received his PhD in airway biology from the University of Southampton. He then trained in general medicine in Oxford and Critical Care medicine in London. He has been part of the writing committee for the 'Berlin Definition' of ARDS and the aim of his current research at Guy's and St Thomas' is to determine the biological response to mechanical stress and develop reliable bed-side non-invasive methods to establish lung recruitability, and optimal pressure settings in the context of HFOV and conventional mechanical ventilation.