Our Conference Committee

James Barber is a CCCU graduate and has returned as our Senior Specialist Simulation Technician after 5 years as a Paramedic with the South East Coast Ambulance Service

I work as a consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford. I have been Trust Lead for Simulation for the past 6 years, but have been involved in designing and developing high fidelity simulation based courses to meet training needs since 2007. I am interested in the way healthcare professionals learn complex skills and processes, and how that learning is translated into practice, especially in high pressured environments. We run the Medisim Centre at the Royal Surrey where we deliver in house training to medical undergraduate students from Southampton and St George's medical school, a foundation doctor simulation programme and a wide variety of in-house training and courses to postgraduate doctors from a wide range of specialties. We also offer training to nurses, ODPs, ACPs and other allied healthcare professionals. We host regional training courses in anaesthesia, ICM, medicine, paediatrics and for trainees returning to work after a period of absence (RTT). We try to be innovative and responsive in the training we deliver and are always looking for new ways to develop!

Rosie Courtney’s career started in the Cabinet Office and Dept of Health before moving to the NHS as the GM of the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital. She’s now the SE Programme Lead for SIM-TEL & Patient Safety.

Chrissy is the Head of Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Roehampton. She was previously the Head of Education at St. Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House Hospices in Sussex and led the emerging simulation work regarding using simulation to support palliative and end of life education. Chrissy is a PhD student at University of Chichester looking at the user experience of simulation based education.

Dr Jane Roome is a GP, Clinical Lead for West Kent Training Hub, GP Associate Dean, GP Tutor for West Kent and the Royal College of General Practitioners Southeast Thames Faculty Education Lead. In addition she is the Kent Surrey and Sussex (KSS) GP Fellow in Simulation, leads the KSS Primary Care Simulation Faculty and is an Executive Committee member of the Association of Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH).

• Primary Care Practice Development Facilitator – Sussex Training Hub

•  Registered General Nurse

• NHSE Multiprofessional Fellow -Clinical Simulation  23/24

• Part of the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Primary Care Simulation Faculty

Paul Wilder is the Interim Technology Enhanced Learning lead for Frimley Health Foundation Trust, which includes managing their Online Learning Portal, as well as for the past decade running the simulation suite at Frimley Park Hospital, along with overseeing a team of simulation technicians and TEL staff. He has presented at many SimNET and other simulation / TEL regional meetings and conferences, as an enthusiastic advocate for the practical leveraging of current and emerging educational technology in a hospital setting. His latest project was the introduction to two simsuites of an online EPR system, replacing the use of paper props in scenarios, thus replicating the modern reality of trusts. He has recently become an ASPiH Regional Tech Champion for the South, fully supporting its key purpose of improving engagement, networking and professional development of Skills and Simulation Technicians across the UK and beyond.