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08:45–09:30 | Registration and coffee – optional (pre-booked) short stadium tour

09:30–09:45 | Welcome

09:45–10:30 | Keynote presentation: Professor Hugh Montgomery OBE, Chair of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London – 'Wandering and Wondering'

10:30–11:00 | Professor Dan Martin – 'Twenty Years of Thinking About Oxygen!'

11:00–11:30 | Coffee break – opportunity to visit trade and stakeholder stands

11:30–12:30 | Invited local speakers

• Dr Ashwin Dhanda – 'Harnessing ²ÝùÊÓƵ's Strengths to Advance Alcohol Research'
• Dr Susie Pearce (title tbc)

12:30–13:30 | Lunch and networking – opportunity to visit trade, stakeholder stands and poster presentations

13:30–14:45 | Breakout sessions – opportunity to attend two of the sessions below (you'll be invited to select your preference soon after booking)

1. PPI Essentials: Involving patients and the public in the design and delivery of your research
2. Juggling Identities, Balancing Roles: The Journey to Research Independence
3. Inspiring NMAHP Research in Practice
4. Digital Health
5. TriNetX

14:45–15:15 | Coffee break – opportunity to visit trade and stakeholder stands

15:15–16:00 | Keynote presentation: Dr Natalie Owen, Head of NIHR Infrastructure DHSC – 'Tackling the Big Health Challenges: the Role of Research in the Transformation of the NHS'

16:00–16:15 | Poster awards and conference round-up

16:15–16:40 | End – optional (pre-booked) short stadium tour

Hugh obtained a 1st class BSc (Cardiorespiratory Physiology/ Neuropharmacology) in 1984 and his medical degree (1987). He completed specialist training in General Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine (ICM), and is now a consultant Intensivist in north London.

Hugh obtained his MDRes in 1997 and is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London (UCL) where he also directs the Centre for Human Health and Performance. He has published >800 papers (many related to hypoxic adaptation; paracrine renin-angiotensin systems; and the physiological responses to extreme environments), was science lead for the 2007 Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition, and has won eight national and international awards. He chaired the UK National COVID Critical Care Committee during the pandemic.

Hugh consulted in the field of artificial intelligence for DeepMind Health. He has patented a treatment for cancer wasting and prevention of injury in stroke, and a new technology for patient hydration. He has developed a novel low-power air-cleaning system (aircon and mask) for the removal of pollutants, and a new asthma inhaler.

Hugh held a commercial diving licence, and has been an archaeological diver – being part of the team that raised the Mary Rose (Henry VIII's flagship). He has also been an amateur high-altitude mountaineer and ultramarathon runner. He wrote the award-winning children’s books, The Voyage of the Arctic Tern and Cloudsailors (both by Walker Books/Candlewick). His first thriller, Control, was published by Bonnier in 2019. His next, BoomBust, is in development. He wrote and presented the five Royal Institution Christmas Lectures of 2007, and Who Sank the Mary Rose? a year later. He initiated the international documentary The Story of Us, and another on climate change and flooding (2021).

Natalie is Head of NIHR Research Infrastructure in the Science, Research and Evidence Directorate at the Department of Health and Social Care.

She has worked in various roles commissioning and managing of large programmes of research and research infrastructure for the last ten years. She previously led on a range of portfolios across the Policy Research Programme, working at the interface between research evidence and policymaking, including healthy weight, older people and frailty, palliative and end of life care and screening, using her experience of commissioning Policy Research Units to move to research infrastructure in 2022.

She also co-led the first strategic framework for research on multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) across the NIHR and set up two large-scale programmes on clusters of conditions and one using system engineering to look at innovations to the health and care system for people living with MLTC.