Speakers ResusNL 2022

Ingvar Berg works as an Emergency Physician in Haaglanden Medisch Centrum in The Netherlands and has a special interest in surfing medicine, advanced life support and POCUS. He is the co-founder and CEO of Surfing Medicine International, a globally active non-profit organisation that promotes health and water safety by connecting health professionals with a passion for surfing. Their mission is to conduct science in surfing medicine and educate health professionals as well as non-medically trained surfers. Ingvar is active in drowning research and education with a focus on emergency care, the role of surfers as bystander rescuers and surf injuries. On these topics he has co-organised and presented on multiple conferences and courses and he is looking forward to immersing you in the fascinating topic of drowning resuscitation at RESUSNL. On his time off, you can find Ingvar surfing in Scheveningen or exploring any other break around the world.

Robert Weenink works as a military anesthesiologist in the Amsterdam UMC. Besides his clinical work as a general anesthesiologist with a special interest in emergency anesthesiology, he is specifically engaged in patient care and research in the field of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, for instance in diving casualties. His PhD thesis was on cerebral arterial gas embolism and he is currently leading several research projects into this disease.

Femke Gresnigt works as an emergency physician at OLVG hospital in Amsterdam since 2012, which is a toxicology center of experitise, where she is the president of the toxicology committee. Since february 2020 she also works as a toxicology consultant at the Dutch poisons information center. She is currently finishing a masters degree in medical toxicology, finished the TAPNA medical toxicology course and is working on a PhD, investigating acute cardiovascular complications of recreational drugs. She is the president of the medical intoxication forum (GIF), the DEMS toxicology section (from january 2022) and is the (co-)developer and teacher for the DEMS toxicology course, the MD-Tox course, and the SimToxNL and SimToxOLVG courses. Together with Expertcollege she is developing a toxicology elearning that will hopefully be available soon.

Tommaso Scquizzato is a researcher in the fields of cardiac arrest and resuscitation science at the Center for Intensive Care and Anesthesiology of San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy. His areas of interest are resuscitation, cardiac arrest, pre-hospital emergency medicine, and medical technology. He has mainly published about out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, in particular how to improve survival by alerting citizens through mobile apps, and the use of technology in emergency and critical care medicine, the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, and extracorporeal life support. In 2021, he was named among the 40 Under 40 for Cardiac Arrest by the Citizen’s CPR Foundation (USA). He is the Social Media Editor of Resuscitation, member of the Social Media Working Group of ILCOR, and member of the ERC BLS Science and Education Committee. He is also a software developer skilled in designing and developing mobile apps. He is active on social media, you can find him on Twitter (@tscquizzato), Facebook, and Instagram (@resuslab).

Dr. Annemijn Jonkman holds a MSc degree in Technical Medicine. From 2017-2021 she worked as a technical physician-scientist at the ICU of the Amsterdam UMC (VUmc) and in the lab of prof. Leo Heunks, focusing on technological innovations in the field of respiratory physiology and mechanical ventilation. Annemijn also completed a research fellowship at prof. Laurent Brochard’s lab in Toronto in 2020 for which she was selected as a Pleural Pressure Working Group (PLUG) fellow. In October 2021 she obtained her PhD degree at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam on her thesis “Towards respiratory muscle-protective mechanical ventilation in the critically ill: technology to monitor and assist physiology”. Since 2022 she is continuing her clinical and research career at the ICU of the Erasmus MC (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), aiming to further optimize mechanical ventilation for the critically ill.

Dinis Reis Miranda is an anestesiologist-intensivist. He has special interest in ECMO since 2006. Since 2014 he became more interested in ECPR. Now he joined the Rotterdam HEMS crew as a HEMS physician and started a prehospital ECPR program performed by the Dutch HEMS.

Karen Moor is a pulmonologist in training and post-doctoral researcher, focused on new innovations in lung diseases such as eHealth and home monitoring.

After studying Economics and a career in business, Jean van ‘t Hof made a career switch to aviation.  He has now been working for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for 16 years as an airline pilot/commander.  In addition, he has had his own coaching and training agency for 15 years.  Here, together with a team of 20 trainers, he provides pilot training and Crew Resource Management training to emergency physicians, specialists, nurses, ambulance drivers and emergency telephone operators in a professional Boeing 737 simulator.  The aviation and medical sector can learn a great deal from each other, so the exchange of best practices, knowledge and experience is always interesting and useful.

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Vicky Price is a consultant in Acute Medicine at the Liverpool University Hospital Trust. She was in the first cohort of trainees to specialise in Acute Medicine in the Mersey region and has enjoyed watching the specialty grow since then. She helped set up an Ambulatory Care department in the Royal Liverpool Hospital and remains a strong advocate for making it easier and safer to keep people at home where possible.
She is the current Secretary for the Society for Acute Medicine and enjoys liaising with clinicians from all specialties and countries to work together to get a collaborative approach to improve patient care, especially in these challenging times. She is mum to 3 young daughters who continue to teach her that no matter what she is never right about anything and solely responsible for all the lost socks..

Ashling is a Consultant in Acute Medicine and Ambulatory Emergency Care at The Whittington Hospital, an integrated care organisation in north London. She also works as a National Clinical Advisor at Macmillan Cancer Support, one of the largest UK cancer charities, focusing on the acutely unwell cancer patient, engaging with professionals across the primary/secondary care interface.