Consultant in Intensive Care
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Cwmbran, United Kingdom
Prof Tamas Szakmany MD, PhD, EDIC, DESA, FRCA, FFICM is Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and Honorary Professor of Intensive Care at Cardiff University. He graduated at the University of Pecs, Hungary, where he then went on to gain his PhD in Critical Care. As a practicing clinician he still spends most of his time at the bedside on the critical care unit in the brand new Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, Wales. Tamas is an Honorary Professor in Intensive Care at Cardiff University and Specialty Research Lead for Anaesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine in Wales. He has been an active member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine since 2012, has been active in the Social Media Committee and more recently in the Congress Program Committee and co-hosts the monthly Critical Care Medicine Journal Club.
Tamas’s research interests have always encompassed a broad spectrum of critical care practices: from monitoring and modulation of inflammatory response in sepsis and after major surgery to long-term outcomes following critical care discharge and also participating actively in large randomized controlled trials. During the COVID-19 pandemic his work concentrated on phenotyping COVID19 ARDS and leading the RECOVERY and REMAP-CAP trials for his organization.
Tamas has always been passionate to work with medical students, to help them realizing their potential: his last few publications are all collaborations with medical students at Cardiff University with whom he developed an award-winning research programme on the epidemiology of sepsis on the general wards. He has been awarded the Member of the British Empire (MBE) title at the Queen's New Year's Honours in 2021, for his work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sunday, January 22, 2023
9:45 AM – 11:45 AM PT
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Monday, January 23, 2023
12:15 PM – 1:00 PM PT
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM PT
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