Who’s Who

Emma is an experienced Consultant in Anaesthesia at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Her sub-speciality interests include General & Bariatric Surgery, Complex Vascular, Plastics and Major Trauma. She trained at Imperial College, London and has a further degree in Management (Imperial Business School).

She is a founding director of the LIPA training programme, which won the 2023 Imperial Division of Surgery, Cancer, and Cardiovascular’s Education Award for ‘Best Innovation’.

Chandi Rao is a consultant at the Hammersmith and the Queen Charlotte’s hospitals. She specialises in high risk obstetrics, HPB, endocrine and gynae oncology surgery. She is a founding member of the LiPA programme having completed her training around London (via the scenic route). She has been through the CESR process herself so can answers any questions you might have about the application process. Away from work she enjoys music, food and fitness.

Asela has a decade of experience as a Consultant Anaesthetist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, where he routinely manages complex elective and emergency cases. He was formally College Tutor at St Mary’s Hospital, has co-authored a textbook on equipment and physics for the FRCA, and recently developed and patented a medical device. In 2021 he was awarded the London School of Anaesthesia’s College Tutor Award for NW London (as voted for by trainees), and was Runner Up for the Association of Anaesthetists’ 2024 Innovation in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Award. He is currently focussed on developing the LiPA website and its educational resources.

When not at work, he enjoys swimming, cooking feasts for friends and family, pottering around on his allotment and revelling as a memory maker for his four young kids.

Enda is indispensable to the LIPA programme and provides vital administrative and pastoral support. She manages calendars, coordinates meetings, handles correspondence, and assists with various tasks to ensure the smooth operation of the programme. Enda has several decades of experience supporting the Anaesthetics department at Hammersmith Hospital and you will quickly find her to be both extremely approachable and knowledgable- if she doesn’t know the answer to a question, she certainly knows someone who does.

Dan Horner is a consultant based out of CXH. He is the ES for CESR trainees along with Shona Love.

He specialises in neurosurgery, lower limb orthopaedics, vascular and gender surgery. Outside of medicine he enjoys walking his Basset hounds Thelma and Louise.

He speaks French and Italian badly, likes skiing and growing Bonsai trees.

I am a consultant at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Hammersmith Hospitals. I believe that trainee wellbeing is essential to ensuring a robust, inclusive and supported workforce, particularly under current pressures. Therefore, I am involved in gathering regular feedback from our trainees and running our Local Faculty Group meetings. We want to make sure our trainees voices are heard and their feedback acted upon. Clinically, I supervise our LiPA trainees in high risk obstetric anaesthesia and anaesthesia for major cancer surgery.

I completed anaesthetic training in the Imperial School of Anaesthesia and have been a consultant anaesthetist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for nearly 3 years – previously at St. Mary’s Hospital and now at Hammersmith Hospital. My interest lies in the
perioperative management of complex high-risk surgical patients, and I regularly anaesthetise patients undergoing upper GI and hepatobiliary surgery.

I am interested in education and am a member of the Academy of Medical Educators (MAcadMEd) and RCOA Education Programme and Quality Working Group. I regularly deliver teaching on perioperative medicine locally to anaesthetic trainees, and at Imperial College to year 3 medical students. I am particularly interested in the impact of human factors on clinical and exam performance.

As part of the CESR faculty, I regularly contribute to ARCPs, and have developed the trainee feedback process – I lead local faculty groups twice a year, resulting in direct changes to the programme.

I’m the current Clinical Director for Anaesthetics at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and oversee a team of 70 Anaesthetists. We have 30 Consultants, 13 Specialty Doctors and a mixture of Deanery and CESR trainees and Fellows. I am a previous North West London trainee and have rotated through most of the hospitals in North West London throughout my Registrar training, taking an interest in Paediatric Anaesthesia. Advanced training in Paediatric Anaesthetic was completed with a year at GOSH, and I was a locum Consultant at Chelsea and Westminster hospital for a year before taking up my substantive post at Hillingdon Hospital in 2015. I am keen to support any doctors who wish to pursue training via the CESR pathway.

I am the CESR lead for anaesthetics at Hillingdon hospital. If you rotate to Hillingdon you will be welcomed into a friendly and supportive department. My specialist interests are in obstetrics, paediatrics and education. I am also the Perioperative Block lead for Brunel Medical school at Hillingdon.

Dr Francesca Mazzola is a Consultant Anaesthetist at The Royal Marsden Hospital. Her clinical interests are robotic urological surgery, peri-operative medicine and paediatric anaesthesia. She undertook her anaesthesia training at Imperial School of Anaesthesia, Peninsula Deanery a fellowship in Leadership and Management at The Royal Marsden Hospital. Non clinical roles include Paediatric Anaesthesia Lead and an interest in departmental education at all levels.

I am a consultant paediatric and adult anaesthetist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, I trained in London with fellowships in Australia and Canada. I have been an educational supervisor for 4 years and am currently the RCOA college tutor here. As well as organising clinical training, I have extensive experience preparing people for the FRCA and for consultant and fellowship interviews.

Shona Love is a consultant anaesthetist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, having completed her anaesthetic training on the Imperial rotation. She is based mainly at Charing Cross Hospital, with sub-specialty interests in anaesthesia for head and neck/ENT, uro-oncology, and neurointerventional radiology.

She has completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education through King’s College London, is an Educational Supervisor for ACCS and Anaesthetic trainees, and part of the CESR Faculty.

Outside work, Shona enjoys being out on her bike and pottering around her garden.

Claire is a consultant cardiothoracic anaesthetist and intensivist working at Hammersmith hospital. She was a Darzi fellow at the Brompton hospital and has a specialist interest in change management within healthcare. She is in the senior leadership team for ACCESS (Adult Critical Care Emergency Support Service) working to support critical care transfers across London. She also sits on the
association for cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care.

She has been part of the LIPA team since it’s inception and is passionate about delivering high quality training to the next generation of anaesthetic consultants.

Having not had a linear path in Medicine, including working in Ethiopia, doing a Masters in Medical Humanities and an MPhil at the Royal College of Art and being involved in Innovation and Service Design at trust level and industry, I understand that it is the wealth of experience that we accumulate, that make us good at what we do.

The Moorfields anaesthetic department is welcoming, friendly and supportive. We will be interested in you and have experience in supporting trainees through various pivotal moments and milestones. We have facilitated a few doctors through the portfolio pathway and get very good feedback from doctors that have been to us.