Kathy Rowan

I am the Scientific Adviser to the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC), Honorary Professor at both the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Monash University, Australia, and Programme Director of the Health and Social Care Delivery Research funding programme for the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). In 1994, I established ICNARC as an independent, not-for-profit, scientific organisation to facilitate improvements in critical care – for patients and for those who care for them. As Director, over thirty years, I led the design, delivery and dissemination of a broad programme of clinical audit and clinical/health services research, nationally and internationally. I was awarded the Humphry Davy Medal by the UK Royal College of Anaesthetists (2004), a Harkness Fellowship (2004/5), the President’s Prize with honorary life membership of the UK Intensive Care Society (2019) and became an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Queen’s Birthday Honours’ List, 2021) for services to research and intensive care.