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Vivian Ip, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Talk: Beyond net zero: building climate resilient anaesthesia
Dr. Vivian Ip is a Clinical Professor at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is a consultant anaesthetist with fellowship training in Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, as well as Ambulatory Anaesthesia. She currently works at the South Health Campus Hospital, which is the leading center of Regional Anaesthesia in Calgary, and she is the Director of the Regional Anaesthesia Division, as well as the Director of the Fellowship Program in Regional Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine.
At the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society (CAS), she is the Secretary on the Board of Directors. She is also the immediate Past Chair of both the Environmental Sustainability Section, and the Regional Anaesthesia Section. At the American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) and Pain Medicine, she is the Chair of the Newsletter Committee/Editor-in-chief of the newsletter, and the Advisor of the Green Anaesthesia Special Interest Group. Furthermore, she sits on the Sustainability Committee at the World Federations of Societies of Anaesthesiologists. Along with these roles, she is the guest handling editor of the sustainability portfolio, and the Editorial Board member at the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia (CJA). She also serves as an Editor for the Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (RAPM). She is active in research and her research interests include nerve block catheters, environmental sustainability in the perioperative arena, neuromodulation in acute pain, and nerve block safety.
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Prof Dame Lesley Regan
Talk: Closing the gender health gap – why optimising women’s health benefits everyone in society
Dame Lesley Regan is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College, St Mary’s Hospital, London. Having graduated from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London in 1980, she pursued her career at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, where she first became enthused by clinical & laboratory research, completing an MD on miscarriage, the commonest complication of pregnancy. She went on to set up the world’s largest recurrent miscarriage clinic at St Mary’s.
Professor Regan was the 30th President (2016-2019) of the RCOG, during which time she co-chaired the national Women’s Health Task Force and published the RCOG Better for Women report which highlighted the need for an NHS led women’s health strategy. Lesley was awarded a DBE for her services to women’s health in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List. She was appointed chair of the WoW charity in October 2020 and became the first ever Women’s Health Ambassador for England in July 2022, to help implementation of the Government’s recently launched Women's Health Strategy to improve the health and wellbeing of girls and women nationally.
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