Biographical note

Hozefa Ebrahim is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham, and College Tutor for Anaesthesia at the Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust. He has been teaching postgraduate anaesthesia and intensive care medicine for ten years, and has previously published Practice Single Best Answer Questions for the Final FRCA (Cambridge, 2012). Michael Clarke is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management for the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. He has previously co-edited Practice Single Best Answers for the Final FRCA (Cambridge, 2012), as well as contributing questions to this and other exam preparation resources. Hussein Khambalia is a Surgical Registrar in the North West Deanery. He is a transplant trainee, specialising in kidney and pancreas transplantation, multi-organ retrieval and vascular access surgery. He has demonstrated anatomy at Guys Hospital, Kings College Hospital and St Thomas' Medical School and is currently also an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Manchester. Mr Khambalia's research interests include peri-operative optimisation and risk prediction in pancreas transplantation, pre-operative pancreas allograft assessment and DCD donor assessment. Insiya Susnerwala is a Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia with an interest in obstetric and regional anaesthesia at the North West School of Anaesthesia. She teaches simulation training, is an instructor on the Advanced Life Support course, has teaching role preparing candidates sitting for the Primary and Final FRCA and is an examiner for medical student OSCE's. Richard Pierson is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. He specialises in vascular and obstetric anaesthesia and is currently lead consultant for both difficult airways and critical incident management. He has a keen interest in medical education with roles as Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and GMC Named Educational Supervisor. Anna Pierson is a Speciality Registrar in the Birmingham School of Anaesthesia. She is the current Lead Trainee for 'Less Than Full Time Training in Anaesthesia' in the West Midlands region. Her interests include ENT, maxillo-facial, and vascular anaesthesia. She has previously contributed to Practice Single Best Answer Questions for the Final FRCA: A Revision Guide (Cambridge, 2012) and edited Returning to Work in Anaesthesia: Back on the Circuit (Cambridge, 2016). Natish Bindal is a Consultant Neuroanaesthetist and Operational Departmental Lead at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. His neuroanaesthetic clinical practice includes both cranial and complex spinal work; with special interests in anaesthesia for epilepsy surgery; awake craniotomy; and complex head and neck oncology surgery.