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 Professor Sonya Crowe (Chief Investigator) UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit, CORU Prof Sonya Crowe is the operational research lead with expertise in data linkage, analysis, problem structuring and soft system analysis. Sonya has extensive experience of working in partnership with clinicians, commissioners and service users. |  Professor Padmanabhan Ramnarayan (Co-Chief Investigator) Imperial College London Prof Padmanabhan Ramnarayan is a Professor of Paediatric Critical Care in the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care at St Mary’s Hospital. He provides critical care clinical expertise along with experience of NIHR critical care epidemiology and clinical trials research. |
 Professor Christina Pagel (Co-Investigator and Work Package 1 Lead) UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit, CORU Prof Christina Pagel has expertise in mathematics and systems design in health services, using large linked datasets and working in partnership with clinicians, commissioners and service users. Alongside this, Christina plays a prominent role in the public communication of science. |  Professor Jo Wray (PPI and Work Package 2 Lead) Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust Prof Jo Wray, Professor of Child Health Psychology - Cardiology, Critical Care and Transplantation, has expertise in questionnaire and interview studies with families, children, and service providers with a focus on outcomes and experience. She also has expertise in the development and testing of tools for measuring developmental and psychological outcomes and interventions. |
 Dr Qi Huang (Research Fellow) UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit, CORU Dr Qi Huang is a research fellow in medical statistics, working on projects in congenital heart disease (BHF, LAUNCHES, CHAMPION) and currently focusing on the transition of critical care from paediatric to adult services (OPTICAL). |  Dr Charmaine Kohn (Research Fellow) Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust Dr Charmaine Kohn is a Research Fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) specialising in qualitative research focussed on Mental Health, parenting and CYP with neurodisability and their families. |
 Julie Taylor (Senior Research Coordinator) UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit, CORU A trained epidemiologist and an expert research, ethics and governance coordinator, Julie currently works as Senior Research Coordinator at the UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit (CORU). |  UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit, CORU Carol is the Research Coordinator for the OPTICAL study at the UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit (CORU). With a background in research science, Carol has extensive experience supporting academic research teams and their projects. |
 Mrs Sue Ben Abraham (PPI Representative) Sue Ben-Abraham was a parent carer for 22 years to her late daughter who suffered with severe global developmental delay and life-threatening health conditions. She works as an NHS Patient Public Voice Partner for improving Palliative and EOL care, for children and young people and has spoken at both regional and national NHS conferences on her ‘lived experiences’ caring for her late daughter. Sue has worked closely with the charity Together for Short Lives on improving complex transitions for young people and was invited to join their funding panel in 2018 for Improving Transition. She is currently working with Bristol Children's Hospital on the Trauma Informed Practice training, Nottingham Hospital on Improving admissions for children and young people with complex needs and the Polypill Project. Sue has worked for the Care Quality Commission for the past 10 years as an Expert by Experience.
|  Dr Kate Oulton (Co-Investigator) Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust Dr Kate Oulton is a children’s nurse who has worked at GOSH for over 20 years. Kate is a Consultant Nurse for Family Engagement and Co-Production, following 5 years as the Consultant Nurse for Learning Disabilities. Alongside this, Kate continues to work as a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Outcomes and Experience Research in Children’s Health, Illness and Disability (ORCHID) and is also seconded 1 day a week as the Patient and Family Involvement Lead for the GOSH Children’s Cancer Centre. |
 Dr Clare Windsor (Co-Investigator) Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Dr Clare Windsor is a Consultant in Adult Intensive Care in South Yorkshire. She is an elected Intensive Care Society Council member and Patient Safety Lead. She has a strong interest and knowledge base surrounding Paediatric to Adult Critical Care Transition and was the lead author for national guidance produced by the Intensive Care Society and the Paediatric Critical Care Society. | Dr Rum Thomas (Co-Investigator) Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust |
 Dr Katie Malbon (Co-Investigator) Imperial College London Dr Katie Malbon is a Paediatrician and Lead for CYP Mental Health at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust. She trained in London, then completed a fellowship and worked as a consultant in adolescent medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. There she established innovative services for adolescents- a text messaging service “Text in the City”. Currently she leads rheumatology, gynaecology, and adolescent medicine. She is also Chief Medical Officer for a well-being App and clinical coordinator for NCEPOD. |  Dr Anjalika (Anji) Mallick (Co-Investigator) Imperial College London Dr Anji Mallick is a senior Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine trainee working at Great Ormond Street London. Alongside her clinical work, she is the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) trainee representative and Chair for the Paediatric Critical Care Society (PCCS) Wellbeing Special Interest Group. She has interests in medical ethics and law, paediatric organ donation, end of life care as well as supporting the transition of patients from paediatric to adult intensive care units (PICU to AICU). |
 Dr Sarah Seaton (Co-Investigator) University of Leicester Dr Sarah Seaton is an Associate Professor in Perinatal and Paediatric Research. She is a paediatric epidemiologist with a background in medical statistics. Sarah is the co-principal investigator of the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) which provides some of the routine data used within the OPTICAL study. | Mr Paul Mouncey (Co-Investigator) Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre |
 Professor Louise Rose (Co-Investigator) Kings College London Prof Louise Rose is a Professor of Critical Care Nursing and Research Division Head at the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King’s College London, UK. She also holds an honorary Professorship in the Critical Care Directorate and Lane Fox Respiratory Unit at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Prof Rose’s research program in critical care has a focus on feasibility trials and process evaluations of large randomized controlled trials incorporating the use of implementation science frameworks. This work explores how trial interventions and clinical innovations might be successfully implemented and sustained into clinical practice. |