Ramani Moonesinghe

Ramani Moonesinghe MD(Res) FRCP FRCA FFICM is Professor of Perioperative Medicine at University College London (UCL) and a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Critical Care Medicine at UCL Hospitals.[1] Moonesinghe is Director of the National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) Health Services Research Centre[2] and between 2016 and 2019 was Associate National Clinical Director for Elective Care for NHS England.[3] In 2020 on she took on the role of National Clinical Director for Critical and Perioperative care at NHS England and NHS Improvement.

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Ramani Moonesinghe

MD(Res) FRCP FRCA FFICM
Alma materUniversity College London
OccupationProfessor of Perioperative Medicine and Consultant in Anaethestics and Critical Care

Her research focuses on evaluating interventions aimed at improving perioperative outcomes, including technological and service innovations. She leads the UCL/UCLH Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (uclsource.com), the Centre for Perioperative Medicine and the Research Department for Targeted Intervention at UCL.

Her career has been profiled in the Lancet and BMJ and she was the Royal College of Anaesthetists’ contemporary nomination for the “Women in Medicine, a celebration“ exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians.

Education

Moonesinghe graduated from UCL Medical School in 1997, where she was president of the medical students' union,[4] and did her postgraduate training in internal medicine at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals.[1] In 2015, Moonesinghe began a fellowship in Improvement Science with the Health Foundation.[5]

Moonesinghe has reported she was inspired by Katharine Lloyd-Williams, an anaesthetist and educationalist who oversaw the creation of the UK’s first medical school completely open to both male and female students.[4]

Career

Moonesinghe was appointed to UCL Hospitals in 2010 as consultant in Anaesthetics and Critical Care Medicine, and was appointed Professor of Perioperative Medicine at UCL in 2018. Co-Director of the NIHR funded[3] SOURCE Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe)[1]

Between 2008 and 2012, Moonesinghe was a Council Member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.[3] In June 2016 was appointed Director of NIAA Health Services Research Centre[2] and also in 2016 appointed Associate National Clinical Director for Elective Care at NHS England. She was the NIAA academic training advisor between 2012 and 2017[6] and a NIAA Board member from 2009.[2]

In 2017, Moonesinghe was selected to join the Q initiative in the founding cohort, an initiative led by the Health Foundation to improve care quality for NHS patients.[7] Moonesinghe was on the design team of 'Little Heroes' gowns, a 2017 BSc Product Design student's final year project; superhero-inspired hospital gowns with a detachable capes for children aged two to six.[8]

References
  1. "Dr Ramani Moonesinghe". www.uclh.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  2. "Dr Ramani Moonesinghe appointed as NIAA Health Services Research Centre Director - The National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia". www.niaa.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  3. England, NHS. "NHS England » National Clinical Directors". www.england.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  4. "Women in medicine: Ramani Moonesinghe and Katharine Lloyd-Williams". RCP London. 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  5. "Five new Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellows announced - The Health Foundation". www.health.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  6. "HSRC Director - The NIAA Health Services Research Centre". www.niaa-hsrc.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  7. "Consultant Anaesthetists join ground-breaking initiative". European Union News. June 26, 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  8. "Children fly through surgery in new superhero gowns". European Union News. August 25, 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
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