Audrey C. Quinn FRCA

Audrey Catherine Quinn is a consultant obstetric and neuro-anaesthetist at James Cook Hospital Middlesbrough. In 2009 she became a member of Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association (OAA) committee, and in 2013 set up and chairs the OAA, National intercollegiate Maternal Critical Care, MCC Subcommittee. Audrey is lead for obstetric Intensive Care National Audit Research Centre ICNARC dataset. Audrey chairs a revision of Providing Equity of Critical and Maternity Care for the Critically Ill Pregnant or Recently Pregnant Woman and is course co-organiser for the PG Certificate Care of the Critically Ill Childbearing Mother at Leeds University and at James Cook Hospital Middlesbrough.

She attends an RCOG working party on setting up spiral MCC training into the obstetric curriculum and has been awarded an OAA fellowship education grant to set up a higher intercollegiate MCC curriculum with Obstetricians, Intensivists and Obstetric physicians aimed at future consultants specialising in maternal critical care. Audrey was a member of the OAA/DAS working party developing the first national algorithm specifically for obstetric failed tracheal intubation (2015) and is anaesthetic assessor for the maternal confidential enquiry MBRRACE. She became an honorary Clinical Associate Professor at Leeds University in 2012 and has an extensive research portfolio from posts in Glasgow, St George’s London, Leeds and Middlesbrough, receiving numerous research grants for obstetric and neuro-surgical projects, in particular better management of and rehabilitation after subarachnoid haemorrhage.