Chris Thorpe

Chris Thorpe is the chair of the Smaller and Specialist Units Advisory Group The Faculty of Intensive Care MedicineLondon, UK. He was brought up in Swansea and qualified from Kings College London in 1985. He trained mainly in London, Bristol, and Edinburgh but also worked in Moshi, Tanzania; Christchurch, New Zealand and as an expedition doctor in Arctic Norway during an age where training was more flexible. He returned to Wales in 1997 to take up a post as a consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in Bangor, Gwynedd.

He has been actively involved in ICM training throughout his career, starting as an ICM tutor in 1997, followed by Regional Advisor and Training Programme Director for Wales. He led the setup of the ACCS scheme for Wales and continued to run the scheme until recently. He has played an active part in the Welsh Intensive Care Society council over many years and has represented ICM on a number of Welsh committees, including working for the Welsh Assembly on workforce issues. He is currently an examiner for the FFICM and is on the FICM Quality, Recruitment, and Careers Sub-committee: he has recently taken on the role of Quality lead for the Faculty.