Our Faculty
Dr Andrew Levison
Consultant Anaesthetist and Airway lead at Wexham Park. Andrew has been part of the faculty since it started. He has a special interest in non technical skills and has been lecturing on this topic at airway workshops for over 10 years.
Andrew also has an interest in the WHO surgical safety checklist and has been closely involved in helping to design and implement the effective use of the current checklist at Frimley Health.
Andrew is a Terema Human Factors trainer and ALS instructor.
Outside of medicine, Andrew is a keen general aviation pilot with an an EASA PPL and FAA commercial single and multiengined licenses and an instrument rating. He has also recently qualified as a Class Rating Instructor and has over 1100 hours logged on single and multiengined light aircraft.
Tabassum Choudary
Principal ODP at Wexham Park Hospital. Tabassum has been a member of the faculty since it started and has been closely involved with organising and teaching on previous workshops
Dr Roy Fernandes
Dr Jairaj Rangasami
Consultant Anaesthetist .
Past President of DAS and past Airway lead at Wexham Park Hospital
Dr Peter Farkas
Staff Grade Anaesthetist at Wexham Park Hospital.
Peter is originally from Hungary, and has been trying to perfect his intubation skills at Wexham Park Hospital since 1998. A proud founder member of the Wexham Advanced Airway Group, he is very enthusiastic about the procedural skills involved with the profession. He enjoys sharing his experience and practical ideas gathered during his 30 plus years as an anaesthetist
Dr Tiina Tamm
Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care
Dr Subrahmanyan Radhakrishna (“Krish”)
Consultant Anaesthetist University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire
Elected to Board of Association of Anaesthetists September 2021
Honorary Secretary DAS 2012 – 2016
Expert advisor to MHRA (Medicines Health Products Regulatory Agency)
Reviewer Cochrane Anaesthesia Group
He was co-chair and author of Ergonomics in Anaesthesia guidelines AAGBI – published in Anaesthesia December 2021.
Krish was the author of AAGBI Guidelines on Infection control in Anaesthesia published on line in March 2020 and “Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infection in anaesthesia” (Raising the Standards in Anaesthesia, RCOA quality improvement compendium) in November 2020
Krish has a special interest in airways, Bariatric Anaesthesia and Human Factors
He is a Course Director for ATLS courses.
Dr Ranganthan (Rangu) Iyer
Rangu recently retired from the NHS and Frimley Park NHS Trust. He was formerly the Clinical director for acute surgical services at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough until the Trusts merged. Rangu continues to practice privately and maintains an active interest in teaching Airway, Human factors in Clinical Practice, Ultrasound in Anaesthesia and Pain Management.
Rangu has been and still is an active participant in all the Airway workshops at Wexham as well with the ORAG and the Elgin Airway Workshop in Scotland. He has been in the faculty of the Airway workshops organised by DAS, AAGBI and RCOA.
Dr Peter Olah
Staff Grade Anaesthetist at Wexham Park Hospital
Dr Manish Bhardwaj
Consultant Anaesthetist and Regional Anaesthesia and MTI Lead, Wexham Park Hospital.
Originally trained in India, Manish consolidated his anaesthetic training from The Oxford School and associated hospitals and has been a substantive consultant since 2012.
Manish has a special interest in Regional, Airway and Obstetric Anaesthesia and is particularly skilled in Ultrasound guided nerve blocks. Manish runs Ultrasound Guided Regional Anaesthesia Workshops nationally as well as internationally to train colleagues in these techniques and is also a core faculty member of the Wexham Airway Group.
Outside work, he is a keen cricketer playing both in league and friendly matches, a passionate singer organising musical events raising funds for charity and also enjoys cooking, painting and travelling.
Dr Andrej Andrasovsky
Andrej is a European Airway Management Society Airway Teacher. He founded the Slovak Airway Group in Slovakia and also established Dr Gray’s Airway Group of international airway enthusiasts. He is the lead organiser of Dr Gray’s International Airway Day in Elgin. This is a multidisciplinary pre-hospital advanced airway workshop in the North of Scotland.
Dr Tamas Csermely
Staff Grade Anaesthetist at Wexham Park Hospital
Dr Pushkar Dadarkar
Consultant Anaesthetist at Wexham Park Hospital. Pushkar was appointed as a Consultant Anaesthetist at Wexham Park Hospital in 2003 and joined the Wexham Airway Group soon after its inception.
His professional interests include Obstetric Anaesthesia , ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia, education and transfusion.
Outside of work, Pushkar manages the hospital football team and enjoys hiking and gardening.
Dr Omar Touma
Consultant in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine at Wexham Park Hospital. Omar has been working at Wexham Park Hospital since 2014 and has been a member of the Wexham Airway Group since.
In addition to his interest in emergency airway management, Omar has an interest in resuscitation , trauma and point of care ultrasound . Omar is an ALS and ATLS instructor and a member of the TEAM (Training in Emergency Airway management) course faculty run by the RCOA
Captain Dave Fielding
Dave is a very experienced long haul Airline Captain, Human Factors (HF’s) Trainer and codirector of Wing Factors (WF’s). WF’s have been working at Frimley Health for over 3 years, observing and feeding back on the HF’s element of medical simulations in the Trust.
WF’s knowledge and input from the aviation world have proved to be very popular in understanding the important role that HF’s play in improving patient safety, especially in time critical medical emergencies.
Carolyne Hayward
Administrator and Coorganiser of Wexham Airway Group Workshops.
Carolyne has the very important job of ensuring the day runs smoothly and to time, as well as organising all the paperwork for the day.
Carolyne worked in the Wexham Park Hospital Anaesthetics Dept for almost 15 years helping out in various courses and training events.
She also assisted at international airway courses in Debrecen, Hungary in 2009, DAS in Ascot 2013 andf Kosice, Slovakia in 2015.
Carolyne currently works as an orthopaedic plaster technician at Wexham Park and really enjoys helping out at the workshops.