Membership
The SCCTG has no formal membership but is open to all health professionals who wish
to contribute to research that meets the objectives of the group. Our executive group has the following tasks:
1. To ensure that the aims of the group are fulfilled
2. To manage the trial office
3. To organise meetings for the group
4. To generate funding
5. To oversee development of a constitution and ensure adherence to the constitution
6. To provide support in trial design
The SCCTG constitution is intended to ensure clarity and transparency in all
activities of the group.
The SCCTG has no formal membership but is open to all health professionals who wish
to contribute to research that meets the objectives of the group. Our executive group has the following tasks:
1. To ensure that the aims of the group are fulfilled
2. To manage the trial office
3. To organise meetings for the group
4. To generate funding
5. To oversee development of a constitution and ensure adherence to the constitution
6. To provide support in trial design
The SCCTG constitution is intended to ensure clarity and transparency in all
activities of the group.
Current membership of the Executive Group
[click on each
name for details]
Dr Tim Walsh (Chairman)
Dr
Tim Walsh is Consultant and Part-time Senior Lecturer at the New
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and the University of Edinburgh. His
research interests include oxygen transport, blood transfusion and
anaemia. Current active research activity relates to the
epidemiology of anaemia during and after critical illness, the red
cell storage lesion and the function of red cells during critical
illness. He is also co-lead for the ISOC study, a UK wide study of
coagulopathy and blood product use in ICUs.
Tim is also researching new methods of monitoring depth of sedation in the critically ill, and is a co-investigator in a study developing methods of tracking sepsis incidence from national morbidity data.
Tim is also researching new methods of monitoring depth of sedation in the critically ill, and is a co-investigator in a study developing methods of tracking sepsis incidence from national morbidity data.
Dr Stephen Cole
Dr Stephen Cole is a Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine in Ninewells Hospital & Medical School in Dundee. He has research interests in the areas of airway management, percutaneous tracheostomy in ICU, Sedation in ICU, hypertonic solutions, scoring systems and audit.
Dr Sandy Binning
Dr
Sandy Binning is Consultant in Intensive Care at the Western
Infirmary, Glasgow. He has research interests in the areas of
nutrition and sedation in the critically ill. Current active
research includes viral infection among patients and health care
workers in the ICU and how this may contribute to hospital
acquired infection.
Dr Brian Cuthbertson
Dr Brian Cuthbertson is a Clinical
Senior Lecturer and Honorary
Consultant in Critical Care in the Health Services Research Unit at the
University of Aberdeen. His research interests include outcome from
critical illness, outreach critical care, risk reduction in high-risk
surgery patients, ARDS and sepsis.
Consultant in Critical Care in the Health Services Research Unit at the
University of Aberdeen. His research interests include outcome from
critical illness, outreach critical care, risk reduction in high-risk
surgery patients, ARDS and sepsis.
Funding and sponsorship
The Scottish Critical Care Trials Group receives no formal funding. We have ongoing costs associated with running and maintaining the Trial Office in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and organising meetings. The SCCTG is a charitable status company registered in Scotland with Companies House. The Directors of the company are the members of the executive group, together with the President of the Scottish Intensive Care Society. The company secretary is the Trial Office Coordinator. None of these individuals receive any salary or individual financial gain from the company. We aim to attract support from a mixture of industry and mainstream grant-giving bodies to carry out independent investigator led research. We do not carry out commercially funded projects, but are grateful for sponsorship or grants from industry, which enable the continued running of the SCCTG, essential pilot work and other project development.
Supporting Research Development
The SCCTG has a checklist for developing a new idea for a research project (link to checklist). Once an idea has been developed through this stage potential investigators are encouraged to present at a SCCTG meeting for critique and evaluation. From this stage an aim of the group is to assist and support with funding and organisation of pilot work and the preparation of grant applications.