🌈This Pride Month, we sat down with @lukeflower.bsky.social proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, to hear his story.
At the VPD-HLRI, we’re proud to celebrate voices like Luke’s and to stand for inclusion, visibility, and equality every day of the year. 🏳️🌈
#PrideMonth #Pride2025
Kicking off the @atscommunity.bsky.social conference with some great news!
Congratulations on the award @lukeflower.bsky.social and enjoy representing us in San Francisco!
#ATS2025
📣 Apply for the TRIC National Trainee Project Competition - open for ICM interested resident doctors📣
Share your work at SOA25 with the winner becoming their next national project for 2025/2026.
Apply before April 30th and find out more below👇
bit.ly/TRIC2025
Longer term post-hospital morbidity and mortality following admission with Covid-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
publications.ersnet.org/content/erjo...
@charlottesummers.bsky.social @mark-toshner.bsky.social @lukeflower.bsky.social
🔓 Our open-access review on inflammasomes in ARDS
🏥 ARDS treatments are limited
🫁 Multiple inflammasomes drive ARDS via IL-1β/18
💊 Their modulation offers potential therapies
🔬Further human-specific research is needed
@charlottesummers.bsky.social
@vpd-hlri.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mt76tcan
Photo of Dr Luke Flower in Westminster having received his Kathleen Ferguson Award from the Association of Anaesthetist.
@lukeflower.bsky.social, a PhD student @vpd-hlri.bsky.social & @selwyn1882.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social, has received the Kathleen Ferguson Award from @assocanaes.bsky.social in recognition of his sustained contribution to improving understanding of the healthcare of transgender patients 👏👏
The final TRIC Network NEAT-ECHO paper has been published! A summary:
🏥 179 ICUs
📡 96% of teams had an echo accredited clinician
👩🏫 89% had an approved mentor
✅ 95% felt positively about echo in ICU
🖥️ 33% had imagine storage systems
🫀15% had 24/7 echo access
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The winter edition of FICM’s Resident Eye is out!
If you’re looking for some light pre-Christmas reading, I wrote a short article on the importance of research in ICM and how intensivists in training can get involved.
ficm.ac.uk/resident-eye
A sad day for critical care - and what a phenomenal legacy he has left us.
RIP Prof Gattinoni, a Giant ⚕️📟
www.esicm.org/obituary-luc...
Thoroughly enjoyed coaching my first class for Cambridge University’s mixed martial arts team today.
Martial arts have had such a positive impact on my life, teaching me so much along the way. It’s a privilege to pass that on to the next generation of martial artists (& help win varsity of course).
A fascinating evening at @selwyn1882.bsky.social listening to Dame Sally Davies discuss the escalating global threat of antimicrobial resistance.
Collaboration from governments, industries, clinicians, patients & agriculture is essential to combat this silent pandemic.
Happy LGBTQ+ in STEM day!
I’m lucky to work in a very supportive institute, but many aren’t. The stats:
- 57% higher risk of burn out in clinical academics
- 50% consider leaving due to discrimination
- 33% advised not to come out
- 10% less students stay in STEM
Much still to do! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Hi all, I’m late to the intro party.
I’m an ICM reg in London & PhD student at Cambridge. My clinical interests centre around immune dysfunction in ARDS, shock, education & EDI.
Outside of work I’m a long suffering martial artist & canine enthusiast.
I look forward to connecting with y’all!
I’d love to be added if there’s room for one more!
