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Gender balance and diversity

In the interests of fairness we all have a duty to make sure that disadvantaged groups share equally in speaking opportunities, and that conference programmes reflect the full diversity of the population. Many groups of different sizes deserve specific attention, but one group that is very large, across the whole world, is women. So one easy step is to make sure that no session is populated entirely by men.

For this reason I will not participate in all-male sessions in meetings. Please do not invite me to speak if you do not support gender balance and ethnic diversity in your meeting.

Biography

J Kenneth Baillie BSc(Hons) MBChB PhD FRCA FRCP FFICM FRSE FMedSci

Kenny Baillie is Professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine.

He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc(Hons) in Physiology in 1999 and MBChB in 2002. He completed basic training in medicine in Glasgow, and in anesthesia in Edinburgh. During this time he led a series of high altitude research projects in Bolivia, and founded a high-altitude research charity, Apex. He was appointed as a clinical lecturer on the ECAT (Edinburgh Clinical Academic Track) at the University of Edinburgh in 2008, and completed a Wellcome Trust-funded PhD in statistical genetics in 2012. He was awarded a Wellcome-Beit Prize Intermediate Clinical Fellowship in 2013. He led a global consensus on harmonisation of research studies in outbreaks for the International Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Consortium (ISARIC), and worked with WHO on H1N1 influenza, MERS, and Ebola. After completing clinical training in 2014 he worked as a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, before returning to the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh to establish a research program in translational applications of genomics in critical care medicine. He works as a consultant in the intensive care unit at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. During the Covid outbreak in 2020-21, he led the UK-wide GenOMICC and ISARIC4C studies, and contributed to the design and delivery of the RECOVERY trial. He discovered new biological mechanisms underlying critical illness in Covid, and contributed to the discovery of effective drug treatments to reduce mortality.

He leads a research programme in translational genomics - using genetic signals from critically ill patients to identify both the targets for drug therapy, and the groups of patients likely to benefit most from any treatment, and testing those therapeutic ideas in highly-efficient model systems.

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