Project team

Dr Christopher Smith, Co-Chief Investigator

Chris is a NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Medicine, with an interest in Emergency Medicine and community resuscitation research.

He is part of the EPPiC research group

He completed a PhD in Health Sciences at Warwick Medical School in February 2021.

Professor Gavin Perkins (Professor in Critical Care Medicine), Chief Investigator

Gavin leads the emergency and critical care group within Warwick Clinical Trials Unit. He served as Chief Investigator for the BALTI, BALTI-prevention, PARAMEDIC-1 (Lucas) trial and was Chief Investigator for the PARAMEDIC-2 (Adrenaline) and Breathe Trials. Clinically he holds appointments as a Consultant Physician in Critical Care Medicine at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust and MERIT Team Consultant with West Midlands Ambulance Service.

Dr Claire Hawkes, Senior Lecturer

Dr Claire Hawkes joined King's College London in July 2022 from the Emergency, Prehospital, Perioperative and Critical Care group at the Clinical Trials Unit at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick.

Before moving into academia, she worked as an adult critical care nurse in intensive care and cardiac intensive care and at Bangor and Oxford Brookes Universities as a researcher and a Lecturer in Adult Nursing.

Her current research interests are out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, including the role of members of the public, emergency care and treatment planning, implementation research, process evaluation in clinical trials and using mixed methods.

Assistant Professor Terry Brown, Research Fellow

Terry joined the OHCAO project team in January 2016. His current work focuses on the examination of data in the OHCAO registry, with particular emphasis on the variation of bystander CPR rates in UK and across the ambulance services, and the impacts on survival outcomes.

Scott Booth, OHCAO Registry Database Officer

Scott joined the OHCAO project team in April 2015. Scott contributes to the daily operational running of the project and liaises with ambulance services regarding enquiries about data and how to submit data to the OHCAO database. Scott has also been involved in writing and review journal article papers which use OHCAO data for their project.

Associate Professor Chen Ji, Senior Research Fellow, Statistician

Chen is responsible for cleaning, collating and analysing the data submitted to the OHCAO database system. Chen works closely alongside Terry and Scott to manage the data.

Dal Kaur, Senior Project Manager

Dal joined the OHCAO project team in 2024 as Senior Project Manager. Dal oversees the management of the OHCAO registry and works closely with the Study Manager to help with the operational running of the registry.

Adam de Paeztron, Study Manager

Adam started working at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit in September 2014. He joined the OHCAO project team as Study Manager in January 2019. He works full time on the project and is responsible for the daily operational and administrative running of the project.

Adrian Willis, Senior Programmer

Ade is responsible for the maintenance, development and support of the OHCAO database system which was developed to aggregate and process data obtained from the participating Ambulance Services. Ade ensures functional requirements are met and the system is fit for purpose.