Charlotte is a Respiratory and Critical Care Consultant at Barts Health NHS Trust, one of England’s biggest NHS Trusts.
Born in the UK and raised in Singapore, Charlotte returned to the UK in 2003 to begin medical training at the University of Glasgow.
Following graduation in 2008, Charlotte completed foundation and core training in the West of Scotland Deanery before moving to the Kent, Surrey, and Sussex Deanery in 2012 to take up a National Training Number in Respiratory medicine. As a registrar, she obtained level 1 Thoracic USS accreditation and won awards for Leadership and Professionalism from East Kent Foundation Trust.
In her penultimate year of higher specialist training, she took time off to complete an advanced year of training in Intensive Care Medicine at University College London Hospital, where she developed a real passion for Critical Care.
During registrar training, Charlotte was further inspired to take another year to develop airway competencies as a Critical Care fellow at Whipps Cross Hospital. She completed registrar training in June 2019, all while acting as a Respiratory/Medical High Dependency Consultant at Medway Maritime Hospital.
A Respiratory and Critical Care consultant at Bart’s Health since August 2019, Charlotte primarily works at Whipps Cross Hospital as a Critical Care Consultant with an interest in Respiratory support, Lung Ultrasound and Critical Care rehabilitation. She is also a Sleep and Ventilation consultant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Charlotte has extensive teaching and mentoring experience. She has delivered interactive workshops on topics in Critical Care and Respiratory Medicine to doctors and allied health professionals, as well as online lectures to prospective medical students. She is an Advanced Life Support Instructor with a Doctors as Educators Accreditation from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP).
With educational supervisor training from Miad and mentorship training from the Institute of Commercial Management, Charlotte has been a clinical supervisor and mentor for medical trainees. She has also interviewed Health Education England’s Core Medical Training candidates.
During the COVID pandemic, Charlotte played an instrumental role in the development of local and trust-wide guidelines and teaching materials for Respiratory failure and Non-invasive Respiratory Support. This enabled over four hundred non-respiratory medics and AHPs to be rapidly upskilled to manage the influx of COVID patients.
Charlotte is a co-investigator for REMAP-CAP at Whipps Cross, an NIHR multi-platform adaptive international priority COVID trial and has written about novel diagnostics in respiratory infections in Intensive Care.
She brings her expertise in respiratory medicine and non-invasive ventilation, alongside her passion for teaching, to the Centre for International Medical Graduates. Charlotte will be facilitating sessions on acute management of asthma and COPD, ABG and non-invasive ventilation on the Acute Medicine for International Medical Graduates course.
