Alex Manara has been a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at the Regional Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit in North Bristol NHS Trust since 1990. He was a member of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges’ Working Party on a Code of Practice for the Diagnosis and Confirmation of Death. He led the implementation of one of the first controlled DCD programmes in the UK in 2002. He has been involved in the development of national and international guidance on death determination anon on DCD. He has also been involved in the development of guidance and best practice strategies in many other aspects of deceased organ donation. He has been an expert advisor on organ donation to the UK Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and the National Quality Lead for Organ Donation in the UK.
His other interests include the management of patients with devastating brain injury, end of life care ICU, feeding critically ill patients and percutaneous tracheostomy