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Kacper Sumera
Chair & Executive member
The network founder and paramedic by background, Kacper is Head of Education at East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (UK) with a few-year experience working in academia. For his doctoral thesis, he undertook an exploratory study utilising mixed methodology into the transition experiences of internationally-educated paramedics. Kacper developed the idea of the CPR Quality Officer.
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Tomasz Ilczak
Vice Chair & Executive member
Tomasz, a paramedic and intensive care nurse by background, is a professor and Acting Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Bielsko-Biala University (Poland). His scholarly activities range from book authorship to the publication of a number of COVID-related articles and work on quality improvements in ALS. Tomasz is a full ALS Instructor with ERC and ILS director.
Morten Bakkerud
Executive member
Morten, a qualified nurse anaesthetist and a paramedic by background, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Prehospital Care at Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway). Morten was the lead researcher for Norway in the CPR Quality Officer trial and is the principal investigator in our ALS quality improvement RCT.
Carl Webster
Executive member
Carl has worked in a variety of roles in research and academia in the field of biomedicine and pharmacology before registering as a paramedic and working clinically in an ambulance service. Following this, he has taught on several pre and post-registration paramedic, nursing and allied health courses across different Higher Education Institutes. He is Principal Lecturer at the Nottingham Trent University (UK).
Professor
Niroshan Siriwardena
University of Lincoln
Professor
John Sandars
Edge Hill University
Professor
Tom Quinn
Kingston University & St George’s University of London
Helen Henderson
Senior LecturerRobert Gordon University
Agnieszka Sumera
Clinical EducatorEast Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
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Dr Andrew Makkink
Senior LecturerUniversity of Johannesburg
Resuscitation Lead
Dr Michał Ćwiertnia
Senior LecturerUniversity of Bielsko-Biała
Our collaboration
Library and Knowledge Service for NHS Ambulance Services in England
We are delighted to be working in partnership with LKS ASE. They support EPRN and its members in:
- Literature searches
- Document supply
- Special projects
- LKS ASE kindly produce EPRN's current awareness bulletins on simulation in pre-hospital research
Our collaboration
Community and Health Research Unit
We are extremely proud to be affiliated with the CaHRU. The CaHRU is a recognised research centre at the University of Lincoln. CaHRU’s mission is to increase people’s health and well-being by improving the quality, performance, and systems of care across the health, social, and third sector care services through their world-leading interdisciplinary research. Their work promotes high-quality care to enhance the experience, safety, effectiveness, efficiency and equity of healthcare by examining and transforming the performance and function of health and social care practice, organisation and delivery.
Our collaboration
College of Remote and Offshore Medicine
We are proud to partner with CoROM. They are an EU-registered, not-for-profit charity that focuses on the practice of healthcare in remote, austere and resource-poor environments.
The College is based in the European Union and has a track record of delivering education and training to organisations such as the World Health Organisation and NATO.
