Dr H R M A Barker BSc MBBS FRCA(London) Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care medicine at Ealing Hospital NHS Trust.He has got specialist interest in acute pain,obstetrics,orthopaedics,urology, and general surgery and has been actively involved in improving the quality of health care through research ,audits and teaching .Dr Barker is one of the two founders and directors of the Ealing Primary FRCA viva course.He is also one of two consultants in charge of the clinical aspects of research conducted at the Centre for Sports Medicine and Human Performance at Brunel University, hence has been the coauthor of research papers published by the Centre for Sports Medicine and Human Performance Brunel University.Dr Barker is a member of the research ethics committee at Brunel University.