BBA Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees


Nicole Lee


BBA Chair and Prevention Committee Chair

I started in burns in 2008 as a band 5 staff nurse working within the burns ITU looking after the burn injured patients requiring multi organ support. I moved into a senior band 6 after completion of my burns and ITU education. I then became the Clinical Facilitator / Senior Sister in charge of burns education for the St Andrews Burns Centre with an interest in Simulation training, I supported Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) with different Simulation training courses. In 2019 I took on the role of Lead Nurse for the London and South East Burns Network (LSEBN) supporting the nursing voice and leading the burns nursing forum in regional burns care delivery. I remain with a keen interest in burns education and Co-Chair of the Advanced Burns Module for University of East Anglia (UEA) and support overseas education with projects in multiple countries. During COVID I supported the London Nightingale for both openings supporting a quick pace change model of care. I moved on to the Burns Matron role in 2020 at Queen Victoria Hospital and then moved on to the Burns Matron role in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 2021 as I missed working with the larger burn injured patients. I am a Board member of the British Burn Association (BBA) and of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN) where I represent the Board on the European Federation of Critical Care Nurses Association (EfCCNa).

Ascanio Tridente


Deputy Chair and Director of Communications

Dr Ascanio Tridente qualified in Medicine with Honours, holds a master’s in clinical Trials, completed Specialist training in Intensive Care and General Internal Medicine / Acute, completed a PhD, is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM). He is the incoming deputy Chair and a current Trustee of the British Burn Association, co-chair of the Special Interest Group in Anaesthetics/Critical Care, BBA representative to the national Burns Clinical Informatics Group (BCIG) and has co-authored the BBA Standards for Burn Care (2023). Dr Tridente holds other roles: Clinical Lead, North of England Network for Burns Care; Associate Editor, Scars, Burns and Healing journal, SAGE, London (international, peer reviewed journal); Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Acute (Internal) Medicine, Whiston Hospital, and former Clinical Director of Intensive Care (2018-2022); Clinical Director of Research, Development & Innovation (RDI), Mersey & West Lancashire NHS (MWL Trust), WSN site – (H-index 32, Scopus Author 25226348400, ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1500-447X); Visiting Professor (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer (University of Liverpool, UK); Associate of the General Medical Council (performance assessor, professional & linguistic proficiency examiner, specialist certification); Careers co-Lead, FICM (Careers Recruitment & Workforce committees); NHS Blood & Transplant regional (NW) education clinical lead in organ donation.

Odhran Shelley


Secretary and Education Committee Chair

Director of the National Burns Unit, St James Hospital, Dublin
Consultant Plastic Surgeon, St Andrew’s Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, Chelmsford

Nikolaos Arkoulis


Treasurer

I am a Consultant in Plastic Surgery and Burns at the Canniesburn Plastic Surgery Unit in Glasgow and Clinical Lead of the Scottish Burn Centre. My other subspecialty interests include advanced skin cancer and plastic surgery trauma.
Simon Booth - Research Committee Chair and Nurse, Designated Member

Emily (Tig) Bridge



Tig Bridge qualified as a Dietitian from University of Nottingham in 2011 and holds a Masters in Advanced Dietetic Practice. She began working in burns at Nottingham Burns Unit in 2013, combing this with extensive experience in intensive care, paediatrics and complex nutrition support. Her passion for nutrition’s role in burns and complex wounds lead her to undertake an international fellowship to north America as a Nottinghamshire Roosevelt Memorial Travel Scholar 2015 and be the first Dietitian to be a review member of the British Burn Association National Standards for provision and outcomes in Adult and Paediatric Burn Care in 2018. Additionally, she sits on her trust’s Skin Integrity Operational Group and Complex Wound MDT, consults for the Katie Piper Foundation supporting survivors and the charity with dietetic care post injury, is an honorary lecturer at University of Nottingham who also supports dietetic students to undertake burn nutrition research and a BBA and EBA member. Where able, Tig enjoys supporting burn charities and has volunteered at Burn camps; recently attending the Midland Children’s Burn Trust camp in Penrith in Nov 2024. More recently, Tig has undertaken a strategic role as one of the UK’s first Essential Nutrition Matrons at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), responsible for reviewing and implementing the trust’s Nutrition and Hydration strategy, food and drink policy alongside nutrition and hydration quality improvement and governance. This in combination with her extensive experience in and passion for Burns has enabled her to obtain an Acute Nutrition Service Lead role at Glangwilli Hospital in Carmarthen. When this new role commences in March she will continue to support the Burn Dietetic community with clinical supervision alongside her university and burn charity work and BBA membership.
Ganesh Hanumanthu - Anaesthetist/Intensivist/Pain Specialist, Designated Member
Emily Huddleston - Fundraising Committee Chair and Allied Health Professional, Designated Member

Lia Paton



I have been a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia since 2016 and Lead for Burns Critical Care at the Scottish National Burn Centre since 2020. I am enthusiastic about identifying and sharing best practice in burns critical care through collaborative working. With this in mind, I have led the delivery of a UK Delphi study on burns critical care research priorities, pan-MDT conferences on management of critically injured burns patients and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine education modules on burn injury.
Sankhya Sen - Overseas Committee Chair and Surgeon, Designated Member
Claire Black - Co-opted