New FICM Dean and Vice Dean
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine is delighted to announce that Dr Jack Parry-Jones has been elected as the new FICM Dean. We are further pleased to announce that Dr Matthew Williams has been elected as the new FICM Vice Dean.
Terms of office will start in October 2025 when the current Dean, Dr Danny Bryden, will step down. Until then, Jack and Matt will continue in their roles as Vice Dean and CRW Chair respectively. Please click below for Jack and Matt’s election statements.
Jack has a postgraduate training background in medicine, anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine. Having been a London undergraduate, he then completed training programmes in London and Bristol. He moved from London to South Wales in 2003 and has worked solely as a consultant Intensivist ever since. He has been the lead ICM clinician in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and Cardiff and Vale University Health Boar, as well as Lead Clinician for the South Wales Critical Care and Trauma Network.
Jack has an interest in education and was an examiner for the EDIC from 2004-2012, and an examiner for DICM and then FFICM from 2012-2018. Jack held previous roles within the FICM as chair for Careers, Recruitment & Workforce, and has been FICM Vice Dean since October 2022.
I am very proud to represent you as the incoming Dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. I am enormously grateful to Dr Danny Bryden who will be a very hard act to follow. My aim is to provide the leadership and continuity I believe we need as our specialty continues to evolve and we move to College status in July 2026. I am also delighted to have Dr Matt Williams as the incoming Vice Dean who, alongside the Faculty Board and Faculty Team will provide the knowledge, experience, and expertise to guide our specialty for the next few years.
Matt has been a Consultant Intensivist at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth since 2005, also practicing anaesthesia until 2020. He has an interest in medical education, having held Faculty Tutor, Wessex Regional Advisor and the Faculty’s Lead Regional Advisor roles; in the latter he attended the Faculty’s Training Assessment and Quality committee and led the 2021 curriculum implementation. He is an examiner for FFICM. He is currently Chair of the Faculty’s Careers, Recruitment and Workforce committee.
It is a great privilege to become the Faculty’s next Vice Dean, and to continue working with your support and engagement to further develop ICM as a specialty. The everyday inspiration and learning I glean from colleagues, patients and their relatives drives me to do so. Working closely with the Board to transition FICM to an independent College will be a key focus. In doing so, we will be able to more strongly advocate our key strategic aims on behalf of the specialty and our patients.
Having worked closely with both Jack and Matt over the past 3 years, I know that they will continue to work with the Board to develop the Faculty into the College of ICM supporting our members and further raising the profile of our specialty.
Candidates' election statements
I would be honoured to serve as your Faculty Dean, and to provide leadership to our members and Board as we go through the final stages in our transition to becoming the College of Intensive Care Medicine. I am versed in this transition and believe well positioned to bring this about with your backing and the guidance of the new Council, new Board of Trustees, and the Faculty secretariat.
Simultaneously there is also a need for stability during these times, so that we continue to see improvements in patient outcomes and continue to fulfil our core roles in education, examinations, professional standards, recruitment, advocacy, and national policy. We also need flexibility - to see opportunities and develop and provide new services. A medical College needs to ensure that it provides good all round value to its membership; from the very start of careers in Intensive Care Medicine through to retirement and beyond. As I enter the latter stages of my career it would be a pleasure to give something back as the lead in a specialty I have enjoyed working in so much and seen develop and evolve over the last 20 years.
I am eager to contribute my enthusiasm and extensive experience to advancing the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine’s strategic aims as Vice Dean. Working with and supporting the Board during FICM’s transition to an independent College and assisting Jack as Dean would be a privilege I am well prepared for, given my expertise in training, recruitment, and workforce matters.
As Deputy (2019–2020) and Lead Regional Advisor (2020–2022), I developed a thorough understanding of Training, Assessment, and Quality (TAQ) issues. My role as Associate Dean for NHSE Workforce Training and Education further enhanced my knowledge and professional networks, benefiting myself, the specialty and FICM.
Since 2022, I have chaired the Careers, Recruitment and Workforce Committee, leading initiatives such as securing simultaneous recruitment, workforce censuses, career resource development, and the establishment of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sub-committee. I have also represented FICM on the Academy’s Workforce Committee and supported the ACCP sub-committee through key challenges.
Having served on the Board since 2020 (co-opted initially, then elected in 2022) and contributed to strategic decision-making alongside the FICM executive group, I possess the corporate insight and experience necessary to step up to the Vice Dean role with commitment and competence.