Dr Alison Chalmers
Consultant Anaesthetist

Specialist interests: Maxillofacial surgery; difficult airway management; preoperative assessment; education.
Dr Alison Chalmers qualified from Birmingham University in 1998. She trained in anaesthetics at the Queens’ Medical Centre in Nottingham and in hospitals throughout the East Midlands. She then completed a one year advanced fellowship in difficult airway management at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.
She is the current Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) Deputy Regional Advisor for Anaesthetics in Sussex. She is the RCoA/Difficult Airway Society airway lead for QVH, and is an author of the 2022 ‘Guidelines for the provision of anaesthetic services for ENT, oral maxillofacial and dental surgery’. This document supports healthcare managers and anaesthetists with responsibilities for service delivery design and deliver high quality anaesthetic services. The guidelines are developed using a rigorous, evidence based process and are accredited by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
Dr Chalmers has been a consultant anaesthetist at QVH since 2010.
Consultants
- Mr Aakshay Gulati
- Mr Adam Blackburn
- Mr Adam Gaunt
- Mr Alex Cash
- Miss Alexandra Molina
- Dr Ali Diba
- Dr Alison Chalmers
- Dr Amanda Jewison
- Mr Andre Litwin
- Mr Andy Mellington
- Miss Anita Hazari
- Miss Artemis Matsou
- Mr Asit Khandwala
- Mr Baljit Dheansa
- Dr Ben Carey
- Mr Brian Bisase
- Mr Charles Nduka
- Dr Chetan Patel
- Dr Colin Lawrence
- Mr Damian Lake
- Dr Edward Pickles
- Dr Gary Chow
- Ginny Kingsmill
- Dr Glenn Wearne
- Mr Gokulan Ratnarajan
- Mr Ian King
- Miss Jennifer O’Neill
- Mr John Tighe
- Dr Jonathan Sanders
- Dr Joy Curran
- Dr Julian Giles
- Miss Katia Sindali
- Mr Keith Altman
- Mr Ken Sneddon
- Miss Lauren Hardwick
- Mr Laurence Newman
- Dr Lindsay Winchester
- Mr Mark Cutler
- Mr Mark Pickford
- Dr Mark Wyldbore
- Mr Martin Jones
- Mr Mike Shelley
- Dr Mohamed El-Belihy
- Mr Mohamed Elalfy
- Dr Nadia Wichmann
- Mr Navdeep Upile
- Dr Niamh Gavin
- Mr Nikhil Maini
- Dr Oliver Bernath
- Mr Paul Drake
- Mr Paul Norris
- Professor Adrian Williams
- Professor Jag Dhanda
- Dr Raad Makadsi
- Miss Rachael Harrison
- Dr Rachael Liebmann
- Mr Raman Malhotra
- Mr Rikki Sunil Mistry
- Mr Robert Pearl
- Mr Ruben Kannan
- Mr Sam Orkar
- Mr Samer Hamada
- Dr Sarah Bailey
- Mr Simon Harvey
- Mr Simon Mackey
- Mr Siva Kumar
- Miss Sofia Ahmad
- Mr Stefano Stea
- Mr T C Teo
- Miss Tania Cubison
- Dr Timothy Vorster
- Mr Zaid Sadiq