So James, would you be good enough just to introduce yourself and explain, uh, what you do as a day job?

Yeah, sure.

Uh, my name's James, James Orr.

I'm...

I am an intensive care registrar and an anesthetist as well, similar to Brendan.

Um, and I do have an interest in tracheostomies from a research perspective and from the perspective of being someone who helps put them in, um, and looks after patients with both acute and long-term tracheostomies clinically.

But also, when I'm wearing my research hat, I am currently doing a PhD in relationships between what we call the microbiome, which we use next generation sequencing, uh, techniques to analyze, in particular the lung microbiome, which is the bugs that live in your lungs, and how they relate to, um, how the immune system within your lung tissue is actually behaving in response to infection.

I mean how could that fit into clinical practice in the hopefully near future and help us out?