Consultant anaesthetist at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, England. 
Nick Woodall graduated from Liverpool medical school and started training in anaesthesia in the North-West of England before moving to registrar rotations in London. As a senior registrar he travelled to North America and became converted to the practice of awake intubation for the management of complex airway problems. Now with regular clinical exposure to head & neck and thoracic surgery problems he has maintained an interest in airway management. For the last 12 years Nick has been an instructor on the Norwich Endoscopic Airway Training course, which provides practical hands-on training in local anaesthesia of the airway and awake intubation. This is done by using the course delegates as subjects for fibreoptic intubation under local anaesthesia alone. In 2006 he joined the DAS organising committee as a project director, with the task of collecting data on the complications of airway management and in this capacity he was the co-lead for the NAP4 project.