Timotej Vataha

Physician Intensivist

I am a physician intensivist working towards accreditation in respiratory, general internal, and intensive care medicine.

Interests are respiratory failure, heart-lung interactions, echocardiography, pleural disease, and zentensivism.

Experience

Intensive Care Medicine & Respiratory Medicine
Health Education England (North West)
Merseyside, UK
August 2022 – Present

Internal Medicine Training Stage 1
Health Education England (North West)
2019 – 2022

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
University Hospital Brno

Qualifications

Doctor of Medicine
Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
2011 – 2017

MRCP(UK)
Membership of Royal Colleges of Physicians

  • Speciality Certificate in Respiratory Medicine

ECFMG Certificate
Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates

  • USMLE Step 1, Step 2 CK, Step 2 CS, Step 3

Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care (FUSIC)
Intensive Care Society

  • FUSIC Lung Trainer
  • FUSIC Heart

Leadership

STC Trainee Representative – ICM Mersey
September 2024 – Present

Associate Royal College of Physicians Tutor
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
October 2021 – July 2022

Work Group for Simulation in Medical Education
Department of Simulation Medicine
Faculty of Medicine at Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
2017 – 2022


MUDr Talks, Sceptical Medic, NHS Leadership Academy Award in Healthcare Leadership Foundations (Edward Jenner Programme), IFMSA Local Project Coordinator

Teaching

Core Skills Teacher
School of Medicine, University of Liverpool
September 2022 – February 2023

Honorary Associate Clinical Teacher
School of Medicine, University of Liverpool
September 2021 – October 2022

Methodologist
Department of Simulation Medicine
Faculty of Medicine at Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
2017 – 2022


RCP Educator Accreditation
Royal College of Physicians

Peer Teacher, Feedback Orientated Observed Teaching (The FOOT Scheme)
Co-Founder of Propedeutika v praxi

Publications & Presentations

Pazdernik, M., Vataha, T. and Wilsdorf, V., (2022). Medication [online]. PragueICU. Available from: https://www.pragueicu.com/education/medication

Vataha, T. (2021). Evidence based medicine skills of junior doctors after an online journal club: a prospective cohort study [Poster]. RCP Regional poster competition 2021 – Mersey, 5 October, Merseyside.

Vataha, T. (2021). The Cardiovascular Examination. [Presentation]. UIMS Essential Examinations Series, 17 June, Czech Republic.

Vataha, T. (2021). Being a Sceptical Medic: Improving Critical Appraisal Skills Through an Online Based Journal Club. [Poster]. EBMA 2020: The Virtual Conference, 9 March, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Vataha, T. (2018). [SBL and PBL protocols]. [Oral presentation]. SIMU Expert Team Meeting, 13 September, University Campus Bohunice.

Libra et al. (2019). Propedeutika v praxi. [Poster]. MEFANET 2019 conference, 27-28 November, Mendel Museum of Masaryk University.

Research

RASPER trial
Clinical research team
February 2024 – August 2024

Honorary Clinical Fellow
COVID-19 Vaccine Study COV002
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
May 2020 – October 2020

  • Winner 2022: The COVID-19 Research and Innovation Award
    Pandemic Response of LSTM Plus
    North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards 2022
  • Finalist 2022: Research Collaboration of the Year
    LSTM PLUS Primary Care, Liverpool, St Helens, Wirral and Chester Hospitals, NIHR LCRN Industry – United to Support Respiratory Infection Research
    North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards 2022

Volunteer

Medic at Refugee Camp Helliniko, Athens, Greece
Caritas Czech Republic & Masaryk University
July 2016

IFMSA World Diabetes Day, Teddy Bear Hospital