Lyvonne Tume RN RSCN RNT Dip App Sci (Nurs), B Nurs, Clinical MSc (Critical Care) PGDE PhD

Lyvonne Tume is Professor of Critical Care Nursing at Liverpool John Moores University and Director of the Clinical Research Development Programme at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool. She was previously a Professor at Edge hill University and a reader at University of salford and the University of the West of England. 

She is an Associate Editor for Nursing in Critical Care and on the editorial board for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and the Journal of Parental and Enteral Nutrition. She is an adult and paediatric intensive care nurse with over 35 years’ experience in Australia and in the UK. She has over 180 peer reviewed publications and has held several NIHR research grants. She is currently the chief investigator for an NIHR HTA-funded multicentre trial of no routine gastric residual volume measurement to guide enteral feeding in critically ill children (GASTRIC-PICU). She has been on several UK NIHR and European funding panels and is now chair of the NIHR pre doctoral fellowship panel for healthcare professionals. She is and has been the chair of, or a member of, many NIHR funded study oversight commitees. She is a visiting professor for the School of Health Sciences in Geneva.  

She is an expert in clincial trials and quantitiative research methods. She's led and been a co-investigator on eight trials (7 NIHR-funded) and has worked in intensive care units (predominantly cardiac intensive care) for over 35 years in Australia and the UK. Her research interests focus on the impact of critical illness across the lifespan (mainly paediatrics, but also adult and neonatal) with her work focuses mainly on the impact of nutritional interventions, reducing low value care in critical care units and weaning from mechanical ventialtion and preventing extubation failure. 

She was previously the Nursing president for the European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC), the chair of the Nurse Science section and is currently the elected chair of the ESPNIC Nutrition section and the deputy chair of the Paediatric Critical Care Society Study Group (PCCS-SG) and a core member of the NIHR PCCS Research Incubator.