Prof. dr. M. Grocott
University of Southampton, Anaesthesiologist, Southampton
Verenigd Koninkrijk
Grocott, Professor Michael
BSc MBBS MD FRCA FRCP FFICM
Specialty:
Critical care medicine
Sub-specialty:
Adult general intensive care
Training and education:
Training posts in emergency and internal medicine (Fellor of the Royal College of Physicians) followed by anaesthesia (Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists) and subsequent specialisation in adult general intensive care medicine (Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine). Research aimed at improving outcome following major surgery through description of outcome and development and evaluation of interventions as well as applied human physiology.
Experience:
- Professor Grocott has worked for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust since July 2008.
- Professor of anaesthesia and critical care medicine, University of Southampton (2011 to present)
- Division A lead for research and development (2010 to present)
- Clinical ethics committee member (2009 to present)
- Senior lecturer in critical care medicine (UCL and Whittington Hospital, London; April 2004 to July 2008); anaesthetic and critical care training (UCLH, Royal Free and Whittington Hospitals; March 1996 to April 2004); internal medicine training (St George's Hospital, London; February 2004 to February 2006)
Key achievements:
- Director, NIAA Health Services Research Centre, Royal College of Anaesthetists (2010 to present); Director, Xtreme Everest/Caudwell Xtreme Everest Hypoxia Research Consortium (2005 to present); Director, UCL Centre for Altitude Space and Extreme Environment Medicine; Director, Surgical Outcome Research Centre, UCLH/UCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre (2008 to 2011).
Key awards and prizes:
- British Oxygen Chair of Anaesthesia, Royal College of Anaesthetics (2011 to 2015);
- Pinkerton Medal, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (2008),
- Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourse (2008),
- BOC Inspire Award (2006),
- Silver Medal of the Danish Surgical Society (2005),
- Abstract Winner, National Institute of Clinical Excellence Conference (2002),
- St George's Hospital Medical School Laurels (1992),
- Elek Prize in Clinical Immunology (1991).
- William Brown and Devitt-Pendlebury Exhibition (1988)
Research:
- Pearse RM, Holt PJ, Grocott MP. Managing perioperative risk in patients undergoing elective non-cardiac surgery. BMJ. 2011; 343: d5759.
- Moonesinghe SR, Mythen MG, Grocott MP. High-risk surgery: epidemiology and outcomes. Anesthesia and Analgesia. 2011; 112(4): 891-901
- Grocott MP, Pearse RM. Prognostic studies of perioperative risk: robust methodology is needed. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2010 Sep; 105(3): 243-5
- Levett DZ, Martin DS, Wilson MH, Mitchell K, Dhillon S, Rigat F, Montgomery HE, Mythen MG, Grocott MP; Caudwell Xtreme Everest Research Group. Design and conduct of Caudwell Xtreme Everest: an observational cohort study of variation in human adaptation to progressive environmental hypoxia. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2010;10:98.
- Grocott MP. Improving outcomes after surgery. BMJ. 2009;339:b5173
- MPW Grocott, DS Martin, DZH Levett, R McMorrow, J Windsor, H Montgomery. Arterial blood gases and oxygen content in climbers on Mount Everest. New England Journal of Medicine 2009;360;140-149
- Grocott M, Montgomery H. Genetophysiology: using genetic strategies to explore hypoxic adaptation. High Altitude Medicine and Biology. 2008;9(2):123-9
- MPW Grocott, JP Browne, J Van der Meulen, C Matejowsky, M Mutch, MA Hamilton, DZH Levett, M. Emberton, FS Haddad, MG Mythen. The Post-Operative Morbidity Survey was validated and used to describe morbidity following major surgery. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2007;60:919-928