Professor Mike Grocott BSc MBBS MD FRCA FRCP FFICM
Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Head, Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group,CES Lead, Critical Care Research Area,Southampton NIHR Respiratory BRC
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Mike Grocott is the Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Southampton and a Consultant in Critical Care Medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
Mike is an NIHR Senior Investigator (2018-2022) and the NIHR CRN National Specialty Lead for Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain (2015-2020). He leads the Acute-Critical-&-Perioperative-Care (ACPC) group within the Southampton NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and is Head of the Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group within the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Southampton.
TRAINING
Mike graduated in medicine from St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London having completed an intercalated degree in “Biomedical Sciences and Immunology” (BSc, 1989; MBBS, 1992). He completed general professional training in internal medicine (MRCP, 1996) and UK anaesthesia fellowship (FRCA, 1999) before undertaking research training with Professor Michael (Monty) Mythen within the UCL Centre for Anaesthesia (MD, 2010). He completed specialist training in Anaesthesia (CCST 2004).
CLINICAL ACADEMIC
He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Critical Care Medicine within the Division of Medicine at UCL in 2005. In 2008 he moved to UHS as a Consultant in Critical Care Medicine. Mike was appointed Honorary Reader at the University of Southampton in 2010 and to the Chair of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine in 2011. In 2011 he was also awarded the British Oxygen Company Chair of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP, 2010) and a founding fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FFICM, 2011). He was appointed an NIHR Senior Investigator in 2018. He is an honorary professor at Kings College London and an adjunct Professor at Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA.
PERIOPERATIVE MEDICINE
Mike is an international leader in Perioperative Medicine. As an elected council member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, he is leading the establishment of the national Centre for PeriOperative Care (CPOC). He serves on the board of Enhanced Recovery UK and the advisory board of the American Society for Advanced Recovery. He also serves on the board of the Perioperative Quality Improvement Initiative (POQI), a US 501(c)(3) and is on the leadership team of the Morpheus Consortium - an global collaboration to advance patient-centred perioperative care through science, education and policy: www.morpheusconsortium.org. Mike is the secretary of the International Board of Perioperative Medicine and the co-chair of the International Standardised Outcomes in Perioperative Care - Core Outcome Measures in Perioperative and Anaesthetic Care initiative (StEP-COMPAC). He is the joint-editor-in-chief of Perioperative Medicine.
INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
With Dr Kevin Fong, Mike co-founded the UCL Centre for Altitude Space and Extreme Environment Medicine (CASE) in 2000 and was co-director (2000-2007) and then director (2007-2011). Since 2006, he has been the executive chair of the Xtreme Everest Oxygen Research Consortium (www.xtreme-everest.co.uk ). Mike led the 2003 CASE Baruntse, 2006 Xtreme Everest Cho Oyu and the 2007 Caudwell Xtreme Everest medical research expeditions and was one of the team who obtained blood gases near to the summit of Everest in 2007. He also jointly leads the Fit-4-Surgery research consortium. He was the joint-editor-in-chief of Extreme Physiology and Medicine (2012-2018).
HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
Mike was the Founding Director of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) Health Services Research Centre at the Royal College of Anaesthetists (2010-2016) and chaired the HQIP funded National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (2012-2017). He was previously the director of the UCL/UCLH Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe; 2008-2010) which he confounded in 2000. Mike currently chairs the National Adult Critical Care Data Group (2016-) and serves on the NHS National Clinical Reference Group for Critical Care.
RESEARCH MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE
Mike is the NIHR CRN National Specialty Lead for Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain (2015-2020) and the board chair of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA; 2018-2021). He was previously the Hampshire and Isle of Wight CLRN specialty group lead for Anaesthesia and Critical Care and served on both UKCRN Specialty Groups in this role. Mike is the University Hospital Southampton Division A (Cancer, Surgery and Critical Care) lead for R&D.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2018 NIHR Senior Investigator
2018 Rowling Medal, Yorkshire Society of Anaesthetists, Leeds, UK
2015 Silver Clinical Excellence Award
2015 Dudley Buxton Medal, Royal College of Anaesthetists
2014 HQIP National Quality Improvement Award “Partnership working with stakeholders”
2013 Featherstone Award, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland
2011 Bronze Clinical Excellence Award
2011 British Oxygen Chair of Anaesthesia, Royal College of Anaesthetists
2008 Pinkerton Medal, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland
2006 BOC Inspire Award
2005 Silver Medal of the Danish Surgical Society
2002 Abstract Winner, National Institute of Clinical Excellence Conference
1992 St George’s Hospital Medical School Laurels
1991 Elek Prize in Clinical Immunology
1988 William Brown and Devitt-Pendlebury Exhibition (2nd Year Prize)
MARKERS OF ESTEEM
2018 Inaugural Webb-Johnson Oration, Royal College of Anaesthesia/Royal College of Surgeons of London, London, UK
2018 Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
2018 Mike Telfer Lecture, Scottish Intensive Care Society, St Andrews, Scotland
2017 Moran Campbell Lecture, British Thoracic Society, London, UK
2017 Visiting Professor, Stony Brook University, USA
2015 Gelman-Zinner Lectureship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA
2015 William Squire Lecture, University College London, UK
2014 Rabiner Visiting Professor, Liberty Health, Portland, Oregon, USA
2014 Honyman Gillespie Lecture, University of Edinburgh, UK
2014 Van Michael Lecture, Dutch Association of Surgeons, Holland
2010 Fergal Nally Lecture, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
2010 Inaugural Earl Wynands Lecture, Society of Cardiovascular Anaesthesiology, New Orleans, USA
2009 Visiting Professor, Brigham & Women’s Hospital (Harvard), Boston, Mass., USA
2009 Visiting Professor, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2008 Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourse, London, UK
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