Rate My Professor Mike Grocott

Professor Mike Grocott is Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton and Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Southampton Biomedical Research Centre (2022-28). He holds degrees including BSc, MSc, MBBS from St George's, University of London, and MD from University College London, with a thesis on measuring morbidity after major surgery completed in 2010. Grocott is also an adjunct professor of Anaesthesia at Duke University and an honorary professor at University College London. His research focuses on perioperative care, critical care, prehabilitation, hypoxia, integrative physiology, clinical trials, health services research, and health economics. He serves as a consultant in critical care medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and chairs the NIHR Directors Forum (2025-27). He is deputy-chair of the NIHR Translational Research Collaboration in Surgery and Perioperative Care, which he jointly established, and an NIHR Senior Investigator (2018-22, reappointed 2022-26). Previously, he was national specialty group lead for Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain within the NIHR Clinical Research Network (2015-2021).

Grocott founded the national Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) and served as vice-chair of its board (2020-25). He was chair of the board of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) (2018-2024), founding director of the NIAA Health Services Research Centre (2011-2016), and founding chair of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (2012-2017). He is president of the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI). In 2007, he led the Caudwell Xtreme Everest medical research expedition and summited Everest, and he is founding chair of the Xtreme Everest Oxygen Research Consortium. He served as an elected council member and trustee of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (2016-2026) and as its vice-president (2019-20).