Rate My Professor Tom Abbott

Dr Tom Abbott is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Queen Mary University of London within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. He is also a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. Dr Abbott graduated first in his class from Oxford University Medical School in 2011, receiving distinction and three prizes. He was awarded a PhD in clinical epidemiology by Queen Mary University of London in 2017 following a Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship. He completed postgraduate clinical training in Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine with the London School of Anaesthesia in 2024. He held an NIHR Clinical Lectureship from 2021 to 2024 and was awarded an NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Fellowship in 2025.

Dr Abbott’s research uses epidemiological methods to investigate the health and wellbeing of patients undergoing surgery, with a focus on interventions to improve postoperative survival and reduce perioperative complications. His interests include perioperative infection and antimicrobial prophylaxis, perioperative respiratory failure, postoperative pulmonary complications, myocardial injury, sub-clinical cardiac failure, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, autonomic dysfunction, and the impact of COVID-19 on surgery. He is Chief Investigator of the PROTECT platform trial and the RESURGENT epidemiological study, and co-Chief Investigator of the SAPPHIRE study. He leads international multi-centre cohort studies and clinical trials in these areas.