Mike Grocott
Mike Grocott MBBS MD FRCA FRCP FFICM is professor of anaesthesia and critical care medicine at the University of Southampton and director designate of the Southampton NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. He is an NIHR Senior Investigator. He is a consultant in critical care medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
Grocott is an elected council member and vice-president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
He has served as the chair of the board of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia since 2018 and was previously the founding director of the NIAA Health Services Research Centre at the Royal College of Anaesthetists and founding chair of the HQIP funded National Emergency Laparotomy Audit.
In 2007 Grocott summited Everest as leader of the Caudwell Xtreme Everest medical research expedition and is the founding chair of the Xtreme Everest Oxygen Research Consortium.
He lives in the New Forest with his wife, Professor Denny Levett, three children and two degus.