Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University of
Southampton

Andy Cumpstey trained in general medicine, anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in Cambridge, Oxford and Southampton. He completed his PhD at the University of Southampton, exploring the effect oxygen therapy has on oxidative stress in major surgery and critical illness. 

His research interests include improving clinical outcomes from major surgery and intensive care, translational clinical studies in oxygen physiology and therapy, and physiological changes in extreme environments.

As well as working clinically on University Hospital Southampton’s General Intensive Care Unit, he is the Managing Editor of TopMedTalk, a handling Editor for the journal Perioperative Medicine and Chief Investigator on the PERI-Ox trial.