Fellowship training: Australia (1998/9) and Canada (2000/1)
Clinical interests
Preparation and perioperative care of patients for high-risk surgery
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and risk evaluation
Sleep Medicine
Quality Improvement
PREP – developed Prehabilitation toolkit for primary care clinicians
PREPWELL – leading a regional programme with Public Health specialists to develop, implement and sustain a community-based health and wellbeing programme for patients before surgery. Over the last 2 years our team have developed an innovative digital programme to support patients remotely.
Research interests
Improving patient fitness for surgery through multimodal intervention
Patient behaviour change preoperatively including use of digital and wearable technology – currently chief investigator on iPREPWELL; our team are co-developing a digital prehabilitation platform with patients and healthcare professionals.
Evaluating the effect of pharmacological interventions in simulated haemorrhage and tissue trauma – run volunteer programme with Ministry of Defence UK
Other Roles
Honorary Professor Hull York Medical School, Visiting Professor at Teesside University and Associate Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University
Vice-President International Prehabilitation Society
Recent ex-member of Perioperative Medicine Leadership Committee at Royal College of Anaesthetists
Faculty for European and National Perioperative Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Courses
Co-lead organiser 3rd World Congress in Prehabilitation (London 2019)
