Professor Mike Grocott

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 chairs the NIHR Directors Forum (2025-27) and is deputy-chair NIHR Translational Research Collaboration in Surgery and Perioperative Care which he jointly established with Professor Jane Blazeby (University of Bristol).  

Mike is an NIHR Senior Investigator (2018-22, reappointed 2022-26) and was national specialty group lead for Anaesthesia Perioperative Medicine and Pain within the NIHR Clinical Research Network (2015-2021). He is a consultant in critical care medicine at University Hospital Sougthampton NHS Foundation Turst.   

He is an elected council member and trustee of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and served as vice-president (2019–20). He founded the national Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) ^[6] and is currently vice-chair of the CPOC board.

Mike served as the chair of the board of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA; 2018-24) and was previously the founding director of the NIAA Health Services Research Centre at the Royal College of Anaesthetists (2011-2016) and founding chair of the HQIP funded National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (2012-2017).

In 2007, he 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 has published widely in relation to anaesthesia, perioperative and critical care from experimental medicine, through large clinical trials to health services research and health economics.  In 2024 he co-founded the Centre for Perioperative Health Economics and Policy (CPHEP; www.cphep.com.au) with Profesor Guy Ludbrook (University of Adelaide) and now serves as co-director.