Oxford Textbook of Respiratory Critical Care

Dr Singh's academic career combines full time clinical work, with high educational and research output, within Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. He works in one of the UK's national ECMO centres, leading the follow up service, and in Burns-General ICU. His Grant funded collaborative research is in early diagnostic markers for Ventilator associated pneumonia, behavioural aspects of antibiotic stewardship, safe practice of bronchoscopy in ICU, and Burns inhalation injury. He supervises MD, PhD, MSc, BSc students. He was Imperial College Campus Director of Undergraduate Studies, and is Examiner to the Royal College of Physicians, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, European Society of Intensive Care. Paolo Pelosi: Full Professor in Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy. Director of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, San Martino Policlinico Hospital, IRCCS for Oncology and Neurosciences, Genoa, Italy. Director of Regional Poison Control Center, San Martino Policlinico Hospital, IRCCS for Oncology and Neurosciences, Genoa, Italy. Fellow of the European Respiratory Society (FERS). Fellow of the Brasilian Academy of Medical Sciences. Dr Conway Morris undertook his undergraduate training at the University of Glasgow before moving to Edinburgh to train in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. He completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh on the function of neutrophils in critical illness, during which time he identified factors which pre-dispose patients to nosocomial pneumonia as well as developing several diagnostics for pneumonia. He moved to the University of Cambridge to continue post-doctoral studies. He is currently an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow pursuing his research in critical illness immunology and pneumonia, alongside working as a consultant in intensive care medicine in Addenbrooke's Hospital.