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The William Harvey Research Institute - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Dr Tom Abbott

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NIHR Clinical Lecturer

Centre: Translational Medicine and Therapeutics

Email: t.abbott@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/ccpmg/
Twitter: @_tomabbott

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ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8664-3001

Dr Abbott is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine with the Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London and an anaesthetic registrar within the London School of Anaesthesia.

Dr Abbott graduated first in his class from Oxford University Medical School in 2011, receiving distinction and three prizes awarded by the University. He undertook doctoral training with Professor Rupert Pearse and Professor Gareth Ackland, and was awarded a PhD in clinical epidemiology by Queen Mary University of London in 2017. He started his postgraduate training in anaesthesia in 2017 with the London School of Anaesthesia.

Dr Abbott uses epidemiological methods to investigate the health and wellbeing of patients undergoing surgery, which includes interventions to improve postoperative survival and reduce perioperative complications. Dr Abbott is a Chief Investigator with the UK Perioperative Medicine Clinical Trials Network and is an editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia.

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Dr Abbott uses epidemiological methods to investigate the health and wellbeing of patients undergoing surgery, which includes interventions to improve postoperative survival and reduce perioperative complications. He has taken a leading role in several international multi-centre cohort studies and clinical trials, and is the chief investigator for several on-going studies. His research interests include perioperative infection and antimicrobial prophylaxis, perioperative respiratory failure, postoperative pulmonary complications, myocardial injury, sub-clinical cardiac failure, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, autonomic dysfunction, and the impact of COVID-19 on surgery.

Publications

Sponsors

  • National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia / British Journal of Anaesthesia (2021 – 2023)
  • Barts Charity (2020-2021)
  • Barts Charity (2017-2021)
  • National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia / Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (2015-2019)
  • Medical Research Council / British Journal of Anaesthesia Clinical Research Training Fellowship (2015-2017)

Collaborators

Internal

External

  • Dr Louise Savic (University of Leeds)
  • Dr Tom Dobbs (University of Swansea)
  • Prof R. Lyons (University of Swansea)
  • Prof Duminda Wijeysundera (University of Toronto)
  • Dr Joyce Yeung (University of Warwick)
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