Prof. Michael P.W. Grocott is Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton and the director designate of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Southampton Biomedical Research Centre.  He is an NIHR Senior Investigator (2018–2022, reappointed 2022–2026) and was the 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 Trust. He is an elected council member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and has served as vice-president (2019–2020). He founded the National Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) and is currently vice-chair of the CPOC board. He has served as the chair of the board of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) since 2018 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). His research field lies in perioperative care, critical care, anaesthesia, integrative physiology and health services. 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.