Professor Mike Grocott has been announced as the next president of the PeriOperative Quality Initiative (POQI).
His election follows five years on the POQI board serving as a vice-president.
The organisation brings multidisciplinary, international groups of experts together to review evidence and offer recommendations for patient care.
Prof Grocott is the Director of the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). He is an international leader in perioperative medicine. This is the medical care of patients from contemplation of surgery until full recovery.
Leading research
People undergo an average of four to five operations during their lifetimes.
More than five million surgical procedures are performed in the UK each year. These account for a third of hospital admissions and 18% of deaths.
Prof Grocott has driven research within Southampton for over a decade. This has had a particular focus on experimental medicine.
The research is helping reduce death and minimise harm. This is being achieved through individualised care and shared decision making.
The programme has grown into the Perioperative and Critical Care theme within the NIHR Southampton BRC.
Prof Grocott is a Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton. He is also a Consultant in Critical Care Medicine at University Hospital Southampton.
He said: “I am delighted to take on the leadership of POQI at this exciting time.
“POQI has developed into a respected and authoritative source of clinical guidance and policy consensus in perioperative care.
“I look forward to working with the multidisciplinary, international POQI community to build on this success in the coming years.”
Improving patient care
The POQI is an international non-profit organisation. The organisation has organised more than 20 consensus conferences since its launch in 2016. It has published 29 consensus papers in a variety of journals. These include Nature Reviews Nephrology, British Journal of Anaesthesia, British Journal of Surgery, Anesthesia and Analgesia and Perioperative Medicine.
At POQI consensus conferences, work groups meet over two to three days to review the literature, identify important questions and formulate consensus statements and recommendations and highlight research questions.
Find out more about the PeriOperative Quality Initiative here.
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