Presented September 9, 2026 at the 2026 APSF Stoelting Conference on “SOS!: Signals of Safety… Safely across the Patient’s Perioperative Journey”
ABOUT THE SPEAKER(S)
Mike Grocott, MD
Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, University of Southampton
Mike Grocott is the Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton, director of the Southampton NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (2022-27), an NIHR Senior Investigator (reappointed 2022) and was formerly NIHR CRN national specialty lead for Anaesthesia Perioperative Medicine and Pain (2015-2020).
He is the president of the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI). Mike was previously elected vice-president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (2019-20), served on the board of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (2013-2016) and was president of the Critical Care Medicine section of the Royal Society of Medicine (2017-19). the current president of the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI).
He is co-chair of the global anaesthesia/perioperative care core outcomes initiative (StEP-COMPAC) and in 2022 he chaired the “High-risk patients” panel for the global Outcome4Medicine initiative. He has chaired two sets of international guidelines on ‘Prehabilitation for people with cancer’.
