Alex Psirides BSc, MBBS, FCICM

Alex is co-director of the tertiary intensive care unit in Wellington, New Zealand, and medical director of the regional aeromedical retrieval service. He trained in London, Australia and New Zealand.

Alex has been involved in the design and implementation of rapid response systems to detect and respond to in-patient deterioration in several countries. His work and research in this area led to an appointment as the national clinical lead for the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s five-year patient deterioration programme.

He has advised the Ministry of Health on the national intensive care response to COVID-19, and designed governance processes for aeromedical transfers. He holds teaching and research appointments with the University of Otago and the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand.

Alex is interested in how hospitals (often fail to) recognise dying patients and thinks we could and should do better. He has been fortunate enough to speak on this topic and others at over 50 conferences in seven different countries. When not jetlagged, walking the dog or or spending time with his children, he builds websites and designs logos for Wellington ICU’s prodigious research department. He has nearly written a lot more papers so should spend much less time on Twitter.