Denny Z. H. Levett PhD, MRCP, FRCA, FFICM, BM, BCh

Dr. Denny Z. H. Levet, PhD, MRCP, FRCA, FFICM, BM, BCh, is a Consultant in Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care at Southampton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and a Professor at the University of Southampton. Denny has chaired the National Perioperative CPET course biannually since it was established in 2009 and is the chair for the newly formed national perioperative exercise testing and training society. Denny leads the CPET service at University Hospital Southampton NHS trust.

Denny was the Association of Anaesthetists Research Fellow and her Ph.D. thesis, which evaluated exercise capacity and the efficiency of oxygen utilization in hypoxia, involved the analysis of over 2000 CPET tests from the 2007 Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition. She was the Deputy Research Leader of the Caudwell Xtreme Everest expedition in 2007 and a member of the climbing team. They hold the world record for the highest-ever performed incremental exercise test at 8000metres on Everest.