Gareth L. Ackland PhD, FRCA, FFICM

Gareth graduated from St John’s College, Oxford University Medical School having completed an intercalated Ph.D. supported by a Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship. He completed clinical training in general medicine, anesthesiology, and critical care mostly on the UCL-linked clinical rotation, having also spent 18 months as a consultant in anesthesia at Stanford University Medical Center, California, USA. Having completed an Academy of Medical Sciences/Health Foundation clinician scientist intermediate research training fellowship award at University College London in 2014, Gareth was appointed Senior Lecturer in Perioperative Medicine at the Queen Mary University of London in 2015 and Clinical Professor of Perioperative Medicine in 2020, primarily based at the William Harvey Research Institute.

Current clinical duties are based in perioperative medicine at the Royal London Hospital providing anesthesia for patients undergoing major elective surgery and emergency procedures following major trauma. He is an active member of several national and international societies for anesthesia and intensive care medicine. He teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The focus of Gareth’s research centers on improving outcomes for patients following major surgery and critical illness through developing translational models, specifically focusing on autonomic regulation of tissue injury. In addition, he contributes to many large multi-center studies including VISION-UK and METS. Gareth was awarded the British Oxygen Company Chair in anesthesia in 2016, to support further translational laboratory studies focusing on the role of autonomic dysfunction fuelling perioperative organ injury.