Consultant in Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine, South Tees NHS Foundation Trust, Middlesbrough, UK
- Consultant in Anaesthesia and Sleep Medicine South Tees Hospitals at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2002 to date)
- Clinical Lead for South Tees Prehabilitation implementation and strategy
- Anaesthetic training: Northern Deanery (1992 - 2002)
- Fellowship training: Australia (1998/9) and Canada (2000/1)
Clinical interests
- Preparation and perioperative care of patients for high-risk surgery
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and risk evaluation
- Sleep Medicine
Quality Improvement
- PREP - developed Prehabilitation toolkit for primary care clinicians
- PREPWELL - leading a regional programme with Public Health specialists to develop, implement and sustain a community-based health and wellbeing programme for patients before surgery. Over the last 2 years our team have developed an innovative digital programme to support patients remotely.
Research interests
- Improving patient fitness for surgery through multimodal intervention
- Patient behaviour change preoperatively including use of digital and wearable technology - currently chief investigator on iPREPWELL; our team are co-developing a digital prehabilitation platform with patients and healthcare professionals.
- Evaluating the effect of pharmacological interventions in simulated haemorrhage and tissue trauma - run volunteer programme with Ministry of Defence UK
Other Roles
- Honorary Professor Hull York Medical School, Visiting Professor at Teesside University and Associate Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University
- Vice-President International Prehabilitation Society
- Faculty for European and National Perioperative Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Courses
- Co-lead organiser 3rd World Congress in Prehabilitation (London 2019)
- Twitter - @GerryDanjoux