I am a Consultant at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, where I am the Deputy Clinical Director.
I have a specialist interest in difficult airway management and I am the clinical lead for airway management at the Trust and the education lead for the Guy’s advanced airway fellowship for over 10 years, having trained over 50 airway fellows to date.
I am the immediate past President of the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) UK, having been the Honorary Secretary and I have been a DAS committee member for over 13 years. I am also an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at King’s College, London and have been awarded the Difficult Airway Society Professorship of Anaesthesia and Airway Management in November 2025.
I have over 5000 citations, an H-index of 27 and over 100 peer reviewed publications which include four DAS guidelines (2015 & 2025 intubation guidelines, 2018 ATI guidelines and 2020 post thyroidectomy haematoma guidelines). The 2015 DAS Guidelines paper was awarded the top cited airway paper ever by the BJA in its 100 year history. I have also been awarded ‘Anaesthesia Journal paper of the year 2020’ for the IntubateCOVID study and 2nd ranked paper in 2022 for the AEROCOMP study and many commendations for top downloaded and cited papers of
the year awards.
I have contributed to numerous airway management books, including Hagberg & Benumhof’s Airway Management book, Core Topics in Airway management and Virtual Endoscopy and 3D reconstructions in the airways.
I chaired the DAS commissioned 2025 intubation guidelines group, which were launched at WAMM 3 in Florence and published in November 2025 in the BJA. In less than one month that paper was downloaded a remarkable 100,000 times by a global audience. I am currently a co-author for the pre-hospital airway management guidelines and have recently published the obesity airway management guidelines.
