Mike Grocott is the Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Southampton and Consultant in Critical Care Medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

He leads the Critical Care Research Area within the Southampton NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit and is Head of the Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group at the University of Southampton. He also leads the Anaesthesia and Critical Care Research Unit within University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS).

Human responses to hypoxia, oxygen transport and utilisation, measuring and improving outcome following surgery, acute lung injury, and fluid therapy.

The effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy on exercise capacity and outcome following upper gastrointestinal cancer surgery: an observational cohort study - West, M.A., Loughney, L., Ambler, G., Dimitrov, B.D., Kelly, J.J., Mythen, M.G., Sturgess, R., Calverley, P.M.A., Kendrick, A., Grocott, M.P.W. and Jack, S. Published:2016Publication:BMC CancerVolume:16, (710)Page Range:1-8doi:10.1186/s12885-016-2682-6PMID:27589870 Timing of surgery following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer - A comparison of magnetic resonance imaging at two time points and histopathological responses - West, Malcolm, Dimitrov, Borislav, Moyses, Helen, Kemp, Graham, Loughney, Lisa, White, David, Grocott, Mike, Jack, Sandy and Brown, Gina Published:2016Publication:European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO)Page Range:1-32doi:10.1016/j.ejso.2016.04.003 Measurement of Exercise Tolerance before Surgery (METS) study: a protocol for an international multicentre prospective cohort study of cardiopulmonary exercise testing prior to major non-cardiac surgery - Wijeysundera, Duminda N., Pearse, Rupert M., Shulman, Mark A., Abbott, Tom E.F., Torres, Elizabeth, Croal, Bernard L., Granton, John T., Thorpe, Kevin E., Grocott, Michael P.W., Farrington, Catherine, Myles, Paul S., Cuthbertson, Brian H. and , Published:2016Publication:BMJVolume:6, (3)Page Range:1-10doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010359PMID:26969643