Dr Tom Abbott

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ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8664-3001

Dr Abbott is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine with the Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust.

Dr Abbott graduated first in his class from Oxford University Medical School in 2011, receiving distinction and three prizes awarded by the University. He undertook a Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship and was awarded a PhD in clinical epidemiology by Queen Mary University of London in 2017. He completed his postgraduate clinical training in Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine in 2024 with the London School of Anaesthesia. He held a NIHR Clinical Lectureship between 2021 and 2024, and was awarded an NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Fellowship in 2025.

Dr Abbott uses epidemiological methods to investigate the health and wellbeing of patients undergoing surgery, which includes interventions to improve postoperative survival and reduce perioperative complications. Dr Abbott is the Chief Investigator of the PROTECT platform trial and the RESURGENT epidemiological study, and the co-chief investigator of the SAPPHIRE study.

Research

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Dr Abbott uses epidemiological methods to investigate the health and wellbeing of patients undergoing surgery, which includes interventions to improve postoperative survival and reduce perioperative complications. He has taken a leading role in several international multi-centre cohort studies and clinical trials, and is the chief investigator for several on-going studies. He leads the PROTECT platform trial with Professor Rupert Pearse.  His research interests include perioperative infection and antimicrobial prophylaxis, perioperative respiratory failure, postoperative pulmonary complications, myocardial injury, sub-clinical cardiac failure, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, autonomic dysfunction, and the impact of COVID-19 on surgery.

Publications

Collaborators

Internal

• Prof. Rupert Pearse
• Prof Gareth Ackland
• Dr John Prowle
• Dr Yize Wan
• Dr Tim Stephens

External

• Dr Louise Savic (University of Leeds)
• Dr Tom Dobbs (University of Swansea)
• Prof R. Lyons (University of Swansea)
• Prof Duminda Wijeysundera (University of Toronto)
• Dr Joyce Yeung (University of Warwick)