Dr Parjam Zolfaghari

Profile

Dr Zolfaghari, PJ, graduated from UMDS- Guy’s and St.Thomas’ Hospitals medical school in London in 1997. He undertook Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine training at North East London region, Barts and London school. He completed his PhD on mitochondria and skeletal muscle dysfunction in sepsis at UCL and Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine in 2012. He has been a consultant in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesia at the Royal London hospital since 2012, with special interest in trauma, respiratory failure and support, hepatobiliary surgery and microbiology. He was an Honorary Senior Lecturer (2015-2024), and promoted to Reader in Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine (2024) at Queen Mary University of London. He was awarded Fellowship of Higher Education Academy in 2017 and is a module lead for the Critical Care Medicine MSc.

Membership and awards

• FRCA
• FFICM
• FHEA

Research

• Metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis
• Skeletal muscle dysfunction in critical illness ventilator-associated
• Pneumonia
• Extracorporeal respiratory support

Summary 

Publications

• Lucena-Amaro S, Cole E, Zolfaghari P (2022). Long term outcomes following rib fracture fixation in patients with major chest trauma. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2022.04.020

  
  

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• McNamee JJ, Gillies MA, Barrett NA et al. (2021). Effect of Lower Tidal Volume Ventilation Facilitated by Extracorporeal Carbon Dioxide Removal vs Standard Care Ventilation on 90-Day Mortality in Patients With Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1001/jama.2021.13374

  
  

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