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Honorary Staff

Dr Parjam Zolfaghari

Honorary Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia

Parjam (PJ) is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia at the Royal London Hospital, and an Honorary Reader at Queen Mary University of London. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Programme Director for the Critical Care and Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine MSc programmes at QMUL. From 2023 to 2025, he served as Programme Director of the Intensive Care Society’s national State of the Art Congress.

PJ graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Medical School in London and completed his Anaesthesia and Critical Care training in North East London through the Barts and London School of Anaesthesia. He was awarded a PhD from UCL and the Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine for his research into mitochondrial and skeletal muscle dysfunction in sepsis.

His clinical interests include trauma, respiratory failure and advanced respiratory support, hepatobiliary surgery, and microbiology. PJ is strongly committed to advancing critical care and anaesthesia training and actively supports intercalating and postgraduate students to the MSc programmes.

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Neil MacDonald

Consultant Anaesthetist

Neil has been a consultant at the Royal London Hospital since 2015. He is actively involved in peri-operative research. He was a Clinical Research Fellow at the Royal London helping to complete the OPTIMISE trial. He is the Principal Investigator for OPTIMISE II and PQIP. He has just completed his PhD in fluid dynamics in high-risk surgical patients.

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Andrew Leitch

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia

Andrew qualified from Barts and the London in 2003. He previously studied Mathematics and has worked as an actor, homeless night shelter support worker, and teacher. His interests include sepsis, total intravenous anaesthesia, obstetric critical care and contemporary choral music. Andrew is proud to be PI for the PRISM trial at the Royal London Hospital.

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Russell Hewson

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia

Russ graduated from the University of Oxford and St Georges Hospital Medical School. He is our information technology lead. Russ is responsible for building and maintaining online databases for our multi-centre studies and built systems for VISION-UK, ISOS, PRISM and OPTIMISE II. He also builds and manages information websites for our multi-centre studies.

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Simon Finney

Consultant in Intensive Care and Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia

Simon qualified at the University of Manchester in 1994. He has worked as a consultant since 2007. His main clinical interest centres on the use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) to support patients with catastrophic heart and lung failure. Dr Finney is currently the chief investigator for a study that aims to institute ECMO for patients who suffer refractory cardiac arrest outside the hospital, within 30 minutes of collapse.

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