ProfessorStephen Brett

Professor Stephen Brett is Professor of Critical Care at Imperial College and a consultant in intensive care medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He leads an eclectic programme of patient focused projects along the entirety of patient journey, be it in surgery or critical illness, and of course resuscitation; these projects range from epidemiology and public health, through clinical trials to evaluation of the impact of surgery on chronic diseases and of course technology evaluation. He is part of the section of Anaesthesia Pain Medicine and Intensive Care.

Professor Brett's personal research interests are in understanding and optimizing long term outcomes after critical illness. He is chief investigator for a number of clinical studies both locally and nationally. He lead the NICE guideline development group which published the guideline "Rehabilitation after Critical Illness" (http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/CG083). He provides support to a number of external clinical trials as trial steering group or data monitoring and safety committee chair.

Recent developments have been in the fields of human factors and organisational psychology, medical decision-making and the use of machine-learning in community risk prediction.

Prof. Brett is a past President of the Intensive Care Society and previous Editor of the journal Critical Care. In addition he has served on a number of Department of Health advisory groups, and provides consultancy to industry in the fields of clinical trial design and supervision, and marketing.