Dr Tom Abbott

Profile

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

Group members

www.qmul.ac.uk/ccpmg  

Summary

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

• Fowler AJ, Abbott TEF, Harrison EM et al. (2026). Long-term outcomes for patients at high risk of death after surgery in the UK: a retrospective cohort study. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(26)00022-8

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/126535
• Watson S-L, Abbott TEF (2026). The financial implications of hospital admission before the day of elective major surgery. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.01.015

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Kelleher EM, Usman M, Moore S et al. (2026). Beyond traditional publishing: the British Journal of Anaesthesia and social media in anaesthesia research. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.01.011

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Ackland GL, Crane D, Ahuja S et al. (2026). Transauricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Acute Ischaemic Stroke Requiring Mechanical Thrombectomy: Sham-Controlled, Randomised Device Trial. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/s12975-025-01404-7

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/116432
• Althonayan J, Fowler AJ, Allin B et al. (2025). Trends in Paediatric surgerical volume and associated mortality in England: a nationwide study over an eight year period. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.bjao.2025.100505

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/116431
• Sideris M, Brincat MR, Blyuss O et al. (publicationYear). P-POSSUM Falls Short: Predicting Morbidity in Ovarian Cancer (OC) Cytoreductive Surgery. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.3390/cancers17213421

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/112995
• Watson S-L, Abbott TEF (2025). Environmental harm from anaesthesia: the importance of clinical realism and chemical persistence: a reply. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.bjao.2025.100495

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/116434
• Zhang X, Ferry J, Hewson DW et al. (2025). Guidance for reporting artificial intelligence technology evaluations for ultrasound scanning in regional anaesthesia (GRAITE‐USRA): an international multidisciplinary consensus reporting framework. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1111/anae.16733

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/116433
• Watson S-L, Fowler AJ, Pearse RM et al. (2025). The financial cost of postoperative complications: a prospective cohort study with linked health systems data. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2025.06.039

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/110899
• Giannas E, Patel A, Dias P et al. (2025). Perioperative management of renin–angiotensin system inhibitors in patients undergoing elective major noncardiac surgery: a mixed model investigation using systematic review, meta-analysis, multicentre service evaluation, and national survey. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2025.06.026

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/116435

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)