Dr Simon J Finney

Honorary Senior Lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute and Consultant in Intensive Care and Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London.

Having qualified at Manchester University in 1994, he trained in critical care and anaesthesia in London, and was appointed to his present post in 2007.

Interested in the host's systemic reponse to infection, his PhD ,undertaken in the department of Critical Care at the Royal Brompton, detailed differences in reponse to components different  bacteria and the possible mechanisms underlying these differences. He subsequently undertook an MSc in bioinformatics at the University of Oxford, and has used this to statistical explore large data sets of physiological data gathered from critically ill patients. He is particularly interested in the  systemic effects of extracorporeal circulations, and the use of extacorporeal gas exchange to support the failing lung.