Professor Thomas Smith

Prof Thomas G. Smith MBBS DAvMed DPhil FRCA FRCP FRAeS

Macintosh Professor, Royal College of Anaesthetists

Prof Smith is a clinician-scientist specialising in aerospace medicine, cardiopulmonary physiology and anaesthetics. He is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and has worked extensively in aeromedical critical care as a flying doctor. He graduated from medicine at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and was based at the University of Oxford (2003-2017) before moving to King's. He is a former Rhodes Scholar and Churchill Fellow. Prof Smith is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association and an Academician of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine. He is the UK Medical Research Council’s advisor in aerospace medicine, Chair of the Royal Aeronautical Society's Aerospace Medicine Group, and a member of the UK Space Agency's Space Exploration Advisory Committee.

In March 2020, Prof Smith was released from his responsibilities at King’s to support the NHS frontline response to the COVID-19 pandemic at its most critical time. He joined a ‘surge’ rota in critical care at GSTT hospital as part of the mobile emergency rapid intubation team.

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