Mike Grocott is the Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton, director of the Southampton NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (2022-27) and an NIHR Senior Investigator (reappointed 2022). 

Mike has been climbing at extreme altitude for more than 30 years. He leads the Xtreme Everest Oxygen Research Consortium and summited Everest in May 2007 as leader of the Caudwell Xtreme Everest medical research expedition. In 2004, he served as resident physician at the Himalayan Rescue Association rescue post in Pheriche, Khumbu, Nepal.