Professor Hugh Montgomery OBE

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London

Prof Hugh Montgomery obtained a first-class degree in cardiorespiratory physiology/neuropharmacology before graduating from the Middlesex Hospital Medical school in 1987. He has since gained accreditation in general internal medicine, cardiology and intensive care medicine, and practices as a consultant in intensive care at the Whittington hospital in North London.

Hugh obtained his research degree (MD) in 1997, and is Professor of Intensive Care at UCL, where he directed the Institute for Human Health and Performance. Hugh's interest has been in the use of environmental stressors in the exploration of human (patho)physiology – often using a genetic approach. He was the first to discover a 'gene for human fitness'. He has published over 450 scientific articles.

Hugh also has a strong interest in environmental impacts on health, and in climate change in particular.

His current roles are:

• Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, UCL
• Director, UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance
• Consultant Intensivist, Whittington Hospital
• London Leader, GLA.

Dr Steve Harris

Chief Research Information Officer, University College London Hospital Biomedical Research Centre

Steve Harris is a Principal Research Fellow in Translational Data Science at UCL, an NHS Consultant in Critical Care, and the Chief Research Information Officer at UCLH Biomedical Research Centre. He has held fellowships from Wellcome, and the Health Foundation, and won more than £10m in grant funding. He is Co-Director of the Central London NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaborative, and co-investigator for CHIMERA, the Wellcome Innovation Flagship Critical Care Asia, and co-leads the NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative for Critical Care. At UCLH, he led the implementation of the Experimental Medicine Application Platform (EMAP) and FlowEHR that aim to bridge the 'AI chasm', and deliver algorithms and inference to the bedside.