Professor Hugh Montgomery

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine

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 Eleanor Damm

Senior Trainee in Critical Care and ICS Sustainability Working Group, co-Chair

Eleanor Damm is the co-chair of the Environmental Sustainability workgroup at the Intensive Care Society and an elected member to its Trainee Advisory group. She is an active member of the GREEN-ICU research collaboration based at the University of Brighton. She is a Dual Trainee in ICM and Anaesthesia in the West Midlands.  

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Professor Mahmood Bhutta

Consultant ENT Surgeon, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals

Professor Mahmood Bhutta is a consultant ENT surgeon with over 20 years of experience, based at The Montefiore Hospital, Hove and BMI Goring Hall Hospital, Worthing. He specialises in hearing loss, ear discharge, tinnitus. dizziness, hearing implants and cholesteatoma. He is an expert in treating conditions like glue ear, holes in the eardrum, and earwax buildup, as well as otology (disease of the ear), which he studied in order to gain his Doctor of Philosophy qualification from the University of Oxford. Professor Bhutta is a consultant to the World Health Organisation on the prevention of deafness and hearing loss.

In 2006 Mahmood founded the Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group (hosted at the British Medical Association) in response to labour rights abuses in the manufacture of medical products, including surgical instruments, gloves and textiles.  He works with the NHS, and international procurement organisations and NGOs, to foster better working conditions in healthcare supply chains

Areas of research: Environmental sustainability in healthcare systems; labour rights in healthcare supply chains; ear and hearing care.

Area of expertise: Sustainable healthcare, health systems, ear and hearing disorders

Professor Jennie Wilson

University of West London

Jennie is an RGN, has a BSc in microbiology, MSc in public health and a PhD and has worked in infection prevention and control (IPC) for 40 years.  She has previously worked as an IPC specialist in large acute NHS Trusts and epidemiologist at Public Health England and is currently a professor at the University of West London where she is working on a range of research areas including the misuse and overuse of gloves and the role of IPC during SAR-COV-2. Jennie has been a lead author on systematic evidence reviews that underpin national guidelines on preventing healthcare associated infections, a past President of the Infection Prevention Society and associate editor of the Journal of Infection Prevention.