Rupert Mark Pearse OBE is a British physician specialising in intensive care medicine, and NIHR Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Queen Mary University of London. [1]
Pearse graduated from St George's, University of London, in 1996. [2] [3]
He is the founding director of the Perioperative Medicine Clinical Trials Network and is involved in a number of large multi-centre studies including PRISM, OPTIMISE II, and EPOCH. [2]
Pearse was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to intensive care medicine. [4]
The Association of Anaesthetists, in full the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), is a professional association for anaesthetists in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Pearse is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Derek Bell was Professor of Acute Medicine at Imperial College London and continues to be an emeritus Professor. He has been a Consultant Physician at Central Middles Hospital, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and most recently at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Appointed as the joint chair of two NHS Trusts in 2021. His initial leadership saw him and others receive parliamentary criticism. Professor Bell was the director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) CLAHRC for Northwest London. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, elected in November 2013 he took office on 1 March 2014 succeeding Neil Dewhurst. He was re-elected for a second term on 24 November 2016. He was awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to Unscheduled Care and Quality Improvement.
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