Professor Jaideep Pandit
Professor Jaideep Pandit
Supernumerary Fellow in Physiological Sciences
Email: Professor Jaideep Pandit
Biography
Professor Pandit is Consultant Anaesthetist at the Oxford University Hospitals. He trained in Medicine at Oxford (Corpus Christi College) where he obtained a First in Physiology, and university prizes in Medicine, Cardiology and Clinical Pharmacology. After a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship to support a DPhil in Respiratory Physiology (on the effects of exercise on control of breathing), he undertook his anaesthetic training in the Oxford region. He was Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (1998-9), appointed to his Consultant post at the John Radcliffe in 1999 and elected to St John’s 2000.
Teaching and Research Interests
As Fellow of St John’s College, he teaches Systems Physiology and Pharmacology. His research interests include: respiratory physiology, anaesthesia and critical care, and latterly, health economics and operating room management.
National and Specialty Roles
Professor Pandit was the Academic Strategy Officer of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (2005-7), publishing the National Strategy for Academic Anaesthesia – a policy document commissioned to help prepare the specialty nationally for changes in academic medical training. As member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (since 2001) he examines the MRCS exams. He is an Editor of the journal Anaesthesia, the journal Surgery and the British Journal of Cardiology. He sits on the board of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia and is Scientific Officer of the national Difficult Airway Society (the largest specialist society in anaesthetics in the UK). In 2010 he was elected Chairman of the John Radcliffe Medical Staff Committee (chairman of consultants) for a 4-year term. In 2011 he was appointed to lead the Royal College’s National Audit on ‘Accidental Awareness under General Anaesthesia’, a three year project requiring co-ordinated data collection across all acute hospitals in the UK.
At the University he has been Chairman of Examiners, Graduate-Entry Medical Exams and has served as Assessor and then examiner for Final Honour School until 2009. He currently sits on the BM Course Committee.
Anaesthetic awards include the Royal College Gold (Jubilee) Medal and Humphry Davy Medal and in 2011 he was awarded the title of of ‘Professor of Anaesthetics’ by the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and gave its eponymous Macintosh Lecture.
Publications
Recent publications include:
- Pandit JJ, Popat MT, Cook TM, Wilkes AR, Groom P, Cooke H, Kapila A, O'Sullivan E. The Difficult Airway Society 'ADEPT' Guidance on selecting airway devices: the basis of a strategy for equipment evaluation. Anaesthesia 2011; 66: 726-737.
- Ramachandran SK, Picton P, Shanks A, Dorje P, Pandit JJ. Comparison of intermediate vs subcutaneous cervical plexus block for carotid endarterectomy. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2011; 107: 157-63.
- Pandit JJ, Gopa S, Arora J. A hypothesis to explain the high prevalence of pseudo-cholinesterase deficiency in specific population groups. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 2011; 28: 550-552.
- Pandit JJ, Tavare A. Using mean duration and variation of procedure times to plan a list of surgical operations to fit into the scheduled list time. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 2011; 28: 493-501.
- O’Sullivan E, Laffey J, Pandit JJ. A rude awakening after our fourth ‘NAP’: lessons for airway management. Anaesthesia 2011; 66: 331-4.
- Pandit JJ. Intravenous anaesthetic agents. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine 2011; 12: 144-150.
- Abbott T, White SM, Pandit JJ. Factors affecting profitability of surgical procedures under ‘Payment by Results’. Anaesthesia 2011; 66: 283-292.
