Professor Jaideep J Pandit

I am Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Oxford (NHS Consultant in Oxford since 1999). I trained in Medicine as an entrance scholar at Oxford (Corpus Christi College) and obtained a double First in Medicine (BM) and Physiology along with University prizes in Medicine, Cardiology and Clinical Pharmacology. After a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship (DPhil, Respiratory Physiology), I trained in anaesthesia in Oxford. I was Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (1998-9), and elected to St John’s 2000. I serve as Clinical Advisor, Operating Theatres to NHS England. Since 2023 I am Editor-in-Chief of the leading journal Anesthesia & Analgesia; the first based outside North America in over a 100 years of the journal’s history.

National and Specialty Roles

I served on Council, Royal College of Anaesthetists for 6 years until 2020 and stepped down as national lead for patient safety (Chair of the Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group) in 2022 after 8 years. I was editor of the leading UK journal Anaesthesia for 12 years until 2019.

I have received numerous awards and distinctions for my contributions to clinical anaesthesia, patient safety and research. These include awards from the Royal College of Anaesthetists (Gold Jubilee Medal 2000; Humphry Davy Medals 2015 & 2018; Rowling Medal 2019), and also the Irish College of Anaesthetists awarded me its Spring Silver Medal (2012). National body recognitions include the Emerald/EDRF International Prize in Healthcare Management 2017; Victor Horsley Lecture of the British Medical Association 2015; the British Medical Journal Award for Patient Safety 2020.

Internationally I have held Visiting Professorships at: the Mayo Clinic 2015; Southwestern University Dallas 2015; Ann Arbor 2017 (Inaugural USP Professor); Sydney 2017 (Jobson Professor); Karolinska Stockholm 2018 (Besokande Professor). I was appointed Macintosh Professor of the Royal College in 2012, Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford and in 2018 the Difficult Airway Society DAS Professor of Anaesthesia. I have given the 2018 Medallist Lecture of the Hôpital Militaire de Bégin, Paris, and the 2018 Spyros Makris Lecture of the Greek Society of Anaesthesia. Until 2025 I oversaw an international Masters program in patient safety in association with the Beth Israel Medical Centre and Harvard Medical School, where I was appointed visiting professor in 2020. In 2026 I serve as the distinguished BH Robbins Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University, USA.

In 2022 I received the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Anaesthetists; the College’s highest honour, which is rarely awarded; and also the highest award of the Association of Anaesthetists, UK, its Sir Ivan Magill Gold Medal.

As a Fellow of St John’s College, I teach Systems Physiology and Pharmacology. My research interests include: respiratory physiology, anaesthesia and critical care, health economics and operating room management and mechanisms of anaesthetic drug action.

Publications

Recent publications include:

Kale KM, Goldstein PA, Pandit JJ. Are "GABAergic" agents really so selective for GABA? Implications for single- versus multi-site hypotheses from promiscuous behavior of anesthetics and their molecular targets in vitro. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2026; 142: 1039-1049.

de Carvalho CC, El-Boghdadly K, Guedes IHL, Dantas MVM, Tomé DPB, Ramos IB, Gomes CSH, Alves GKPA, Bezerra AP, Santos Neto JM, Pandit JJ, Braz LG. Opioid-free vs. opioid-inclusive anaesthesia with or without regional anaesthesia for postoperative pain: a systematic review with network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Anaesthesia 2026; 81: 702-712.

Pandit JJ. Movements during intended general anesthesia and psychologically traumatic accidental awareness: explanatory role of the "efference copy network". Anesthesia & Analgesia 2026; 142: 909-916.

Hagberg CA, Asai T, Heidegger T, Myatra SN, Pandit JJ, Jiang Y. Era of sugammadex: a paradigm shift in airway management. Anesthesiology 2026; 144: 978-997.

Rangasamy V, Subramaniam B, Pandit JJ. Evolving clinical trial structures: raising the bar for anesthesiology research and creating new challenges for journals. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2026; 142: 284-292.

Pandit JJ. Surgery doesn't pay-but does it matter? Payment by Results in the UK National Health Service. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2025; 135: 1586-1590.

Ghenciulescu A, Pandit JJ, Devonshire IM, Greenfield SA. The differential impact of three different anesthetics on large-scale neuronal activity measured using voltage-sensitive dye imaging in rat brain slices. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2026; 142: 181-185.

Joseph A, Tran MC, Rose L, Pandit JJ, Farmery AD. Noninvasive measurement of lung function using the inspired sinewave technique in mechanically ventilated patients with acute brain injury: a feasibility study. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2025; 141: 663-666.

Lin AY, Turnbull CD, Pandit JJ. The "TASK" of breathing: anesthetic relevance of background two-pore domain potassium channels as therapeutic targets for respiratory control. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2025; 140: 1414-1425.