Professor Hugh Montgomery OBE
FMedSci MBBS BSc FRCP(Lond) FRCP (Ed) MD FRSB FFICM FRI FRGS Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London.
Hugh was appointed Officer of the Order of British Empire (OBE) for services to intensive care medicine and climate change. He is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine and Director of the UCL Centre for Human Health and Performance. He also co-chairs the international Lancet Countdown, which tracks how climate change is affecting human health. Dr Montgomery has published nearly 600 scientific papers, several in Nature. His research has address cardiac growth, muscle wasting, bone and muscle response to exercise, and adaptation to low oxygen levels: he was research lead for the Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition of 2007, and co-reported the first genes for evolutionary selection in response to high altitude. Hugh has an interest in Artificial Intelligence as applied to Health, and has worked with Google Deepmind and Google Health. He is a broadcaster, fiction author, scientist and clinician.