I am a Professor of Paediatric Critical Care (clinical) in the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care at St Mary's Hospital. I also hold several local and national roles:

- Deputy Director of the Imperial Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health (PaeCH).

- Lead for the NIHR supported Incubator for paediatric critical care.

- Chair of the Paediatric Critical Care Society Study Group (PCCS-SG).

My main research interests are pragmatic clinical trials (particularly related to paediatric ventilation), critical care epidemiology, novel biomarkers for infection (breath, blood) and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision-making in critically ill children.

I graduated with an MBBS from JIPMER, Pondicherry University, India in 1995 and moved to the UK for postgraduate medical training. Following my MRCP (UK) degree, London in 1997, I completed postgraduate training in the North Thames Deanery from 1998-2005, obtaining a CCST in Paediatrics (Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine). My dual passion for research and information technology led me to take time out from clinical training between 2001 and 2004 to complete an MD(Res) in Medical Informatics Applications (Imperial College, University of London), during which I conducted a series of studies examining the accuracy and clinical utility of a computerised diagnostic decision support system called Isabel.

I continued doing clinical research while in a full-time NHS clinical post at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Children's Acute Transport Service) between 2005 and 2021, and established an internationally recognised track record of funded clinical research in paediatric critical care and emergency transport. I joined Imperial College as a clinical-academic in October 2021, working within Prof Anthony Gordon's (adult critical care) research group.