Alistair Nichol

Prof Alistair Nichol is the Chair of Critical Care Medicine in University College Dublin (UCD), the Director of the Irish Critical Care-Clinical Trials Network (ICC-CTN), Immediate Past Chair of the Irish Critical Care-Clinical Trials Group (ICC-CTG) and Deputy Director of the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care-Research Centre (ANZIC-RC). Alistair is a Fellow (Honorary visiting) in Tropical Medicine at Oxford University, where he works with the International Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Consortium (SPRINT-SARI Project). Prof Nichol is a Consultant Intensivist / Anaesthetist at St. Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin and in the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.

Prof Alistair Nichol leads a program of critical care research nationally and globally having delivered some of the most pivotal clinical trials worldwide guiding clinical practice. His research focuses are pandemic preparedness and infectious disease (SPRINT-SARI, REMAP-CAP), brain injury (including TBI  and secondary brain injury post cardiac arrest) and general critical care (transfusion, renal replacement therapy, gastric prophylaxis). He also has a keen interest in biomarker and trials methodology research including SWATs. He leads a program of public and patient involvement and engagement activities.