Dr Patel graduated with distinction honours from University College London Medical School. He trained in general internal medicine at the former Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital, before pursuing clinical training in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine through Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals.
Dr Patel successfully attained a Clinical Research Training Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust to undertake a PhD within Imperial College London. His PhD investigated the role of tumour necrosis factor (TNF), which subsequently won institutional and regional prizes, including the Gold Medal for Research from the Intensive Care Society (UK) in 2011/12.
Following completion of his PhD, Dr Patel went on to complete advanced training in Intensive Care Medicine through the Royal Brompton and King’s College Hospitals. In 2014, he was appointed as a clinical lecturer in anaesthesia and intensive care at the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR).
Dr Patel is as an honorary consultant with adult intensive care at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals. He is a clinical senior lecturer at Imperial College London.
Research interests
Dr Patel's research focuses on the pathophysiology and basic mechanisms of cell death induced organ injury and inflammation within critical care disease states, including ARDS, sepsis and burns. He has particular interests in the optimisation and improvement of translational disease models of critical illness. He is chief investigator of a number of studies examining physiology-based ventilation algorithms to personalise mechanical ventilation during weaning and during the application of adjunctive interventions in ARDS.
Dr Patel is also a member of the extracorporeal life support (ECLS) team at Royal Brompton hospital where he leads the ICU research programme.
Dr Patel is actively leading a number of research trials and studies on coronavirus (COVID-19) that will help inform national policy and establish new diagnostic tests and treatments.
Publications
Dr Patel is the associate editor for the Journal of the Intenisve Care Society (JICS). He has published a number of journal articles which can be found at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/brijesh.patel/publications.html