Julian Bion MBBS, MRCP, FRCP, FRCA, FFICM, MD

Prof. Bion qualified in medicine at the Charing Cross Hospital in London before training as an anaesthetist, during which he served with the Red Cross on the Thai Cambodia border. He was a visiting lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, worked as a research fellow with the shock study group in Glasgow, and as a senior registrar in Bristol before joining the University of Birmingham as senior lecturer in anaesthetics in intensive care. He became Professor of Intensive Care Medicine in 2007.

His current roles also include: co-director of research and development at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, deputy director of the Birmingham Clinical Research Academy and honorary consultant in intensive care medicine at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. He is an associate non-executive director of the Worcestershire NHS Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, chairs the UK Critical Care Leadership Forum and is Civilian Advisor to the Royal Air Force on intensive care medicine.

In addition he is Chair of the NICE Acute Medical Emergencies Guideline Development Group; Chair of the UK Critical Care Leadership Forum; a member of the World Health Organization’s sepsis group (within the Integrated Management of Acute Illness programme), that is developing best practice guidance for resource-limited environments; and a member of the national steering committee for the Health Technology Assessment-funded ProMISe study on Protocolised Management In Sepsis. He is Chief Investigator on the High-Intensity Specialist-Led Acute Care (HiSLAC) project.