Mervyn Singer

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London

Mervyn Singer is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, UK. His primary research interests are sepsis and multi-organ failure, infection, shock and haemodynamic monitoring. Funding primarily comes from the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, EU and NIHR.

He developed an oesophageal Doppler haemodynamic monitor now in widespread use worldwide and is currently trialling other novel monitors and therapeutic agents. His research spans from basic through translational to clinical and has led on several important multi-centre trials. He is the current Chair of the International Sepsis Forum and co-led the task force developing the ‘Sepsis-3’ international definitions (Singer JAMA 2016).

He has authored/edited multiple papers and textbooks, including the Oxford Handbook of Critical Care. He was the first UK Intensivist to be awarded Senior Investigator status by the National Institute for Health Research and to be invited to give plenary lectures at both the European and US Intensive Care Congresses.

Lectures by Mervyn Singer

Sepsis – how big a problem is it?

A review of the evidence

Critical Care Nursing / Sepsis

Sepsis – how big a problem is it?

A review of the evidence

Critical Care Medicine / Sepsis

Sepsis – how big a problem is it?

A review of the evidence

Emergency Medicine / Sepsis

Sepsis Definitions and Diagnosis

A review

Sepsis / Introduction