Dr John Goldstone graduated from Charing Cross Hospital and worked at St Thomas', Kings College and the Brompton Hospitals. He completed his MD thesis at the Respiratory Muscle Laboratory of the Brompton and Kings College Hospitals.

He was appointed as a Clinical Senior Lecturer/Consultant in 1991, based at the Middlesex Hospital. Over the next five years, he established the foundations for the Centre for Anaesthesia at UCL. He is currently the Senior Clinician in Intensive Care at University College Hospital.

Dr Goldstone's research interests have included the science and physiology of weaning from mechanical ventilation, the bedside measurement of blood flow to the brain and the prediction of mortality before high risk surgery.

He became a Clinical Consultant at University College Hospital in 2001. He is the Clinical Director for ICM at The London Clinic, and he chairs the Medical Advisory Committee for the hospital.

• Rehabilitation from critical illness
• Weaning from mechanical ventilation
• Monitoring
• Assessing the high-risk surgical patient

• Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine
  University College Hospital

• Charing Cross Hospital Medical School 1976-1981