Dr Tom Bashford is a Consultant Anaesthetist in the UK NHS, and Assistant Professor of Healthcare Systems at the University of Cambridge. He has degrees in biochemistry, medicine and engineering from the universities of Oxford, London, and Cambridge respectively, with his clinical training in London and later in Cambridge where he specialised in neuroanaesthesia. He has particular clinical interests in anaesthesia for neurotrauma and skull base surgery.
Academically, Dr Bashford is a systems engineer whose research interest is in developing methods to understand complex systems in healthcare, particularly across cultural boundaries. The majority of his work is with international colleagues and spans trauma care, conflict, frugal technology development, and the role of communities. He is currently the Section Editor for Global Health for Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Dr Bashford leads the International Health Systems Group, an interdisciplinary team comprised of academic engineers and clinicians who work with a large range of local and global partners, including the World Health Organisation's Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office Regional Trauma Initiative, Cambridge Global Health Partnerships, the Uganda UK Health Alliance, the Primary Trauma Care Foundation, Global Health Partnerships (formerly THET), and the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Acquired Brain and Spine Injury.
