Anchors

Desirée Chappell

Anchor and Co-Editor in Chief

Co-Editor in Chief of TopMedTalk and VP of Clinical Quality at NorthStar Anesthesia.

Mike Grocott

Anchor and Co-Editor in Chief

Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Head, Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group, Southampton University UK and Adjunct Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, Duke

Monty (Michael) G Mythen
MB BS MD FRCA FFICM FCAI (Hon)
Co Founder and Anchor

Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs, Critical Care, Edwards Lifesciences

Emeritus Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, University College London, UK

Monty joined Edwards Lifesciences in August 2023 from University College London where he was the inaugural Chair of Anesthesia and Critical Care for over 20 years. Prior to returning to the UK in 1997 Monty held a faculty position in the Department of Anesthesiology at Duke University Medical Center. 

Monty’s previous leadership roles have included the National Clinical Lead for Enhanced Surgical Recovery for the UK Government; Founding Director and Chair of Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) and Director of the Xtreme Everest Research Consortium performing large scale research at high altitude.  Monty started the Podcast TopMedTalk with Desiree Chappell and served as the founding Editor-in-Chief until August 2023.