Consultant Anaesthetist & Honorary Professor
Md, PGCertMedEd, MB ChB, MRCGP, FRCA, FFPMRCA
Graeme McLeod qualified from the University of Edinburgh in 1983 and trained in General Practice, gaining MRCGP in 1987. He switched to Anesthesia training and obtained FRCA in 1991. His thesis “The patterns and predictors of thoracic epidural analgesia” was awarded MD (Dundee) 2005. He gained PGCertMedEd (Dundee) 2006 and FFPMRCA in 2007.
He is a full-time regional anaesthetist with extensive clinical experience in nerve block and spinal/epidural block. His research is focused on investigation into mechanisms of peripheral nerve injury using micro-ultrasound and development of new needle technologies for epidural and peripheral nerve block. He is director of the international regional anaesthesia mastery training course using the reknown soft embalmed Thiel cadaver simulator at the University of Dundee.
He holds two patents and is clinical advisor to Active Needle Technologies, Abingdon and Optimize, Glasgow
Registration: GMC 2856375
With two co-authors he won the BMA book award, First prize, Anaesthesia & Critical Care, 2013 for Principles and Practice of Regional Anaesthesia, Eds, McLeod, McCartney, Wildsmith, 4th Ed, Oxford University Press. Innovation in Anaesthesia award, Association of Anaesthetists, GB&I, 2012 for invention of new bi-array ultrasound probe. Payne-Stafford-Tan award for Excellence in Clinical Practice, Teaching & Research, Royal College of Anaesthetists 2005.