Consultant Critical Care, Consultant Physician and Clinical Director & Chair, Research, Development & Innovation
DMS(Hons), MRCP(AIM), MSc CT, EDIC, FFICM, FRCP(London), PhD
North West & Nationwide
Dr Ascanio Tridente qualified in Medicine with Honours, holds a Master of Science degree in clinical Trials and a PhD, completed Specialist training in Intensive Care and General Internal Medicine / Acute, is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM).
Dr Tridente is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Acute (Internal) Medicine, the former Clinical Director of Intensive Care (2018-2022), including the COVID-19 pandemic; and current Clinical Director of Research, Development & Innovation (RDI), Mersey & West Lancashire NHS (MWL Trust), WSN site – (Scopus Author 25226348400, ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1500-447X); Visiting Professor (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer (University of Liverpool, UK); Associate of the General Medical Council (performance assessor, professional & linguistic proficiency examiner, specialist certification); Careers co-Lead, FICM (Careers Recruitment & Workforce committees); NHS Blood & Transplant regional (NW) education clinical lead in organ donation.
He is the deputy Chair and a current Trustee of the British Burn Association (BBA), co-chair of the Special Interest Group in Anaesthetics/Critical Care, BBA representative to the national Burns Clinical Informatics Group (BCIG) and has co-authored the BBA Standards for Burn Care (2023).
Dr Tridente's other roles:
Clinical Lead, North of England Network for Burns Care
Associate Editor, Scars, Burns and Healing journal, SAGE, London (international, peer reviewed journal);
Academic positions
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool
Visiting Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University
Member, Health Research Institute Steering Group, Edge Hill University
Associate Editor, Scars Burns and Healing, Sage Publishing, London
Dr Tridente has completed the Cardiff University Bond Solon Civil Expert Witness Certificate
Qualifications
First Class Honours Degree of Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, 2002
MRCP (UK), 2006
Post-Graduate Diploma Clinical Trials, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2009
MRCP (Acute Medicine), London, 2010
Master in Science Clinical Trials, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2011
European Diploma in Intensive Care, 2012
CCT Intensive Care Medicine, 2013
CCT General (Internal) Medicine / Acute Medicine, 2013
FFICM (Fellowship by assessment of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine), 2014
FRCP (London), 2017
PhD University of Sheffield, 2018
CUBS Civil Expert Witness Certificate
Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness certificate training completed
GMC, MPS, RCP(London), FICM