Bruce Biccard
Bruce Biccard is Professor and Second Chair in the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests include perioperative medicine, perioperative outcomes and global surgery. He is a proponent of international collaborative research. He collaborates with the African Perioperative Research Group (APORG) which has delivered the African Surgical Outcomes Study (ASOS), the ASOS-2 Trial, the African Covid-19 Critical Care Outcomes Study (ACCCOS), and the African Surgical Outcomes Study in Paediatric patients (ASOS-Paeds). He is the co-Lead for the NIHR Global Health Group on Perioperative and Critical Care. Bruce recently published a book titled ‘Safer surgery for Africa: Challenges and Solutions’.