Dr John Whittle
Consultant Anaesthetist and Perioperative Physician, University College London Hospital
Dr John Whittle is an academic anaesthetist, intensivist and clinician–scientist based at UCL, specialising in translational perioperative physiology. He leads multidisciplinary programmes that integrate autonomic neuroscience, cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), metabolic flexibility, immunometabolism, imaging biomarkers and machine learning to mechanistically stratify perioperative risk and develop targeted optimisation strategies. Dr Whittle’s work spans physiology, metabolomics, cardiovascular modelling, AI-enabled risk prediction and implementation science, with a focus on moving precision perioperative assessment and optimisation toward routine clinical practice.