Mr Krishna Moorthy

Krishna Moorthy (MS MD FRCS) is a senior lecturer and honorary consultant surgeon. His areas of clinical expertise are upper gastrointestinal cancer and bariatric surgery. His research focus is on systems safety in surgery. He leads the safety in surgery research group. He was on the WHO working group for the development of the WHO surgical safety checklist and was the local research lead for the international pilot study. He currently leads the outcomes arm of a large scale project funded by the NIHR to study national implementation of the checklist. His research interests include the study of information transfer in surgery; multi-disciplinary handover; safety and teamwork in the operating theatre and safety and quality of care of patients undergoing elective and emergency surgery.

He has also published widely on surgical education, principally the role of simulations in surgical training. He has led efforts to develop two e-learning modules on patient safety for undergraduate students and a safety skills training programme for the surgical trainees in the region. He is also the director of a Masters programme in surgical technology and contributes to the Masters in Safety and Quality of care.