Clinical expertise
Professor Duncan Macrae works in specialist anaesthesia and intensive care, with special interests in:
- mechanical circulatory support for advanced heart failure
- clinical pharmacology
- treatment for pulmonary hypertension in intensive care
Locations
Our specialist provides care at these locations:
Biography
Professor Duncan Macrae is a consultant in paediatric intensive care at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals.
He studied medicine in Scotland. Following that, he continued with postgraduate training in anaesthesia and paediatric intensive care in other parts of the UK and at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
For ten years, he worked as a consultant paediatric intensivist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London.
Alongside his role as a consultant in paediatric intensive care at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, he is also the clinical lead for paediatric collaboration with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Research
Professor Duncan Macrae actively pursues clinical research and has been involved in many important clinical trials on treatments including:
- neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
- inhaled nitric oxide
- control of hyperglycaemia in paediatric intensive care (CHiP)
He has researched tight glycaemic control in sick children.
He is interested in discovering the latest ideas from his travels and implementing different approaches and ways of working as a result. For example, following a visit to the USA, he recently improved processes around risk management in intensive care, to further improve infection control.
Publications
He has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters and has extensive experience in reviewing and editing leading medical journals.
He is the paediatric editor for the European journal Intensive Care Medicine and an associate editor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, based in the United States.
Teaching
Professor Duncan Macrae speaks in the UK and internationally at specialist meetings and courses, congresses and lectures, such as the World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery.
He plays an active role in international organisations and is on the scientific committee of the World Congress on Paediatric Critical Care.
