Associate Professor Tonny Veenith MBBS, PhD(cantab), MRCP, FRCA, FFICM, EDIC

Dr Tonny Veenith

Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Deputy Director of Research, Neurosciences and Trauma
Hon. Consultant in Neurocritical care and Critical Care Medicine

Contact details

Email
t.v.veenith@bham.ac.uk
Twitter

Tonny Veenith is Deputy Director of the Trauma, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology group within the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing.

He is also the deputy clinical director of research at the University Hospital Birmingham and was appointed as Macintosh professor for 2020-2022. He is an associate professor at University 麻豆精选, and an Honorary Consultant in University Hospitals Birmingham NHS trust. 

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Qualifications

  • MBBS
  • PhD(cantab)
  • MRCP
  • FRCA
  • EDIC
  • FFICM

Biography

Tonny Veenith is Deputy Director of the Trauma, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology group within the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing. He is also the deputy clinical director of research at the University Hospital Birmingham and was appointed as Macintosh professor for 2020-2022. He is an associate professor at UoB.

Tonny Veenith researches translational mechanisms and management of acute brain injury, trauma and critical illness with a particular interest in traumatic brain injury, neurodegeneration after critical illness and organ failure following trauma. He closely works with a network of collaborators within the University 麻豆精选 and worldwide. His research aims to translate new mechanistic findings into patient benefit, covering mechanistic research, translational studies (MEND, CATALYST trials), and large clinical trials (e.g. SoS Trial, ERASER trial). Tonny is also an associate editor for the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine.

Teaching

Dr Vennith is an enthusiastic teacher, regular supervisor and examiner for MD and PhD students, and a sought-after speaker. Dr Veenith also contributes to guidelines, curricula, and textbooks nationally and internationally. Dr Veenith will consider PhD students and is persuing amazing opportunities in Critical Care Medicine.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Davis, E, Snelson, C, Murphy, N, Hodson, J, David, M, Veenith, T & Whitehouse, T 2025, '', Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine, vol. 44, no. 1, 101461.

Birmingham Traumatic Venous Sinus Thrombosis Consortium** 2024, '', Neurotrauma Reports, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 540-551.

Courtie, E, Taylor, M, Danks, D, Acharjee, A, Jackson, T, Logan, A, Veenith, T & Blanch, RJ 2024, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, 21312.

COVID-CNS Consortium & Veenith, T 2024, '', Nature Medicine.

Stevens, AR, Gilbody, H, Greig, J, Usuah, J, Alagbe, B, Preece, A, Soon, WC, Chowdhury, YA, Toman, E, Chelvarajah, R, Veenith, T, Belli, A & Davies, DJ 2023, '', World Neurosurgery, vol. 176, pp. e265-e272.

STRESS-L Collaborators, Whitehouse, T, Hossain, A, Perkins, GD, Gordon, AC, Bion, J, Young, D, McAuley, D, Singer, M, Lord, J, Gates, S, Veenith, T, MacCallum, NS, Yeung, J, Innes, R, Welters, I, Boota, N, Skilton, E, Ghuman, B, Hill, M, Regan, SE, Mistry, D & Lall, R 2023, '', JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 330, no. 17, pp. 1641-1652.

Courtie, EF, Gilani, A, Capewell, N, Kale, AU, Hui, BTK, Liu, X, Montesano, G, Teussink, M, Denniston, AK, Veenith, T & Blanch, RJ 2023, '', Translational Vision Science & Technology, vol. 12, no. 7, 3.

Chowdhury, Y, Stevens, A, Soon, W, Toman, E, Veenith, T, Chelvarajah, R, Belli, T & Davies, D 2022, '', Cureus, vol. 14, no. 6, e25877.

Veenith, T, Martin, H, Le Breuilly, M, Whitehouse, T, Gao-Smith, F, Duggal, N, Lord, JM, Mian, R, Sarphie, D & Moss, P 2022, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 12, no. 1, 10484.

CATALYST investigators, Fisher, BA, Veenith, T, Slade, D, Gaskell, C, Rowland, M, Whitehouse, T, Scriven, J, Parekh, D, Balasubramaniam, MS, Cooke, G, Morley, N, Gabriel, Z, Wise, MP, Porter, J, McShane, H, Ho, L-P, Newsome, PN, Rowe, A, Sharpe, R, Thickett, DR, Bion, J, Gates, S, Richards, D & Kearns, P 2022, '', The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 255-266.

Comment/debate

ISARIC4C Investigators, COVID-CNS Consortium, Michael, BD, Dunai, C, Needham, EJ, Tharmaratnam, K, Williams, R, Huang, Y, Boardman, SA, Clark, JJ, Sharma, P, Subramaniam, K, Wood, GK, Collie, C, Digby, R, Ren, A, Norton, E, Leibowitz, M, Ebrahimi, S, Fower, A, Fox, H, Tato, E, Ellul, MA, Sunderland, G, Held, M, Hetherington, C, Egbe, FN, Palmos, A, Stirrups, K, Grundmann, A, Chiollaz, AC, Sanchez, JC, Stewart, JP, Griffiths, M, Solomon, T, Breen, G, Coles, AJ, Kingston, N, Bradley, JR, Chinnery, PF, Cavanagh, J, Irani, SR, Vincent, A, Baillie, JK, Openshaw, PJ, Semple, MG, Taams, LS & Menon, DK 2024, '', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 2918.

Review article

Thilak, S, Brown, P, Whitehouse, T, Gautam, N, Lawrence, E, Ahmed, Z & Veenith, T 2024, '', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 1850.

Courtie, E, Kirkpatrick, JRM, Taylor, M, Faes, L, Liu, X, Logan, A, Veenith, T, Denniston, AK & Blanch, RJ 2024, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 9643.

Quinn, L, Veenith, T, Bion, J, Hemming, K, Whitehouse, T & Lilford, R 2022, '', British Journal of Anaesthesia, vol. 129, no. 5, pp. 693-702.

Stevens, A, Soon, W, Chowdhury, Y, Toman, E, Yim, S, Veenith, T, Chelvarajah, R, Belli, T & Davies, D 2022, '', Cureus, vol. 14, no. 10, e30033.