Professor Ascanio Tridente

Professor Ascanio Tridente has vast experience in acute general internal medicine and critical care medicine. He has specialist interests in the pathophysiology of critical illness, resuscitation and management of critically ill and injured adults. He receives instructions from both claimant and defendant organisations.

Professor Ascanio Tridente qualified in Medicine with Honours, holds a Master of Science degree in clinical Trials and a PhD, completed Specialist training in Intensive Care and General Internal Medicine / Acute Medicine, is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM).

Prof Tridente is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Acute (Internal) Medicine since 2013, the former Clinical Director of Intensive Care (2018-2022), including the COVID-19 pandemic; and current Clinical Director of Research, Development & Innovation (RDI), Mersey & West Lancashire NHS (MWL Trust), WSN site.

Prof Tridente is an Honorary Clinical Professor at Edge Hill University, a Visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. 

Other roles:

Prof Tridente is the Deputy Chair and a current Trustee of the British Burn Association (BBA), co-chair of the Special Interest Group in Anaesthetics/Critical Care, BBA representative to the national Burns Clinical Informatics Group (BCIG) and has co-authored the British Burn Association National Standards for Provision and Outcomes in Adult and Paediatric Burn Care (2023).

Prof Tridente is the Careers co-Lead of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (Careers, Recruitment & Workforce committees) and has co-authored chapters for the Guidelines for Provision of Intensive Care Services (GPICS) version 3 of 2025.

Regional Education clinical lead in organ donation for the Northwest region at NHS Blood & Transplant.

Clinical Lead, North of England Network for Burns Care, NHS England

Associate of the General Medical Council (performance assessor, professional & linguistic proficiency examiner, specialist certification).

Physician Advisor, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

Governor, Council, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Academic positions

Honorary Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, Edge Hill University

Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool

Visiting Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University

Member, Health Research Institute Steering Group, Edge Hill University

Editor in Chief, Acute Medicine Journal, RILA publications, London (international, peer reviewed journal, official journal of the Society of Acute Medicine);

Associate Editor, Scars, Burns and Healing journal, SAGE, London (international, peer reviewed journal);

Regional Specialty Lead for Critical Care, Northwest Regional Research Delivery Network, National Institute for Health and Care Research

Scopus Author 25226348400, ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1500-447X

Qualifications

Prof Tridente has completed the Cardiff University Bond Solon Civil Expert Witness Certificate

First Class Honours Degree of Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, 2002

MRCP (UK), 2006 

Post-Graduate Diploma Clinical Trials, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2009

MRCP (Acute Medicine), London, 2010

Master in Science Clinical Trials, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2011

European Diploma in Intensive Care, 2012

CCT Intensive Care Medicine, 2013

CCT General (Internal) Medicine / Acute Medicine, 2013

FFICM (Fellowship by assessment of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine), 2014

FRCP (London), 2017

PhD University of Sheffield, 2018

Specialist training in Intensive Care and General Internal Medicine / Acute Medicine

Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness certificate

GMC, MPS, RCP(London), FICM