Prof Georg Auzinger is the Chair of the Department of Critical Care at Cleveland Clinic London, a Consultant and Reader in Intensive Care Medicine with King’s College London and the former Clinical Director for Critical Care at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He has 24 years’ experience of working as a Consultant in the NHS. He was the Lead Clinician for the Liver ICU from 2007 until 2015, when he became Clinical Director for Critical Care at King’s, a position he held until 2019 when joining Cleveland Clinic London. He was appointed Prof of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine in 2021.
Dr Auzinger has a special interest in extracorporeal cardio-respiratory assist and Liver Failure. He set up the King’s ECMO service in 2012, which he continues to co-direct to date. King’s was awarded ELSO Platinum Centre of Excellence status twice in 2019 and 2023; the service has made pioneering contributions around ECMO support in Acute Liver Failure and Bridge to Liver Transplantation.