Professor Gavin Perkins

Gavin Perkins is Dean of Medicine at Warwick Medical School. He works clinically as a Consultant Physician in Critical Care at University Hospitals Birmingham and as a Non-executive Director at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. He is Vice President of the Resuscitation Council UK, Director of Science and Research for the European Resuscitation Council and co-chair of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. Prof Perkins was lead investigator for the PARAMEDIC trials which examined mechanical chest compression devices, adrenaline and intraosseous access in out of hospital cardiac arrest. He commissioned and contributed to the 2024 Utstein update in out of hospital cardiac arrest and played key roles in the in-hospital Utstein Statement and Core Outcome Set for Cardiac Arrest (COSCA).