Professor Jugdeep Dhesi

Jugdeep is a consultant geriatrician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK. Over the past 20 years she has led the establishment of the innovative and award-winning POPS (Perioperative medicine for Older People undergoing Surgery) service. This service has been replicated nationally and internationally with a strong evidence base for clinical and cost effectiveness.

Jugdeep is Adjunct Professor at King’s College London and Associate Professor at University College London, with research interests including preoperative assessment and optimisation, health services research and postoperative delirium.

She is President of the British Geriatrics Society and Co-Chair of the Modern Service Framework for Frailty and Dementia. She has extensive national and international experience in a variety of steering, advisory and guideline groups (NELA, RCoA, BGS, NICE, EuGMS, ANZCA) and has senior editor roles at high impact journals.

Jugdeep has a wide education and training portfolio, having established the first Allied Health Professional, Foundation and Specialist Registrar training programmes in perioperative medicine, co-authored e-learning modules, MSc modules and multiple textbook chapters. She is a frequent invited speaker nationally and internationally.