Rate My Professor David Harrison

Harrison's academic interests centre on statistical methods for risk prediction and outcome assessment in critical care settings. He served as chief investigator for NIHR-funded studies including Risk Adjustment In Neurocritical care (RAIN, 2007-2012) and Fungal Infection Risk Evaluation (FIRE). His seminal publication, "A new risk prediction model for critical care: the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC) model" (Critical Care Medicine, 2007), introduced a model with superior performance to predecessors like APACHE II and SAPS II. He contributed to its update in "Development and validation of the new ICNARC model for prediction of acute hospital mortality following intensive care" (Journal of Critical Care, 2017). With 440 research items and 37,269 citations (ResearchGate), his prolific output includes leadership in trials such as Conservative vs Liberal Oxygenation in ICU Patients (UK-ROX, 2020), Oxygenation targets in Paediatric Intensive Care (Oxy-PICU), Critical Illness-Related Cardiac Arrest (CIRCA, 2022), and FIRST-ABC on non-invasive respiratory support. He is a member of the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme Funding Committee. Harrison's work has profoundly impacted critical care by enabling risk-adjusted benchmarking, improving transparency in audit data access, and informing evidence-based practices in oxygenation, sepsis management, and cardiac arrest care across the UK.