Professional background

Trained at King's College London Hospital Medical School.

Undertook anaesthetic training at St Mary's Hospital London, Charing Cross Hospital registrar rotation and UCLH senior registrar rotations. 

Appointed as consultant anaesthetist in 1996. 

Currently divisional clinical director for anaesthetics for University College Hospital

Research interests

  • Anaesthesia for orthopaedics and bariatrics 
  • Advanced airway management

Publications

Gas Tubes and Flow.  V Mitchell & Kate Cheesman, Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine Jan 2010 32-35

Anaesthesia for reconstruction of head and neck defects using microvascular tissue transfer
S.K.Nadarajan, S.Clarke, V.Mitchell, N. Kalavrezos and P.Ramasamy.  CPD-Anaesthesia 2008 Vol.10

Anatomy of the larynx, trachea and bronchi. Edward Burdett, Viki Mitchell, Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine August 2008 9, 8, 329-333

Anaesthesia for maxillofacial surgery, L. Arrandale, V. MitchellAnaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine 2008, 9, I8, 351-354.

The use of cuffed tracheal tubes for paediatric tracheal intubation, a survey of specialist practice in the United Kingdom, Flynn PE, Black AE, Mitchell V. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2008 Mar 13:1-4.

A randomised comparison of the single use LMA Flexible with the reusable LMA Flexible in paediatric dental day-case patients.Flynn P, Ahmed FB, Mitchell V, Patel A, Clarke S., Anaesthesia. 2007 Dec;62(12):1281-4

Anaesthetic considerations for patients receiving photodynamic therapy in head and neck surgery.,Theodossy T, Chapman M, Mitchell V, Hopper C. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2007 Mar;24(3):225-9.