About the Hub

Founder and editor

The Hub was founded and is edited by Dr Tom Dixon, a senior Intensive Care Medicine registrar in London. He has trained across a range of specialist intensive care units and has particular experience in liver critical care at King's College Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital. His clinical interests include acute liver failure, acute-on-chronic liver failure, decompensated cirrhosis and liver transplantation.

His academic work focuses on liver dysfunction in critical illness, prognostication and the use of longitudinal clinical data to understand how illness evolves over time. His current research examines bilirubin trajectories in critically ill patients with cirrhosis, the external validation of dynamic phenotypes and how these approaches might inform risk stratification and research design. He is also involved in postgraduate medical education and simulation and is an Advanced Life Support instructor.

Our purpose

Caring for critically ill people with liver disease is inherently multidisciplinary, spanning intensive care, hepatology, transplantation, anaesthesia, surgery, nursing, pharmacy, dietetics, physiotherapy, nephrology and research. The Hub aims to make useful evidence, professional knowledge, opportunities, patient support and routes into public involvement easier to find and understand.

How AI will be used

AI may assist literature surveillance, classification, first-draft summaries and administrative workflows. It will not publish clinical content autonomously, provide patient-specific advice or replace human editorial review.

Independence

The Liver Critical Care Hub is an independent project. It should not be interpreted as an official publication or position of any NHS trust, university, professional society or employer. Views expressed by named contributors are their own unless explicitly stated otherwise.