Associate Professor Tonny Veenith MBBS, PhD(cantab), MRCP, FRCA, FFICM, EDIC

Dr Tonny Veenith

Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Deputy Director of Research, Neurosciences and Trauma
Hon. Consultant in Neurocritical care and Critical Care Medicine

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t.v.veenith@bham.ac.uk
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Tonny Veenith is Deputy Director of the Trauma, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology group within the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing.

He is also the deputy clinical director of research at the University Hospital Birmingham and was appointed as Macintosh professor for 2020-2022. He is an associate professor at University of Birmingham, and an Honorary Consultant in University Hospitals Birmingham NHS trust. 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4125-8804

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VRdZVj4AAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tonny-VeenithT

Qualifications

  • MBBS
  • PhD(cantab)
  • MRCP
  • FRCA
  • EDIC
  • FFICM

Biography

Tonny Veenith is Deputy Director of the Trauma, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology group within the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing. He is also the deputy clinical director of research at the University Hospital Birmingham and was appointed as Macintosh professor for 2020-2022. He is an associate professor at UoB.

Tonny Veenith researches translational mechanisms and management of acute brain injury, trauma and critical illness with a particular interest in traumatic brain injury, neurodegeneration after critical illness and organ failure following trauma. He closely works with a network of collaborators within the University of Birmingham and worldwide. His research aims to translate new mechanistic findings into patient benefit, covering mechanistic research, translational studies (MEND, CATALYST trials), and large clinical trials (e.g. SoS Trial, ERASER trial). Tonny is also an associate editor for the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine.

Teaching

Dr Vennith is an enthusiastic teacher, regular supervisor and examiner for MD and PhD students, and a sought-after speaker. Dr Veenith also contributes to guidelines, curricula, and textbooks nationally and internationally. Dr Veenith will consider PhD students and is persuing amazing opportunities in Critical Care Medicine.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Howroyd, F, McWilliams, D, Weblin, J, Wu, HSG, Turner, G, Gao Smith, F, Veenith, T, Duggal, NA & Ahmed, Z 2026, 'Rehabilitation in the intensive care unit for adults with traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Neurocritical Care. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-026-02551-x

Courtie, E, Mallawaarachchi, G, Kale, AU, Gilani, A, Capewell, N, Holding, D, Hui, BTK, Liu, X, Laws, E, Logan, A, Whitehouse, T, Denniston, AK, Veenith, T & Blanch, RJ 2026, 'Retinal Perfusion and Injury in Sepsis and after Major Surgery', Ophthalmology Science, vol. 6, no. 1, 100890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xops.2025.100890

Davis, E, Snelson, C, Murphy, N, Hodson, J, David, M, Veenith, T & Whitehouse, T 2025, 'Self-Reported Penicillin Allergy and antibiotic use in critical care: An observational, retrospective study', Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine, vol. 44, no. 1, 101461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accpm.2024.101461

Howroyd, F, Gill, R, Thompson, J, Smith, FG, Nasa, P, Gopal, S, Duggal, NA, Ahmed, Z & Veenith, T 2025, 'Ventilator-associated pneumonia: mechanisms, an appraisal of current therapies and the role for inhaled antibiotics in prevention and treatment', Respiratory Medicine, vol. 247, 108275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2025.108275

Birmingham Traumatic Venous Sinus Thrombosis Consortium** 2024, 'Management of Traumatic Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis: A United Kingdom and Ireland Survey on Practice Variation', Neurotrauma Reports, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 540-551. https://doi.org/10.1089/neur.2023.0118

Courtie, E, Taylor, M, Danks, D, Acharjee, A, Jackson, T, Logan, A, Veenith, T & Blanch, RJ 2024, 'Oculomic stratification of COVID-19 patients’ intensive therapy unit admission status and mortality by retinal morphological findings', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, 21312. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68543-z

COVID-CNS Consortium & Veenith, T 2024, 'Post-hospitalisation COVID-19 cognitive deficits at one year are global and associated with elevated brain injury markers and grey matter volume reduction', Nature Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03309-8

Stevens, AR, Gilbody, H, Greig, J, Usuah, J, Alagbe, B, Preece, A, Soon, WC, Chowdhury, YA, Toman, E, Chelvarajah, R, Veenith, T, Belli, A & Davies, DJ 2023, 'Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion for Refractory Intracranial Hypertension in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Single Center Experience', World Neurosurgery, vol. 176, pp. e265-e272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2023.05.047

Comment/debate

ISARIC4C Investigators, COVID-CNS Consortium, Michael, BD, Dunai, C, Needham, EJ, Tharmaratnam, K, Williams, R, Huang, Y, Boardman, SA, Clark, JJ, Sharma, P, Subramaniam, K, Wood, GK, Collie, C, Digby, R, Ren, A, Norton, E, Leibowitz, M, Ebrahimi, S, Fower, A, Fox, H, Tato, E, Ellul, MA, Sunderland, G, Held, M, Hetherington, C, Egbe, FN, Palmos, A, Stirrups, K, Grundmann, A, Chiollaz, AC, Sanchez, JC, Stewart, JP, Solomon, T, Breen, G, Coles, AJ, Kingston, N, Bradley, JR, Chinnery, PF, Cavanagh, J, Irani, SR, Vincent, A, Baillie, JK, Openshaw, PJ, Semple, MG, Taams, LS, Menon, DK & Griffiths, MJ 2024, 'Author Correction: Para-infectious brain injury in COVID-19 persists at follow-up despite attenuated cytokine and autoantibody responses', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 2918. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47320-6

Stevens, AR, Chelvarajah, R, Veenith, T, Belli, A & Davies, DJ 2023, 'In Reply to the Letter to the Editor Regarding “Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion for Refractory Intracranial Hypertension in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Single Center Experience”', World Neurosurgery, vol. 180, pp. 257-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2023.09.037

Review article

Fisher, T, Abbawy, M, Holden, F, Cotton, J, Hothi, S, Ingram, T, Dhamodaran, K, Thilak, S, Chacko, C, Gao-Smith, F & Veenith, T 2026, 'Diastolic Dysfunction in Acute and Critical Illness: Acute Pathophysiology to Chronic Heart Failure', JACC: Advances, vol. 5, no. 2, 102532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.102532

Lawrence, E, Fulton, D, Brown, P, Suresh, S, Morris, M, Goggolidou, P, Chaithanya, S, Abbawy, M, Wild, A, Nasa, P, Duggal, NA, Gao Smith, F, Ahmed, Z, Renukappa, S & Veenith, T 2026, 'Neurocognitive aging following acute illness: pathobiology and a framework for developing neurotherapeutic agents', Brain and Behaviour, vol. 16, no. 6, e71542. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.71542

Abbawy, M, Okoh, D, Binuraj, A, Holden, F, Fox, B, Sachdeva, R, Pooni, J, Singh, M, Allen, T, Ganguly, S, Gao-Smith, F & Veenith, T 2026, 'The role of the rectus sheath block in modern perioperative care for midline laparotomy: a review of the evidence', Frontiers in Anesthesiology , vol. 5, 1725241. https://doi.org/10.3389/fanes.2026.1725241

Thilak, S, Brown, P, Whitehouse, T, Gautam, N, Lawrence, E, Ahmed, Z & Veenith, T 2024, 'Diagnosis and management of subarachnoid haemorrhage', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 1850. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46015-2

Courtie, E, Kirkpatrick, JRM, Taylor, M, Faes, L, Liu, X, Logan, A, Veenith, T, Denniston, AK & Blanch, RJ 2024, 'Optical coherence tomography angiography analysis methods: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 9643. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54306-3

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