Paul Dark
Academic Director @Health Innovation Manchester
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WORK HISTORY
Academic Director @Health Innovation Manchester
Manchester, GB
EDUCATION
University of Glasgow
Surgery and Trauma
The University of Manchester
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery - MBBS
The University of Manchester
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering
KU Leuven
Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
SKILLS
ABOUT PAUL DARK
Paul Dark is an Anglo-Swiss clinical academic leader in higher education and healthcare.He was appointed to his current clinical academic post at the University of Manchester in 2003, developing clinical services and academic practice in Critical Care Medicine at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (Salford Care Organisation). He developed and provides leadership for a programme of work, funded mainly by the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR), investigating the clinical and cost effectiveness of emerging molecular diagnostic technologies in the setting of sterile tissue injury and severe infections (sepsis) within both high and low resource healthcare settings internationally. Funded by NIHR Manchester BRC, NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Emergency and Acute Care and Innovate UK in partnership with industry, he also co-leads an ongoing programme of work developing novel technologies aimed at rapid point-of-care infection/sepsis theragnosis with the objective of optimising patient exposure to antimicrobial drugs.Paul was NIHR Clinical Research Network\'s National Deputy Medical Director (2022 - 24). He provided strategic leadership for the development, delivery and accessibility of a large portfolio of national clinical research in NHS acute hospital settings and he represented NIHR internationally. As a former NIHR National Specialty Lead for Critical Care (2015-22), he served on NIHR\'s Urgent Public Health Research Advisory Group, providing expert advice on research priority for the Department of Health and Social Care and UK\'s Chief Medical Officers during the COVID-19 pandemic.He is also Research Professor at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, providing strategic interdisciplinary leadership in global health and social justice. In September 2024, he was appointed as the University of Manchester\'s Vice Dean for Health and Care Partnerships. In this role he is ensuring relationships continue and flourish with the NHS and the broader health and care infrastructures across Greater Manchester, the northwest and nationally. He works closely with senior University colleagues and leaders of health and care partners to develop and align strategic responses to key challenges and opportunities presented by changes in legislation, technology and government policy.
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