Major Max Marsden

Major Max Marsden is a General Surgery Registrar (ST8) in London. He is an honorary Clinical Lecturer at the Centre for Trauma Sciences, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Defence Medical Service. He is the lead for surgical informatics. 

Max (ICSM 2002-2008) was inspired to pursue a career in Trauma Surgery during his Medical School elective with the Trauma Team at MEDStar, Washington DC. After finishing Medical School at Imperial College and foundation training at Frimley Park, he attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2012. On returning to the UK he started surgical training initially in Wessex, then moved to London. 

Max completed his PhD in 2020 at the Centre for Trauma Sciences, QMUL. His research looks at the impact of an Artificial Intelligence system on clinical decision-making after injury. The work uses a Bayesian Network model to assess the risk of Bleeding and Trauma Induced Coagulopathy in casualties early after injury. The research was conducted with London’s Air Ambulance, Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance and several Major Trauma Centres in London and the South of England. It was supervised by Nigel Tai and Karim Brohi. 

Max and colleagues established the National Trauma Research and Innovation Collaborative (NaTRIC) in 2018. Since then, they have run (and continue to run) national trauma studies led by trainees. One of the highlights was wining the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Resident prize in 2021, the winning study being an analysis of Trauma Laparotomies in the UK. The project harnessed the combined power of the National Major Trauma Network. 

His research interests include decision making, decision support with AI, and endovascular resuscitation.