University (Senior Clinical) Lecturer in Anaesthetics
Fellow by Special Election and Tutor in Physiology, Wadham College

Email: andrew.farmery@wadh.ox.ac.uk
Department Information: Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics (www.nda.ox.ac.uk), in the Medical Sciences Division (www.medsci.ox.ac.uk)

Dr Farmery trained in medicine and physiology at London, Cambridge and Oxford. He holds the posts of Senior Lecturer in Anaesthetics at Oxford, and Consultant in the Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust.

Research Interests
These include mathematical modelling of gas exchange in the diseased lung, and the development of novel technologies in clinical monitoring, particularly in implantable fibre optic fluorescence quenching optodes.  His research group is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
He is Vice Chair of the Oxford Research Ethics Committee, and is an examiner at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Teaching
First year BM, BCh (1st BM part 1): Physiology and Pharmacology
Second year BM, BCh (1st part 2): Integrative Systems Physiology
Third year BM, BCh and BA Physiological Sciences (Honours Schools)
Intercollegiate teaching in MVR (Myocardial, Vascular, Respiratory biology)

Books and chapters

• Inert gas transport in blood and tissues. Chapter in Gas Exchange section of the American Handbook of Physiology.  American Physiological Society 2009.
• Hypoxaemia and Physics & Physiology.  Chapters in Core Topics in Airway Management. Cambridge University Press 2009
• Anaesthesia. Chapter in Scott-Brown's Otorhinolaryngology: Head and neck surgery.  Hodder-Arnold 2008
• Ophthalmic Anaesthesia.  Chapt. In Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia.  Oxford University Press. 2007.

Selected papers

• Talbot N, Farmery AD, Dorrington KL.  Redistribution kinetics of volatile agents during simulated airway obstruction.  Anesthesiology 2009 (in press)
• Farmery, AD, Wilson-MacDonald J. The analgesic effect of epidural clonidine following spinal surgery: a randomised placebo controlled trial. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 2009; 108:2
• van der Hoeven S, Duncan S, Farmery AD, Hahn, CEW.  Modelling and Control of Gas Flow in Anesthesia. IEEE Control Applications 2006. 277-282
• Floate S, Farmery AD, Hahn CEW. Microelectrode studies of isoflurane and oxygen vapour mixtures in dimethyl sulfoxide. Sensors and Actuators B 2005;109:200–208
• Whiteley JP, Farmery AD, Gavaghan DJ, Hahn CEW.  A tidal ventilation model of oxygenation in the respiratory failure.  Respiration Physiology & Neurobiology. 2003 12;136(1):77-88
• Farmery AD, Shlugman D, Anslow P.  How high do the subclavian arteries ascend into the neck?  A population study using magnetic resonance imaging. Br J Anaesth. 2003; 90:452-6
• Farmery AD, Shlugman D, Rahman R, Rosen, P.  Sub-Tenon’s block reduces both intraoperative and postoperative analgesia requirement in vitreo-retinal surgery under general anaesthesia.  Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2003;20(12):973-8
• Farmery AD, Whiteley JP.  A model of electron transfer in mitochondrial respiratory cytochromes and its application to tissue oxygenation.  Journal of Theoretical Biology.  2001;  21;213(2):197-207