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Matthew studied Medicine at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, graduating in Medical Sciences in 2011, and Medicine in 2014. After qualifying as a doctor he moved to Oxford for postgraduate medical training, specialising in Anaesthesia. In 2021 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists by examination.
He has been awarded an MPhil in Anaesthesia from University of Nottingham for research into the risks of non-cardiac surgery after recent stroke and myocardial infarction. In 2023 after completing an NIHR funded Academic Clinical Fellowship in Oxford he took up an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship at University of Oxford studying postoperative delirium.
Matthew Luney
MA (Cantab), MB BChir MPhil PgDip FRCA
NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow
Research
Matthew Luney is a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, co-funded by a Henni Mester Scholarship, and a final year DPhil student in the Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care Group within the University of Oxford.
His clinical and academic interests are in peri-operative brain health and clinical trials within trauma and emergency anaesthesia. The focus of his doctoral research is postoperative delirium after orthopaedic trauma.
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Recent publications
Effectiveness of drug interventions to prevent delirium after surgery for older adults: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
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Luney M. et al, (2026), BMJ, 392
Hip Fracture Intervention Study for Prevention of Hypotension Trial: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
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Luney MS. et al, (2025), A A Pract, 19
dverse outcomes after surgery after a cerebrovascular accident or acute coronary syndrome: a retrospective observational cohort study.
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Luney MS. et al, (2025), Br J Anaesth, 134, 63 - 71
Risk of Mortality Following Surgery in Patients With a Previous Cardiovascular Event.
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Chalitsios CV. et al, (2024), JAMA Surg, 159, 140 - 149