Biography

Dr. Cuesta completed his undergraduate medical degree, specialist training in Anaesthesia, and MD (research) in liver transplantation at the University of Murcia, Spain. He further trained in intensive care at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and University College London Hospital (UCLH). Dr. Cuesta holds an EDIC (Part II) diploma from King's College Hospital and an MSc in Medical Genetics from Queen Mary University of London.

His clinical and research interests focus on the stress response in critical illness, the application of facial recognition technology for predicting patient deterioration, and the study of hibernation mechanisms as a model for critical illness

Languages

English and Spanish

GMC number

4693424

  • Martinez-Gonzalez E, Garcia-Olmo D, Mayordomo-Aranda E, Granada-Picazo M, Gomez-Juarez M, Moreno-Cuesta J. Does hemofiltration protect the brain after head trauma? An experimental study in rabbits. Intensive Care Med Exp. 2020 Nov;8(1):66.
  • Madrigal-Garcia MI, Archer D, Singer M, Rodrigues M, Shenfield A, Moreno-Cuesta J. Do Temporal Changes in Facial Expressions Help Identify Patients at Risk of Deterioration in Hospital Wards? A Post Hoc Analysis of the Visual Early Warning Score Study. Crit Care Explor. 2020 May;2(5):e0115.
  • Madrigal-Garcia MI, Rodrigues M, Shenfield A, Singer M, Moreno-Cuesta J. What Faces Reveal: A Novel Method to Identify Patients at Risk of Deterioration Using Facial Expressions. Crit Care Med. 2018 Jul;46(7):1057-1062
  • Martínez-Lucas P, Moreno-Cuesta J, García-Olmo DC, Sánchez-Sánchez F, Escribano-Martínez J, del Pozo AC, Lizán-García M, García-Olmo D. Relationship between the Arg72Pro polymorphism of p53 and outcome for patients with traumatic brain injury. Intensive Care Med. 2005 Sep;31(9):1168-1173.
  • Cuesta JM, Singer M. The stress response and critical illness: a review. Crit Care Med. 2012 Dec;40(12):3283-3289.

Stress response, face recognition and genetics