Dr. Grocott currently holds the position of tenured Professor in the Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative & Pain Medicine at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.  He also serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia.
He completed medical school in Canada at the University of Saskatchewan in 1990, an anesthesia residency at the University of Manitoba, and  clinical fellowship and research training in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Having previously been at Duke for more than 12 years, he has now been at the University of Manitoba since 2007.
He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts and book chapters in a range of anesthesia and cardiac surgical topics. His research interests largely relate to the cerebral sequelae of cardiac surgery where he has focused on cerebral monitoring and adverse outcomes after cardiac surgery.