Dr Dmitry Sokolov

Trained in anaesthesia and intensive care in Riga, Dr Sokolov worked as a consultant with the Emergency Medical Service of Latvia before moving to the UK. Since 2013 he has been a Consultant Anaesthetist with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, where he leads trauma anaesthesia. He has been on the GMC Specialist Register in anaesthetics since 2010 and has examined for Part 2 of the prestigious European Diploma in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care since 2016.

Theatre and intensive care show him where much illness begins. Modern medicine brings everything it has to bear – advanced diagnostics, surgery, pharmacology, highly skilled time – yet too many of the conditions it treats stem from how people live. Unless that is addressed, much of this effort works only in part, or not at all. He sees his mission as teaching people to address the root cause – with the lifestyle approaches and tools that give the best return in health and performance.

Dr Sokolov is board-certified in lifestyle medicine by the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine, a Diplomate of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine, and holds the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Type 2 Diabetes Remission Certificate. He interprets cardiopulmonary exercise tests (CPET), body composition (DEXA scan) and advanced blood panels. He writes the Library on this site, teaches organisations and private groups, and delivers structured lifestyle coaching to clients outside the UK.

The method behind his work is Pragmatic Optimalism™: the most benefit for the least effort, chosen by evidence and measured. Real life limits what anyone can give their time to. Time, money and attention are always scarce, and every choice for one thing is a choice against another. Lifestyle is no exception: what is most worth doing is what gives the highest return at a given point, in any given season of life – and the answer changes as life does.

Dr Sokolov lives what he teaches. He trains, keeps his routines on good days and bad, respects people who do the same, and helps those who do not yet live this way make it their new normal. Discipline is often labelled as a cage – something that restricts and takes pleasures away. In his experience it is the opposite: discipline is the frame that holds when moods, losses and circumstances push against it, and keeps a person going whatever life brings. Much of his work is helping others build that frame.

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Credentials

• MD with distinction, Riga Stradiņš University, 2004
• Resident in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, P Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia, 2005–2010
• Consultant in Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Service of Latvia, 2010–2012
• GMC Specialist Register, Anaesthetics, since 2010 – GMC 7055978
• Consultant Anaesthetist, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (Queen Elizabeth University Hospital), since 2013; Lead for Trauma Anaesthesia
• Diplomate of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (DESAIC), 2012; examiner for the European Diploma in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (EDAIC Part 2) since 2016
• Board-certified in lifestyle medicine, International Board of Lifestyle Medicine (DipIBLM); Diplomate, British Society of Lifestyle Medicine (DipBSLM), 2022
• Type 2 Diabetes Remission Certificate, American College of Lifestyle Medicine, 2025

Publications

• Sokolovs D. Ear, nose and throat emergencies. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine 2025;26(12):833–839. doi:10.1016/j.mpaic.2025.10.019
• Quek JY, Sokolovs D. Flexible bronchoscope-assisted tracheal intubation. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine 2026;27(5):249–260. doi:10.1016/j.mpaic.2026.03.002
• Sokolovs D, Sokolova V. Anaesthesia for adult renal transplant surgery: UK survey. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 2016;33(Suppl 54):48.
• Sokolovs D, Sokolova V. Role of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in pre-operative risk assessment: a systematic literature review. Latvijas Ārsts 2015;June–July:17–23.
• Sokolovs D. Intra-articular local anaesthetics for acute post-operative pain in orthopaedics. Latvijas Ārsts 2013.
• Four chapters – Anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery; Anaesthesia for head and neck surgery; Anaesthesia for patients with thyroid and parathyroid disease; Target-controlled infusions – in: Vanags I, Sondore I, eds. Clinical Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy. Riga, 2017. ISBN 9789984813967.

Disclosures

Dr Sokolov is employed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde as a Consultant Anaesthetist. This website, his media channels (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook), digital products, and everything marketed by him as Dmitry Sokolov MD, sole trader, are independent of his Consultant employment with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, which neither endorses nor is responsible for them. The views here are his own. He has no commercial relationships with companies whose products or services are mentioned on this site – no payments, sponsorship or affiliate links. Any that arise will be listed here.