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President's Welcome President’s Welcome A very warm welcome to Nottingham and the 2009 ASiT Conference, with promises of a great weekend for fair maidens and merry men alike! The annual conference continues to grow year on year, and this bears testament to the commitment of the ASiT Membership to remain up to date in all matters educational and political. This is your conference, and your opportunity to meet the leaders of surgical education – make the most of the sessions and if you have strong feelings about the current training climate, please do make them known. We are very fortunate to have the magnificent Albert Hall as the backdrop, and with a programme packed with some really outstanding speakers, there should be something for everyone. Whether your interests lie in humanitarian surgery in deepest Africa, cutting edge critical care issues or the most significant threat to surgical training and service – there will be plenty of opportunities. The popular medical student sessions have been continued and a special welcome to our student members. It has never been more important for those of you considering a career in surgery to start early and ASiT is very pleased to be able to support you along the way. Whether you are a student or full member of the Association, this weekend is all about making links and friendships and there has never been a more important time for a group of trainees to remain united, irrespective of specialty or grade. Finally we must thank our speakers and our corporate sponsors, without whom there would be no conference. Above all, have a great weekend and for those who have chosen to attend the gala dinner, a truly magical night. With best wishes. Ben Cresswell ASiT President 2008 – 09 abstract_book_2009.indd 1 16/03/2009 14:37:28 Speakers The Association of Surgeons in Training Surgeon Captain M. J. Midwinter Royal Navy Surgeon Captain Midwinter qualified from University of Newcastle in 1984. Trained in General Surgery with a sub-specialty in Upper Gastro Intestinal surgery in Newcastle and Manchester. He was appointed Consultant Surgeon in Portsmouth with an honorary contract at the University of Southampton before moving to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. In 2006 he was appointed as the Defence Professor of Surgery which is a Royal College of Surgeons of England appointment in conjunction with the Surgeon General. He has seen active service in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Surgeon Captain Midwinter’s research interests include a whole spectrum of Military Trauma and Surgery, particular current topics are Thromboelastography and the Management of Trauma Associated Coagulopathy, the Effects of Blast on Vascular Endothelium and the Optimisation of Ballistic Wound Management. Mr David Nott Consultant General & Vascular Surgeon, Chelsea & Westminster/Charing Cross Hospitals, London David started his medical career at St Andrews University, Scotland in 1975. He then completed his medical degree at Manchester University in 1981. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985 and was awarded his doctorate of Medicine in 1989. Mr Nott did his post-graduate surgical training in Liverpool where he got full accreditation in general and vascular surgery and became a consultant in 1992. Mr Nott was the first surgeon in the world to perform a totally laparoscopic distal arterial bypass and the first surgeon in Europe to perform a laparoscopic abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Mr Nott has a Consultant General Surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at both Charing Cross Hospital and the Royal Marsden and Royal Brompton Hospitals for 16 years. David has a keen interest in war surgery and works for Medecins Sans Frontieres and the International Commit- tee of the Red Cross. He spends a few months every year in countries such as Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Mr Bob Lane Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Winchester Mr Robert (Bob) Lane is THET’s Surgical Adviser. Bob is consultant colorectal surgeon in Winchester and has been involved in international health work for many years. He is the former president of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland where he is now the Programme Director for Overseas Development. Professor Nicholas P. Gair Chief Executive, Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland Nick’s background is in education, having gained a Certificate in Education, with Qualified Teacher Status, from the University of London. He then taught for five years during which time he completed a BEd (Hons) degree. In 1983, Nick joined The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award as National Operations Officer, where he completed an MA in Urban Education, and he has subsequently held senior management posts at the American Institute for Foreign Study and the School of Pharmacy of the University of London. Nick gained a PhD in Education in 1997 and an MSc in Management in 2000. In 2003 Nick was awarded Chartered Geographer Status by the Royal Geographi- cal Society and he is currently completing an LLM in Employment Law. Nick has a national reputation for his work in Outdoor Leadership and has published many papers, articles and book chapters in the educational press. He is the author of a textbook, Outdoor Education: Theory and Prac- tice, which considers the philosophy and management of adventure activities and covers topics such as prob- lem-solving, personal development and teamwork. Nick is a Visiting Professor in the Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education at Leeds Metropolitan University and Chairman and Trustee of The London Youth Trust. He is a member of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award’s Expedition Advisory Committee, a member of the Risk Manage- ment Committee of the Outward Bound Trust and a member of Nottingham University Business School’s MBA Advisory Board. Nick has been the Chief Executive of ASGBI since 2001. 2 abstract_book_2009.indd 2 16/03/2009 14:37:32 The Association of Surgeons in Training Speakers Professor Mike Larvin Professor of Surgery, University of Nottingham and Director of Raven Deptartment of Education at RCSEng I was born on Tyneside but raised mainly in North Yorkshire where I developed a love of Cricket (the local foot- ball was poor). I held down a proper job before University, working in local radio in the North-East, for which very long hair was essential. I took a year out from Guy’s for an intercalated BSc in Psychology, which interested me in teaching and learning. I completed an MD in pancreatic immunology then returned to middle-grade train- ing in Leeds and London. I came back to Leeds as Lecturer and Senior Registrar to the late Geoff Giles, adding liver and obesity surgery to my specialist interests. Travelling fellowships allowed me to spend time in HPB centres abroad, including Ulm (Germany), Malmo (Sweden) then Boston and Washington DC. You could only join ASiT in Yorkshire then as a Senior Registrar - and we kept it quiet. We used to meet at the Parkway pub before RITAs, agreeing on who went where the following year. The permutations we chose left the HST committee without much choice. In 1993 I took up my first Consultant post at University Hospital Lewisham and UMDS, but returned to Leeds to help Mike McMahon build up the LIMIT laparoscopic training facility in 1997. I received a Hunterian Professorship in 1996 for studies on contrast-enhanced CT and MR imaging for detecting pancreatic necrosis - now a routine assessment. I became sessional tutor in e-learning at the College in 2000, launching eSTEP in the following year providing a bonus to the existing STEP distance learning programme. Later I was Edi- tor in Chief for the STEP revision programme, recently re-launched in separate Foundation and Core editions. I moved to a chair at the University of Nottingham in 2002, helping to build up a new graduate entry medical school at Derby together with Jon Lund. I recently completed a Masters in Education, learning how to write es- says again. I commenced a 5 year stint as Director of Education at the College in December. I hope to realign the College’s educational provision to suit the needs – and pockets – of today’s trainees and trainers. I live in Derby with my wife, and the two youngest of our five children. Professor Dion Morton Professor of Colorectal Surgery, University of Birmingham Professor Dion Morton is a consultant colorectal surgeon based at the University Hospital Birmingham with interests in colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. His research interests encompass colorectal can- cer genetics, and the molecular biology of early of colorectal tumourigenesis. He has been involved in a number of national and international multi centre randomised control trials. These have encompassed colorectal cancer treatment, early diagnosis and chemo-prevention. He sits on the NCRI Colorectal Cancer sub committee and for the last two years has chaired the surgical subgroup. Mr Chris Macklin Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust Chris Macklin’s medical career started at the University of Nottingham in 1987. He qualified and 1992 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1996. He was awarded the degree of doctor of medicine from the University of Nottingham in 2004 which included work for the Leeds FlexiScope trial, part of a multi-centre trial looking at the efficacy and feasibility of population screening for colonic adenomas using a once-only flexible sigmoidoscopy. Chris has been a great supporter of ASiT over the years and was responsible for the design and implementation of the last ASiT website. He is an organiser and examiner on the highly successful ASiT-affiliated FRCS and MRCS courses. He is currently working as a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon in Yorkshire and runs the UK Surgeon Website, a resource created by surgeons for the benefit of both patients and surgeons (www.uksurgeon.org).
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