Speaker Biographies ASGBI’S International Surgical Congress
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ASGBI Association of Surgeons of O S M U N E M S A C AB IS O S D Great Britain and Ireland MNIBU Wednesday 3rd to Friday 5th May 2017, SEC, Glasgow Speaker Biographies ASGBI’s International Surgical Congress www.asgbi.org.uk/glasgow2017 - 1 - Mr Iain D Anderson ASGBI Vice President Iain Anderson has been Consultant Surgeon at Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester since 1995. He is a surgeon on the Intestinal Failure Unit, a national unit specialising in the treatment of intestinal fistulae and other complications after abdominal surgery. He trained in surgery in Manchester and Edinburgh and from 1994 developed and established the Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient (CCrISP) Course. From 2011, he was Director of Emergency Surgery at ASGBI, chairing or contributing to working groups on Emergency Surgical Care and Peri-operative Care of the Higher Risk Surgical Patient. Mr Tan Arulampalam Mr Tan Arulampalam qualified as a Doctor in 1992 from St Bartholomew’s Hospital (University of London). He completed his basic surgical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and was appointed to the higher surgical training scheme in London in 1996. After completion of his training he undertook a Fellowship with Professor Cristiano Hüscher in Rome and was appointed Consultant Laparoscopic GI Surgeon at Colchester General Hospital in November 2003. He has performed over 500 laparoscopic colorectal resections as well as a full range of advanced laparoscopic biliary, GI, emergency and hernia surgery. He is a Preceptor in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery for the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Mr Arulampalam was awarded a Doctorate by the University of London in 2003 for his research and subsequent thesis on the role of Positron Emission Topography in Colorectal Cancer Imaging. He has continued his research interests in PET, colorectal cancer and laparoscopic surgery since taking up his appointment. He has been an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Essex and is presently Reader (Associate Professor) in Surgery at Anglia Ruskin University. As Clinical Director of the ICENI Centre, Mr Arulampalam has taken an active role in training, both on courses in Colchester, as well as mentoring surgeons at their own hospitals. He is on the faculty at the European Surgical Institute in Hamburg, regularly lecturing and training in laparoscopic colorectal surgery. He continues to publish his work in peer-reviewed journals and was on the editorial board of the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He also acts as a medical advisor to the national charity Beating Bowel Cancer and has been appointed network lead for the Department of Health Bowel cancer Awareness campaign. He has worked on Department of Health projects on Enhanced Recovery Programmes and is a trainer on the National Laparoscopic Colorectal training programme. As a member of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland International Development Committee working towards establishing closer links between the surgical fraternities of developed and developing nations for exchange of ideas and opportunities. In addition, to these activities he has also been a regular advisor to BBC Drama working on Holby City as well as working on other shows such as Law and Order, Harley Street, Dalziel and Pascoe and Silk. Mr. Arulampalam is on the Council of the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and International Society of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgeons. He is an active member of the Research Committee of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons. - 2 - Mr Ian Bailey Upper GI consultant surgeon in Southampton since 1998. In the last 5 years focused on developing an acute surgery unit. We are now a team of 6 surgeons whose primary focus is emergency general surgery. Ms Anita Balakrishnan Royal College of Surgeons of England - Hunterian Professorship Lecture I graduated from the University of Nottingham with a Bachelor of Medical Sciences (First Class Honours) as well as Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. After my basic surgical training I carried out a period of doctoral research at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, which resulted in 14 peer-reviewed publications, 30 international presentations and the award of Doctor of Philosophy. My research was supported by the Nutricia Foundation International Research Fellowship (€25,000), the American Association for Cancer Research Travel Award and the United European Gastroenterology Week Young Scientist Travel Grant (€1000). I was privileged to be awarded the Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England for my PhD research. I completed my higher surgical training subspecialising in hepatopancreatobiliary surgery in Cambridge, and am currently a Consultant Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. I have a research interest in the early detection of pancreatic cancer and carry out translational research in the field of pancreatic cancer at the MRC Cancer Unit, Cambridge. Mr Adam Barlow Adam is a Consultant Transplant and Sarcoma Surgeon at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals. He qualified with honours from the University of Leicester in 2002. Following basic surgical training in the East Midlands he undertook his doctoral research in the Dept of Transplant Surgery at the University of Leicester under the aegis of Professor Michael Nicholson. His thesis, which was awarded with distinction, investigated the mechanisms of rapamycin toxicity in pancreatic beta cells. During this time he was also involved in the clinical development of ex-vivo normothermic perfusion as a preservation technique prior to renal transplantation, leading to the award of the Medawar medal in 2014. He undertook specialist surgical training in general, HPB and multi-organ abdominal transplant surgery in the East Midlands deanery and subsequently as a Clinical Lecturer in the Dept of Surgery at the University of Cambridge. He took up his current post in Leeds in September 2016, prior to this working for a year as a Consultant in HPB & Transplant Surgery at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. His current research projects are investigating the peri-operative management of renal transplant recipients and surgical decision making around renal transplantation. Professor Jonathan D Beard MB BS BSc ChM MEd FRCS Professor Jonathan Beard has worked as a consultant vascular surgeon in Sheffield since 1990. He has a longstanding passion for surgical education & is Honorary Professor of Surgical Education at the University of Sheffield & Professor of Surgical Education at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. - 3 - His educational research and development interests include portfolio and curricular development for the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme; workplace-based assessment of technical & non-technical skills for ISCP, PMETB and GMC; theatre team training in human factors; educational supervision and leadership skills for surgeon educators; & technology-enhanced learning. Mr Ian Beckingham Ian trained in Nottingham, Newcastle, Birmingham, Hull, Leeds and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. Research includes a B Med Sci degree, an MD, a Hunterian Professorship and over 150 abstracts and publications mainly in Laparoscopic and HPB surgery. He is a regular speaker on Laparoscopic UGI and HPB topics at National and International meetings and has written leading articles, national guidelines, book chapters and the ABC of diseases of the Liver, Pancreas and Gallbladder. He was former President of the Association of Upper GI Surgeons (AUGIS 2014-16), Council Member of the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons and BOMSS, and a Royal College of Surgeons Laparoscopic trainer. He has been Lead Clinician for the Trent HPB Surgical Unit, Chairman of the Mid-Trent HPB Cancer Centre and lead for the Minimal Access Surgical Training Organization (MAeSTRO). Clinical interests include Emergency Surgery, Laparoscopic HPB and Benign Upper GI surgery, and Hernia surgery. He has developed SWORD - the Surgical Outcomes Workload Research Database providing surgeons with access to HES data allowing comparison of their own data with that of their colleagues. He has written the UK National guidelines on Acute gallstone disease, Emergency General Surgery reconfigeration, CBD stone management and the Provision of UGI Surgery in the UK. He is principal research lead for the CholeQuIC project to improve delivery of emergency cholecystectomy in the UK and Co- chief clinician for the pre-op biliary imaging in cholecystectomy and C-Gal trials. Mr Aditya Borakati STARSurg Representative The Student Audit and Research in Surgery (STARSurg) Collaborative is a student-driven, audit and research network with representation from medical schools across the UK and Ireland. To- date, over 3,000 students and doctors have collaborated and developed their research skills. Founded in 2013, STARSurg empowers students to participate in high quality academic projects, forming links with supervising doctors. Through this, students contribute data to national studies while gaining an understanding of clinical academia, audit and research methodology. STARSurg projects have been published in the British Journal of Surgery with all participants receiving PubMed citable authorship. Ms Lowri Bowen Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist working at the Children’s Hospital for Wales, Cardiff. Trained and graduated from University Wales College