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 , 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 . 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 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 of Medicine in 2000 and successfully pursued a basic surgical training scheme and gained the MRCS Engl before spending 18 months working at Rothera Research Station with the British Antactic Survey medical Unit. On returning from here retrained as an anaesthetist and spent 6 months living and working in Zambia in 2013 as an out of - 4 - programme experience. This ignited the passion for international development of global health and education. From this time onwards has been an active member of the Zambian Anaesthetic Development project and taught/led on many international courses aimed at low middle income countries; including the Lifebox, Safer Surgery, primary Trauma care course and SAFE Obstetrics and Anaesthesia. Despite this has found time to complete two marathons, cycle Lands End to John o Groats and recently returned from a three month cycle tour of Colombia.

Mr Dermot Burke I am Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Associate Professor in Clinical Surgery at St James’s Hospital, Leeds. I have an interest in intestinal failure and parenteral nutrition.

Ms Elaine Burns Elaine Burns is a Clinical Lecturer in Surgery at Imperial College London and is training in General Surgery with a subspecialty interest in colorectal surgery. Her PhD thesis was awarded from Imperial College in 2012 examining the variation in the provision and outcome following colorectal surgery in England. She is currently an ST8 in Colorectal Surgery in the North West London Deanery and has just completed an RSO post at St Marks’s hospital. She has started as a Junior Editor at Colorectal Disease and is the trainee representative on the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Advisory Group. Elaine’s main interests are in outcome research, measuring performance and safety and improving the quality and safety of healthcare.

Professor Sir Harry Burns FRSE Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow - Macewen Lecture Sir Harry Burns graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1974. He trained in surgery in Glasgow and he was appointed as a Consultant Surgeon and in the University Department of Surgery at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow in 1984. Working with patients in the east end of Glasgow gave him an insight into the complex inter-relationships between social and economic status and illness. He completed a Masters Degree in Public Health in 1990 and shortly afterwards was appointed Medical Director of The Royal Infirmary. In 1994, he became Director of Public Health for Greater Glasgow Health Board, a position he occupied until 2005. During his time with Greater Glasgow Health Board he continued research into the problems of social determinants of health and in 2005, he became Chief Medical Officer for Scotland. In this role, his responsibilities included aspects of public health policy, health protection and, for a time, sport. He was Knighted in 2011 and in April 2014, he became Professor of Global Public Health at Strathclyde University where he continues his interest in understanding how societies create wellness. In 2014, the First Minister, , presented him a lifetime achievement award from the and the Scottish Parliament for Public Service. In September 2016, the Scottish Government announced that he would chair an independent review of targets in Scotland’s NHS, with an initial report and recommendations expected in spring 2017. - 5 - Dr Catherine Calderwood MA Cantab. MBChB FRCOG FRCP Edin Opening the ASGBI International Surgical Congress Catherine Calderwood qualified from Cambridge and Glasgow universities. As a junior doctor she worked in medical specialities in Glasgow Royal infirmary and at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh before completing her specialist training in obstetrics and gynaecology and maternal medicine in SE Scotland and St Thomas’ Hospital London. She became a medical adviser to Scottish Government in 2010 and has been instrumental in the work in reducing stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Scotland and in reducing avoidable harm in maternity services. More recently her role expanded to include major trauma services and the introduction of robotic surgery for prostate cancer to Scotland. Until her recent appointment as CMO Catherine was also the National Clinical Director for maternity and women’s health for NHS England. She continues work as an obstetrician, seeing pregnant women in a regular antenatal clinic at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh. Her research interests include thromboembolic disease in pregnancy and she is an investigator on the AFFIRM study which is examining whether increasing focus on the importance of movements of babies in the womb will help further reduce stillbirths across the UK and Ireland. Catherine launched her first annual report as Chief Medical Officer for Scotland in January 2016 which focuses on ‘Realistic Medicine’ and challenges modern medicine to rethink priorities. It has been universally well received amongst doctors, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics and AHPs and read across the world. It also recognizes the importance of valuing and supporting staff as vital to improving outcomes for the people in our care. Catherine believes that these improved outcomes must also include what the priorities are for that person (formerly known as a patient) and their family. She regularly blogs at blogs.scotland.gov.uk/cmo/ and you can follow her on Twitter @cathcalderwood1

Professor J Calvin Coffey Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Robert Smith Lecture Professor J Calvin Coffey is the foundation Chair of Surgery at the Graduate Entry Medical School, University Hospital Limerick and University of Limerick. He is a colorectal and general surgeon with a special interest in robotic and laparoscopic colorectal surgery. He pioneered robotic assisted colorectal surgery in Ireland. He established the program for robotic assisted general surgery at the UL Hospitals Group in Limerick. He is chief author of the book “Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery,” an international collaboration aimed at standardising colorectal surgery. He has several hundred peer reviewed publications including recent publications in Nature Reviews and The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He delivered the Millin and Sir Thomas Myles named lectures and was recipient of the James IV Travelling Fellowship. His surgical research focuses on standardisation of techniques in colorectal surgery.

Mr Keith Conradi Keith Conradi joined the AAIB in 2002 directly from Virgin Atlantic where he flew the Airbus A340 and A320 aircraft. He has been a professional pilot for nearly 40 years operating a wide range of - 6 - military fast jet and civil aircraft. Keith has been involved in many accident and serious incident investigations throughout the world and was Chief Inspector of Air Accidents of the UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch between 2010 and 2016. In September 2016 he took up a new role as first Chief Investigator of the UK’s newly formed Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch. Keith maintains his Airline Transport Pilot’s Licence and is currently type rated on the Airbus A320/1. He also holds a Private Pilot’s Licence (Helicopters).

Mr Chris Cunningham Chris Cunningham has been a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Oxford since 2000. His major areas of clinical practice are the management of rectal cancer and pelvic floor disorders. He has a particular interest in organ preserving approaches in early rectal cancer. He lectures on all aspects of rectal cancer management, pelvic floor disorders and minimally invasive colorectal surgery and has published widely on these topics. https://www. researchgate.net/profile/Chris_Cunningham7

Mr Peter Dawson Peter Dawson is currently President of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. He is medical Director for Surgery, Anaesthetics and Clinical Support services at the Chelsea and Westminster Group of Hospitals, London, UK. He is Honorary Clinical Senior lecturer at Imperial College London, UK. He has research interests in the Cytokine Biology of colorectal cancer cells and has supervised several MSc dissertations, MD and PhDs in this subject. He has a wide clinical practice in London and has contributed over 100 peer reviewed publications and presentations to learned societies. He was secretary of the European Society of Coloproctology. He is on the Editorial Board of Colorectal Disease. His present interests include a wide teaching and lecturing portfolio, service reconfiguration in London and charitable fund raising.

Mr Chris Deans Chris Deans is a Consultant General and Oesophago-gastric surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He undertook his basic surgical rotation in Cambridge and his higher surgical training in South-East Scotland. He spent some time as a Clinical Lecturer at Edinburgh University and undertook research investigating the role of inflammation in oesophago-gastric cancer. During his training he spent a year at the National University Hospital in Singapore on an Upper GI Surgical Fellowship. He is also a Part-time Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh University and his main research interests include inflammation and cancer and cancer cachexia. He has an active interest in teaching and is the current Year 1 Director for the Edinburgh University/Royal College of - 7 - Surgeons of Edinburgh Postgraduate Surgical ChM Programme. He is chair of the Surgical Quality Improvement Team.

Mr Simon Dexter BM, DM, FRCS (Gen), FCSHK Simon Dexter qualified from the University of Southampton in 1987, and has been a consultant upper GI surgeon at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, UK since 2000. Simon has been involved in laparoscopic surgery since its inception in the UK in 1990 and was the UK’s first laparoscopic surgery research fellow. His advanced surgical training took him through Leeds General Infirmary, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the National Cancer Centre Hospital, Tokyo. He specialises in oesophago-gastric and bariatric surgery. He has served on the councils of the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society and the Association of Upper GI Surgeons and is currently President elect of the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of GB and Ireland. His clinical interests are bariatric surgery, upper GI cancer and functional oesophago-gastric disease and he has published over 50 articles and chapters on upper GI cancer and laparoscopic surgery, upper GI physiology and obesity surgery.

Mr Tom Diamond Tom Diamond is a Consultant HPB Surgeon in the Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Surgery, The Queen’s University of Belfast. He trained in HPB Surgery in Belfast and Paris. His interests include liver resection, management of severe acute pancreatitis and management of complicated gallstone disease with particular reference to safety during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Miss Helen Doran Miss Helen Doran works as a general surgeon with an endocrine surgery sub-specialty interest at Salford Royal Hospital. As part of a multidisciplinary team her elective work is now pure endocrine surgery, but she continues as an emergency general surgeon. Her area of particular interest is adrenal disease, chairing Salford Royals Adrenal MDT serving the Greater Manchester area with an increasing profile in laparoscopic adrenalectomy. At Salford Royal she is Clinical Governance lead. Helen is an executive member of the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons (BAETS). Teaching involvement includes BAETS Masterclasses, regional Core and Higher Surgical Training (HST) programmes and a national HST course for the Intercollegiate Fellowship Royal College Surgeons exit exam.

Professor John L Duncan ChM FRCSEd FRCPS FACS FFSTEd After training in Aberdeen, Boston and Sheffield John Duncan has spent 25 years as a general and vascular surgeon in Inverness. He developed the Highland AAA screening programme in 2002 which subsequently formed the basis for the Scottish national programme. He was Treasurer of the - 8 - ASGBI for five years and has been Secretary and then Treasurer of RCSEd before becoming Vice President in 2015. He is Head of Teaching for the MBChB program of the University of Aberdeen in NHS Highland.

Professor Martin Elliott Martin Elliott is Professor of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at University College London, Professor of Physic at Gresham College, London, and until July 2015 was Medical Director at The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH) where he has worked as a paediatric cardiothoracic surgeon since 1984. He has achieved success in several domains; as an internationally renowned surgeon; as an academic; as a hospital administrator at Board level; and as a teacher, both within surgery and across other industries. His research career started with an attempt to understand the effects of the heart lung machine (CPB) on intermediary metabolism, and to make surgery safer for diabetics. After further research on the pathophysiology of CPB in children, particularly in relation to accumulation of total body water, he developed modified ultrafiltration, still widely used throughout the world. Obsessed by the need for transparency in outcomes, he started the European Congenital Heart Defects Database for outcomes analysis (now the EACTS database) and led the Quality and Safety Team at GOSH for many years. Clinically, he helped set up paediatric heart and lung transplantation and ECMO at GOSH, He established and leads the National Service for Severe Tracheal Disease in Children at GOSH. The Tracheal Service at GOS is the largest in World, and the Team has pioneered a number of innovative techniques, including slide tracheoplasty, tracheal homograft patch transplantation, the development of absorbable stents and, most recently, the world’s first stem cell supported tracheal transplantation in a child. He has held several international visiting professorships, has over 280 peer-reviewed publications to his name, and has delivered >350 invited lectures, worldwide, including many named lectures. He was the 2015 Hunterian Orator at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He operates and teaches throughout the world. He has worked with several other industries, including Formula 1, the airline industry and various IT companies to develop cross-industry learning. His popular series of public Gresham College Lectures is available to see and download at http:// www.gresham.ac.uk/gresham-professor-of-physic. [email protected], on Twitter @profmjelliott, www.martinelliott.me

Mr Stephen W Fenwick BMedSci, BM, BS, MD, FRCS(Eng) Stephen Fenwick qualified in medicine from Nottingham University in 1995, subsequently training in hepatobiliary and liver transplant surgery. For his Doctorate he studied the role of COX-2 in the development of colorectal cancer liver metastases. In 2008 he was appointed Consultant Hepatobiliary Surgeon at Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool, and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He is the Clinical Lead of the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Director of the Merseyside and Cheshire Hepatobiliary Cancer Specialist Multi-disciplinary Team, and the Clinical Director of cancer services within his hospital. He is also the - 9 - associate Clinical Director for cancer within the North West Coast Strategic Clinical Network, and a member of the Cancer Alliance Board. His major clinical interests include the multi-modal management of advanced colorectal cancer, neuroendocrine tumours, and the management of metastatic ocular melanoma. In 2010 he established the first regional specialist MDT focused on the management of patients with stage 4 CRC. To date he has performed over 500 major liver and biliary resections His major areas of research interest include 1) the role of exercise intervention prior to major cancer surgery, 2) the mechanisms underlying liver regeneration, 3) culture and bio-engineering of primary hepatocytes and 4) hepatic chemosaturation through isolated percutaneous perfusion. He is an active member of the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Research Group and the governance board of the Liverpool tissue bank. He was the founding secretary of the Great Britain and Ireland Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (GBIHPBA), and the current Honorary Treasurer of the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons (AUGIS). He is a member of the medical advisory board and a trustee of Bowel Cancer UK.

Professor Alberto Ferreres Vice President of the Argentine Surgical Society Alberto R Ferreres, MD, PhD, JD, MPH, FACS (Hon.) received his medical degree “suma cum laude” from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine, institution where he completed his residence in General Surgery and a fellowship in Surgical Oncology. He was appointed 1991 International Guest Scholar of the American College of Surgeons and he also completed a Fellowship in Clinical Ethics at the University of Chicago. He is presently Professor of Surgery at the University of Buenos Aires and Department Chair at the Dr. Carlos A Bocalandro Hospital. Besides, Prof. Ferreres holds Honorary Fellowships from the American Surgical Association and the American College of Surgeons. Prof. Ferreres in a gastrointestinal surgeon specializing in gastrointestinal and minimal invasive surgery and with an interest in Surgical Ethics, Global Surgery and professional liability issues.

Mr Mark Gallagher Keynote Speaker - Sponsored by the BJS Society With three decades experience in international motorsport, including senior roles with the Jordan and Red Bull Racing Formula One™ teams as well as running Cosworth’s F1 Business unit, Mark has worked with many of the sports leading figures and developed a unique insight into the way they operate. He has also developed a wide range of business interests in the sport, including creating a championship winning racing team. Starting out as an F1 journalist and broadcaster he went on to become a media consultant for major sponsors including Marlboro and Canon. He joined Eddie Jordan’s fledgling F1 team for its debut season in 1991, returning to the team in 1995 where he became head of marketing and was on the team’s management board during its most successful years. Joining Jaguar Racing in 2004 Mark remained with the team during its transition into Red Bull Racing before leaving to establish his own racing team, Status Grand Prix, with won the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport, and later became a winning team in both GP2 and GP3 – the feeder categories to Formula One. In 2009 he took over the running of the world famous Cosworth F1 engine business, re-establishing the British company as a leading supplier to one third of the F1 teams in 2010. - 10 - Mark Gallagher delivers inspirational speeches and business insights for companies eager to learn from this fascinating sport. Credible when it comes to speech content, and charismatic in delivery, Mark enjoys a 17 year track record in public speaking. In that time he has addressed more than 400 companies, from multinationals to SME’s. Passionate about his sport, Mark’s forte is to marry insights from Formula One with the realities of business for companies large and small. In addition Mark makes regular appearances in broadcast media, joining the commentary team on BBC 5 Live in 2015 and bringing his expertise to the Sky Sports F1 Mid Week Report. 2014 saw the publication of his latest book, ‘The Business of Winning- Strategic Success from the Formula One track to the Boardroom’, with Foreword by 13 times Grand Prix winner David Coulthard.

Mr Paul Chantrey Gartell MS FRCS Having trained as a General Surgeon I was appointed as General Surgeon with an Interest in Upper GI Surgery to Royal Hampshire County Hospital in 1988. An early developer and adopter of Laparoscopic Surgery in Winchester starting solo 1991. I have a keen interest in training surgeons and ran Basic Surgical Skills course in Winchester. Since retiring in 2009 I have been on the faculty for many Basic Surgical Skills courses in Africa. I have also developed a Basic and Intermediate Laparoscopic Skills Course for Africa and have run 15 courses. I have also been involved in setting up a Laparoscopic Training Program within the COSECSA region. I have also developed the general surgical module of a Management of Surgical Emergencies Course and am currently involved in an anastomosis course.

Mr J Brian Hamilton Brian Hamilton graduated in Medicine from the Queens University in Belfast and subsequently spent some 6 years of initial surgical training, initially in General Surgery, subsequently moving to Yorkshire to continue specialty training in Trauma & Orthopaedics before being appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Bradford. He subsequently developed a special interest in the Orthopaedics of Haemophilia and for some years was Secretary of the Musculoskeletal Committee of the World Federation of Haemophilia. He also developed an interest in sports injuries and spent many years looking after rugby league players in the north of England and also the Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He joined, what was then, 204 General Hospital RAMC(V) and became its Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon after it became a Field Hospital and continued for a total of 33 years until his retirement. During this time he deployed to the Balkans - Kosovo and Bosnia. A past President of the Military Surgical Society he has now been its Secretary since 2010 and is especially interested in developing comprehensive website as a facility to record Military Surgery experience generally over the last Century but particularly to provide a worldwide resource for Military Surgeons and those involved more generally in Disaster Medicine.

Mr Richard Hardwick Richard Hardwick is currently President of The Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons - 11 - of Great Britain & Ireland (AUGIS). He was Lecturer in Surgery in and Senior Lecturer in Cardiff before moving to Cambridge in 2001 to establish the Oesophago-gastric Centre at Addenbrookes Hospital. He set up the National Oesophago- gastric Cancer Audit while Chair of the AUGIS Clinical Services & Audit Committee. His research interests include Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer Syndrome, the genetics of oesophageal adenocarcinoma, early detection of Barrett’s related adenocarcinoma, Endo-vacuum therapy and the physiological effects of upper GI surgery.

Mr William Harrop-Griffiths William Harrop-Griffiths is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, Chair of NHS Improvement’s National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs) Group, an Elected Council Member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA), Chair of the RCoA’s Professional Standards Committee, Honorary Civilian Consultant Advisor in Anaesthesia to the UK Army, and a few other things. He is a committed regional anaesthetist who is prepared to give the odd general anaesthetic when needs must, and enjoys standing up in front of large audiences trying to impress them. His talks have often been described as a “victory of style over content” - he takes this as a compliment. His interests include cycling, motorcycling and horse riding. His passions include English grammar and not falling off bicycles, motorcycles and horses.

Professor Jim Hill Consultant colorectal surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary Cliinical professor of colorectal surgery, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre President-elect Association of Colproctology of GB&I

Dr Jonathan Hynes Squadron Leader Jonny Hynes Nottingham Medical Graduate 1996 2,000 hrs flying experience mainly on Tornado and Eurofighter Multiple deployed operations Eurofighter Tactics Instructor Eurofighter Simulator Instructor Human Factors Trainer Flight Safety Officer RAF Coningsby - Responsible for looking at all RAF aircraft incidents and accidents Return to Medicine 2011 – Currently in training to be a Consultant in Occupational & Aviation Medicine

Dr Carolyn Johnston Carolyn is a consultant anaesthetist at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, with clinical sessions covering emergency and obstetric anaesthesia, pre assessment, regional and transplant. She is the QI co-lead for the trust. She has a strong interest in leadership and - 12 - education, including Quality Improvement training in St Georges and anaesthetists through the London school of anaesthesia and Royal College of Anaesthetists. Carolyn is in the founding cohort of the Health Foundation/ NHS England Q community, connecting people skilled in improvement across the UK. She has been the NELA QI lead since 2015, and is deputy chair of the college quality working group. She was a London Deanery Clinical Leadership ‘Darzi’ Fellow, leading improvement projects on inpatient flow, Hospital at Night and patient experience based co-design and was an Improvement Faculty fellow of the NHS Institute of Innovation. She is also a trustee of Birthrights- a charity protecting human rights in childbirth.

Mr Manoj Kumar Manoj is a Consultant Surgeon at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and an Honorary Senior Lecturer for the University of Aberdeen. He is also Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s National Clinical Lead for the Scottish Mortality & Morbidity Program (SMMP) The primary aim of the SMMP is to improve quality of care by enhancing learning from mortality & morbidity reviews across the NHS in Scotland. As part of a 3-tier strategy to achieve its aims, he has initiated and is currently leading a collaborative to develop a national training program to support and provide clinicians and health care professionals with the necessary skill sets to design, lead and participate in effective mortality and morbidity processes. He has also led the development of a learning module for final-year medical students at the University of Aberdeen, focusing on facilitating knowledge, skills and attitudes in M&M reviews for future doctors. Manoj has a keen interest in the application of Human Factors in healthcare and has also completed a Masters degree in Patient Safety: A Human Factors Approach from the University of Aberdeen. His research investigated barriers to adverse event reporting amongst surgeons. He has and continues to be instrumental in leading improvements in mortality and morbidity review processes across specialities as well as in initiating and developing various quality improvement projects, one of which earned him an award from the previous National Patient Safety Agency. He is actively involved in Human Factors and Non-Technical Skills training and is an advocate for the Clinical Human Factors Group. Manoj is a member of the Scottish Government’s Duty of Candour Implementation Advisory Group and of the Law Society of Scotland’s Health and Medical Law Subcommittee.

Mr Mark Lansdown Mark trained in Cardiff, Bristol and Southampton before migrating to Yorkshire in 1986 to take up a post as Lecturer in Surgery at Leeds University. Interested in physiology and endocrinology since he was an undergraduate, once appointed as a consultant in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals in 1994, he set about building a career in endocrine surgery. His other interests within medicine include medical education and using audit and outcome data to improve patient care. He has been an RCS Tutor, member of the SAC, was on the JCST Simulation in Surgery - 13 - Committee and was a founding member of the National Selection Committee for entry into ST3. He worked with NCEPOD on several reports and was a principal author of Who operates When II, A Service in Need of Surgery? and For Better, For Worse? He is using his experience in all these interests to further the aims of the BAETS. When not at work or spending time with his busy children, he can usually be found on a bike somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales.

Ms Sonia Lockwood MBChB MA FRCS Eng (Gen Surg) Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Ms Lockwood has been a Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for over 3 years. She graduated from the University of Manchester in 2003 and completed her Basic and Higher Surgical Training in the Yorkshire and Humberside region. In 2012 she was awarded both an international Colorectal Fellowship by the European Society of Coloproctology and the National Ethicon Laparoscopic Colorectal Fellowship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. Alongside her higher surgical training, Ms Lockwood graduated with a Master’s Degree in Healthcare Ethics and Law at the University of Manchester. Ms Lockwood has held many subsidiary roles which include being the Affiliate Representative for the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI) from May 2010 to April 2014. In December 2016 she was appointed Surgical Fellow for the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit.

Professor Jon Lund Member of ASGBI Executive Board Jon Lund is the current Chair of the Speciality Advisory Committee for General Surgery. He is a colorectal surgeon in Derby.

Mr Colin MacIver Mr MacIver is a consultant Maxillofacial / Head & Neck Surgeon and Lead Clinician based at the regional Maxillofacial Unit, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow. He qualified in Dentistry from Dundee and Medicine from Manchester. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps on graduation from Dental School and remained a member of the RAMC until retiring from the military three years ago. His surgical training was carried out in Manchester and the West of Scotland. He completed his specialist Maxillofacial Surgery training in the West of Scotland. Mr Maciver completed a post CCT fellowship in Advanced micro vascular surgery and facial transplant at the Henri Mondor Hospital in Paris. He is lead clinician at the West of Scotland regional Maxillofacial unit and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He specialises in head and neck cancer and microvascular reconstructive surgery. Mr MacIver is also lead clinician of the Scottish facial transplant team.

Professor Nizam Mamode Currently a Professor of Transplant Surgery at Guys Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital - 14 - and Evelina Children’s Hospital, he carried out the first robotic transplants and first robotic living donor nephrectomies in the UK. He has a strong research interest in living donor transplantation, and is currently Chief Investigator for two NIHR funded national studies in living donation. He leads the Antibody Incompatible Transplant programme at Guys, which is the largest in the UK, and leads on transplanting complex paediatric recipients and children with antibodies. He is a Councillor for the British Transplantation Society and a member of the Renal Clinical Reference Group.

Miss Lorna Marson Lorna Marson is a Reader in Transplant Surgery at the University of Edinburgh, and Honorary Consultant Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. She is clinical lead for renal transplantation in Edinburgh, and led the development of antibody incompatible transplantation in the region. Lorna held a Clinician Scientist Award from the Academy of Medical Sciences/ Health Foundation from 2003-2008, and continues to work in clinically relevant research in renal transplantation, with translation of a novel agent from bench to bedside. Lorna is President of the British Transplantation Society, and Associate Postgraduate Dean for Surgery in South East Scotland. She is a council member on the Society for Academic and Research Surgery.

Mr Charles Maxwell-Armstrong Charles Maxwell-Armstrong qualified from Bristol University in 1991. After House jobs at Bristol Royal Infirmary on the Professorial general surgical and orthopaedic units, he undertook basic surgical training in Nottingham. Between 1995 and 1997 he completed his higher degree in colorectal cancer immunotherapy. This was awarded a Doctor of Medicine by Nottingham University and a Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He completed the Mid-Trent Higher Surgical training scheme, and spent his Fellowship year at St Mark’s Hospital, London and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. He was appointed a Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals in August 2002. In 2011 he was made an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor by the University of Nottingham. Charles Maxwell-Armstrong was Head of Service within the Directorate from 2007-2014. He was Trust lead for the ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery) programme between 2011 and 2014, and a member of LAPCO Steering Group 2008-2013 (National training programme for laparoscopic colorectal surgery). He chairs the Multidisciplinary Committee of the Association of Coloproctology of GB&I (ACPGBI), and is a member of Council and the Executive Committee. He is also Honorary Assistant Secretary for ACPGBI and Executive lead for the Clinical Outcome Publication (COP).

Dr Joseph McLoughlin Sylvester O’Halloran Prize Winner Dr Joseph Mc Loughlin MB BCh BAO MRCS is a Senior House Officer in cardiothoracic surgery in St James’s Hospital Dublin, - 15 - Ireland. He graduated from University College Dublin with an honours degree in 2015. His interest in cardiac surgery began as an undergraduate having being awarded a research scholarship from the Health Research Board for research into post operative outcomes and body surface area. He is commencing the RCSI training programme in July 2017 with a view to specialising in cardiac surgery.

Mr John McGregor John McGregor graduated MB ChB with Commendation from the University of Glasgow in 1983 and was awarded his MD by the same institution in 1989. The majority of his training was in the Academic sector before he moved to an NHS Consultant post in Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, in July. He is a general and colorectal surgeon with specific clinical interests in emergency surgery, colorectal cancer, and colonoscopy. John has a career-long interest in surgical training, examinations and assessment and he has held a number of Deanery and Royal Colleges roles including Post-Graduate Tutor, Associate Post- Graduate Dean, and Member of Council, Surgical Vice-President and Director of Surgical Examinations for The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. John has contributed to many Intercollegiate Committees over the past 20 years and in 2016 was appointed Chair of the Intercollegiate Specialty Board for General Surgery. He has also had the honour of Chairing the Championship Committee for the 2016 Open Golf Championship at Royal Troon where this year’s ASGBI Golf Competition has been staged. John is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers.

Mr Craig McIlhenny MBChB FRCS(Ed) PGc Med FRCS(Urol) FFST(Ed) Craig McIlhenny is a consultant urologist who works in NHS Forth Valley in Scotland. He has a subspecialty interest in the endourological management of urinary stone disease and malignant ureteric obstruction. His higher surgical training was in the west of Scotland and the USA. He has a special interest in human factors and patient safety. He sits on the RCSEd Patient Safety Board and is on the core faculty of the Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons (NOTSS) course. He is a trained Crew Resource Management Instructor, and a Team STEPSS Master Trainer, and has provided human factors and team training for operating surgical teams, ICU teams, H@N teams and others both in the UK and abroad. He also has a major interest in surgical training and is Urology Training Programme Director in the West of Scotland. He is currently Surgical Director of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and has written the first set of standards for surgical trainers. Mr McIlhenny also holds the positions of Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Medical Education at the University of Dundee, and Educational Co-ordinator at the Scottish Centre for Clinical Simulation and Human Factors.

Ms Clare McNaught Qualified from Aberdeen Medical School in 1996 before training as a General and Colorectal - 16 - Surgeon throughout Yorkshire. She has been a Consultant at Scarborough Hospital since 2008 and is actively involved in higher surgical training. Her main clinical interests are bowel cancer, IBD and emergency surgery. She is the editor of Surgeons News and is chair of the Younger Fellows Group, which supports young surgeons through their transition to Consultancy. Clare is a Council Member of RCSEd.

Mrs Judy Mewburn Member of ASGBI Scientific Committee & International Development Committee I am a retired theatre sister, mostly ENT and Plastic surgery, but like most nurses, able to turn my hand to almost anything! For the last eighteen years I have been privileged to be able to teach my fellow nurses in Africa. Firstly with THET in Northern Ghana, Tamale, Bolgatange and Wa and their surrounding villages. I travelled with a surgeon, Olujimi Coker and an anaesthetist and we taught together in the theatres. For the last thirteen years I have sat on the International Development Committee, and have had the immense pleasure of teaching the Basic Surgical Skills Course, the Emergency Surgical course and lately the Cambridge Anastomosis workshop alongside the skilled and knowledgeable surgeons from the committee. I teach the theatre nurses and the interchange of skills knowledge and experience has been very well received in both East and West Africa. I hope we will be able to talk to anyone who would like to work in under resourced countries during our meet the expert sessions on Friday the 5th May.

Mr Andrew Miles Royal College of Surgeons of England - Moynihan Lecturer Trained in London, Adelaide and Wessex. The first Uk graduate to pass the EBSQ in coloproctology. He has been a consultant colorectal surgeon in Winchester since 1999. Currently his other positions include Director of the MS coloproctology degree course for UEA, liaison member of the SAC in general surgery for NE London, Chairman of the Independent Healthcare Committee for ACPGBI and faculty member for minimally invasive surgery at the Ethicon Endosurgery Institute, Hamburg.

Mr Faheez Mohamed MD, MBChB, FRCS Member of ASGBI Scientific Committee Faheez Mohamed graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1996 and underwent Higher Surgical Training in the North East of England. He was awarded Doctor of Medicine at The University of Newcastle in 2005 based on his research into optimization of intraperitoneal chemotherapy for the treatment of peritoneal malignancy performed at the Washington Cancer Institute, Washington DC, under the supervision of Dr Paul Sugarbaker. He was appointed Consultant Surgeon at the Peritoneal Malignancy Institute, Basingstoke in 2009 with an interest in cytoredcutctive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. He is the Clinical Lead for the UK Colorectal Peritoneal Malignancy Registry and has published widely in the field of peritoneal malignancy.

- 17 - Ms Susan Moug Susan is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Royal Alexandra Hospital Paisley and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University of Glasgow. Having qualified from Glasgow University in 2000, Susan achieved her PhD in 2007, completed an Ethicon Endosurgery Laparoscopic Fellowship (Newcastle) in 2012 and finished her HST in 2013. She was awarded the ACPGBI and ASCRS Travelling Fellowship in 2014. Susan’s currently holds a NHS Research Scotland Senior Fellowship that allows her to pursue her research interests: prehabilitation, peri-operative care, technology integration into surgery and optimising staging in rectal cancer. She is currently a CSO, BDRF and CRUK grant holder. E-mail: [email protected]

Dr Conor Murphy Sylvester O’Halloran Prize Winner Conor Murphy is a Surgical House Officer and PhD student based in both St James’ Hospital, Dublin, and University College Dublin (UCD). He received his medical degree in 2015 in NUI Galway, and subsequently moved to Dublin to work in St Vincent’s University Hospital as an intern in medicine and surgery for one year. He then took the opportunity to join the upper GI surgical service in St James’ Hospital, led by Professor John Reynolds who acts as National Lead for oesophageal and gastric cancer in Ireland. Conor is also part of the metabolic medicine research group at UCD, led by Professor Carel le Roux, who has a keen interest in gut-brain signalling and its role in metabolic disease and weight control. Based on a collaboration between these academic centres, Conor is forming his PhD around studying the role of visceral signalling between the gut and brain, and how this affects survivorship following oesophageal cancer surgery. He hopes that a deepened understanding of these mechanisms can ultimately aid in facilitating improvements in management across a variety of diseases, from cancer survivorship to metabolic conditions.

Mr Alex Navarro ASGBI Director of Membership Alex Navarro is a consultant HPB surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals. Alex provides open and laparoscopic HPB resectional work and leads the Nottingham Emergency General Surgery service. He also maintains an interest in major trauma and is one of the primary operating surgeons for thoraco-abdominal trauma at the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre. Alex’s early training was in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and following completion of his PhD he went on to higher surgical training in the Yorkshire and East Midlands deanery. Following a fellowship at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Alex was appointed in Nottingham in 2014. Alex has been Head of Service for EGS at NUH since 2016 and recently introduced a system where all consultants provide on-call service in EGS and Sub-specialty practice. Nottingham is therefore the first centre to provide 24/7 availability of Consultant EGS, CR, HPB and OG surgeons. Alex has been recently appointed as ASGBI Director of Membership.

- 18 - Professor Rowan Parks ASGBI President 2017 & 2018 Professor Rowan Parks qualified from Queens University Belfast in 1989. He pursued his surgical training in and then undertook a clinical fellowship in HPB surgery at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He was appointed a Senior Lecturer in Surgery and Honorary Consultant Surgeon in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1999, was subsequently promoted to Reader in Surgery in 2006 and was awarded a person chair as Professor of Surgical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh in 2010. Professor Parks has a specialist interest in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. He has published more than 150 papers, written 36 book chapters and has authored / edited five surgical textbooks. He has been awarded several prestigious prizes and travelling fellowships, and has given a number of eponymous lectures. Professor Parks is currently Deputy Director of Medicine, NHS Education for Scotland, President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI), Director of the James IV Association, Council member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Council member of the European-African Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Association (E-AHPBA), and Council member of the Association of Upper GI Surgeons (AUGIS). He is Chairman of the Education & Training Committee and Deputy-chairman of the Scientific Committee of the International Hepato- Pancreatico–Biliary Association (IHPBA).

Mr Simon Paterson-Brown MBBS, MPhil, MS, FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Eng), FCS(HK),FFST (RCSEd) Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh - Sir Robert Shields Lecture Qualified from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London, in 1982 before training in surgery around London, the Home Counties, Hong Kong and Edinburgh. He has been Consultant General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh since 1994. His main clinical interests are oesophago-gastric surgery, benign biliary surgery, hernia and emergency surgery. He has published widely both in textbooks and journals on emergency surgery, laparoscopic surgery, upper gastro- intestinal surgery, surgical training and assessment. He is the co-editor of the Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice series (now in its 5th Edition). His current main interests include patient safety initiatives in surgery, surgical training and assessment. He is currently Chairman of the Patient Safety Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, previous Council member and past-president of AUGIS.

Ms Lyndsay Pearce Lyndsay Pearce graduated from The University of Nottingham in 2004. She is now ST8 subspecialty trainee in Colorectal Surgery in the North Western Deanery. She completed her postgraduate research at the Department for Clinical Genetics, St Mary’s Hospital, Central Manchester. She has special interests in emergency general - 19 - surgery & trauma, improving outcomes for older surgical patients and the genetics of colorectal disease. Lyndsay is International Trainee Lead for Research and Education for the Older Surgical Outcomes Collaborative (OPSOC) and Senior Honorary Associate Lecturer at Edgehill University. She teaches on several national courses and is an instructor for the European Trauma Course. She has raised in excess of £300,000 in grant income, including awards from the Bowel Disease Research Foundation and National Institute of Healthcare Research. She has published over 20 papers in the field of acute surgical care, management of older surgical patients and colorectal disease. She was awarded the Lady Estelle Wolfson Emerging Leaders Fellowship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2016.

Professor Graeme Poston DSc, MS, MB BS, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(Ed) Graeme Poston is a consultant hepato-biliary surgeon at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK, and Professor of Surgery in the School of Translational Studies of the University of Liverpool. He enjoys an international reputation in hepatobiliary surgery. To date, he has personally performed over 900 major hepatobiliary resections. His unit at UHA is one of the largest tertiary resectional hepato-biliary practices in the UK, having performed over 2,000 liver resections over the last 26 years. He gained his undergraduate medical training at St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, graduating in 1979, and postgraduate training at The Hammersmith Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital, London, and the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. He is the Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of the European Journal of Surgical Oncology and a Past-President of the European Society of Surgical Oncology, the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British Association of Surgical Oncology. He is a Past-Chair of NHS England HPB Specialised Commissioning Clinical Reference Group, NHS England Specialised Commissioning Internal Medicine Programme of Care, NICE Colorectal Cancer Guideline Development Group and Quality Standards Committee, and the Cancer Services Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is the principal investigator of a number of national and international clinical trials in hepato-biliary surgery, and co-author of numerous national and international guidelines for the management of Hepatobiliary cancers, ten textbooks of surgery, and over 260 scientific papers. Honours and distinctions include Doctorate of Science honoris causa, King George V Medical University, Lucknow, the Ernest Miles Medal of the Royal Marsden Surgical Society, Olaf ac Acrel Medal of the Swedish Surgical Association, Stanford Cade Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Kilroe Medal of the Christie Hospital, Manchester, N K Misra Medal of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology. He is an Honorary Professor of Surgery of the Chinese College of Surgeons, Honorary Fellow of the American Surgical Association, Association of Surgeons of India, and the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and numerous international visiting Professorships. In what little spare time he has, he enjoys trekking in high places (climbed Kilimanjaro, trekked to Everest and Annapurna Base Camps, climbing Kala Pattar en route, and crossed the Lakya La).

Mr Clive Quick - 20 - Clive Quick first qualified in dentistry at Guys, then spent a year at the Eastman Dental Hospital before qualifying in medicine at The London Hospital. He spent his registrar years at King’s and senior registrar training in Leicester before being appointed consultant general and vascular surgeon at Hinchingbrooke and Addenbrooke’s. He has been a Fellow of the ASGBI since 1971. He undertook large-scale AAA screening in Huntingdon, one of the big three studies that led eventually to national screening. He is a long-standing member of the Court of Examiners of the RCS (Eng) for the MRCS and is a specialist adviser in surgery for the CQC. He is principal author of Essential Surgery, now in its 5th edition and the Cambridge Anastomosis Workshop DVD set, having run the course in Cambridge for 33 years. He has just completed the sixth International Cambridge Anastomosis Workshop in East Africa and is committed to teaching practical surgery in the developing world.

Mr Rob Quick Started his NHS career training to be a nurse in Merseyside. Spent 25 years as a Senior Regional and National Officer with health union COHSE, which merged to become UNISON in 1993. Re- joined the NHS, firstly in workforce development with West Yorkshire SHA, then with the NHS University as Deputy Regional Director for Yorkshire and Humber. Joined Barnsley Hospital as Deputy Director of HR & OD and then Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust as Associate Director then Director of HR & OD. Before joining HCSA as a National Officer, Rob spent a period as Interim Head of HR at Barts Health in London. He is a Fellow of the CIPD and holds a MSc in HRM.

Professor Peter Sagar ASGBI Director of Emergency Surgery After qualifying with honours from Leeds Medical School, Pete Sagar trained in the Yorkshire and Mersey Regions before taking up the post of Chief Resident at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. He completed an MD in Surgery for ulcerative colitis for which he was awarded the Patey Prize from the Surgical Research Society. Since his appointment to Leeds Teaching Hospitals, he has developed a national referral service for locally advanced and recurrent colorectal cancer as well as a well- established national and international fellowship programme for laparoscopic surgery. His research interests include recurrent rectal cancer, inflammatory disease and pelvic floor dysfunction. He is Director of Emergency Surgery and executive board member of ASGBI.

Mr David Sanders David Sanders is a consultant upper GI surgeon and clinical lead for Upper GI surgery at North Devon Hospital in Barnstaple. He is a specialist in surgery of the gallbladder, anti reflux and hiatal surgery and one of the countries leading hernia surgeons. He completed specialty laparoscopic upper GI training in the South West of England and a trauma fellowship in South Africa. His doctorate thesis was on the influence of mesh and fixation techniques on infection in abdominal wall hernia repair and is - 21 - an internationally recognized expert in the field with over 50 publications in the field of hernia surgery and several book chapters. He has given numerous invited lectures on the topic both nationally and internationally. David is on the board of the British Hernia Society, Chaired the National Institute for Clinical Excellence approved commissioning guidance for groin hernia, was involved in developing the RightCare patient decision aid for inguinal hernias and is on the European working group that developed the Abdominal Wall Closure Guidelines and the International Hernia Guidelines. Mr Sanders is the editor of the Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Mr Tom Scotland Tom Scotland graduated in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1971 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1975. He was a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with NHS Grampian and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. His particular interests were knee surgery, paediatric orthopaedics and tumour surgery, and for three years he was lead clinician for the Scottish Sarcoma Managed Clinical Network. He developed his interest in the Great War whilst a student, when there were still many veterans alive. His wife`s uncle was an “Old Contemptible”, one of the original small British Expeditionary Force which went to France in August 1914. He was killed on Ypres Salient in 1915. Tom has found cycling the best way to visit different places on the Western Front and in retirement he has re-invented himself as a cycling orthopaedic historian. He has kept in touch with former colleagues by leading cycling expeditions to the battlefields in France and Flanders and has made a particular study of Aberdonian surgeon Sir Henry Gray, who played a pivotal role in the development of orthopaedic surgery on the Western Front. In 2012, he co-edited a book “War Surgery 1914-18”, and has co-authored three further books, “Wars, Pestilence and the Surgeon`s Blade”, “Understanding the Somme 1916: An Illuminating Battlefield Guide” and “Henry Gray, Surgeon of the Great War, saving lives in a theatre of destruction”.

Mr John R Scott MB ChB, FRCS, FRCS(Plast) John Scott is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon in the Canniesburn Unit, Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He is a member of British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and has been appointed as an honorary member of the Association of Breast Surgery. He is currently Secretary of the Intercollegiate Specialty Examination Board in Plastic Surgery and an Intercollegiate Specialty Examiner in Plastic Surgery. John is also the BAPRAS / Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow Northern Tutor in Plastic Surgery. His professional interests include breast reconstruction and skin cancer surgery.

Mr Peter Sedman Peter Sedman is the current President of the ALSGBI and is an upper GI surgeon in Hull where he has practiced for the last 20 years. His main interest is in laparoscopic training and has previously been the - 22 - Director of Education at the ALSGBI as well as the minimal access Tutor at the RCS in England.

Mr Baljit Singh Director of ASGBI Scientific Committee Baljit is the Director of the Scientific Committee ASGBI. He qualified and trained in Oxford University where he studied at Exeter, Green and Magdalen Colleges. He was awarded a first class degree and subsequently became a Clinical Lecturer and Surgeon Scientist in the Nuffield Department of Surgery, Oxford where he was awarded a DPhil in 2004. Baljit was also selected as an International Guest Scholar of the American College of Surgeons in 2008. He is currently a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Honorary Associate Professor at University Hospitals Leicester. He is active in several UK surgical societies in developing educational and research programmes. Baljit has been a member of the Research and Audit Committee of ACPGBI. He is currently a Council Member of the Coloproctology Section RSM, Honorary Treasurer of the ACPGBI, member of the Education Committee in ESCP and part of the clinical advisory group for NBOCA. He has previously been awarded several fellowships including the ESCP Japanese Travelling Fellowship, ASCRS Travelling Scholarship and the ALSGBI 2014 B Braun Travelling Scholarship. This has allowed him to learn advanced laparoscopic techniques in internationally renowned centres in the USA, Japan and Europe. Baljit has been involved in several research studies both clinical and basic science. He has been an Investigator for the ACCURE, FAMISHED and BIOPEX clinical trials and supervised four research fellows for higher degrees. His research work was awarded an East Midlands Innovation Prize. He has also been looking at the introduction and evaluation of New Technologies in Colorectal Surgery and working with the New Technology Committee of the American Society of Colorectal Surgeons.

Mr Neil Smart Neil is an academic colorectal surgeon in Exeter whose clinical practice includes subspecialty interests in rectal cancer, incisional hernias / complex abdominal wall reconstruction and parastomal hernias. Neil is the lead for colorectal research at Exeter Surgical Health Services Research Unit (HeSRU) and has a portfolio of studies (both clinical and translational) related to colorectal and hernia surgery performed in collaboration with colleagues from around the UK and internationally. He has published and presented extensively at national and international meetings on a range of colorectal and hernia topics. Neil completed the combined MBBS / PhD course at the University of Newcastle in 2001, winning the Philipson Scholarship for the highest mark in the final examination. He undertook Basic Surgical Training in the North East of England and moved to the South West (Severn & Peninsula) Deanery in 2006 to undertake Higher Surgical Training, passing the Intercollegiate FRCS examination in 2011. He completed his surgical training with an ACPGBI / ALSGBI laparoscopic colorectal fellowship at Colchester General Hospital in 2012 and a post-CCT fellowship in Exeter. Neil has also undertaken international travelling fellowships to Italy, Sweden and Australia to further his training in colorectal surgery.

Professor Frank CT Smith CORESS Programme Director Frank Smith is Professor of Vascular Surgery and Surgical Education - 23 - at the . He trained in Vascular Surgery in the West Midlands, Edinburgh and the South West, and was the recipient of the Peter Clifford and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Travelling Fellowships, to work in Vascular Centres in Boston, Denver, Los Angeles and Seattle. He is a co-opted member of Council of the ASGBI, Chair of the South West Surgical Training Committee, member of the Vascular SAC, and Lead for National Vascular Trainee Selection. In 2006 he was appointed Programme Director for CORESS, and his interests in surgical safety have since included roles as member of the NCEPOD Steering group, member of the NHS England Never Events Task Force and the National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs) Reference Group. He acts as an editorial advisor to the Royal College of Surgeons Safety Bulletins and sits on the NHS England Surgical Services Patient Safety Expert Group.

Mr Julian Speight President of the New Zealand Association of General Surgeons I am a General Surgeon working in a non-metropolitan centre in the South Island, New Zealand. I am a fellow of both the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. I also have the dubious honour of being the most Southern Fellow of the Edinburgh College. I am the Vice President of the New Zealand Association of General Surgeons (NZAGS), and am on the executive committee for the Rural Section of the Royal Australasian College. My interest lies in Rural/Non-metropolitan surgery, and also in colorectal Surgery. I am also involved in Wilderness and Expedition Medicine, and am a member of the New Zealand Medical Assistance Team (NZMAT) that provides emergency medical and surgical care in disaster zones. I trained at St Thomas’ Hospital London, but moved to New Zealand in 1996 to pursue my advanced surgical training. I’ve now lived in New Zealand for over 20-years and support the All Blacks, so I hope I can now call myself a New Zealander!

Miss Kaji Sritharan Moynihan Travelling Fellow 2016 Kaji Sritharan is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at St George’s Vascular Institute, London, and recently appointed Associate Dean of the Royal Society of Medicine. She qualified from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School London, in 2001, and undertook her SHO training in London. She was an Anatomy Demonstrator in Oxford, where she developed the Computer Assisted Learning Programme in Anatomy and was awarded the Dooley Prize in Anatomy for teaching. She remained a College Tutor in Anatomy and Embryology for Christ Church College, Oxford, for several years thereafter. In 2007, she completed and was awarded an MD (Res) in Vascular Biology from Imperial College and undertook her higher surgical training on the Northwest Thames rotation, with endovascular fellowships in Brisbane, Australia and more recently, a post-CCT fellowship in Vascular centres in Malmo, Sweden and Bad-Krozingen, Germany; for which she was awarded the prestigious Moynihan Travelling Fellowship. Her clinical interest is in the diabetic foot and lower limb peripheral endovascular interventions. She also has a strong interest in teaching and education and in addition to authoring 7 career- development and exam-revision books, she has developed a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, both in association with the RSM and in her role as a Member of the London Deanery Vascular & Endovascular Skills Simulation Committee and Vascular Training Program Board, London.

- 24 - Mr Nick Symons Nick Symons is a senior colorectal trainee in the London Deanery and the Dukes Club representative on the ACPGBI emergency surgery steering group. His PhD on quality of care and outcomes in emergency general surgery was conducted at the Center for Patient Safety and Service Quality at Imperial College London. He has written highly cited papers on emergency surgery outcomes, structure of care in emergency general surgery and on process of care in emergency and elective general surgery. He is the immediate past chairman and current committee member of the London Surgical Research Group and is a leader in the national trainee research collaboratives movement.

Mr Mark Taylor PhD FRCSI FRCS(Eng) FRCS(Gen Surg) Mr Mark A Taylor is a Consultant HPB Surgeon and the Clinical Lead for Surgery at the Mater Hospital, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. He trained in Belfast and at the Regional HPB and Transplant Unit in Edinburgh. His Doctorate of Philosophy was in the pathophysiology of obstructive jaundice. He is the Secretary of GBI Hepato-pancreato-biliary Association (GBIHPBA), Council member of AUGIS and on the Medical Advisory Board of Bowel Cancer UK. In 2016, he was appointed by the Health Minister to an independent Expert panel tasked with Reconfiguration of Health and Social care in Northern Ireland. In his spare time he is the District Surgeon and Trustee of St john Ambulance and a keen cyclist. He has published extensively in the field of Hepatobiliary Surgery.

Pofessor Sandie Thomson President of the Association of Surgeons of South Africa I was born in North East Scotland a location in the middle of great golf courses and the best non-triple distilled whisky in the world. Aged 16 I enrolled at Aberdeen University, the oldest English-speaking medical school in the world, founded in 1495. I played snooker, golf and flew chipmunks, as I took up an RAF medical cadetship. I was awarded a distinction in Psychiatry, scraped through Surgery and married Margaret on graduation day on 12 July 1975. I spent most of my time in exotic locations in the “Midlands of England” learning my general surgery trade in RAF Hospitals. By the age of 27 I had passed my FRCS both north and south of the border. I left the RAF in 1981 as a Squadron Leader and returned to my alma mater to do paediatric surgery and research. Surgical nutrition research at Harvard led to the award of my ChM in 1986. Unable to get a job in UK I set off to the University of Natal, South Africa for a year and stayed. I started publishing in trauma and became interested in the use of rigid and flexible endoscopy. My current citation H-index is 26. I established the UKZN Surgical Gastroenterology Unit in 2006 and became involved in the surgical training and tele-education activities of the World Gastroenterology Organisation. After two decades in Durban I was appointed to the Chair of Medical Gastroenterology in Cape Town. I became the first Surgeon “physician” to become the President of Association of Surgeons of South Africa which is who I represent here. - 25 - Mr Malcolm A. West MD MRCS(Ed) PhD Winner of 2017 John Farndon Prize Malcolm West is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded clinical lecture in surgery and an honorary colorectal surgical StR at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He has completed a PhD in exercise physiology, perioperative surgical risk stratification and mitochondrial energetics. During his PhD Malcolm was the Clinical Lead for the Perioperative CardioPulmonary Exercise Testing service at University Hospitals Aintree, Liverpool, UK. His research interests include the pathophysiological mechanisms of cancer therapies and prehabilitation and their effects on physical fitness, mitochondrial function, tumour microenvironment and postoperative outcomes. Malcolm has published extensively in the perioperative medicine and surgical risk arena and was awarded the British Journal of Surgery John Farndon Prize in 2015 and again in 2017.

Professor Steve White Member of ASGBI Scientific Committee I am Professor of HPB and Transplant Surgeon at the University of Newcastle and the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle and was appointed in 2006. I was the Moynihan Travel Fellow of the Association just prior to my appointment visiting The Memorial Sloane Kettering HPB Cancer Unit in New York under the aegis of Prof Lesley Blumgart. I graduated from Leicester Medical School in 1992 and was trained in HPB surgery in Leicester and the Leeds Liver Unit. I initiated an advanced Laparoscopic HPB program in Newcastle and during the last 3 years I have started the UK’s first Robotic HPB Surgery program. I also do Liver, Kidney and Pancreas transplantation and I am President Elect of the European Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association of the European Transplant Society (ESOT).

Mr Sean Woodcock MBBS MS FRCS RAMC Consultant Surgeon Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer School of Nursing and Health Sciences and Wellbeing University of Sunderland Sean is a consultant Upper GI and general surgeon specialising in bariatric surgery in Northumbria. He qualified from St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London in 1991 training in Manchester, Harvard, Gothenberg and Adelaide. He is a fellow of RCS (Eng), ALSGBI, ASGBI, AUGIS and BOMSS and a reserve officer in the RAMC. He is a council member of ALSGBI and ex council member of BOMSS where he chaired the teaching and research committee and organised several BOMSS annual scientific meetings and training days. As a BOMSS council member he helped set up the national bariatric fellowships in the UK and collaborated with primary care and bariatric allied health professionals to produce guidance for primary care management for post bariatric surgery patients. His interests includes the great outdoors and deep sea fishing.

- 26 - WITH THANKS TO

ASGBI CORPORATE PATRONS

SILVER SPONSORS FOR THE 2017 INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL CONGRESS

- 27 - 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

http://www.asgbi.org.uk/

- 28 -