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2 Professor Carlos A Pellegrini Carlos Pellegrini received his MD in 1971 from the University of Rosario Medical School in Argentina. After training in general surgery in Argentina, he completed a second surgical residency at the University of Chicago. In 1979, he was appointed to the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco where he developed and directed a Center for GI Motility. In 1993, he became Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1996, in recognition for his role in the strengthening of all clinical, teaching and research programmes, he became the first holder of the Henry N. Harkins Endowed Chair. Harrogate, 29th April to 2nd May 2014 INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL CONGRESS: EDUCATION & INNOVATION GUEST SPEAKERS Dr Pellegrini is a world leader in minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery and a pioneer in the development of videoendoscopy for the surgical treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease and oesophageal motility disorders, particularly achalasia. At the University of Washington, he developed the Center for Videoendoscopic Surgery, the Swallowing Center (now known as the Center for Esophageal and Gastric Surgery) and the Institute for Simulation and Interprofessional Studies (ISIS). In addition to his role as Chairman of the Board of ISIS, he is a long-time member of the highest decision-making bodies at UW Medicine, and chairs many committees which oversee an array of work including Continuous Professionalism, Diversity, Executive Search Committees and Oversight of Multidisciplinary Practices. Dr Pellegrini is the current President of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), a past Chair of the Board of Regents of the ACS and a past Chair of the American Surgical Association Foundation. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and from 2005 to 2006, he was President of the American Surgical Association. He has been Director of the American Board of Surgery, Chair of the Digestive Disease Week Council and President of OESO. In the area of medical education, he’s been a major contributor to the fundamental reform of residency work hours, having been a member and chair of the RRC for Surgery. He serves on several editorial boards and publishes regularly on many topics, including the field of training and new technologies to educate the next generation of surgeons. His bibliography lists more than 400 articles, chapters, editorials, and books, as well as 11 surgical videos. Professor Takeshi Sano Dr Sano is a surgeon specialising in gastric cancer and has visited more than 35 countries for lectures and live demonstrations of surgery, as a “publicist” of Japanese-style D2 gastrectomy. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tokyo in 1980 and completed his surgical training in the First Department of Surgery at the same university. Dr Sano spent 15 months in Paris during 1986 and 1987 as a research fellow of the French Government Scholarship at Institute Curie. He worked at the National Cancer Center, Tokyo for 16 years and has been in his present post, Department Director of Gastroenterological Surgery at the Cancer Institute Hospital in Tokyo, since 2008. Dr Sano is a council member of the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association and the International Gastric Cancer Association, and the committee chair of the JGCA treatment guidelines. As a steering committee member of the Japan Clinical Oncology Group, he has played central roles in clinical trials on gastric cancer surgery. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Gastric Cancer and serves as a reviewer for several other international journals. Dr Sano is an honorary member of several other medical associations including the German Society of General and Visceral Surgery, the European Surgical Association and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. A family man, he enjoys wine, golf and holidays. Professor David Greenaway Professor Greenaway was appointed Nottingham’s sixth Vice-Chancellor in 2008, having previously been a Pro-ViceChancellor of the University for both Research and Infrastructure. A Professor of Economics, he was the founding Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy. His research interests lie primarily in the fields of trade and labour market adjustment, cross-border investment and international trade policy. Professor Greenaway has also acted as a consultant to the World Bank, the European Commission and the United Nations, and was Chair of the UK Armed Forces Pay Review Body from 2004 until 2010. He is currently a Member of the Government’s Asia Task Force, a high-level body helping to boost UK exports and investments in Asian countries, and has been appointed to lead a comprehensive independent review of UK postgraduate medical education and training. He was awarded an Honorary Citizenship of Ningbo, China, in September 2012. Professor Sir Liam Donaldson Sir Liam Donaldson is recognised as an international champion of patient safety and public health. He was the foundation chair of the World Health Organisation World Alliance for Patient Safety, launched in 2004. He is a past vice-chairman of the World Health Organisation Executive Board and is now the World Health Organisation’s Envoy for Patient Safety and Chairman of the Independent Monitoring for the Polio Eradication Programme. In the UK, he is currently Chair of Health Policy at Imperial College London and Chancellor of Newcastle University. Prior to this appointment Sir Liam was the Chief Medical Officer for England, and the United Kingdom's Chief Medical Adviser, from 1998 to 2010. During this time, he held critical responsibilities across the whole field of public health and healthcare. As the United Kingdom's chief adviser on health issues, he advised the Secretary of State for Health, the Prime 2014 International Surgical Congress Professor Richard K Reznick Born in Montreal, Dr Reznick received his undergraduate university education and medical degree from McGill University, followed by a general surgical residency at the University of Toronto. He spent two years in fellowship training, first obtaining a master’s degree in Medical Education from Southern Illinois University, followed by a fellowship in colorectal surgery at the University of Texas, Houston. Since his first faculty appointment at the University of Toronto in 1987, Dr Reznick has been active in both colorectal surgery and research in medical education. He was instrumental in developing a performance-based examination, which is now used for medical licensure in Canada. He ran a research programme on assessment of technical competence for surgeons and supervised a fellowship programme in surgical education. At the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine he was the inaugural Director of the Faculty’s Centre for Research in Education at University Health Network (The Wilson Centre), from 1997 to 2002. In 1999, he was appointed Vice President of Education at University Health Network. He served eight years as the R S McLaughlin Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto from 2002 to 2010. In July 2010, Dr Reznick assumed the position of Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University and Chief Executive Officer of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization (SEAMO). Dr Reznick has received numerous awards for his work in education, including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Medal in Surgery, the Association for Surgical Education Distinguished Educator Award, the National Board of Medical Examiners John P Hubbard Award, the Daniel C Tosteson Award for Leadership in Medical Education, the 2006 Inaugural University of Toronto President’s Teaching Award and the Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education. In July 2011, Dr Reznick was awarded an honourary fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Scotland, and in November 2011, an honourary fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. In 2013, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada awarded him the James H Graham Award of Merit. Guest Speakers and International Visitors - Version 4 Dr Reznick is the author of over 120 peer-reviewed publications and has given over 200 lectures to hospitals, universities and scientific organisations around the world. He is married to Cheryl and they have three children. Professor Atul Gawande Professor Gawande is a surgeon, professor, writer and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and he is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr Gawande is a highly influential writer; he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1998 and has published several articles. He has also written three New York Times-bestselling books. In addition, Dr Gawande is Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint centre for health systems innovation, creating simple discoveries that produce better outcomes, greater value and more caring across the world. He is also co-founder and chairman of Lifebox, an international not-for-profit implementing systems and technologies to reduce surgical deaths globally. To date, Dr Gawande has received numerous awards including two National Magazine Awards, Academy Health’s Impact Award for Highest Research Impact on Healthare, a MacArthur Fellowship, and he has been named one of the world’s hundred most influential thinkers by Foreign Policy and TIME. Dr Gawande earned his BS from Stanford University and he earned an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College at Oxford University, where he was Rhodes Scholar. He went on to earn his MD from Harvard Medical School and his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Eduardo Salas Dr Salas received his PhD degree in 1984 in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Old Dominion University. He is Trustee Chair and Pegasus Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Dr Salas also holds an appointment as Program Director for Human Systems Integration Research Department at UCF’s Institute for Simulation & Training. Previously, he was a Senior Research Psychologist and Head of the Training Technology Development Branch of NAVAIR-Orlando, for 15 years. During this period, Dr Salas served as a principal investigator for numerous R&D programmes, focusing on teamwork, simulationbased training, decision-making under stress and other similar topics. Dr Salas has co-authored over 375 journal articles and book chapters and co-edited over 25 books. He is, or has been, on the editorial board of nine journals, is a past editor of the Human Factors journal and current Associated Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology and Military Psychology. GUEST SPEAKERS & INTERNATIONAL VISITORS Minister and other government ministers. He has produced landmark reports which have set health policy and legislation in fields such as stem cell research, quality and safety of healthcare, infectious disease control, patient empowerment, poor clinical performance, smoke-free public places, medical regulation, and organ and tissue retention. Sir Liam initially trained as a surgeon in Birmingham and went on to hold teaching and research posts at the University of Leicester. In 1986, he was appointed Regional Medical Officer and Regional Director of Public Health for the Northern Regional Health Authority. Sir Liam has received many public honours: 12 honorary doctorates from British universities, eight fellowships from medical Royal Colleges and faculties, and the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was the Queen's Honorary Physician between 1996 and 1999 and was knighted in the 2002 New Year's Honours List. Dr Salas has held numerous positions in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) during the past 15 years. He is the past chair of the Cognitive 3 Harrogate, 29th April to 2nd May 2014 INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL CONGRESS: EDUCATION & INNOVATION 4 Engineering and Decision Making Technical Group and of the Training Technical Group, and currently he is the President. He is also very active with Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)— Division 14 of APA. Dr Salas is past President of SIOP and past Series Editor of the Organizational Frontier and the Professional Practice Book Series. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (SIOP and Divisions 19, 21 & 49), the HFES and the Association for Psychological Science. He received the 2012 Joseph E McGrath Lifetime Achievement Award for the study of teams and groups from INGroup, the SIOP’s 2012 Distinguished Professional Contributions Award and the 2012 Michael R Losey Award from the Society for Human Resources Management. Professor David B Hoyt Professor Hoyt received a BA degree with honors from Amherst College, followed by an MD degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1976. From 1976 to 1984, Dr Hoyt was a Surgical Resident and Research Fellow at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Scripps Immunology Institute. He joined the faculty at UCSD and immediately became involved in their Trauma Service, where his role as Director lasted from 1989 to 2006. In 1995, he was appointed Professor of Surgery and was awarded The Monroe E Trout Professorship in Surgery at UCSD (1996). In 2006, Dr Hoyt was appointed to the position of Chairman for the Department of Surgery at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the John E Connolly Professor of Surgery. In 2008, Dr Hoyt was also appointed Executive Vice Dean for the UCI School of Medicine. In January 2010, he was appointed Executive Director of the American College of Surgeons and remains Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the UCI. Dr Hoyt has distinguished himself within the Department of Surgery, having delivered numerous named lectures, received multiple, significant awards from his colleagues as well as scientific organisations, while serving in positions of leadership. He continues to serve as an advisor for many graduate students. Dr Hoyt is a member of the American Surgical Association, Surgical Biology Club, Western Surgical Association and Society of University Surgeons, amongst others. He is currently the immediate Past President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Past President of the Society of General Surgeons of San Diego, Past President of the Shock Society, Past Chairman of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma and Past Medical Director of Trauma at the American College of Surgeons. He has been a visiting professor at a large number of institutions nationally and internationally and is an Editorial Board Member of six journals. Dr Hoyt consistently receives significant public research funding and is the author of over 500 publications. He was recently awarded the American Heart Association Resuscitation Science Lifetime Research Achievement Award, the American College of Surgeons Distinguished Service Award and the Shock Society Scientific Achievement Award. Professor Mike Pringle Professor Pringle is President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, having taken over from Dr Iona Heath in November 2012. Having been a general practitioner for 30 years, Mike is now retired from practice and the University of Nottingham, where he is Emeritus Professor of General Practice. He has been Chair of RCGP Council from 1998 to 2001, Chair of the RCGP Trustee Board from 2009 to 2012 and RCGP revalidation clinical lead from 2008 to 2012. Mike helps to run CHEC, an innovative primary care development project, and is Strategic Director of PRIMIS+. He holds a number of board positions with voluntary organisations including Arthritis Research UK. Dr Suzanne Shale Dr Shale works as an advisor in the fields of healthcare ethics and patient experience. Her work encompasses support for professionals and patients following harm in medicine; safety, governance and performance review in surgery; clinical ethics; and quality assurance of medical education and training. She works with the NHS at national and local level, and with professional and regulatory bodies. During 2013, she chaired the NHS England Never Events task force, authoring its final report; and advised the Francis Report implementation team on developing standards to rebuild trust after medical harm. Also in 2013, the Royal College of Surgeons published Dr Shale’s comprehensive evidence-based guidance on enhancing governance in surgery, including escalating and responding to concerns. She has a particular interest in the ethical issues associated with innovation in surgery. Dr Shale has a long standing association with the University of Oxford, where she is a Supernumerary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Ethox Research Associate, and Associate of the Health Experiences Institute. She is sole author of Moral Leadership in Medicine: Building Ethical Healthcare Organisations (2012). Roger Taylor Roger Taylor is Director of Research and Public Affairs at Dr Foster, where he is responsible for public information, including the Dr Foster Hospital Guide. Roger was a co-founder of Dr Foster and has been a strong advocate for the role of greater transparency as a mechanism for consumer protection, as well as a driver for quality improvement in public services. Roger began his career as a journalist, working as a correspondent for the Financial Times in the UK and the US. Prior to that, he worked for the Consumers' Association, writing and researching for Which? magazine. He is a board member of Ofqual, the regulator of qualifications in the UK, and a trustee of CAADA, the domestic abuse charity. Roger is also a member of the Health Sector Transparency Panel and the Open Data User Group. His book on NHS reform, God Bless the NHS, was published by Faber and Faber in March 2013. 2014 International Surgical Congress Professor Ken Fearon Professor Fearon is Professor of Surgical Oncology at Edinburgh University and Honorary Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. He qualified in Medicine with honours in 1982 from Glasgow University. From 1983 to 1986, he was the Cancer Research Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Oncology in Glasgow University and submitted his thesis (MD) on the “Mechanisms and Treatment of Cancer Cachexia” in 1987. He was appointed as Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Edinburgh in 1988, Senior Lecturer in 1993 and Professor of Surgical Oncology in 1999. His principal research domains include human nutrition and metabolism, the metabolic response to surgery and cancer cachexia and his translational research is focused on the role of the systemic inflammatory response. Professor Fearon’s clinical research is aimed at development of trial methodology including early biomarkers and novel outcome measures. He has conducted several of the largest prospective randomised intervention trials in cancer cachexia and had a major interest in nutritional pharmacology. He is also a founding member of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Group and is Chairman of the Board of the ERAS Society. Ken was presented with the Cuthbertson Medal from the Nutrition Society in 1991, the Hippocrates Award from the Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia and Wasting Disorders (SCWD) in 2009 and the Arvid Wretlind Award from the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism in 2011. Professor John P Collins Professor John Collins will be delivering the Halstead Lecture at the 2014 ICOSET. After completing his surgical training in England, during which he shared in the Moynihan Prize and was awarded his MCH, Professor Collins joined the University Department of Surgery in Guest Speakers and International Visitors - Version 4 Auckland. He later completed his MD in medical education. John subsequently became head of one the University’s two clinical schools and went on to serve on a number of New Zealand Ministry of Health Committees. He has been a member of the Board of Surgical Training, Chair of the Court of Examiners in General Surgery and Foundation Dean of Education at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. John has led reviews of the UK Foundation Programme, the Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand and recently of postgraduate medical training in New South Wales. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, ASGBI and the Academy of Medical Educators UK. He has been a Hunterian Professorship at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and was awarded the Sir Louis Barnett and the Sir Alan Newton Medals by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. John is currently Professorial Fellow in Surgery at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Research Professor in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Oxford. Professor Robert Steele Professor Robert Steele obtained his initial surgical and academic training in Edinburgh, Hong Kong and Aberdeen, and was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Nottingham in 1990. He was then appointed Professor of Surgical Oncology at the University of Dundee in 1996 and Professor of Surgery and Head of Academic Surgery in 2003. His initial research interests were in breast cancer and, when working for Professor Sir Patrick Forrest, he developed the concept of axillary nodal sampling. In Hong Kong, Robert’s interest shifted to upper gastrointestinal disease and he was instrumental in introducing endoscopic haemostasis for bleeding peptic ulcer. In Nottingham, working for Professor Jack Hardcastle, he became involved with the early trials of colorectal cancer screening and, since then, colorectal cancer has remained his primary clinical and academic interest. He has carried out work in surgery and radiotherapy for colorectal cancer and in areas of the genetic and chromosomal abnormalities that underlie the disease. His main interest, however, is in Colorectal Cancer Screening. Having led the UK demonstration pilot that was used to inform the decision to introduce national screening programmes throughout the UK, Robert is, at present, the Clinical Director of the Scottish Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme, and has published extensively in this area. He has chaired several NHS QIS groups related to colorectal cancer and colorectal cancer screening and he chaired the SIGN group that developed the latest set of colorectal cancer guidelines. He is currently a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh editor of The Surgeon. He is co-founder and co-director of the Scottish Cancer Prevention Network, chairs the Board of Directors of the Scottish Cancer Foundation and has been elected President of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. GUEST SPEAKERS & INTERNATIONAL VISITORS Professor Michael Rosen Michael Rosen completed his surgical training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in 2004. During his training, he completed a research fellowship in minimally invasive surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Ohio. He went on to complete a clinical fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery at Carolinas Medical Center. He joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University where he has remained since 2005. During his time at Case Medical Center, Michael has won the annual teaching award twice, and has been promoted to Professor of Surgery. He currently serves as the Chief of the Division of GI and General Surgery, and the Director of the Case Comprehensive Hernia Center. He has been recognised for his outstanding research in minimally invasive surgery by receiving the SAGES Young Investigator award. Michael has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, 20 textbook chapters, and has served as the editor for four surgical textbooks. He serves on eight editorial boards for various surgical journals. 5 Harrogate, 29th April to 2nd May 2014 INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL CONGRESS: EDUCATION & INNOVATION 6 Iain D Anderson, MBE Iain Anderson has been a consultant surgeon at Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester since 1995. He is a general surgeon with a specialist interest in Crohn’s disease and is one of the senior surgeons on the Intestinal Failure Unit. He trained in surgery in Manchester and Edinburgh, receiving several national awards including a Hunterian Professorship (1996), for clinical studies of abdominal infection. From 1994 to 2007, he developed and established the Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient (CCrISP) Course and is now Director of Emergency General Surgery at ASGBI. Iain received an MBE for services to clinical surgery and medical education in the 2014 New Year’s Honours lists. Professor Michael Baum Professor Baum is currently the Emeritus Professor of Surgery and visiting Professor of Medical Humanities at University College, London. He qualified in medicine at Birmingham University Medical School in 1960. He held Chairs of Surgery at King’s College London from 1980 to1990, the Institute of Cancer Research from 1990 to 1995 and University College London from 1995 to 2001. In the past, he has been President of the British Oncology Association, the European Breast Cancer Conference and Chairman of the Psychosocial Committee of the National Cancer Research Institute. Michael has been awarded the William McGuire Prize at San Antonio Texas, the Charles Gross prize in France, the St Gallen Prize in Switzerland, the gold medal of the International College of Surgeons for his research into the treatment of breast cancer and, most recently, the gold medal for therapeutics from the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in London. Michael established the first clinical trial centres in the UK and was one of the first to challenge the doctrine of radical mastectomy. He led the first trial that demonstrated the potential of tamoxifen to prolong life amongst breast cancer victims and was also the first to describe psychometric instruments to measure quality of life in cancer sufferers. Most recently, Michael led the first trial to demonstrate the equivalence of intra-operative single dose of radiotherapy with six weeks post-operative treatment. He recently published his autobiography, Breast Beating: One Man’s Odyssey in the Search for an Understanding of Breast Cancer, the Meaning of Life and Other Simple Questions. Married to Judy, he has three children and nine grandchildren and enjoys painting, theatre and modern literature. Professor Jonathan D Beard Professor Jonathan Beard has worked as a consultant vascular surgeon at the Sheffield Vascular Institute since 1990. He graduated MB BS BSc at Guy’s Hospital, London in 1979 and obtained his Masters in Surgery from Bristol University in 1987. He has a passion for surgical education and was awarded a Masters in Medical Education from the University of Sheffield in 2004. In 2007, he was appointed Honorary Professor of Surgical Education at the University of Sheffield and in 2012, Professor of Surgical Education at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He has been Programme Director for Core and Higher Surgical Training in South Yorkshire; piloted one of the first Foundation Programmes in the UK; and then became Associate Postgraduate Dean for the Yorkshire Deanery from 2008 to 2012, with responsibility for Doctors in Difficulty. He chaired the Education and Training Committee of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 2009 to 2012 and is the current President during its first year as a new specialty. Jonathan’s educational interests include the assessment of technical and non-technical skills in the operating theatre, workplace-based assessment methodology, portfolio and curriculum design, integration of simulation into the curriculum, and trainer training. His clinical interests include exercise programmes for intermittent claudication, amputation rehabilitation and vascular problems in athletes. He is author or contributor to more than 170 scientific papers, editor of six textbooks and edited the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery from 1992 to 2008. His outside interests include gardening, rugby football, sailing and skiing. Professor Jane Blazeby Professor Blazeby is professor of surgery at the University of Bristol and an honorary consultant surgeon at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. She has led many methodological research projects to improve measurement of outcomes from the perspective of the patient as well as the health professional. She was chair of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Group and she currently directs the MRC ConDuCT-II Hub for Trials Methodology Research and the Royal College of England Surgical Trials Centre in Bristol. Jane leads several pragmatic trials in surgery that include outcome measures of relevance to patients, surgeons and NHS and she is in the COMET (Core Outcome Measures for Effectiveness Trials) initiative which promotes the use of core outcome sets to improve measurement and data synthesis. Dr Jonathan Botting Dr Botting is senior partner and lead GP trainer in his London practice. His surgical interest developed in 1994 as a clinical assistant at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton and three years later at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He underwent training with the British Society of Dermatological Surgeons and he now provides GPwSI minor surgery lists at his practice and for neighbouring PCTs, doing on average four operating sessions a week. Since 2002, Jonathan has been commissioned to provide minor surgery teaching for London Deanery registrars. He advises Primary Care on minor surgery commissioning and undertakes about 1,000 surgical procedures yearly. Jonathan realised that, despite 2014 International Surgical Congress The Rt Hon Andy Burnham, MP Andy Burnham has been MP for Leigh since 2001. Born in Liverpool, and growing up in Culcheth, Andy attended St Aelred’s Roman Catholic High School and gained an MA in English at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Having worked as a local journalist and in publishing, Andy’s first political experience came working in Tessa Jowell’s office whilst in opposition. As MP for Leigh, Andy has been a strong voice for the community, encouraging developments such as the Leigh Sports Village and securing funding for other development projects. In government, Andy has held Ministerial positions at the Home Office, Department of Health and the Treasury before becoming Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in 2008 and then returning to Health as Secretary of State in 2009. In September 2010 Andy was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Education, and in October 2011 he was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Health. Andy lives in the constituency with his family, wife Marie-France and their three children. He is a keen supporter of Leigh Centurions and Everton FC. Ronan A Cahill Ronan Cahill is a colorectal surgeon working in Dublin, with a major academic interest in Surgical Innovation and New Technologies. He graduated MB,BAO,BCh (Hons) in 1997 and completed his basic and specialist surgical training in Ireland, gaining both MD by thesis (Health Research Board Clinical Research Fellow) and FRCS by examination. Thereafter, he was a clinical fellow at the IRCAD/EITS Institute in Strasbourg, France from 2007 to 2008 before moving to the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals as senior fellow and then consultant and senior clinical researcher from 2008 to 2010. Ronan returned to Ireland in 2010 as consultant general surgeon (specialist interest in colorectal surgery) at Beaumont Hospital and is now the incoming professor of surgery at University College Dublin, and the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, also in Dublin. He is a recipient of both the Bennett and Millen Medals (RCSI Millen Lecturer 2010) and has authored over 150 peer reviewed publications, five book chapters and four National Guidelines. He is an editorial board member of five indexed surgical journals, including Colorectal Guest Speakers and International Visitors - Version 4 Disease and the European Journal of Surgical Oncology and is a member of the SAGES Research Committee (SAGES Career Development Award recipient 2009). He holds over ¤2 ,500,000 in research and educational grant funding and has active basic science, clinical and device development research partnerships both nationally and internationally. Professor Gordon Carlson Professor Carlson has been a consultant colorectal and general surgeon at Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester since 1997. He was an MRC Senior Clinical Fellow until 2000, and was subsequently appointed Honorary Professor of Surgery at the University of Manchester and Honorary Professor of Biomedical Science at the University of Salford in 2006. With his colleagues, he leads the National Intestinal Failure Unit, a centre specialising in the treatment of intestinal fistulas and abdominal sepsis. He also chairs the ASGBI Intestinal Failure Advisory Group. Gordon trained in Manchester and Newcastle upon Tyne and has been heavily involved in developing innovative treatments for intestinal failure and abdominal sepsis. He has published over 150 papers, book chapters and other articles and has been a surgical advisor to NICE and the Department of Health. He has received numerous awards for his work, including a Hunterian Professorship (2001), the Cuthbertson Medal of the Nutrition Society, the Bengt Ihre Medal of the Swedish Medical Society and the Medal of Honour of the Danish Surgical Society. He received a Fellowship ad hominem of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2013. Gordon became Director of the Scientific Programme for ASGBI in 2012. Dr Martin Clark Dr Clark is a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine, based at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy. He has interests in regional and vascular anaesthesia, as well as peri-operative medicine, genetics of sepsis and infections in ICU patients. He is a CCRISP course instructor for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and, in addition, has taught on critical care courses in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zambia and Kenya. Martin has helped in the design of an African specific critical care course and manual, as well producing e-learning material for the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Ptolemy project run by the University of Toronto. Lilli Cooper Lilli is a CT2 in plastic surgery, currently working at the Royal Free hospital in London. She completed her primary degree in Anatomy at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her medical training was in Birmingham, UK, and she has since worked in Bristol and London pursuing her career in surgery. Lilli has completed several electives abroad and enjoyed time in Ghana, teaching and training GUEST SPEAKERS & INTERNATIONAL VISITORS years of surgery, he, and others like him, had no form of official qualification to reflect their expertise and nor would those wishing to pursue an interest in minor surgery. For this reason, he researched, wrote, published and then delivered the Diploma of Minor Surgery. This postgraduate diploma, accredited by Middlesex University, has run since 2007. In 2009, Jonathan was appointed to the Council of the Association of Surgeons in Primary Care and in 2010, he became the RCGP Clinical Champion for minor surgery. He continues as their clinical lead and is in the process of developing a national, communitybased surgery audit jointly with the RCGP and the HSCIC. Married with three boys, he enjoys fishing ever optimistically for salmon, classic cars, skiing and wine. 7 8 Harrogate, 29th April to 2nd May 2014 INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL CONGRESS: EDUCATION & INNOVATION doctors, nurse anaesthetists and theatre nurses. She hopes to be successful in her application for an ST3 in plastic surgery and to continue to work abroad throughout her career. David Dalton David Dalton is Chief Executive of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust – an integrated provider of hospital, community and primary care services, including the University Teaching Hospital. David has been an NHS Chief Executive for over 20 years, serving at Salford Royal for over 12. He has a particular interest in quality improvement with a focus on improving patient safety and service reliability. David is leading a programme to achieve the lowest mortality rate in the NHS and to achieve harm-free care for the patients of his Trust. Last year, he served on the Berwick Review of Patient Safety, which reported its recommendations to the Prime Minister in August. David has been active in developing a new cadre of clinical leaders and devolving responsibility, with accountability, to them. Working with these leaders, Salford Royal is developing its Personal Contribution Framework which uniquely connects individual behaviours and personal contribution to the Trust’s goals and values. David is working with colleagues in primary and social care to develop a new integrated care service in Salford, with its triple aim of improved outcomes, better experience and lower cost. He chairs a new network organisation of highly performing Foundation Trusts – NHS QUEST – which aims to achieve unprecedented levels of quality improvement. He has led the establishment of the Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Network which aims to improve health through better adoption of evidence of best practice and to improve wealth with a better interface with industry to adopt new devices and technologies. Jacob Dreyer Jacob (Fanus) Dreyer is a consultant general surgeon at NHS Dumfries and Galloway. He trained at Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, South Africa and previously worked in Malawi and rural South Africa before coming to Dumfries in 1999, where he developed a colorectal interest. In 2008, he obtained an MEd in surgical education from Imperial College London and has special interests in surgical professionalism, nontechnical skills, surgical humanities, critical care teaching, surgical education in sub-Saharan Africa and global surgery. Fanus is a member of the Global Health Academy of the University of Edinburgh, chairs the International Development Committee of ASGBI and is a member of ASGBI’s Scientific Committee. Since 2009, he has been teaching in East and Central Africa on various surgical topics, but mainly in critical care. He was Rahima Dawood Travelling Fellow for RCSEd and COSECSA in 2009, is editor of a critical care series of open access articles for Africa published through the University of Toronto (www.ptolemy.ca) and has published a handbook for critical care teaching in Africa. Dr John W Drover Dr Drover is professor of surgery at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. After growing up in Nova Scotia, he attended Acadia University (1980) to study science before going on to Dalhousie University (1984) for medical school. After a rotating internship, he practised as a family physician for three years in Tamworth, Ontario. After completing residency in general surgery (1992), he continued on, to complete training in critical care medicine (1994) at Queen’s University. John then did further training in critical care, working as a senior registrar at Guy’s Hospital, London, returning to join Queen’s University as a faculty member in 1994. John practices as an intensivist at Kingston General Hospital and his surgical practice is focused on trauma. He is Chair and Program Medical Director of the Critical Care Program at Kingston General Hospital and Queen’s University. He is and instructor with the ATLS programme and has been elevated to Provincial Faculty by the American College of Surgeons. John is also Chair of the Specialty Committee for Critical Care Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is the Director of Accreditation for Undergraduate Medical Education in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University and the Medical Co-ordinator of the Bariatric Regional Assessment and Treatment Center at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston. He is active as a teacher at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and his research has focused on nutrition with an emphasis on the critically ill patient. Jonothan Earnshaw Jonothan Earnshaw has been a consultant at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for 22 years. After qualifying in London at Guy’s Hospital, he trained in Brighton, Nottingham and finally Bristol. He became a vascular surgeon after undertaking a DM degree in Nottingham. His initial consultant practice was general, but he is now a full time vascular specialist. Jonothan has held national posts at the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, including Honorary Secretary from 2006 to 2010, and is currently Chair of their Professional Standards Committee. He was President of the Venous Forum of the RSM from 2006 to 2008. He has a longstanding interest in surgical publication, and has been a member of the Editorial Team at British Journal of Surgery since 1994, where he is now Joint Chief Editor. He is presently the Clinical Director of the NHS AAA Screening Programme, a post he has occupied since 2009. Professor Jonathan Fawcett Professor Fawcett graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1983, where he was a surgical registrar, passing the FRCS exam in 1988. After registrar jobs, he was appointed to an ICRF (as then was) clinician scientist fellowship in 1989 and moved 2014 International Surgical Congress Medicine, the Margaret Witt Scholarship from the RCSEng and the Alex Simpson-Smith Travelling Fellowship. His clinical and research activities encompass emergency general surgery, colorectal disease and the development of trainee collaborative networks through the STARSurg and GlobalSurg.org projects. Ed is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, with an active interest in improving surgical teaching and training, having previously acted as the trainee representative on the General Surgery Specialist Advisory Committee and Joint Committee on Surgical Training. Professor Paul Finan Professor Paul Finan is currently a consultant colorectal surgeon in the John Goligher Colorectal Unit at St James’s Hospital, Leeds and honorary professor of colorectal surgery within the University of Leeds. He received his undergraduate training in Bristol, qualifying in 1974, and his postgraduate training entailed travels to Cardiff, Iowa, Oxford, Leeds, Cambridge and St Mark’s Hospital, London. He was appointed to his current post in 1986. Paul was the clinical lead responsible for establishing a single colorectal unit within Leeds and has conducted an active research programme over many years. He was President of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland in 2007 and of the Section of Coloproctology of the Royal Society of medicine in 2008. For the past four years, he has been the clinical lead for the national bowel cancer audit and now chairs the colorectal site-specific clinical reference group within the National Cancer Intelligence Network. Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald Professor Fitzgerald is a tenured programme leader at the MRC Cancer Unit, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, University of Cambridge and honorary consultant in gastroenterology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. She graduated from Cambridge University in 1992, performed a research degree at Stanford University, California from 1995 to 1997, then undertook specialist clinical training and postdoctoral research at Barts and The London Hospitals from 1997 to 2001, when she then moved back to Cambridge. The focus of her research is to improve methods for early detection of oesophageal cancer through better understanding of the molecular pathogenesis. Rebecca was awarded the prestigious Westminster medal and prize for her first proof of concept work on the CytospongeTM and associated assays for diagnosing Barrett’s oesophagus in 2004; this work received an NHS Innovation prize in 2011. She received a Lister Prize Fellowship in 2008 and in 2013, Rebecca was awarded an NIHR Research Professorship to facilitate translational research for patient benefit. In recognition of her work, she has given the Goulstonian Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians and was awarded the Sir Francis Avery Jones Medal from the British Society of Gastroenterology. Rebecca enjoys teaching and communicating science to the public. She directs studies for medical students at Trinity College Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Institute for Learning and Teaching. Rebecca is committed to bringing research advances into clinical practice and inspiring other researchers to do likewise. Edward Fitzgerald Ed Fitzgerald is a registrar in general surgery currently undertaking a Fellowship with the Lifebox Foundation an (www.lifebox.org), international charity working to save lives through safer surgery. Lifebox focuses on resourcepoor countries with high rates of avoidable perioperative complications and deaths. This work has taken him to Rwanda and the Congo, where a major part of his efforts have involved developing the implementation science behind safer surgery initiatives, including the WHO Checklist. Ed qualified from the University of Oxford, and undertook clinical training in Nottingham and London. He is a Past-President of the Association of Surgeons in Training and a previous recipient of the Norman Tanner Medal from the Royal Society of Professor Rhona Flin Professor Flin holds the Chair of Applied Psychology and is Director of the Industrial Psychology Research Centre at the University of Aberdeen. She leads a team of psychologists conducting research on human performance in high risk industries and healthcare. Her group’s projects include studies of leadership, culture, team skills and decision making in healthcare, aviation and the energy industries. She is currently studying senior managers’ safety leadership and also nontechnical skills in surgery in the oil and gas sector. Rhona was awarded the Roger Green Medal (Royal Aeronautical Society) for aviation human factors research and the John Bruce Medal (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh) for behavioural science in Guest Speakers and International Visitors - Version 4 GUEST SPEAKERS & INTERNATIONAL VISITORS to the Nuffield Department of Surgery at Oxford University. He worked in the ICRF laboratories at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, completing his doctorate in 1992. After research, Jonathan became a senior registrar in Oxford. After an enjoyable year in the transplant unit, he rotated to Northampton, working for Brian Dowling doing upper GI surgery with some HPB work. Returning to the John Radcliffe Hospital, Jon sat the intercollegiate examination in 1995, sharing the ASGBI prize with Sukhpal Singh. Declaring an interest in HPB left him accredited at a time when HPB jobs were sparse, and this prompted a move to Brisbane in 1996 as a senior lecturer, working for Professor Russell Strong at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Since then, Professor Fawcett has gone on to become the Director of the Queensland Liver Transplant Service and Chairman of the HPB unit. Jonathan has been an enthusiastic recruiter to various trials in liver transplantation and HPB surgery and he is a member of the Australasian GI Trials Group. As a now senior consultant, he spends a good deal of time assisting trainees with pancreatic surgery, liver resections and liver transplants. Jonathan is also a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. 9 10 Harrogate, 29th April to 2nd May 2014 INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL CONGRESS: EDUCATION & INNOVATION surgery. She is a member of the Safety Advisory Committee for the Military Aviation Authority at the UK Ministry of Defence. Books she has authored include Safety at the Sharp End: A Guide to NonTechnical Skills (2008) and Safer Surgery: Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre (2009). Kathryn Ford Kat Ford is a CT2 in paedatric surgery at King’s College Hospital, London. She completed her medical training at The University of Birmingham and intercalated in Public Health & Epidemiology. During this time, Kat carried out her research in Guangzhou, China. She has sustained an interest in working in the developing world, working in Cuba, Mexico and teaching and training in Ghana since graduating in 2010. She did her Foundation Year training in Birmingham, before moving to London to pursue her surgical training. In the future, Kat would like to continue to combine work in the developing world with her specialist surgical interest of paediatric surgery. Chair in Surgery at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1999. He has championed the cause of specialisation and has been instrumental in the Improving Outcomes Programme for oesophageal and stomach cancer, by encouraging the centralisation of services in the UK. He continues to provide both general surgical and specialty on-call and his major commitment is cancer surgery and therapeutic endoscopy. Michael has served on the SAC in General Surgery and was President of AUGIS from 2004 to 2006, and President of the European Society of Diseases of the Esophagus from 2011 to 2013. He is Chairman of the Intercollegiate Specialty Board and has been an expert adviser to NICE, NCEPOD, NHS R&D and the Department of Health. He has been responsible for a number of external reviews of cancer services throughout the UK and abroad and has published widely in the field of oesophago-gastric surgery, holding visiting professorships in Europe, the United States and Asia. Michael’s real love is rugby, having represented Scotland at international level. He was awarded an OBE for services to cancer healthcare in the recent Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Professor Peter J Friend Professor Friend is professor of transplantation at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Transplant Centre. He is a practicing transplant and HPB surgeon. His research interests are in the field of liver perfusion, preservation and repair and he is co-founder of OrganOx, a spin-out company of the University of Oxford, that was established to develop normothermic liver perfusion. Peter’s research also includes clinical trials of novel approaches to immunosuppression. He has published on isolated organ perfusion, immunosuppression, xenotransplantation and transplantation of the liver, pancreas, intestine and kidney, as well as other aspects of transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. Before moving to his current post, he worked at the University of Cambridge. Martin Griffiths Martin Griffiths is a consultant vascular/trauma surgeon working in Barts Health NHS Trust at the Royal London Hospital and Major Trauma Centre. He was born in London and studied medicine at Barts, graduating with honours in surgery. He received his surgical training in North East Thames and developed an interest in trauma surgery whilst on elective in Africa. He gravitated to the Royal London Hospital and became part of their internationally renowned Trauma service. Martin is a keen trauma educator, teaching on DSTS, SSET, and ATLS courses, and is an advocate of injury prevention, having spent over a decade supporting numerous injury prevention programmes in the UK, as well as being a participant in award-winning violence reduction strategies, both in the UK and overseas. He is a recent recipient of the Cutlers Travelling Fellowship and is currently engaged in the development of an injury prevention strategy for Barts Health as well as Tower Hamlets. When not as work he admits to being a knowledgeable but awful cricketer. Professor S Michael Griffin, OBE Professor Griffin was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and was educated in Edinburgh at Fettes College. He qualified at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1978 and trained in surgery in the Northern Region. He spent a year at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, studying oesophago-gastric cancer surgery and interventional endoscopy. He was appointed as consultant surgeon with an upper GI interest at the Newcastle General Hospital in 1990 and developed the Northern Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Unit at the Newcastle General, setting up the first multi-disciplinary meeting for oesophago-gastric cancer in the UK in 1991. The unit is now the largest in Europe and North America. Professor Griffin is a full-time NHS consultant but was awarded a personal Professor Mike Grocott Professor Grocott is the professor of anaesthesia and critical care medicine at the University of Southampton, where he leads the Centre for Human Integrative Physiology. He is a consultant in critical care medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, where he leads the critical care research area of the UHS-UoS NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit. Mike trained in London at St George’s Hospital Medical School and UCL. He completed an MD within the UCL Centre for Anaesthesia and established the UCL Centre of Altitude Space and Extreme Environment Medicine (CASE) and the UCLH/UCL Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe). In 2007, he led the Caudwell Xtreme Everest medical research expedition and summited Everest. Mike now leads the 2014 International Surgical Congress Charlotte Gunner Charlotte Gunner is a core surgical trainee based in Sheffield. Having completed her undergraduate and foundation years in Edinburgh, she took a year out of formal training. After securing a distinction in the Diploma in Tropical Medicine in Liverpool, she travelled to Zambia where she worked as a surgical SHO in St Francis’ Hospital in the Eastern Province. She maintains strong links with St Francis’ and has a special interest in global surgery. Richard Hardwick Richard Hardwick is a consultant upper gastrointestinal surgeon at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and established the Oesophagogastric Centre there in 2001. Before this, he was a consultant senior lecturer at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff and a lecturer in surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. Richard is currently Lead Clinician for the National Oesophago-gastric Cancer Audit and is past-Chair of the Clinical Services and Audit Committee of AUGIS. His major clinical interests are the diagnosis and treatment of oesophago-gastric cancer and quality assurance. He is Chair of Clinical Audit at Addenbrookes Hospital, represents the Eastern Region on the NHS England O-G specialist commissioning clinical reference group and is a member of the NCIN Upper GI Clinical Reference Group. Richard has published widely on the early diagnosis of oesophageal cancer, hereditary diffuse gastric cancer syndrome and the genetics of oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Makani Hemadri Hemadri is an associate specialist in general surgery at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and honorary clinical tutor at Hull York Medical School. He is known for his innovation and quality improvement. He has won the Health Foundation’s Leaders for Change Award, Local Health and Social Care Award for Service Improvement at Hull and was called a ‘Hidden Hero’ of the NHS by the BMA. He was one of a handful of people in the UK who completed a year as a Fellow of the NHS Institute for Innovation Guest Speakers and International Visitors - Version 4 and Improvement and he trained with the world’s best experts in the field of healthcare quality improvement. Hemadri has trained a large number of NHS staff in quality improvement. He was honoured with an ‘Outstanding Contribution to BAPIO’ award in November 2013, mainly for his work on exploring bias in post-graduate examination results for doctors in the UK. Hemadri is a comoderator of Indigo’s discussion forum, with 5,000+ international medical graduates. He is an Executive Committee Member of BAPIO and until recently, he was a member of the RCS SAS Committee and an exofficio member of RCS England’s Patients’ Liaison Group and CORESS. He is a member of the Clinical Human Factors Group and he provides interview skills training for doctors. Jaymie Ang Henry Jaymie is a doctor, a writer, a public health specialist, and an advocate for surgery as part of primary healthcare systems in developing countries. She is a founder and Executive Board Member of the International Collaboration for Essential Surgery (ICES), dedicated to promoting essential surgery in developing countries. Jaymie is the executive producer and director of the film dedicated to global surgery issues, “The Right to Heal.” She obtained her medical degree from the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Manila, Philippines, and a Masters in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Jaymie was a researcher at the World Health Organization’s department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability. She is currently a lecturer on the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Global Health core course. Andrew Hutchings Andrew Hutchings is a lecturer in the Department of Health Services Research and Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and an Honorary Lecturer in the Clinical Effectiveness Unit of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He graduated from Lancaster University with a degree in Management Science (Operational Research) and worked in industry before spending five years at the Audit Commission and qualifying as an accountant. Andrew joined the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1998 and from 2006 to 2009, he was a MRC Special Training Fellow in Health Services Research. His research interests are in the application of quantitative methods in quality improvement, service delivery and organisational research. Since 2009, he has been involved in methodological research on the use of routine patient-reported outcomes in elective surgery. He was a member of the Operations Board of the Department of Health’s Patient Reported Outcomes (PROMs) programme and, as statistical advisor, is on the editorial board of the journal Health Policy and Planning. In 2013, he was elected to the Board of the Health Services Research Network. GUEST SPEAKERS & INTERNATIONAL VISITORS Xtreme-Everest Oxygen Research Consortium and the Fit-4-Surgery Group. He is the founding director of the NIAA Health Services Research Centre and chairs the HQIP funded National Emergency Laparotomy Audit. He is joint Editor-in-Chief of the BioMedCentral journal, Extreme Physiology and Medicine. Mike’s research interests include human responses to hypoxia, measuring and improving outcome following surgery, acute lung injury, and fluid therapy. He has been awarded the Featherstone Award (2013) and the Pinkerton Medal (2008) of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Silver Medal of the Danish Surgical Society (2005). 11 Harrogate, 29th April to 2nd May 2014 INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL CONGRESS: EDUCATION & INNOVATION 12 Professor Can Ince Professor Ince is a physiologist at the Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam and Erasmus Medical Center (EMC), Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He is Chair in Clinical Physiology at the AMC is dedicated to cardiovascular aspects of surgery and intensive care, focused on clinical and fundamental aspects of circulation and oxygenation. He heads the Department of Translational Physiology at the AMC. The Department consists of a group of basic and clinical scientist doing laboratory and clinical research in sepsis, shock, resuscitation, fluid therapy, blood transfusion, oxygen transport, microcirculation, mitochondria, acute kidney injury and heart failure. In addition, medical technology research related to the aforementioned topics is carried out. In 2007, Professor Ince joined the Department of Intensive Care at the EMC where he also works in collaboration with the Department of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care of the Sophia Children’s Hospital. This combination of work allows bench-tobedside translation of concepts, diagnostic and therapeutic modalities related to circulation and oxygenation. He holds a PhD in Immunology/Physiology and has an MSc and BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Professor Ince is past-President of the Dutch Physiological Society and past-President of the International Society of Oxygen Transport to Tissue. He has authored over 350 peer reviewed papers and holds patents related to microcirculation technology. Professor David Jayne Professor Jayne was appointed Professor of Surgery at the University of Leeds in 2011. His clinical interests include laparoscopic and robotic surgery. David’s research interests include the molecular biology of colorectal cancer and new technologies for minimally invasive and robotic surgery. He is CI on several NIHR portfolio studies, including MRC/EME/NIHR ROLARR trial (pan-world trial evaluating robotic surgery for rectal cancer), NIHR/HTA/FIAT (collagen plug for fistula-in-ano), MRC/EME/NIHR GliSTen (intraoperative fluorescence for stratified colon cancer surgery), and NIHR/HTA/SaFaRI (Sacral nerve stimulation or Fenix magnetic sphincter augmentation for faecal incontinence). In 2012, David was awarded an NIHR Research Professorship to develop new surgical technologies for minimally invasive surgery. He is Clinical Director of the NIHR Healthcare Technologies Cooperative (HTC) in Colorectal Therapies, a national network of clinicians, academics, commercial partners, and public and patients, to develop innovative solutions for patients suffering colorectal disorders. Professor Danny Keenan Professor Keenan is a practicing cardiac surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, part of the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where he is also Associate Medical Director. He has had a great interest in the use of information to drive improvement in care. He is at the forefront of clinical audit, being responsible for the release of personal results, both locally and nationally. Danny was appointed professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Manchester in 2009, where he is co-principal investigator within the cardiovascular research group at the university. He is Medical Director (part time) of the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), responsible for national and local audit, registers, confidential enquiries and promoting the consequent service improvement. For NICE, he chairs the Clinical Commissioning Group Outcome Indicator Set. Robert H S Lane Bob Lane retired as a colorectal surgeon at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester in 2007 and is now actively involved in surgical education and training in sub-Saharan Africa. For 15 years, on behalf of ASGBI, he has organised a number of different surgical training courses and lectured extensively in both West and East Africa. The demand is huge, not just for doctors in training but also for clinical officers. He sits on a number of committees, concerned with improving surgical training and healthcare in the developing world. Bob was awarded two government grants in 2012 to undertake education and training courses in East and West Africa and, so far, these have been highly successful and very popular. He was President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland in 2005 and is currently Programme Director for International Development. He is Secretary General of the International Federation of Surgical Colleges and is also Surgical Advisor to the Tropical Health & Education Trust (THET). He was the Rahima Dawood Travelling Fellow awarded by the Association of Surgeons of East Africa (ASEA) in 2008. Kamal Mahawar Kamal Mahawar is a consultant general and bariatric surgeon with City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Trust, and has a keen interest in evidence-based bariatric surgery. Sunderland bariatric unit is not only one of the biggest bariatric units in the UK, it also has an exceptional safety record. At Sunderland, they are also keen to see a bit more academic rigour into bariatric surgery and present regularly to all major national and international meetings. They are constantly examining newer strategies and procedures to further improve results of bariatric surgery. Kamal is also an open access activist and a keen supporter of open and transparent communications amongst biomedical scientists using innovative peer review models. Dr Stefan Maz Dr Maz is an associate specialist in anaesthesia at Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust. He studied law at Leeds and York before undertaking a two-year training contract with Hempsons Solicitors, who specialise in defending NHS Trusts across the country against 2014 International Surgical Congress Erman Melikyan Erman studied medicine at Istanbul University, Turkey, followed by specialist training in trauma and orthopaedics at the same university hospitals. He undertook clinical and research fellowships in hand surgery as well as in shoulder and elbow surgery at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre in Derby. He obtained international certification by taking the European Diploma in Hand Surgery Examination, having done the Fellowship examination of the Royal College of Surgeons. Erman completed a postgraduate degree in Orthopaedic Engineering at the University of Cardiff; his research resulted in a number of publications in high impact international journals, amongst which is the first randomised double-blinded study worldwide on Extracorporeal Shock Wave Treatment of tennis elbow. He has presented at various national and international meetings and authored several book chapters in hand and wrist surgery. Erman founded the Wessex Instructional Hand Course for Surgeons and Therapists which he has been running since 2006. The course was given the educational award of “highly commended” by the Wessex Deanery due to its contribution to multidisciplinary learning. Erman is on the editorial board for wellknown international journals and has served as a faculty member of the AO-UK. He is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Southampton. Surgeon Captain Mark J Midwinter, CBE Surgeon Captain Mark Midwinter qualified from the University of Newcastle in 1984. He trained in general surgery, with a sub-specialty in upper gastro intestinal surgery in Newcastle and Manchester. He obtained his higher degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, for research in pancreatic disease. He was appointed consultant surgeon in Portsmouth, with an honorary contract at the University of Southampton, before moving to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. In 2006, Mark was appointed as the Defence Professor of Surgery, which is a Royal College of Surgeons of England appointment, in conjunction with the Surgeon General. In 2009, he was appointed Honorary Professor School of Medicine, Swansea. He has seen active service in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Mark’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 and ischaemia on vascular endothelium, platelets and neutrophils and Guest Speakers and International Visitors - Version 4 microvesicles dervived from these cells. He is also engaged with research collaborations examining the effect of blast and inflammation in the brain at Imperial College London and role of gut serosa in inflammation at University of Manchester. Surgeon Captain Midwinter is the National Institute of Health Research Centre for Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology theme lead for Acute Care, member of The Healing Foundation Burns Research Centre/Burns Collaborative and NIHR HTC Trauma Innovation (Birmingham). Surgeon Captain Midwinter was graciously awarded a CBE and appointed QHS by Her Majesty The Queen. Faheez Mohamed Faheez Mohamed graduated from Edinburgh University in 1996 and completed Higher Surgical Training in the North East of England. He spent two years as a Research Fellow working with Dr Paul Sugarbaker at the Washington Cancer Institute, USA and was awarded an MD by the University of Newcastle for his work on intraperitoneal chemotherapy . He was appointed Consultant Surgeon at the National Specialist Commissioning Group-funded Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Centre in Basingstoke in 2009. The Peritoneal Malignancy Institute, Basingstoke is now one of the leading centres in the world for the treatment of Pseudomyxoma peritonei and other peritoneal malignancies, having performed over 1,000 cytoreductive surgery procedures with Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC). Brendan Moran Brendan Moran has been a consultant general and colorectal surgeon in Basingstoke and North Hampshire Foundation Trust since 1995. He set up the first Peritoneal Malignancy Treatment Centre in the UK in 2000 and has developed this into one of the largest centres in the world, with over 1,000 patients undergoing surgery in Basingstoke up to early 2013. He also has a special interest in rectal cancer, particularly low rectal cancer. Brendan set up and ran the English National Low Rectal Cancer Development Programme in 2010, which completed in 2013. He is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Southampton Cancer Sciences Division, Yeoh Ghem Seng Honorary Professor of Surgery for the National University of Singapore and honorary professor of surgery at Aarhuis University Hospital, Denmark. Brendan is the Chairman of the Multidisciplinary Clinical Committee, ACPGBI and is also a member of the Executive and Council of ACPGBI. He is a founder member and executive member of the Peritoneal Surface Oncology Group International (PSOGI). Brendan’s main interests are in optimising surgical treatment for cancer and introducing and popularising novel modifications to improve outcomes. He has recently edited two textbooks, Manual of Total Mesorectal Excision and Farquharsons Textbook of Operative Surgery and presents and publishes extensively. GUEST SPEAKERS & INTERNATIONAL VISITORS clinical negligence claims on behalf of the NHS Litigation Authority. Having returned to medicine, Stefan found himself at the receiving end of a clinical negligence claim. He had to put everything he had learned as a trainee solicitor into practice to defend his own professional reputation. He will share his experience, giving practical advice on how to defend a clinical negligence claim, illustrating his talk with examples from his own case. 13 Harrogate, 29th April to 2nd May 2014 INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL CONGRESS: EDUCATION & INNOVATION 14 Dr Arden M Morris Dr Morris is an associate professor of surgery, associate professor of health behavior health education, and chief of the Division of Colorectal Surgery at University of Michigan. She is core faculty for the University of Michigan’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy and for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, and serves as President of the Surgical Outcomes Club (USA). Dr Morris has published extensively on processes and outcomes of cancer care, and reducing disparities in the quality of surgical care. She recently completed a mixed methods study funded by the American Cancer Society to understand variations in care among socially vulnerable populations and has begun a four year population-based survey in Georgia and Michigan to understand the influence of patient-provider relationships on the quality of colorectal cancer care. Arden co-chaired the National Quality Forum’s Steering Committee for Surgical Quality Measures and is a member of the NQF Consensus Standards and Approval Committee. She has served on the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee and on a variety of national technical advisory panels and committees primarily focused on quality of care. Professor Vassilios Papalois Professor Papalois is professor of transplantation surgery and consultant transplant and general surgeon in the Renal and Transplant Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT). His main clinical interests are high risk live donor kidney transplantation and extended criteria deceased donor kidney and pancreas transplantation. Professor Papalois has been active in surgical research for more than 20 years and has published more than 170 papers in peer review journals, 15 book chapters and five books. Currently, his PhD students work on pre-transplant assessment of graft viability and graft pre-conditioning through machine organ perfusion, use of stem cells to regenerate chronically scarred grafts and issues related to ethics and health policy in modern surgical practice. Vassilios is the Honorary President of the Division of Transplantation and currently the President of the Section of Surgery of the European Union Medical Specialists (UEMS). He has pioneered the development of the UEMS exams for accreditation of transplant surgeons, physicians, coordinators and immunologists as well as the process for the accreditation of transplant centres for training in all transplant disciplines across Europe. Vassilios chairs the Education Committee of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (focusing on educational innovations for live and e-learning courses), the Ethics Committee of the ICHT, the Ethics Committee of the British Transplantation Society and he is a member of the Research Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Defence. He has given more 60 lectures in international forums as an invited speaker. Simon Paterson-Brown Simon Paterson-Brown 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. Simon’s main clinical interests are benign and malignant oesophago-gastric surgery and emergency surgery. He has been published widely, both in textbooks and journals, on emergency surgery, laparoscopic surgery, upper gastro-intestinal surgery, surgical training and assessment. His other interests include patient safety initiatives in surgery, surgical assessment and training. At the present time, Simon is Chairman of the Patient Safety Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and is part of the development team for both NOTSS (Non-technical Skills for Surgeons) and SOS (Safer Operative Surgery) courses, designed to improve intra-operative performance for both surgeons and the whole theatre team. He was previously Clinical Director for surgery in Lothian University Hospitals and is past-President of the Association of Upper Gastro-intestinal Surgeons of GB and Ireland (AUGIS). He is currently on the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Dr Rupert Pearse Dr Pearse graduated in 1996 from St George’s Hospital Medical School in London. After time working in general medicine and anaesthesia, he returned to St George’s Hospital where he developed many of his current research interests and completed his training in intensive care medicine. In 2006, he was appointed senior lecturer in intensive care medicine at Queen Mary’s University of London and was promoted to Reader in 2011. He has now given up anaesthesia to concentrate on his clinical duties on the intensive care unit at The Royal London Hospital and his research interests, in improving outcomes following major surgery and the cardiovascular pathophysiology of critical illness. Rupert plays a leading role in a number of large multi-centre studies, including OPTIMISE, EuSOS, METS, VISION and EPOCH. Carol Peden Carol is the Macintosh Professor of Anaesthesia of the Royal College of Anaesthetists UK, and Associate Medical Director for Clinical Quality for NHS England (South). Her clinical background is as a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. She is a founder of the emergency laparotomy network, quality improvement lead for the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) and for the EPOCH study, and National Clinical Director for Enhanced Recovery pathways in Emergency General Surgery in the UK. Carol teaches regularly on quality and safety internationally. She is an author/co-author of many 2014 International Surgical Congress Shaun R Preston Shaun Preston is a consultant surgeon. He is Lead for the oesophago-gastric unit at Royal Surrey County Hospital and Director of upper GI courses at the Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit (MATTU). He graduated from the University of Leeds in 1990, where he also obtained a degree in biochemistry and his doctorate in GI cancer research, and was subsequently lecturer in surgery for three years. Shaun was awarded the Gold Medal and Prize in the Intercollegiate FRCS Examination. Following this, he was awarded a Fellowship at the National Cancer Center, Tokyo where he assisted with Drs Maruyama, Sasako, Sano and Katai, and operated under the supervision of Dr Sano. He then spent five years as consultant oesophago-gastric surgeon in Newcastle upon Tyne with Professor S M Griffin, OBE and in 2006, was appointed to head the tertiary oesophago-gastric unit in Guildford and contribute to teaching at MATTU. Shaun’s clinical interests focus on radical surgery for oesophageal and gastric cancer, in optimising staging and outcomes. He has a specific interest in endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). He also utilises many of the skills developed in endoscopy and in both open and advanced laparoscopic surgery, to contribute to a team providing a supra-regional service for revision foregut surgery, complex benign and emergency oesophago-gastric and hernia surgery. He teaches and trains in advanced laparoscopic surgical techniques at the MATTU. Shaun’s research interests include peri-operative nutrition, enhanced recovery and standardised clinical pathways. He lectures both nationally and internationally on surgical technique, enhanced recovery and on the staging and management of oesophago-gastric cancer. David Scott-Coombes David Scott-Coombes is a consultant in endocrine surgery at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. He is President Elect of the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons, a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Endocrine Surgeons and is the Chairman of the Board of Examiners for the European Board of Surgery (Endocrine). He qualified from Westminster Medical School and trained in endocrine Guest Speakers and International Visitors - Version 4 surgery at Hammersmith Hospital. David has published on most aspects of endocrine surgery and written chapters in leading undergraduate and postgraduate textbooks and is co-editor of a new book, Tips and Tricks in Endocrine Surgery. Humphrey Scott Humphrey Scott trained at Charing Cross Hospital and was a higher surgical trainee on the London North West Programme. He was awarded his MS at the University of London in 1991. He is a general and colorectal surgeon at Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Trust and has an interest in surgical education. Humphrey was awarded an MA in Clinical Education in 2009 and is a Fellow of the Academy Medical Educators (2010) and a Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Educators (RCSEd, 2013). He was awarded the Silver Scalpel for Trainer of the Year in 2012 by ASiT and he is Head of School of Surgery for HE.KSS. Humphrey is a member of the section of coloproctology at the Royal Society of Medicine and sits on the education committee of the Association of Coloproctology. Dr Nick Sevdalis Dr Sevdalis is an experimental psychologist, currently appointed senior lecturer in the Department of Surgery and Cancer and the Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality of Imperial College London, and Director of the Non-Technical Skills and Simulation Research Group. Nick’s research focuses on team assessment and training, patient safety skills training, and learning from error. His team is an international leader in the development of scientific assessment tools, and relevant training modules within the peri-operative, resuscitation, and cancer care settings. Nick is also leading the development of innovative approaches to training junior and senior clinicians. Tools developed by Nick’s group include the Observational Teamwork Assessment for Surgery (OTAS), the revised NOTECHS scale for operating theatres, and the Observational Skill-based Clinical Assessment tool for Resuscitation (OSCAR). Training programmes developed by Nick’s group include the “Safety Skills for Surgeons” half-day course (for registrars), the “Human Factors and Teamwork in the Operating Theatre” one-day train-the-trainers workshop (for consultants), and the “Lessons Learnt” six-month workplace patient safety course (for foundation year trainees). Nick’s research has been disseminated in over 160 peer-reviewed publications and over 50 invited lectures to date. He has supervised to successful completion six doctoral fellows, and is currently supervising eight clinical research fellows and three psychologists. Nick is serving on the Royal College of Anaesthetists’ ‘Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group–Data Intelligence Group’, he is an Associate Editor of Implementation Science and he is an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Surgery, Simulation in Healthcare, the Journal of Behavioural Decision Making, and the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. GUEST SPEAKERS & INTERNATIONAL VISITORS major papers, books, reviews and standards including The Higher Risk Surgical Patient (RCS and DoH) and a contributor to the RCS Standards for Emergency Surgery. She is also Editor of the RCOA, Audit and Quality Improvement Guidelines. She was a 2008 to 2009 Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (USA) and completed a Masters degree in Clinical Effectiveness at Harvard University. She is a Fellow of the NHS Improvement Faculty and the Faculty of Medical Leaders and Managers. Carol is Chair of the Executive Board of the Dr Foster Global Comparators project, composed of hospitals around the world collaborating to improve outcomes. She was a member of the “Keogh” review team of High Mortality Hospitals and is a member of the new Care Quality Commission Inspectorate. 15 Harrogate, 29th April to 2nd May 2014 INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL CONGRESS: EDUCATION & INNOVATION 16 Anu Shrotri Anu completed her undergraduate medical training and postgraduate surgical training in India. She came to the UK in 1995 and received fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1996. Anu did her higher surgical training in breast specialty and became a staff grade surgeon in March 2000. She has been an associate specialist in breast and general surgery since 2005 and is an independent practitioner in her specialty. She was a member of the SAS committee at the BMA and has represented SAS doctors on Equality and Diversity Committee during that time. Currently, Anu is a member of the SAS Doctors’ Committee at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and their Opportunities in Surgery department. She also represents SAS doctors on the Joint Committee for Revalidation. Anu is currently pursuing an MSc in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery from the University of East Anglia. Professor Frank Smith Professor Smith is professor of vascular surgery and surgical education at the University of Bristol. He trained in the West Midlands, Edinburgh and South West UK, and undertook further training in vascular surgery in Boston, Denver, Los Angeles and Seattle. He has research interests in various aspects of clinical vascular surgery and vascular biology. He is Deputy Head of Teaching in the School of Clinical Sciences at the University of Bristol and has significant commitments to both undergraduate and postgraduate education. He is Programme Director for the Confidential Reporting System for Surgery (CORESS) and sits on the NCEPOD Steering Group, also representing CORESS on the Surgical Services Patient Safety Expert Group of NHS England. He is a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Council Member of ASGBI, past-Honorary Secretary of the Society of Academic and Research Surgery (SARS) and immediate past President of the Section of Surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine. Mattias Soop Mattias is a colorectal surgeon with special interests in management of intestinal failure and surgical stress reduction. After completing general surgical training and a PhD in surgical stress physiology in 2004 at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, and Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester, he completed a two-year clinical fellowship in colorectal surgery and a postdoc at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. In 2008, Mattias formed his own research group as associate professor and colorectal surgeon at the University of Auckland, driving multiple research and clinical programmes. In October 2013, he returned to Manchester to take up a new position as colorectal surgeon at Salford Royal Hospital and as Reader at the University of Manchester. At Salford Royal, Mattias is attached to the Intestinal Failure Unit. His current research interests focus on gut physiology in chronic intestinal failure, and on circulatory and renal physiology in surgical stress. Dr Mike Stroud Dr Stroud is a consultant gastroenterologist in Southampton, with specialist expertise in clinical nutrition, intestinal failure and inflammatory bowl disease. He is Co-Director of the Southampton Nutrition Support Team and Intestinal Failure Unit. His particular interest in parenteral nutrition and IV fluid administration led him to chair the NICE Guideline Development Groups that produced both the 2006 recommendations on Nutrition Support and the 2013 recommendations on IV fluid prescribing. Mike was also the Chairman of the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN) from 2008 to 20011, the Vice Chair of the UK Department of Health Malnutrition Task Force from 2011 to 2013 and is current Chair of the UK Nutrition and Hydration Action Alliance. Paul Sutton Paul Sutton qualified from the University of Nottingham in 2006, before completing the Academic Foundation Programme in Trent Deanery. He followed this with the Core Surgical Training Programme in the North West, obtaining his NTN in general surgery in Mersey in 2010, where he has expressed subspecialty interests in Colorectal Surgery and Surgical Oncology. To further this interest, he was awarded a Cancer Research (UK) Clinical Research Training Fellowship, whereby he is currently reading for a PhD at the University of Liverpool; the focus of his research is predicting response to neoadjuvant therapies in metastatic and advanced colorectal cancer. He plans to return to full time clinical training in 2015 and aspires to a lectureship towards the end of his clinical training. Alongside this, Paul has developed an interest in humanitarian surgery. He is a member of the UK International Emergency Trauma Register and has worked on short term missions in South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria, the last two of which were with the charity Operation Hernia. Professor Cem Terzi Professor Terzi graduated in 1984 from Ankara University Medical Faculty and had his postgraduate training in Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital between 1988 and 1992. He worked in Southampton General Hospital as a research registrar, as well as a senior registrar, between 1995 and 1997. Professor Terzi had GMC full registration in the UK in 1997. He became assistant professor in 1999, associate professor in 2000 and professor of surgery in 2005 at the Dokuz Eylul University Medical Faculty in Turkey. Cem is still working in this 2014 International Surgical Congress Mark Withers Mark Withers is the Deputy Revalidation Director for NHS England North and he is on a secondment to NHSE from his home trust at Rotherham. He is responsible for secondary care input into the work streams on appraisal, including the expert reference group and responding to concerns, as well as leading on the development and provision of RO appraisal for the North region. Mark is currently the Responsible Officer for Rotherham and has worked as deputy Medical Director, Director of Medical Workforce, Chief of Division of Clinical Support and Exec Director in the past. He also works with Nottingham City CCG as their independent secondary care doctor. Mark previously worked for the Strategic Health Authority (SHA) on appraisal training and remediation. In the near future, he will join the North Lincolnshire and Goole trust as Medical Director. Sean Woodcock Sean has been a consultant upper GI surgeon in the Northumbria NHS Founda-tion Trust for nine years. He was an undergraduate at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, graduating in 1991 and spent most of his SpR training in and around Manchester. He undertook research into intestinal ischaemia reperfusion injuries at the Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, Boston, USA, leading to being awarded his Masters degree in Surgery in 2003. Sean spent a year as a senior registrar at the Guest Speakers and International Visitors - Version 4 Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia from 2004 to 2005, before taking up his consultant post. He is the lead bariatric surgeon in the trust, a council member of BOMSS, Chair of the education and training sub committee of BOMSS and council member of ALSGBI, representing the Northern and Yorkshire Region. He is a member of the Northumbrian Team of Upper GI Surgeons (NUGITS) who are nationally recognised for their hands on laparoscopic training. Kwame Agyire-Tettey Kwame Agyire-Tettey is Director of the Medical and Surgical Skills Institute (MSSI) at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana. The MSSI is the leading medical training facility in West Africa. In 2013, the MSSI trained at total of 1,782 health professionals in various fields of study, from 18 different African countries. Kwame started the MSSI in February 2005 as a collaborative relationship between the West Africa College of Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons, funded by Johnson and Johnson. The MSSI has grown from one site (Accra Ghana) and one course (Advance Trauma Operative Management) in 2005 to today providing 15 courses in four locations in Ghana (Accra, Kumasi, Cape Coast and Tamale) and three other West African Countries (Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone - with Togo and Cameroon soon to be added). Kwame holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Sociology, Master’s degree in Finance and a Masters of Arts degree in Social Policy from university of Ghana. He is married to Afua who is currently finishing her PhD in Social Work at the University of Siegen in Germany. Kwame and Afua have two children aged 7 and 9. Mark Duxbury Mark Duxbury received his medical degree from Oxford Medical School. He undertook a full-time research fellowship at Harvard Medical School, investigating novel therapies for pancreatic cancer. Following higher surgical training on the Eastern Deanery (Cambridge) rotation, he completed further subspecialty training in hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) and transplantation surgery in Edinburgh. _Mark is an NHS consultant HPB surgeon and clinical lead for liver surgery at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. His clinical interests include laparoscopic liver surgery. He leads a cancer research group working on pancreatic cancer and the biology of liver metastasis. Mark is actively involved in international collaborative translational research into personalised cancer treatment. Dr Eric Elster Dr Elster received his undergraduate and medical school degrees from the University of South Florida in Tampa, as a recipient of the US Navy’s Health Professionals Scholarship Program. Upon graduation, Dr Elster completed a general surgery residency at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Dr Elster served as ship’s surgeon aboard GUEST SPEAKERS & INTERNATIONAL VISITORS hospital in the Department of Surgery, Colorectal Surgery Unit. He has had two board certifications; the Turkish Board of Surgery in 2002 and the European Board of Surgery in 2011(honorary diploma). His academic interest areas are colorectal surgery, surgical infections, medical education, post-graduate training and e-learning. Cem was a member of the Executive Committee of the Turkish Medical Association (TMA) between1994 and 1995 and a member of the Turkish Medical Association Accreditation of Continuous Medical Education Committee between 1994 and 2000. He was a member of the TMA Co-ordination Committee of Medical Specialty Societies between 1999 and 2004 and the President of the TMA Co-ordination Committee of Medical Specialty Societies between 2004 and 2006. Cem was also a member of the committee of the Board of Turkish Surgery between 2000 and 2006, and General Secretary of the Board of Turkish Surgery between 2000 and 2002. He was the National Delegate of the UEMS Section of Surgery between 2008 and 2012 and a member of the Executive Committee of the Turkish Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons between 2008 and 2010. Professor Terzi held the post of President of the Turkish Surgical Association between 2008 and 2012 and the President of the European Society of Surgery from 2011 to present. He was the associate editor of the Journal of Turkish Colon and Rectal Disease between 2008 and 2012. Professor Terzi is on the editorial board of the Journal of Dokuz Eylül Medical Faculty (2010 to present). He also works as a reviewer on some national and international medical journals. Professor Terzi is the author and co-author of several national and international articles, the author of several national textbook chapters and the editor and coeditor of many national medical textbooks. 17 Harrogate, 29th April to 2nd May 2014 INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL CONGRESS: EDUCATION & INNOVATION 18 the USS Kitty Hawk while stationed in the Persian Gulf. Upon returning, he completed a solid organ transplantation fellowship at the National Institutes of Health and was then stationed at the Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, MD, where he directed a translational research programme focused on the development of improved diagnostics and therapies for serious traumatic injuries, transplantation and advanced operative imaging. CAPT Elster now serves as the 3rd Chairman of the Norman M Rich Department of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, as well as a professor of surgery and Director of the Surgical Critical Care Institute, a joint military and civilian programme developing clinical decision support tools for critically ill patients. Eric was last deployed as a surgeon and Director of Surgical Services at the NATO Role 3 Military Medical Unit in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He is a member of numerous organizations, including a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Society of University Surgeons, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and the Southern Surgical Association. Eric has published over 100 scientific manuscripts and received numerous research grants across all aspects of surgery. Dr Michael Englesbe Dr Englesbe received his undergraduate degree at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1993. He went on to obtain his medical degree in 1997 from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Michigan Health System in 2004. From 2000 to 2002, Dr Englesbe undertook a surgical research postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He completed a two year fellowship in multi-organ transplant surgery at the University of Michigan in June of 2006 and, in July 2006, he was appointed assistant professor and 2011 associate professor of surgery. Michael does both kidney and liver transplantation. His primary clinical focus is pediatric liver transplantation. He started the multi-disciplinary pediatric portal hypertension clinic and has significant expertise in the management of portal hypertension and portal vein thrombosis in children and adults. Michael has an active research group, of which the focus is improving the quality and efficiency of surgical care. His current work uses analytic morphomic techniques to assess patient risk, and then investigate ways to mitigate these risks through physical activity. He is the Associate Director of the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative and in addition, he has written numerous manuscripts on portal hypertension and portal vein thrombosis in adults and children. Michael has funding for his work from the National Institute of Health, the American Surgical Association Foundation, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation. Ewen Harrison Ewen Harrison is a senior lecturer in General Surgery at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Consultant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He obtained his undergraduate medical training at the University of Glasgow, his higher surgical training in Edinburgh and undertook a fellowship in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery in Groningen, the Netherlands. He is a committed clinician-scientist and performs laboratory research aiming for rapid progression to first-in-human trials of promising therapies. His research group have recently identified a novel agent which reduces damage in ischemia-reperfusion injury. Ewen became interested in population-based surgical outcomes studies when he examined the results following cholecystectomy in Scotland. This has acted as a catalyst for wide-ranging ‘big data’ projects in collaboration with Health Improvement Scotland. He is in the second year of an MSc in Statistics, which provides a solid foundation for this work. Rhona Howie Rhona grew up in Dunlop, Ayrshire and now lives in Ayr. She took up curling at the age of 17 and played competitively for 22 years, representing Scotland and Great Britain on many occasions. Rhona’s most recognised sporting achievement is as skip of the Great Britain team that claimed gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Her team’s triumph over Switzerland also meant they became Great Britain’s first gold medalists at the Winter Olympics since Torvill and Dean in 1984. Rhona received an MBE in recognition of her services to curling later that year, and her team’s story captured the interest of the nation; they consequently arrived home to a hero’s welcome. The stone that clinched the victory – dubbed “the Stone of Destiny” – is now housed in the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame exhibition in the National Museum of Scotland. Rhona also enjoyed success by skipping the Scotland’s ladies’ team at both the European and World Championships. After retiring from competition in 2006, Rhona has taken on many roles related to the sport, such as a commentator for the 2010 Winter Olympics and now as Head Coach for women’s curling at the SportScotland Institute of Sport. Rhona also carried the Olympic torch in Glasgow during the relay leading up to London 2012. As a head coach, Rhona has coached teams to European Youth Olympic gold, World Junior gold, European Championship gold, World Championship gold and Olympic bronze medals. Rhona was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in November 2012. Celia Ingham Clark Celia Ingham Clark is the National Director for reducing premature mortality, working in Sir Bruce Keogh's team at NHS England. She trained in general and colorectal surgery and was a consultant at the Whittington Hospital from 1996. After roles as Director of Medical Education and Clinical Director, she was Trust Executive Medical Director from 2004 to 2012. In parallel to this, she worked with Sir Mike Richards as national Clinical Lead for Colorectal Cancer, then national Clinical Lead for Transforming Inpatient Care. From 2011 to 2013, she had a role as Medical Director for Secondary Care, and then for Revalidation and Quality in NHS London, and in 2013 was appointed national Clinical Director for Acute Surgery and Enhanced Recovery. In these latter roles, she led the expert surgical panel in the 2014 International Surgical Congress Professor John MacFie Professor John MacFie is a consultant surgeon employed by the York Foundation Teaching Hospital Trust and is based in Scarborough. He has a personal Chair with the University of Hull and is affiliated to the Academic Surgical Unit, Castle Hill, Cottingham. He was President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI) from 2010 to 2012 and is now Chairman of the Surgical Forum of Great Britain and Ireland. Professor MacFie’s speciality interest is colorectal, with a specific commitment to the management of patients with intestinal failure and those with inflammatory bowel disease. He maintains an active interest in nutrition and metabolism, ethics and the care of the critically ill. John has received a number of prizes and research grants over the years. In 1996 he was awarded a Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, was the recipient of the John F Kinney prize for Nutrition and Metabolism in 2001, the British Journal of Surgery editorial John Farndon prize in 2003 and the ASGBI Moynihan prize in both 2005 and 2007. He has written over 200 papers and many book chapters. Particular research interests include energy metabolism in surgical patients, the utilisation of fat emulsions, the definition of gut function, the ethics of nutritional support and gut barrier function. John has worked in many roles, including Regional Advisor and Programme Director for General Surgery in Yorkshire, external examiner for many medical schools, and was member of the Court of Examiners for RCS England. He has supervised numerous higher degrees and is Director of the Postgraduate MSc Programme in the University of Hull. He has served as a Governor of BUPA Foundation and was elected a fellow of the James IV Association. John holds Honorary Fellowships with the Royal College Surgeons of Edinburgh as well as the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He is also a registered nutritionist. Professor Simon Kay Professor Kay is a consultant plastic surgeon in Leeds and professor of hand surgery at the University of Leeds. He has spent his career developing the use of microsurgery in the reconstruction of hands, particularly children’s hands, and has an extensive practice in children’s hand surgery, microsurgery and major peripheral nerve injury. He began his interest in hand transplantation many years ago, having worked closely with members of the pioneering team in Louisville, and has forged a large multidisciplinary team in Leeds. This has been supported by close alliance with colleagues in Leon, who have been very supportive of the development and with NHSBT. Professor Kay undertook the first UK hand transplantation in December 2012 and continues to Guest Speakers and International Visitors - Version 4 development this service with a number of patients now screened and ready for transplantation. Russell Lock Russell qualified from Westminster Hospital Medical School in 1969. He trained in surgery at Westminster, Southend and Bournemouth and in colorectal surgery at St Mark's and Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA. Appointed to the staff of the Royal Northern and Whittington Hospitals in 1982 as a colorectal surgeon, he continues to practice part-time at the Whittington. He has published and lectured widely in this country and abroad on seven general colorectal topics, most notably on Crohn's disease. Currently Chairman of the IDC, Rusell has, since 2002, developed a considerable interest and experience in surgical training in Sub-Saharan Africa and regularly contributes to teaching TTT, BSS and Management of Surgical Emergency courses in COSECSA and WACS countries. Brenda Longstaff Brenda initially worked within local government. For more than twelve years, she lived overseas in countries in Africa, the Middle East and South-East Asia. Upon returning to the UK, Brenda joined the NHS and has worked on a number of major capital projects and service developments. Since 2000, she has managed a multi-stranded international partnership with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which has enabled the establishment of a number of new services in Tanzania, such as laparoscopic surgery. Since 2003, Brenda has worked closely with the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) as an original member of the NHS Links Group, being the only NHS operational manager invited to take part in discussions at national level during the writing of the 2007 Crisp report. Brenda has presented before the parliamentary select committee for international development at the House of Commons and, during 2013, was called as an expert witness during the development of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health’s report into international volunteering. In 2012, Brenda’s research, ‘Innovative workforce development: the case for international health links’, was published in the Health Service Journal. A toolkit developed by her to gather evidence of skills and knowledge gained from international volunteering is currently being trialled by NHS Employers. Brenda is currently a member of the NHS Volunteering Group which reports to the Department of Health. She is a frequent presenter at health links conferences and, as an acknowledged expert in the field, has contributed to many health links publications, most recently THET’s publication ‘Donating medical equipment overseas’, which was launched at a World Health Organisation conference in 2013. She is currently leading on a UK Aid burns project in Tanzania, which involves a multidisciplinary team from Northumbria Healthcare NHS GUEST SPEAKERS & INTERNATIONAL VISITORS development of the quality standards for acute care for London, and then chaired the Clinical Standards development group for Sir Bruce Keogh's Seven Day Services Forum. 19 20 Harrogate, 29th April to 2nd May 2014 INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL CONGRESS: EDUCATION & INNOVATION Foundation Trust, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and the North East Ambulance Service. Judy Mewburn Sixteen years ago, Judy was asked by a surgeon if she would like to teach theatre nurses in Africa, and of course her answer was yes. She had spent all of her working life so far in theatres, both in the private and public sector. Sixteen years later, Judy is still teaching, not only in Africa but in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh too. Judy taught with the Tropical Health and Education Trust for eight years, travelling with a general surgeon and an anaesthetist, mostly in northern Ghana, Tamale, Bolgatanga and Wa, and the surrounding smaller hospitals. She then joined the Overseas Development Committee of ASGBI and has travelled to Rwanda, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Botswana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia. Whilst surgeons teach the Basic Surgical and Emergency Surgery courses, Judy teaches theatre, recovery, surgical ward, A&E nurses and sometimes midwives. She has written a training course for theatre nurses which has been translated into French for use in francophone countries. The course starts with basic skills, goes on to cover all skills needed in theatre and also contains a basic laparoscopic surgery set up, information on ENT surgery and also sutures. Des Winter A 1993 graduate of the National University of Ireland, Dublin, Des Winter entered basic surgical training in Cork and achieved his fellowship examination (FRCSI) in 1998. During this time, he completed cellular physiology research spanning Ireland and Yale University for a doctorate of medicine by thesis, before entering the Irish senior registrar scheme in surgery. He received the ASGBI medal for the Intercollegiate Fellowship in 2003. Des was appointed as consultant surgeon to his alma mater, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin in 2004, but deferred commencement until 2006, to complete a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester. Des is an editor of the BJS and sits on the international advisory board of Arch Surg, as well as the editorial boards of Ir J Med Sci, Curr Drug Ther and Langenbeck’s Arch. Nii Armah Adu-Aryee Nii Armah Adu-Aryee is a general surgeon working with the University of Ghana Medical School. He was educated in the same institution and practices surgery at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital which is affiliated to the school. His main activities are teaching, both under- and postgraduate surgery, and he also runs the surgical endoscopy init. He examines in ‘surgery in general’ for the West African College of Surgeons. Nii is involved in tumor board activity for breast cancer, gastro intestinal cancer and teaches basic surgical skill and trauma courses for the ‘occasional trauma surgeon’. He is involved in developing courses for acquisition of surgical skills for trainee and practicing surgeons. Lieutenant Colonel Phillip De Rouffignac Lt Col de Rouffignac joined the Army in 1995 and completed RD tours as a Troop Commander at 5 Field Ambulance, an Army Training Regiment working as a Platoon Commander and Adjutant 22 Field Hospital. During this tour, he deployed on Op PALATINE in command of the Role 3 MIMU in Sipovo, BiH. He moved on to become SO3 Med Ops/Log in HQ 1 (UK) Armoured Division, before promoting to Major and moving desks six feet to the left to become the SO2 Med Ops/Plans during Op TELIC 1 as part of that HQ, then moving onto become MA/DGAMS in HQ AMD, Camberley. His staff training was completed during 2005 and 2006 at the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College, Toronto, where he represented the College at rugby and introduced the Canadians to cricket. He returned to Germany to command A (29) Medical Squadron, 1 Close Support Medical Regiment, in Bergen-Hohne in support of 7th Armoured Brigade. The post of SO2 CSS Ops Coord, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps followed prior to promotion to Lt Col in June 2010 and the appointment of Chief of Staff Headquarters 2nd Medical Brigade. He assumed command of 3 Medical Regiment in Nov 2011 and commanded the Regiment during their tour on Op HERRICK 17. Lt Col de Rouffignac has a degree in Chemistry from the University of Warwick and a Masters Degree in Defence Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada. He is married to Annmarie and they have a daughter, Larissa, aged 5. A keen road cyclist and rebudding triathlete, any time not on the road or in the pool is used to devise ways to fund his wife’s increasingly expensive equestrian exploits with her 21 year old Dutch Warmblood mare, Lollie, and thinking how to stop his daughter from wanting a horse. Professor Ian G Finlay Professor Ian Finlay was a consultant surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary until 2013, where he developed the Department of Coloproctology. He was also Associate Medical Director for Surgery and Anaesthetics in Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board from 2010 to 2013, having responsibility for the delivery of approximately one third of all surgery performed in Scotland. In 2008, he was seconded on a part-time basis to Scottish Government to advise on the implementation of revalidation. He chaired the Revalidation Delivery Board Scotland and represented Scottish Government at the GMC. Professor Finlay now has a wider role, providing 2014 International Surgical Congress Gazalla Safdar Gazalla is an SAS surgeon. Having had a broad based training in General Surgery in her home country of India, she came to the UK in 2000. After passing her MRCS, she developed an interest in breast cancer management and pursued that interest with vigour. Having represented the grade nationally at the RCS England for four years, Gazalla now represents the grade on the ASGBI council. It is her passionate desire to see the grade break free from the shackles of inferiority. Her career story spans 25 years, devoted to the generality of surgery, trauma and breast cancer management. Gazalla has been fortunate to raise a family and contribute to charitable causes along the way. Guest Speakers and International Visitors - Version 4 GUEST SPEAKERS & INTERNATIONAL VISITORS medical advice to the Scottish Government. In this role, he is a member of the UK Education Scrutiny Group and the recently convened the UK Four Nation Shape of Training Implementation Steering Group. He also advises the Seven Day Service Task Force in Scotland and chairs a number of working parties including a Remote and Rural Services Group. 21 Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE Telephone: 020-7973-0300 • Fax: 020-7430-9235 • Email: [email protected] A Company limited by guarantee, registered in England 06783090