COUNCIL MEMBER PROFILES

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
PRESIDENT	PROFESSOR NS WILLIAMS is the Professor and Director of the Centre for Academic Surgery at Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, from where he originally qualified. His early surgical and academic training was in London and Bristol, before moving to Leeds General Infirmary as a Research Fellow, and subsequently Lecturer and Senior Lecturer. He is a colorectal surgeon and his main clinical interests are sphincter preservation, reconstructive surgery and functional bowel disorders and his scientific interests are now concentrated on neurogastroenterology. During his Lecturer years, he went as a Fullbright Scholar to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and gained particular expertise in gastrointestinal motility. He has won the Patey Prize of the Surgical Research Society, the Moynihan Fellowship of the Association of Surgeons and the BUPA Society of Authors' Prize (Jointly) for the textbook "Surgery of the Anus, Rectum and Colon". He was awarded the Nessim Habif Prize for Surgery in 1995 and the Galen Medal in Therapeutics in recognition of the advances made in colorectal surgery in 2002. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2004. He has been President of European Digestive Surgery, Vice-Chairman of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Surgery, Chairman of the UKCCCR Committee on Colorectal Cancer, and a member of the National Cancer Research Network Steering Group. He is President of the Ileostomy and Internal Pouch Support Group of Great Britain, President of The International Surgical Group (2006-7) and elected member of the Council of The Royal College of Surgeons of England (2005-11) and is now Chairman of its Academic and Research Board.
PRESIDENT-ELECT	PROFESSOR ANDREW BRADLEY synopsis to follow...
HONORARY SECRETARY	MR FCT SMITH is Consultant Senior Lecturer in Vascular Surgery at the University of Bristol and Bristol Royal Infirmary. After graduating from Birmingham University in 1984, he trained in Edinburgh, the West Midlands, Exeter and Bristol. He was awarded Peter Clifford and RCS Edinburgh Travelling Fellowships in 1996, undertaking further vascular training in Boston, Denver, Los Angeles and Seattle. Research interests have encompassed systemic effects of reperfusion injury in aortic aneurysm surgery, in distal bypass surgery and in intermittent claudication and the pathology and attenuation of myointimal hyperplasia. He has specific interests in medical education. He has been an elected member of Council and of the Education & Training Committee of the Vascular Society of GB & Ireland and is regional representative for the SW on the Council of ASGBI. He is currently Intercollegiate Basic Surgical Skills Course Tutor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, assessor and examiner for the Intercollegiate MRCS and examiner for the European Boards of Vascular Surgery.
Top
HONORARY TREASURER	PROFESSOR DION MORTON is the Professor of Colorectal Surgery in the Academic Department of Surgery at the University of Birmingham. He is a Colorectal Surgeon and his main clinical interests are in colorectal cancer treatment and prevention and the surgical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. His early research interests were in the field of inherited colorectal cancer. This more recent research interest has also encompassed chemo prevention of sporadic colorectal cancer and the molecular biology of early colorectal tumorigenesis. He is currently leading a number of national and international trials in the field of colorectal cancer. He is a member of the NCRI coloretal clinical subgroup, and is the Chairman of the Surgical Subcommittee. He is currently a member of the Feasiblity and Study Committee for Cancer Research UK.
EDITORIAL SECRETARY	MR D BAKER read medicine at Oriel College, Oxford and trained in surgery in Nottingham and London. He gained his PhD from the University of Wales. He is presently a Consultant Vascular Surgeon in the Department of Surgery at the Royal Free Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer in surgery at the Royal Free and University College London Medical School. His research focusses on the effects of ischaemia on skeletal muscle. He is the hospital unit training director for surgery and plays a lead rold in implementing the foundation year training in general surgery within the hospital.
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
EDUCATION	MR D LOBO is an Associate Professor and Reader in Gastrointestinal Surgery and Consultant Hpatopancreaticobiliary Surgeon at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. He qualified from Bangalore University, India and has trained as a surgeon in Chandigarh, Nottingham and Leicester. He was awarded a DM degree with distinction by the University of Nottingham for his work on fluid and electrolytes and is a recipient of the Sir David Cuthbertson Medal for his contributions to the field of Nutrition and Metabolism. He has received research awards and grants from the Surgical Research Society, the British Journal of Surgery Society, the Intensive Care Society, the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, the British Society of Gastroenterology and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He has recently been awarded the prestigious James IV Society of Surgeons Traveller's Award and the Moynihan Fellowship. His clinical interests focus surgery of the liver, pancreas and biliary tree and laparoscopic surgery. His research interests include surgical nutrition and metabolism, fluid and electrolyte balance and pancreatic cancer. He is also keen on postgraduate surgical education and is responsible for the higher surgical teaching programme in the mid-Trent region. Dileep is the local Special Interest Group Lead in Surgery for the UK Comprehensive Clinical Research Network. He is an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition and has over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has lectured both nationally and internationally.
Top
PROGRAMME	PROFESSOR ROBERT D SAYERS is a Reader in Vascular Surgery at the University of Leicester. He qualified with Honours from the University of Birmingham in 1984 but did most of his vascular training as a Lecturer in Surgery in Leicester and Adelaide, South Australia. His research interests include clinical studies into endovascular aneurysm repair and basic science research investigating the genetic factors that lead to pathogenesis and expansion of aneurysms. He is a founding member of the recently formed AAA consortium that has attracted £1 million funding from The Wellcome Trust for a genome wide association study into the causes of aortic aneurysms.
MEMBERSHIP	MR R VOHRA is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the Selly Oak Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham Foundation NHS Trust. He also holds the post of Associated Divisional Director for the Outpatients for the Trust. His clinical interests include carotid surgery, femoro-distal reconstructions and vascular surgical training. Research interests encompass the role of hydroxyethyl starches in reperfusion injury during AAA surgery, haemostasis (fibrin sealants) in vascular surgery, prediction of stroke in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis and the role of activated neutrophrils in a model of reverse endothelial migration in reperfusion injuries. He has held the post of in-charge of Basic Surgical Skills Courses in India on behalf of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He has organised 10 femoro-distal reconstruction courses attracting 77 vascular trainees and consultants. He has been an elected member of Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2005-07. He is currently Chairperson of the South Birmingham Research and Ethics Committee, an Intercollegiate MRCS Examiner, Intercollegiate FRCS (Exit) Examiner, on the Editorial Board of European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and a member of Circulation Foundation. He has represented Vascular Society as a Specialist Advisor to NICE and as a stakeholder for "National Library of Health". He has been awarded honorary fellowships from the Vascular Society of India and Egyptian Society of Vascular Surgery.
Top
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
COUNCIL MEMBER	PROFESSOR P RONAN O'CONNELL MD, FRCSI, FRCS (Glas) is Professor of Surgery at University College Dublin and formally Consultant Senior Lecturer at the London Hospital and later Consultant Surgeon at the Mater Hospital, Dublin. He is a fellow of ACPGBI, ASCRS and ASGBI. He is secretary elect of ESCP. He is an elected member of the Society of Pelvic Surgeons, the ESA and ISG. A former winner of the Patey Prize (1985), Professor O'Connell has published widely in the areas of inflammatory bowel disease, pelvic floor physiology and continence. He has been an editor of BJS (1999 -2006) and DCR (since 2001).
COUNCIL MEMBER	PROFESSOR A DAVIES is Professor of Vascular Surgery and Honorary Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College, Charing Cross Campus, London. He trained in Cambridge, Oxford, Plymouth, Boston (USA) and Bristol, prior to taking up a Senior Lecturer appointment in 1994. Professor Davies has been a Hunterian Professor and Arris & Gale Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons and Abdol Islami Scholar at the American College of Surgeons. He is the Editor in Chief of Phlebology and Venous Times. He is Past - President of the European Venous Forum, President of UK Venous Forum, Past Council member of Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Member of the American Venous Forum, the American College of Phlebology, The Venous Forum at The Royal Society of Medicine, European Society of Vascular Surgery. His main research interests are clinical trials/ and basic science research related to venous disease and carotid artery disease. He has written/edited 21 books, 56 chapters and over 200 research papers on many aspects of vascular disease and has lectured in many parts of the world on a wide range of vascular topics.
Top
NON-CLINICAL SCIENTIST	DR M LOIZIDOU is a non-clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery, Royal Free and University College Medical School , UCL. Previously she worked in the Academic Department of Surgery, Southampton University . She trained as a biochemist and a pharmacologist first in Canada and later in the UK . She has been involved in academic surgical training throughout her career. She has supervised more than 20 postgraduate surgeons working towards higher research degrees and has contributed extensively to the design and ongoing delivery of the MSc in Surgical Science at UCL. Her research programme focuses on aspects of colorectal cancer and liver metastases, from the basic underlying biology to new potential treatments. Additional research areas include breast and bladder cancer. She is assistant Editor for colorectal cancer for Oncology News.
NIHR ACADEMIC SURGEON-IN-TRAINING	MR BIJAN MODARAI is a Clinical Lecturer in Vascular Surgery at King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. He completed his Basic Surgical Training in London before being awarded a British Heart Foundation Clinical PhD Studentship in 2002. He graduated with a PhD in Biochemistry in 2006 and won the Patey Prize for his research work in 2007. He began his Higher Surgical Training on the South East Thames rotation before taking up his current post, part of the integrated academic training initiative funded by The National Institute for Health Research. His research interests include angiogenesis in tissue remodelling, angiogenic cell therapy and novel imaging techniques applied to vascular disease.
Top