Curriculum Vitae

Present and Past Appointments

• Consultant Vascular and General Surgeon
• Former Honorary Senior Lecturer of Surgery
• Consultant Surgeon University College Hospital
• Honorary Consultant Surgeon, Margaret Pyke Family Planning Clinic
• Honorary Consultant Surgeon, St Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy
• Medical advisor to the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators
• Formerly Director of the University College and Middlesex Hospital Breast Service

Qualifications

• MBBS (Hons), BSc (Hons 1st Class), FRCS

Societies

• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
• Member of The Surgical Research Society
• Past Chairman of the Venous Forum
• Member of the Vascular Society
• Fellow of the International College of Surgeons
• Chairman L’Union Internationale de Phlebologie 1995
• Member of the American Venous Forum
• Member of the International College of Angiology
• Member of the Air Squadran
• Member of the Academy of Experts
• Member of the Society of Expert Witnesses

Surgical Interests

• General Surgery
• Surgical Oncology
• Vascular Surgery including Venous Disorders

Research Interests

• Venous Thromboembolism
• Surgical treatment of the post-thrombotic syndrome and microcirculation
• Travel thrombosis

Principle Publications

• Over 250 publications on surgical topics including the breast, intestinal disease, vascular disease, venous disorders and the microcirculation

Books

• Editor – Medical Applications of Microcomputers
• Editor – Microcomputers in Medicine
• Editor – Varicose Veins, Venous Disorders and Lymphatic Problems in the Lower Limbs
• Vascular Surgery (Medico-legal Practitioner Series, No.13)
• Contributor to 12 textbooks on Medicine
• Contributor to two Medical Negligence Textbooks

Lectures

• More than 200 invited lectures to the United States and EU teaching undergraduate clinical students and postgraduate surgical students

Examining

• Examiner for the University of London
• Examiner for the United Examining Board