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Professor Alun Davies is professor of vascular surgery at Imperial College London and a consultant surgeon whose NHS practice is based at Charing Cross and St Mary’s hospitals, London.  Professor Davies trained in Cambridge, Oxford, Plymouth, Boston (USA) and Bristol, prior to taking up a consultant appointment at Charing Cross Hospital in 1994.

Professor Davies is regarded as a world expert in the management of venous disorder. He is the editor in chief of Phlebology (the only worldwide English language journal dealing with venous disease), past president of the European Venous Forum and the Venous Forum at The Royal Society of Medicine. He is a member of the American Venous Forum, the American College of Phlebology, Vascular Surgical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and the European Society of Vascular Surgery.

He has been a Hunterian Professor at the RCS, England and is an Emeritius Fellow of the Australasian College of Phlebology. He was the Chairman of the Varicose Vein Guideline Group for the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) and a member of the Quality Standards Group. Currently he is on the NICE, abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) guideline committee and a member of the NHS England Specialised Commissioning Group.

He is a director of the European College of Phlebology and has co-chaired the ESVS guidelines group on the management of varicose veins. He has also written extensively on many aspects of vascular disease, writing over 380 peer reviewed manuscripts and running a large research group.

Professor Davies is also the clinical director of Imperial College Private Healthcare.

Mr Joseph Shalhoub is a consultant vascular surgeon and honorary clinical senior lecturer appointed at St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospitals. He qualified with honours from Imperial College School of Medicine, completing his postgraduate surgical training in London including at St Mary’s, Charing Cross, and St Thomas’ hospitals.

Mr Shalhoub is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS), and was awarded the Gold Medal for the highest mark in the Fellowship of the European Board of Vascular Surgery (FEBVS) examination. After receiving his certificate of completion of training (CCT) and gaining entry onto the General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register, he undertook a post-CCT senior clinical fellowship in vascular and endovascular surgery at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.

Research and publications

Mr Shalhoub has a strong academic and educational background which compliments his evidence-based clinical practice. He is an honorary clinical senior lecturer in the department of surgery and cancer, Imperial College London, where he is co-investigator for two National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) government-funded large multi-centre randomised clinical trials:

Co-investigator: Examining the benefit of graduated compression stockings as an adjunct to low dose low molecular weight heparin in the prevention of venous thromboembolism in elective surgical inpatients identified as moderate or high risk for venous thromboembolism – a multi-centre randomised controlled trial

(NIHR HTA GAPS Trial)
NIHR Journals Library abstract

Co-investigator: Does neuromuscular electrical stimulation improve the absolute walking distance in patients with intermittent claudication compared to best available treatment? a multicentre randomised controlled study

Mr Shalhoub completed his BSc, PhD and Masters in Education (MEd) at Imperial College London, receiving research fellowships from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Circulation Foundation. To date, he has secured more than £3.2 million in research funding as principal applicant or co-applicant, and has published more than 130 Pubmed indexed articles. Mr Shalhoub is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Member of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (MFSTEd), council member and past honorary secretary of the Surgery Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), and committee member of the Vascular and Endovascular Research Network (VERN).

He was a council member and past vice-president of the Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT).

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