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Biography
Colin Bicknell is a senior lecturer and consultant vascular surgeon at Imperial College London and is head of specialty for vascular surgery.
Clinically he is a vascular surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital and works privately at The Lindo Wing. His work encompasses a wide range of venous and arterial treatments.
He is the chair of the British Society of Endovascular Therapy annual meeting committee and the director of the Imperial Health Policy MSc.
His academic research interests include examination of methods to reduce error in vascular surgery procedures leading to the initiation of a unique team training programme at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He has notably has studied the application of novel technologies, such as the advantages of robotic endovascular catheters in the vascular tree, which has led to the world’s first trials of vascular robotics in man.
Biography
Mr Jeremy Crane is a consultant transplant and vascular surgeon based in London. His NHS practice is at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, where he is an honorary senior lecturer and the lead for education and training in transplant and vascular access surgery.
His practice encompasses kidney and pancreas transplantation, dialysis access surgery, vascular surgery (including varicose vein surgery) and he has a specialist interest in treating chronic wounds.
After qualifying from the University of Liverpool in 1997, Jeremy completed his house jobs at the Royal Liverpool University, St George’s, Chelsea and Westminster, St Mary’s and Great Ormond Street hospitals.
He underwent higher surgical training in north west London, completing vascular surgery training at St Mary’s Hospital and specialist transplantation surgery training at Hammersmith, St George’s and Guy’s hospitals.
Between basic and higher surgical training, Mr Crane undertook a postgraduate degree at Imperial College and St Mary’s Hospital. He was awarded a doctorate of medicine from the University of London for his MD thesis in the subject of haemodynamics and blood flow patterns in vascular surgery.
Mr Crane’s specialist interests include kidney and pancreatic transplantation surgery (with both deceased and live donors), vascular access surgery and mainstream vascular surgery. In addition he has wide experience in other general surgical conditions and in the management of complex wounds.
Mr Crane was appointed as a consultant vascular and transplant surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2011. He is based primarily at Hammersmith Hospital where he provides a kidney and pancreas transplantation service and has set up a programme of vascular access surgery for haemodialysis patients – the first of its kind in north west London.
Biography
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.
Biography
Mr Jenkins trained at The Middlesex Hospital, London and qualified in 1989 as the Broderip Scholar. He trained in surgery at Charing Cross, UCL, The Royal Brompton and Royal Free hospitals and was awarded the Gold medal at FRCS. Appointed as a consultant to St Mary’s and Chelsea & Westminster hospitals in 2001, he has since developed both a local and a national tertiary referral practice.
He currently serves on the council of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, is chairman of the Circulation Foundation and is President of the British Society of Endovascular Therapy. He has an international reputation as a speaker, is a well recognised teacher and examines for the European vascular exit exam, FEBVS.
Biography
Miss Celia Theodoreli-Riga is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon and clinical Senior Lecturer in Surgery at Imperial College. She is the Head of School of Surgery (HEE) and is responsible for the quality of surgical training in London for more than 1500 trainees. She previously served as the Surgical Training Committee Chair and Training Programme Director in Vascular Surgery for the London region. She serves on the UKRI/EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Strategic Advisory Board. Miss Riga is also an honorary consultant surgeon at The Royal Marsden Foundation Trust. She qualified from Imperial College London in 2003. She completed her higher surgical training in London with placements at Charing Cross, Northwick Park and St Mary’s hospitals. She obtained a doctorate in medicine from Imperial College and was appointed a clinical lecturer in surgery in 2010. She became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2014.
Her clinical expertise includes aortic aneurysms, occlusive vascular disease, endovenous management of varicose veins, carotid disease and stroke prevention, aortic dissection and endovascular robotic surgery. She has introduced team training and simulation programmes to the current vascular curriculum in collaboration with the patient safety research group. She has an international reputation as a speaker with over 300 podium presentations, over 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. She has significant experience in Medtech and clinical translation for medical devices. She sits on the New Interventional Procedures Committee which regulates and monitors clinical adoption of novel devices and techniques across all Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust sites. She serves as an examiner for Imperial College and Oxford University.
Her research interests focus on innovative techniques for the treatment of arterial and venous disease, training and education, incorporating new advances in technology. She works closely with the engineering group at the Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College London. Miss Riga has led the translational endovascular robotic research theme at Imperial College, publishing the first pre-clinical evidence for the advantages of robotic technology in complex endovascular tasks such as supra-aortic branch intervention and fenestrated endografting. Her research has won 30 national and international prizes, attracting over £10million in funding including a UK flagship EPSRC investment to make Imperial the UK’s largest translational micro-robotics facility.
Biography
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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