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External resources

• Dr Foster webpage

Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant General and Upper Gastro-Intestinal Surgeon, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust based in the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald.

Research interests

Tumour Angiogenesis in Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer
Patient outcome following anti-reflux surgery
Medico-legal consequences of Hernia Development

Personal interests

Teaching and Training of Surgical Trainees and Junior Doctors
Road Cycling

Publications

Bone Marrow Micrometastases and Markers of Angiogenesis in Esophageal Cancer.
Gary M. Spence MD1, Alastair N. J. Graham MD1, Kathleen Mulholland MRC(Path)2, Perry Maxwell PhD2, W. Glenn McCluggage MD2, James M. Sloan MD2 and James A. McGuigan FRCS1
Departments of 1Thoracic Surgery and 2Pathology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT12 6BA.
Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2004; 78: 1944 – 1950

Single Centre Prospective Randomised Trial of Laparoscopic Nissen Versus Anterior 900 Fundoplication.
Gary M. Spence1, David I. Watson2, Glyn G. Jamieson1, Carolyn J. Lally1 and Peter G. Devitt1.
University of Adelaide Department of Surgery1, Royal Adelaide Hospital and Flinders University Department of Surgery2, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2006; 10: 698 – 705

Bone marrow micrometastases in esophaeal carcinoma: a 10-year follow-up study.
Gray RT, O’Donnell ME, McCluggage WG, Maxwell P McGuigan, JA, Spence GM.
Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, UK.
Dis Esophagus. 2012(Nov/Dec); 25(8): 709 – 715

Quantification of tumour and circulating vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in patients with oesophagogastric cancer: a long term follow-up study
Gray RT, O’Donnell ME, McGuigan, JA, Spence GM.
Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, UK.
Br J Biomed Sci. 2012; 69(2): 71 - 75