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Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Royal Brompton Hospital, London

Research interests

Research forms the fundamental basis for my decision making and allows the evaluation and improvement to health care. I focus on improving patient care by evaluating clinical decisions and results of surgery and translational research (taking science from bench to bedside)

The four main areas of clinical research that I undertake are systematic reviews and meta-analyses, clinical trials, diagnostic and cohort studies. My basic science research focuses on blood based biomarkers for the diagnosis of cancer and for treatment predictions with circulating tumour cells and circulating free tumour DNA.

Personal interests

My focus is patient understanding of risk and participation in clinical decision making, improving quality care, striving for pain free surgery so patients are home, confident and healthy in the shortest time.

Awards received

My research has been awarded national and international prizes including the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery best Thoracic Surgery research for 4 consecutive years (2008-2011).

Publications

Churchill’s Pocketbook of differential diagnosis (now in its third edition with translations in 3 languages)

Medicine and Surgery: an Integrated Textbook (won prizes the British Medical Association and the Royal Society of Medicine Book awards in 2008).

British Thoracic Society / Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery 2010 Radical Management of Lung Cancer Guidelines