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Vice-Chair: Dr Art Sedrakyan, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York
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Dr Riaz Agha, Founder, International Journal of Surgery and Annals of Medicine and Surgery; Plastic Surgery
Dr Hashim Uddin Ahmed, MRC Clinician Scientist, University College London
Prof Doug Altman, Director of Centre for Statistics in Medicine; Statistics
Dr Mario Ammirati, Chairman Neurosurgery Department Mercy Health/St Rita Medical Center, Ohio
Prof Jeff Aronson, Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, Honorary Consultant in Clinical Pharmacology, Honorary Consultant Physician; Clinical pharmacology, general medicine
Prof Carol Ashton, John F. Jr. and Carolyn Bookout Prof of Surgical Quality & Outcomes Science and Co-Director, Center for Outcomes Research, Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas
Prof Daniel Azoulay, Professor of Surgery, HepatoPancreatoBiliary and Liver Transplantation Surgery, Hôpital Paul Brousse – Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France
Prof Augusto Azuara-Blanco, Professor of Ophthalmology at Queen’s University Belfast, (and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist at the BHSCT) Surgical interest in Eye Surgery
Dr Chris Bainbridge, Consultant hand surgeon, Pulvertaft Hand Centre, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby (Dupuytrens and peripheral nerve entrapment)
Julie Bakobaki, Clinical Trials Operations Manager, University College London
Clinical Trials Unit.
Prof Jeffrey Barkun, Professor of Surgery, McGill University
Dr Dimitri Barski, Dept of Urology, Lukas Hospital Neuss, Germany
Desmond Barton, Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist, Subspecialty Training Programme Director, The Royal Marsden Foundation Trust, London (clinical research in gynaecological cancers and education)
Prof Michael Baum, Professor Emeritus of Surgery; Surgical oncology, breast surgery
Prof David Beard, Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences, Director of OSIRIS; Orthopaedic surgery
Dr Elena Berti, Regional Agency for Health and Social Care (ASSR), Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy (HTA/health service quality evaluation)
Prof Gwyn Bevan, Professor of Policy Analysis, Head of Dept of Management, London School of Economics; Health economics
Dr Mohit Bhandari, McMaster University; Orthopaedic surgery
Prof Jane Blazeby, Director of Surgical Trials Centre, University of Bristol; Upper GI surgery
Ms Natalie Bohm, Clinical academic lecturer, University College London; ENT surgery
Prof Isabelle Boutron, CONSORT, EQUATOR Paris Descartes Univ; French Cochrane Centre
Dr Savtaj Brar, Clinical Associate, Surgical Oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr Carl J. Brown, Head, Division of General Surgery, Providence Health Care Specialist in General and Colorectal Surgery, St. Paul’s Hospital Chief, Section of Colorectal Surgery, University of BC Clinical Research Scientist, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Research (Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery/TaTME)
Prof Markus Buechler, Director of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surg; GI, hepatobiliary and transplant surgery (pancreas transplant)
Dr Hiske Calsbeek, Senior Researcher, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (special interest Perioperative Patient Safety)
Prof Bruce Campbell, Chair, Interventional Technologies Panel for NHS Health Technology Assessment; Vascular surgery
Prof Andrew Carr, Head of Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Oxford University; Orthopaedic surgery
Dr Kalipso Chalkidou, Founding director of UK NHS National Insitute of Clinical Excellence’s international programme
Prof Pierre-Alain Clavien, Univ Hospital of Zurich, Clavien-Dindo classification of surgical complications; Transplant surgery
Dr Tammy Clifford, Vice president of HTA at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH); Epidemiology
Dr Jonathan Cook, University of Oxford; Methodology
Dr Andrew Currie, Minimally Invasive GI Surgical Research Fellow, St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow, UK
Dr Pierre Dagenais, Montreal; Methodology
Dr Philipp Dahm, Professor of Urology & Vice-Chair of Veterans Affairs, University of Minnesota, Director for Surgery/Specialty Care Service Line Research Activities and Coordinating Editor, Cochrane Prostatic Diseases & Urological Cancers (PDUC) Group
Dr Peter Davidson, Director, UK NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC); General medicine
Dr Hugh Davies, Research ethics adviser, National Research Ethics Service (NRES); Respiratory paediatric medicine
Dr Alessandro De Mauro, Vicomtech, San Sebastien, Spain
Dr Markus Diener, University of Heidelberg
Dr Kate Duhig, Academic Clinical Fellow, Academic Dept of Women’s Health, St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College London
Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Joint chief editor, British Journal of Surgery; Vascular surgery
Dr Neil Ebenezer, Head of New and Emerging Technologies, Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. habil. Thorsten Ecke, Dept. of Urology, HELIOS Hospital Bad Saarow, Germany
Dr Patrick Ergina, Prof of cardiothoracic surgery, McGill University; Cardiothoracic surgery
Prof Chris Evans, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, SE Ontario Trauma Program, Kingston General Hospital, ON, Canada
Joshua Feinberg, IDEAL Clinical Research Fellow in EBM, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York (patient safety and practical application of IDEAL Framework in surgical innovation)
Dr Shamiram Feinglass, Vice President for Global Medical & Regulatory Affairs, Zimmer medical devices
Prof Liane Feldman, McGill University; Minimally invasive surgery
Prof Secundino Fernandez, Professor, University of Navarra and Surgeon (Otolaryngology and Head and Neck) Pamplona, Spain
Dr Abraham Fingerhut
Prof David Flum, Director of the Surgical Outcomes Research Center (SORCE), University of Washington; GI, bariatricsurgery
Prof Clifton David Fuller, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Department of Radiation Oncology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Texas, USA
Dr Jose Carlos Garcia Jr, University of Sao Paulo, Laboratory of Surgical Pathophysiology, Brazil
Prof Herney Andrés García-Perdomo, Professor of Urology and Clinical Epidemiology at University of Valle (Cali, Colombia) and coordinates the Associate Cochrane Group
Mr Matthew Gardiner, Specialty Registrar in Plastic Surgery, Broomfield Hospital (interests: plastic surgery, hand surgery)
Dr Holger Gerullis (PhD), University Hospital for Urology, Klinikum Oldenburg, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
Dr Khurshid R. Ghani, Assistant Professor, Dept of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. (kidney transplantation).
Kathryn Gill, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Chair, Research and Development Committee, Pelvic Floor Society, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Prof Paul Glasziou, Professor, Bond University; former director of CEBM, GP
Mr Sion Glyn-Jones, Senior clinical lecturer, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Oxford University; Orthopaedic surgery
Sir Muir Gray, Director, Better Value Healthcare; Public health
Prof Damian Griffin, Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, UK
Ms Trish Groves, Deputy editor BMJ and editor-in-chief BMJ Open; Psychiatry
Ali Guner, Assoc Prof of Surgery, Karadeniz Technical University – College of Medicine; Dept. of General Surgery, Division of Upper GI Surgery & Institute of Medical Science, Dept. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Trabzon/Turkey
Dr Emma Hall, Reader of Oncology Trials, Institute of Cancer Research Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit, London (oncology trials, evaluation of new radiation technologies)
Prof Alison Halliday, Prof of Vascular Surgery, University of Oxford; Vascular surgery
Prof Freddie Hamdy, Head of Nuffield Department of Surgery, Professor of Urology, University of Oxford; Urological surgery
Mr Caelán Max Haney, MD , Department of Urology, University of Leipzig (Urology, Evidence based surgery, Minimally invasive surgery, Robotic-assisted surgery)
Dr Judith Hargreaves, Director, Health Economics and Reimbursement, Covidien.
Dr Ted Heise, Vice President Regulatory Science, Cook Medical
Dr Carl Heneghan, Director, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford; Epidemiology
Florian Herrle, Surgical Department, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany. (special hernia and endocrine surgery, colorectal surgery, CIBD, abdominal sepsis. EBM in surgery, systematic reviews/RCTs, information mastery and knowledge transfer, surgical decision making)
Dr Jo Carol Hiatt; Chair, Kaiser Permanente National Product Council; Chair, Interregional New Technologies Committee; Assistant Medical Director, Southern California Permanente Medical Group; General surgery
Dr Chu Hongling, Science of Clinical Research, Centre of Clinical Epidemiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.China
Prof Tracey Howe; Glasgow Caledonian University and Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group; Musculoskeletal.
Jacqueline Hughes; Clinical Coordinator, Strathclyde Institute of Medical Devices, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
Dr Jessica Jalbert, Director of Pharmacoepidemiology US, LASER Analytica, New York, NY and Assistant Professor (courtesy) Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Dr Teppo Järvinen, MD, Adjunct Professor (Orthopaedics), University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
Emma Jones, Health Foundation Doctoral Research Fellow (Leicester University) and Extended Scope Physiotherapist – orthopaedic directorate (University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust). PhD thesis working title: SIQINS: Strengthening Implementation of Quality Improvement Interventions and Methods in Surgery. Also interested in Patient and Public Involvement
Dr Daniyar Jumaniyazov; Director, Altaco XXI, Kazakhstan; Distributor of stem cell products for research.
Dr Lileswar Kaman, Additional Professor, Department of General Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, INDIA. (Hepatobilliary Pancreatic surgery/Liver Transplant)
Mr Sean Kehoe, Lawson Tait Professor of Gynaecological Cancer, University of Birmingham and Senior Research Fellow, St.Peters College, Oxford
Shannon Kelly, Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada
Asha Khachane, Clinical Research Fellow, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York (application of IDEAL framework and patient safety with focus on surgical patients)
Mr Angelos Kolias, NIHR Academic Clinical Registrar in Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge; lead, British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative
Professor Anthony King, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Nottingham University Hospital, Honorary Professor Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Nottingham, UK (Interest; glaucoma surgery)
Dr Richard Kuntz, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific, Clinical and Regulatory Officer, Medtronic Inc.; Interventional cardiology
Dr Rachel Kwon, Clinical Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford; General surgical trainee, Maimonides Medical Center
Joey Kwong, Assoc. Prof, Executive Associate Director, Chinese Cochrane Center and Chinese EBM Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (post market safety evaluation of cardiovascular medical devices)
Prof Sallie Lamb, Director, Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick
Simon Lambert, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon,University College London Hospital and Honorary Consultant Surgeon,Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Prof Peter Lees, Founding Director of Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, Neurosurgery
Dr Richard Lehman
Dr Tom Lehnert
Dr Nicola Lennard, Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA); Vascular surgery
Prof Richard Lilford, Health Techhology Assessment, University of Birmingham, Chair, NIHR Methodology Panel; Ob/gyn, Epidemiology
Dr Mario Henrique Lobão Gonçalves, Orthopedic surgeon/researcher, Center for Advanced Studies in Orthopedics (NÆON) in São Paulo, Brazil.(Shoulder Instability, Rotator Cuff Repair, Trauma, Arthroscopy and Robotic Endoscopic Procedures)
Dr Susanne Ludgate, MHRA (retired)
Dr Georgios Lyratzopoulos, University of Cambridge; Public health
Karen Macpherson, Lead Health Services Researcher, Scottish Health Technologies Group (HTA specifically non-pharmaceutical technologies, Health Services Research, Systematic Reviewing)
Prof Guy Maddern, University of Adelaide, Surgical director, Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures (ASERNIP); Hepatobiliary surgery
Prof Rajan Madhok, Medical Director of NHS Manchester; Orthopaedic surgery, Public health
Gurdeep Mannu, Clinical Research Fellow, General Surgery, University of Oxford. (Interest: assessment of efficacy in surgical studies and evidence-based practice of general surgery)
Dr Danica Marinac-Dabic, US FDA, Director, Division of Epidemiology, Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Mr Andrew McCombe, Honorary Secretary, ENT UK; ENT surgeon
Dr Richard McGee, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Dr David R. McGowan, Surgical Trainee, Sheffield teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (ENT Surgery, surgical outcomes, human factors)
Heather McIntosh, Health Services Researcher, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Glasgow
Prof Klim McPherson, Visiting Professor in Epidemiology, University of Oxford; Ob/gyn, (epidemiology)
Prof Jonathan Meakins, Former Head of Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford; Laparoscopic, transplant surgery
Kelvin Memeh, Clinical Fellow, Comprehensive Endocrine Surgery Program.
Department of Surgery. University of Chicago Medicine Chicago, IL
Prof Mani Menon,The Raj and Padma Vattikuti Distinguished Chair,Director, Vattikuti Urology Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, MI, USA (kidney transplantation)
Andy Metcalfe, Associate Professor, Warwick Clinical Trials Unit and Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, (Trauma & Orthopaedics and clinical trials)
Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar, Neurosurgeon/Intensivist, Clinica Universitaria de Puerto Montt, Chile
Unni G. Narayanan, Professor, Departments of Surgery & Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto
Senior Associate Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program & Director, Paediatric Orthopaedic Fellowship Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. (Chair of the Research Council of POSNA)
Dr Richard Naspro, Urological Surgeon, Department of Urology, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital (HPG23), Bergamo, Italy
Dr Ionut Negoi, MD, Senior Lecturer of General Surgery, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Attending General Surgeon, Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, Romania. (surgical oncology, and hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery)
Prof Rob Nelissen, Professor Orthopaedics Leiden University Medical Center
Medical Delta professor
Ms Pam Nevar, Managing editor, Annals of Surgery
Dr Jon Nicholl, Director of the NIHR School for Public Health Research, Sheffield University; Medical statistics
Dr Matthew Nielsen, Director of Urologic Oncology, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (clinical epidemiology, cancer care quality and medical decision making, focus on bladder and prostate cancer).
Dr Neil Ogden, Chief, General Surgery Devices, Office of Device Evaluation, Food and Drug Administration, MD., USA
Dr Stefano Olgiati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Cambridge. MA, USA
Dr Markus Ott, Vice President EMEA Health Economics, Policy & Reimbursement, Covidien
Dr Arsenio Paez, LEND Fellow in Neuordevelopmental Disabilities., Professor at Northeastern University, Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston, MA (Rehab, Disability and Neurodegenerative disorders)
Christopher Pennell, IDEAL Clinical Research Fellow in EBM, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. (medical device evaluation and practical application of IDEAL Framework in surgical innovation)
Dr Erlick Pereira, Dept of Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals
Mr David Plotts, Director for Northern Europe & UK Managing Director, Aerocrine; former UK Host Manager & UK Board Director, Covidien
Julie Polisena, Scientific Advisor, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, Canada
Prof Andrew Price, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Oxford; Orthopaedic surgery
Dr Pascal Probst, Consultant for Surgery (General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery), Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany (general and abdominal surgery)
Prof Tom Quinn, Research Group Lead, Emergency, Cardiovascular and Critical Care, Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, Kingston University and St George’s, University of London, UK (clinical trials, registries esp in acute cardiovascular care, resuscitation, prehospital care).
Mohammad Rahbari, surgical resident and clinician scientist, Dept. of Surgery, University Hospital Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg and the Division of Chronic Inflammation and Cancer of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Dr Akilesh Ramasamy, Assistant Professor (Dentistry), Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, JIPMER, Karaikal, Puducherry, India
Prof Amar Rangan, Clinical Professor of Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine & Health, Durham University. Chairman, Research Committee of The British Orthopaedic Association.
Dr Patta Radhakrishna, Chennai, India (abdominal surgery)
Manoj J. Raval, Specialist in General & Colorectal Surgery, Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Chair, BC Cancer Agency Surgical Oncology Network Colorectal Surgery Tumour Group and Clinical Research Scientist, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Science, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Mr Rowland Rees, consultant urological surgeon, University Hospital Southampton
Dr Drummond Rennie, Emeritus editor in chief, Annals of Surgery
Dr Iain Robertson, Chair of the Scottish Health Technology Group. Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Prof Camiel Rosman, Professor in Minimal Invasive Surgery, Gastrointestinal Surgeon / Surgical Oncologist, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (safety in surgical innovation, learning curves)
Prof Maroeska Rovers, Professor evidence-based surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Suzanne Ryan, Nurse Unit Manager – Research, Surgical Service Group, Sunshine Coast Hospital & Health Service, Queensland Australia
Prof David Sackett, Professor Emeritus, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Internal medicine, nephrology
Dr Dan Schaber, Vice President for Clinical Research, Medtronic
Prof Markus Schafer, Program Director and Head of Upper GI/Pancreas Surgery, University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland (systematic reviews and meta-analysis)
Prof Anne Schilder, Director of UCLP’s ENT Clinical Trials Programme, University College London; ENT surgeon
Dr Frank Schuller
Dr Art Sedrakyan, Associate Professor of Public Health and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY (with special interest in medical devices and regulation).
Prof Christoph Seiler, University of Heidelberg
Dr Shafaque Shaikh, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Colorectal Surgery, University of Leeds, UK (metabolic targets CRC, host response CRC, acute diverticulitis)
Dr Daniella Smolenska, Regulatory affairs manager, MHRA
Dr Akshay Sood, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Henry Ford Hospital. VUI. (Transplantation)
Dr Bill Summerskill, Executive editor, the Lancet; Primary care
Prof David Taggart, Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Oxford; Cardiovascular surgery
Casper Tax, MD, PhD candidate on Evidence Based Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Prof Douglas Tincello, Prof of Uro-gynaecology, Associate Lead for Clinical Research, Dept of Health Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Leicester, UK
Dr David Tivey, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Joanna Briggs Institute, University of Adelaide, Australia (HTA and systematic review of surgical research)
Dr William D. Toff, Assoc Prof Cardiology, Dept of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, UK
Dr David Tolley, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Urological surgery
Dr Olga Tucker, GI Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Birmingham
Dr Joost J. van Middendorp, Research Director, Stoke Mandeville Spinal Foundation and Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Frans van Workum, PhD student minimally invasive surgery and evidence-based surgery. Specialties are learning curves in surgical research and safe implementation of innovative techniques. Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Prof Jayant Vaidya, Scientific Director, Clinical Trials Group, Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London. Consultant Surgeon. (Breast cancer)
Prof Jan Vandenbroucke, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Leiden
HM (Lenny) Verkooijen, Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands (special interest: clinical evaluation of (image-guided) oncological interventions)
Dr Bolívar A. Villacís, Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador
Dr Nicola Vousden, Academic Clinical Fellow, Academic Dept of Women’s Health, St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College London
Prof Tom Walley, University of Liverpool, Director of Health Technology Assessment
Prof Rebecca Wong, Vice chair for education and Director for clinical trials, University of Toronto, Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Center
Prof Nelda Wray, Co-Director, Center for Outcomes Research, Research Professor of Medicine in Surgery, Methodist Instit. for Technology, Houston, Texas, USA
Dr. Induprabha Yadev, Assistant Professor, Dept of Surgery, Government Medical College, Trivandrum, Kerala, India (thyroid disease)
Dr Kaissar Yammine, Director, Center of Evidence-Based Sport and Orthopedic Research (CEBSOR), Emirates Hospital, Dubai
Dr Gustavo Zanoli, Surgical Editor, Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group, Italy
