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| An accomplished general surgeon, author and trainer with a longstanding commitment to surgical education and a proven track record of pro-activity in developing and implementing both clinical and training initiatives. |
Key Skills/Achievements
- An experienced clinician with a special interest in trauma and laparoscopic techniques.
- An ambassador for the College of Surgeons having worked with Senior Clinicians and Educationalists in over 20 countries, and on all five continents.
- An acknowledged international speaker on both trauma and on educational issues. Awarded Korte Gold Medal for services to the German Surgical Society and from the Swedish Surgical Society for services to Swedish Medical Education.
- Co-editor of the Cambridge Textbook of Accident and Emergency Medicine, author of two books and contributor of numerous chapters and articles in a variety of publications.
- Proactive in assessing need within surgical education with a proven record of designing, marketing and implementing training strategies and programmes with national and international relevance.
Speciality: General Surgery/Trauma
Date of Grading Consultant: 1 April 1984
Date on Medical Register: July 1973
Present Appointments:
Senior Consultant Surgeon
South Tyrone & Craigavon Hospitals
Craigavon Area Hospital Group Trust
68 Lurgan Road, Portadown
Craigavon BT63 5QQ
(1984-present)
Principal Tutor for Faculty Development Royal College of Surgeons, England
(Tutor since 1994, present post since 2003)
Educational Adviser, Intercollegiate Examinations Board in Surgery (2003-present)
Fellowships:
1980 – 1981 Fellow in Surgery, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Medical And Academic Qualifications/Degrees
- BSc (Honours) in Anatomy, Queens University, Belfast, 1970
- MB BCH BAO, Queens University, 1973
- MRCP, London, 1975
- FRCS, Edinburgh, 1978
- MD, QUB, 1982
- FRCS, Ireland, 1993
- MSc (Med. Educ.), University of Wales, 1995
- FRCS, England, 1995
- FRCP, London, 1997
- PGDL, College of Law, London, 1999
Academic Distinctions
- FRCS Ireland (awarded for services to victims of trauma and developing the ATLS System in the Irish Republic, Dublin, 1993)
- FRCS England (by election) for services to Surgical Education in the UK
- FRCP London for services to Medical Education (in Northern Ireland region)
- Appointed Mitchner Lecturer for 1995 (Royal Army Medical College, London)
- Werner Korte Gold Medal for services to German Surgical Education, 2002
- Medal of the Swedish Surgical Society for services to medical education, 2005
Prestigious Lectures
- “The Highland Lecture” – annual oration, Scotland, Aberdeen, January 1993
- Key-note speaker at International Trauma Meeting – Jerusalem, June 1993
- “The Ivor Lewis Memorial Lecture” – annual Memorial Lecture, Clywd, North Wales, February 1994
- “The Mitchner Lecturer” – Royal Army Medical College, London, November 1995
- Key-note speaker on Clinical Governance at Tri-Service Symposium, London, September 1999
- Key-note speaker on Professional Development at the National Association of Theatre Nurses Meeting, Harrogate, October 1999
- Key-note speaker on Teaching and Learning in Surgery at the University of Witswatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 2000
- Key-note Speaker, Surgical Education, Association of Surgeons in Sweden, October 2005.
- Key-note Speaker, Appraisal and Assessment Conference, Maastricht, Holland, March 2006.
Teaching Experience
- Instructor and Education Advisor to British Army Trauma Life Support Programme (forerunner of UK ATLS Programme), 1985 to present.
- Instructor on UK ATLS Programme (founder Member of Faculty), 1988 to present.
- Director ATLS Courses throughout the UK (this includes full responsibility for setting up programmes in major hospitals and directing their first one or two courses including Glasgow, Stoke, Lister Hospital (London), Norfolk and Norwich, Coventry, Dungannon, Craigavon and Newry).
- Director ATLS Instructor Courses at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. A total of ten whilst a member of the ATLS Committee.
- Member for General Surgery on UK ATLS Committee, Royal College of Surgeons in London, 1990 – 1995.
- Member of Educator Faculty on UK ATLS Programme at Royal College of Surgeons since 1996.
- Member of Educator Faculty for the American College of Surgeons for their international course in Copenhagen, 1998.
- Educationalist on behalf of the American College of Surgeons for their international programme in Hong Kong 1999.
- Training The Trainers Tutor at Royal College of Surgeons 1994 to 1999.
- Tutor in Continuing Professional Development at Royal College of Surgeons since 1999.
- Instigated “Training The Trainers” courses for the Royal College in England and other institutions. Courses have been run at the College itself, in Farnborough (RAMC) and some elements in the Hadessa University, Jerusalem. Overseen expansion of the programme for the Royal College of Surgeons throughout the British Isles including Dublin, Glasgow and six other regional centres. Developed, directed and taught on fifty such courses in the last three years.
- Responsible for the international expansion of the programme in Europe (Czechoslovakia, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Kosovo, Greece, Malta and Sweden), Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia (Perth) and USA (Tampa, Florida and Columbia, South Carolina),.
- Examiner for School of Chiropody, Belfast, 1985 – 1990.
- Director for four TTT courses in South Tyrone Hospital for Consultant staff from Northern Ireland, including two courses for Orthopaedic Consultants and one specifically for Altnagelvin Area Hospital staff.
- Developed courses for the College of Surgeons in Assessment, running four times per year.
- Developed the Appraisal courses on behalf of the College for use by Trusts in the UK.
- Developed courses for Consultants at the Royal College of Surgeons dealing with research, management (including finance) and audit (including communication skills). Also involved in determining the forthcoming systems for measuring competence.
- Educational Tutor on the Management Development Course for Specialist Registrars in Northern Ireland 1997-1998.
- Three courses in education specifically for physicians and surgeons were run at the Royal College of Surgeons in Glasgow (1997) with a further two in 1998.
- Conceived, set up and run teaching course in laparoscopic surgery at South Tyrone Hospital (this also provides income generation for the Unit of Management). These are intensive, instructional courses in safe laparoscopic surgery and are the only ones in Northern Ireland. To date, more than one hundred surgeons have been trained including surgeons from the province, the rest of the UK, Republic of Ireland, Saudi Arabia and Mexico, since 1990.
- Provided seven teaching courses in Qatar and throughout the United Arab Emirates in gallbladder and hernia surgery, 1993/1994. Further course in hiatus hernia surgery at Kuwait in 1996.
- Designed and developed the first Multi-Disciplinary Medical/Para-Medical Teaching Instructor Course (hospital doctors, GP Tutors for Northern Ireland, Dental Tutors for Northern Ireland, Social Work Tutors for the Southern Board, Senior Hospital and Community Nurses), June 1994. Four further courses have been run since then.
- Invited speaker on trauma for a full series of videos made for GP’s (Telemed Videos) supplied to every practice throughout the UK and Ireland as well as some abroad (from 1992 – 1993). Lecturer on various courses including Basics for GP’s in Northern Ireland, Trauma Workshops in the UK (including Newcastle, Sunderland, Birmingham, Cardiff and London), as well as contributing to international surgical programmes in Amsterdam, Pissouri (Cyprus), Madrid and Jerusalem (1992 - 1994).
- Member of team from Royal College of Surgeons, England, to set up and train trauma service for the Falkland Islands, September 1995.
- Speaker on educational issues at both the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (1998). In 1999 spoken at the International Society of Vascular Surgeons (Hamburg), Royal College of Surgeons, London, Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow and the Association of Surgeons in Brighton.
- Lectured in education at the European Surgical Institute, Hamburg, in association with Ethicon/Johnston & Johnston.
- Lecturer in education to the Disability Benefits Branch of the DHSS in Newcastle and Leeds.
- Lectured on trauma at four British Council Courses in Belfast.
- Training The Trainers Courses 2000 in Germany, Singapore, Holland, Spain and South Africa.
- Speaker at international conference at The Royal College of Surgeons on “Teaching and Appraisal in Medicine” May 2000.
- Chairman of conference at The Royal College of Surgeons on “Evidence Based Surgery” September 2000.
- Speaker at Appraisal & Assessment for Clinicians & Managers Course held at the Royal College of Physicians, London, March 2001.
- Speaker at The British Association of Medical Managers Appraisal Skills for Surgeons Course held in London, April 2001.
- Chairman, Conference on “Appraisal and Assessment”, London June 2001.
- Healthcare Events, Appraisal & Assessment for Clinicians & Managers - Chair, October 2001.
- Speaker at Association of Surgeons of the Netherlands Conference, November 2001.
- Speaker at IBC Global Conferences, Mastering Appraisal & Revalidation Conference - London December 2001.
- Lead Trainer European Surgical Institute, 2 day Conference, Hamburg, February 2002.
- Speaker at "Lehren lernen" Conference Postsdam, February 2002.
- Speaker, Royal College of Physicians Conference, Liverpool May 2002.
- Speaker at Surgery 2002 Conference on "Consultant Appraisal & Revalidation, May 2002.
- Director, Association of Surgeons of the Netherlands Appraisal Course, June 2002.
- Speaker at RCS England, Appraisal Conference, June 2002.
- Chair, Healthcare Events Conference, Appraisal & Assessment for Clinicians & Managers, October 2002.
- Director, European Surgical Institute Conference, Germany, February 2003.
- Speaker at Cleveland Clinic Miami, Faculty Development for Bariatric Surgery, January 2004.
- Speaker at Romanian Surgical Society on Medical Education and Trauma for RCS England, May 2004.
- Chair, Healthcare Events Conference, Appraisal and Assessment for Clinicians and Managers, May 2004.
- Speaker, Swedish Surgical Society on Medical Education and Surgery, August 2004.
- Workshop for Whipscross Hospital, London to introduce Appraisal and Assessment Systems, RCS England and British Association of Medical Managers (BAMM), September 2004.
- Chair, Healthcare Events, Management Seminar and speaker on dealing with difficult colleagues, September 2004.
- Speaker, Solicitors Conference on Medico-Legal issues, Medical and Legal Training Services, Birmingham, September 2004.
- Speaker, Capita Conference on Motivation and Appraisal in Medicine, London, October 2004.
- Speaker, Conference on Emergency Surgical Treatment in Childhood Trauma, January 2005.
- Speaker, Royal Society of Medicine, Faculty Development in Surgery, London, March 2005.
- Speaker, Conference on Medical Education with the German Surgical Society, May 2005.
- Speaker, Conference on Medico-Legal issues for Solicitors, Medical and Legal Training Services, Birmingham, February 2006.
- Chair, Healthcare Events, Appraisal and Assessment for Clinicians and Managers, London, March 2006.
- Designed and developed Examiner Training Courses for the four Royal Colleges of Surgeons in the UK and Ireland.
- Involved in the design and development of Faculty Training Programme for Surgical Trainers in Deaneries throughout the UK to implement the Modernising Medical Careers Project (MMC).
Medico-Legal Experience
- Involved in medico-legal reporting and court appearances as an expert witness since 1983.
- Over the last five years have seen a minimum of 2,500 cases per annum including personal injury, RSI and medical negligence.
- Foundation Member of the Expert Witness Institute.
Research and Publications
- Numerous publications before Consultant appointment including research into Vena Caval Filtration, e.g. “Comparison of Greenfield Filter and Vena Caval Ligation” published in Surgery 1982, and Breast Cancer, e.g. “High Colloidal Uptake in Axillary Nodes with Metastatic Disease” published in British Journal of Surgery 1981. Since then there have been some general publications such as “Management of a Widowmaker” 1987 and “Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in a District Hospital” published in Ulster Medical Journal, January 1993.
Recent papers include “Reflection on Thirty Years of Terrorist Violence; from Abercorn to Omagh”, Trauma 2001, “Surgical Training” Hospital Healthcare Europe, London 2001.
- Co-Editor of “Cambridge Textbook for Accident and Emergency Medicine” published in Cambridge University Press 1997. New edition now being compiled for publication in 2001. This is the largest selling Accident & Emergency book outside the United States.
- Author (with international colleagues) of three chapters in “Ballistic Trauma” edited by Professor Ryan, published by Blackwell, May 1998.
- Author “The UK Trauma Surgeon” in “Trauma” edited by Greaves, Ryan & Porter, published by Edward Arnold 1997.
- Editor/Author “Teaching and Learning in Medical Education” published by Manticore Europe 1998. Personally authored eight chapters. This is the largest selling book on medical education worldwide.
- Co-Author, "Assessment & Appraisal in Training Surgeons", Raven Department of Education, Royal College of Surgeons of England 1998.
- Co-Author, chapter on “Surgery of Terrorism” in Trauma, A Companion to Bailey & Love’s Practice of Surgery edited by Skinner & Whimster 1999.
- Author “Appraisal and Assessment in Medical Practice”, Manticore Europe 2000.
- Article "Punishment Beatings and the rule of law" The Lancet (Dec 2002).
- Article "Meeting the Challenges of the future! New trends in surgical training. Hospital Healthcare Europe Theatre & Surgery (2002/3).
- Author "Whiplash in Medico-Legal Practice", Manticore Books, due July 2003.
- Author "Whiplash Injuries Cause, Symptoms & Treatment", Manticore Books, due May 2003.
- Author “Faculty Development for the New Curriculum”, Ann Roy Col Surg Eng, 2005.
- Author “Industrialisation of Surgery”, Ann Roy Col Surg Eng, 2005
- Co-Author “Training the Trainers” Handbook, Roy Col Surg Eng, 2006
Theses
- Thesis on Tendon Growth for BSc (Hons)
- Thesis on Vena-Caval Filtration for MD
- Thesis on Outcomes of Teacher Training Episodes for MSc (Educ)
Strategic Planning Experience Including Needs Assessment And Review
- Medical Staff Liaison Officer in Northern Ireland responsible for the development of relevant medical support services to the Military in Northern Ireland during a period of down sizing.
- Developing ATLS Programme during its initial phase in the UK as a member of the Committee. Researched the efficacy of the Educational Programme whilst undertaking a MD Thesis.
- Training The Trainers Tutor, overseeing the development and cascading of the programme throughout the regions and internationally.
- Overseeing the development and implementation of appraisal for surgeons in the UK and abroad on behalf of the Royal College of Surgeons England.
- Continuing Professional Development Tutor at Royal College of Surgeons England – designed, developed and delivered appraisal courses for UK surgeons.
Any Other Information
- Member of the Territorial Army 1967 to present. Commissioned into Royal Signals Regiment 1971 and into RAMC 1973. Held Short Service Volunteer Commission 1975. Attended Staff College, Camberley, 1988. Medical Liaison Staff Officer HQNI 1987 – 1989. Present rank Lt. Col. RAMC at HQRAMC (TA) Chester. Commander 363 Field Surgical Team.
- Have successfully completed the Army’s Senior Management and Commanders Course and have been responsible for IPR for those in line management.
- Nato Exchange Officer attached to Virginia National Guard 1980 – 1981.
- Awarded the TD (Territorial Decoration) with two bars 1982.
- During the first Gulf War, was a Senior Instructor to the Allied Forces, training medical and para-medical staff in England, Holland, Germany and Cyprus, teaching medical management of chemical and biological injuries as well as missile injuries. To this end, lectured in a number of teaching hospitals throughout the UK with regard to specific surgical management of severe trauma in a mass casualty situation.
- Involved in planning for medical staff training in relation to Kosovo crisis.
- Author of chapters in the BATLS Manual (mainly missile trauma) which is a restricted HMSO publication.
- Founding member of Expert Witness Institute with wide experience of medico-legal work.
- Served as Faculty on the “Surgery and the Law” Course at the Royal College of Surgeons.
- Graduated in Law from The College of Law, Guildford, 1999.
- During the second Gulf War, Senior Surgeon to Allied Forces, 202 Field Hospital, Kuwait/Iraq.
Regional Activities
Department of Health:
- Member of Working Party on A&E Services in Northern Ireland, 1992 - 1993
- Member of Regional Task Force for Junior Doctors’ Hours, 1993 - 1998
- Member of Regional Task Force on Extended Nursing Role, 1996
- BMA Hospitals Consultants Committee Member for eight years
- Place of work accredited representative (POWAR) for South Tyrone Hospital
National Activities
- Senior Instructor in Trauma to RAMC (BATLS), 1985 – present
- Educator, Trauma Programme, RAMC 1994 – present
- Director of UK Trauma Foundation (London)
- General Surgical Representative in the UK ATLS Committee for the Royal College of Surgeons of England until 1995
- Member of Education Audit Committee at Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1993–1996, 2000-present
- Surgical Educator on ATLS Programme (UK and USA)
- Chairman Training The Trainers Steering Group, Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Royal College of Surgeons of England Tutor in Education from October 1994 – April 1999
- Royal College of Surgeons of England Tutor for Continuing Professional Development (1999-2003)
- Royal College of Surgeons of England Principal Tutor for Faculty Development (2003-present)
- Royal Colleges of Surgeons in the UK and Ireland, Educational Adviser in examiner training to the Intercollegiate Board
- Educator to Disability Benefits Branch of DHSS
Membership of Learned Bodies
- Royal College of Physicians of London (Fellow 1997)
- Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (by examination), Ireland (for services to trauma), England (for services to education)
- Royal Society of Medicine
- International Society of Surgery
- Member of the Expert Witness Institute
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 19 January 1949
Status: Married with 3 teenage sons
Driving Licence: Full/Clean
Interests: RAMC Reserve (1970-present), Badminton, Travel
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