The College President

Biography

John Black qualified from Cambridge University via St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in 1968 and obtained the Fellowship in 1973, with an MD (Birmingham) in 1978. He was the second President of ASiT. In 1978 he was appointed Consultant General Surgeon in Worcester, with an interest in vascular surgery but became a “first-wave” laparoscopic surgeon in 1990. He served as the first Medical Director of Worcester Royal Infirmary and chairs the charity that built and runs the Charles Hastings Education Centre. He was Training Programme Director in General Surgery in the West Midlands Region during the change to the Calman system and joined the SAC in 1998, and was Chairman from 2004 to 2007. He was elected to the Council of The Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2003 and in July 2006 became Honorary Treasurer.