Surgical Specialty Leads
Surgical Specialty Leads (SSLs) have responsibility both for the development of clinical networks to deliver multi-centre studies as well as ensuring that the studies are relevant to their subspecialty and their patients.
Surgical Specialty Leads work with the Surgical Trials Centres (STCs) to develop clinical networks, train surgical investigators and deliver the clinical trials in a timely fashion. Each SSL will be affiliated to a specialist surgical society, with whom they will work to develop the clinical trials and clinical networks.
Bariatric surgery
- Mr Dimitrios Pournaras, Bristol
Breast
- Prof Shelley Potter, Bristol
- Mr Henry Cain, Newcastle
Cardiothoracic
- Prof Babu Naidu, Birmingham
Colorectal surgery
- Prof Julie Cornish, Cardiff
- Mr Jim Tiernan, Leeds
Colorectal liver metastases
- Mr Alex Gordon-Weeks, Oxford
Emergency general surgery
- Ms Natalie Blencowe, Bristol
- Mr Matt Lee, Birmingham
Gynaecological oncology
- Ms Louise Wan, Manchester
- Mr Filipe Correia-Martins, Cambridge
Hand surgery
- Ms Alexia Karantana, Nottingham
- Mr Nick Johnson, Derby / Leicester
Neuroendocrine cancer
- Mr Sam Ford, Birmingham
Neurosurgery
- Ms Ellie Edlmann, Plymouth
Oesophageal cancer
- Mr Sheraz Markar, Oxford
Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- Mr Douglas Hammond, Lancashire
Orthopaedic surgery
- Prof Dan Perry, Oxford
- Prof Alex Liddle, London
Otolaryngology
- Mr James O'Hara, Newcastle
Paediatric
- Mr Nigel Hall, Southampton
Pancreatic cancer
- Mr Samir Pathak, Leeds
Plastic surgery
- Mr Amit Roshan, London
- Ryckie Wade, Leeds
Transplantation
- Prof Peter J. Friend, Oxford
Trauma surgery
- Prof Caroline Hing, London
- Mr James Masters, Oxford
Urology
- Prof Rakesh Heer, London
Vascular surgery
- Mr Dan Carradice, Hull/York
- Mr George Smith, Hull/York
- Prof Thanos Saratzis, Leicester
If you have any queries, please contact the RCS England Clinical Research Manager.