Co-Chairs

Sophie Allen

ST4 Surgical Registrar, St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey

Matt Dunstan

ST4 Surgical Research Fellow, Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit, Guildford

I graduated from King's College, University of London in 2010, where I also undertook an intercalated BSc in Anatomy and Human Sciences. I am an ST4 specialty registrar in the South West London Deanery, currently undertaking an MD in laparoscopic imaging technologies at the MATTU.

Liam Poynter

ST5 Surgical Research Fellow, Imperial College London

I graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine in 2009 with MB BS and the Associateship of the Imperial College School of Medicine (AICSM). As part of my undergraduate training I undertook research into Reproductive Medicine and Paediatric Infectious Diseases as part of an intercalated BSc. I was appointed to the Kent, Surrey & Sussex Higher Surgical Training programme in 2013 following Core Training in the same region. I have a declared interest in Colorectal Surgery.

I am currently OOPR in a Clinical Research Fellow post in the Division of Surgery & Cancer at Imperial College London. The topic of my PhD thesis is the development of mass-spectroscopic imaging methods to guide neoadjuvant therapy in rectal cancer, under the supervision of Professor the Lord Darzi, Professor Zoltan Takats and Mr Reza Mirnezami.

Academic Lead - West KSS

Pasha Nisar

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey

Academic Lead - East KSS

Danny Lawes

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, The Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells

Committee meeting minutes:

24th March 2016

24th November 2015