About
Rajarshi (Rishi) is a surgeon scientist with the Liverpool Pancreatitis Research Group and is also a Consultant Major Trauma and Emergency General Surgeon at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. His research is focused on understanding the pathophysiological mechanisms that lead to acute pancreatitis, particularly mitochondrial injury, and developing novel prognostic tests and treatments for the disease. He completed his medical training from a number of world-renowned institutions; Trinity College, Cambridge University, UK (First Class, Double Distinction), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA (Honours in Trauma, Critical Care and general Surgery) and WHO, Geneva. He went on to complete his specialist surgical training at three of the highest volume centres in the UK; Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, Liverpool University Hospitals and St. James's Hospital, Leeds. In parallel to his clinical training, he completed integrated clinical academic research training as a National Institute of Health Research Academic Clinical Fellow, the Amelie Waring Doctoral Fellow (Guts UK) and NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer. He was twice awarded the Lord Rodney Smith Medal of the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland for translational research alongside American Pancreatic Association, International Association of Pancreatology and International Union of Physiological Sciences Young Investigator Awards and the Royal Society of Medicine Basic Science in Surgery (MIA) prize. Most recently he has been awarded the Hunterian Professorship, 2024, from the Royal College of Surgeons of England for his ongoing research into new tests and treatments for acute pancreatitis with the Liverpool Pancreatitis Research Group.
Prizes or Honours
- Hunterian Professorship (Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2024)
- Clinical Lecturer Prize - First Place (University of Liverpool, 2016)
- Young Investigator Award and Best Plenary Paper Prize (International Association of Pancreatology, 2011)
- Basic Science in Surgery (MIA) Prize (Royal Society of Medicine, 2011)
- Lord Rodney Smith Medal and Prize (Pancreatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 2009)
- Awarded Lord Rodney Smith Medal & Prize (Pancreatic Society GB & Ireland, 2007)
- Distinction in Surgery (Cambridge University School of Medicine, 2004)
- Distinction in Medicine (Cambridge University School of Medicine, 2004)
- Henry Roy Dean Prize (Cambridge University, 2003)
- Paton Award (Trinity College, Cambridge, 2003)
- Trinity College Cambridge Senior Scholarship (Trinity College, Cambridge, 2001)
- Trinity College Examination prize (Trinity College, Cambridge, 2001)
Funded Fellowships
- NIHR Research Scholar (National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), 2022 - 2023)
- NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship (National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), 2013 - 2017)
- Amelie Waring Fellowship (Guts UK, 2007 - 2010)
- NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship (National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), 2007)