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Professional Activities

Conference Roles

  • Aberrant calcium signalling in acinar cells, by Invitation (Organising Committee, 2007)
  • Autoimmune pancreatitis: historical perspective, pathogenesis and clinical features, by Invitation (Pancreatic Section, 2007)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (American Pancreatic Association, 2006)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (European Pancreatic Club, 2006)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (University of Oxford, 2005)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (Organising Committee, ENETS, 2005)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (UK NET Group, 2004)
  • Invited Lecture, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Irish College of Surgeons, 2003)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (Organising Committee, European Pancreatic Club, 2003)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (UK NET Group, 2003)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (University of Rotterdam, 2003)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (International Society of Geriatric Oncology, 2003)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (UK NET Group, 2002)
  • Invited Lecture, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Irish Society of Gastroenterology, 2002)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (Organising Committee, European Pancreatic Club, 2002)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (International Society of Surgery, 2001)
  • Invited Lecture, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (National Hepatology Congress, 2001)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (Cochrane Hepatobiliary Review Group, 2001)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (Executive Committee, Pancreatic Society, 2001)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (Cochrane Hepatobiliary Review Group, 1999)
  • Invited Lecture, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Novartis, 1999)
  • Invited Lecture, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Novartis, 1999)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (International Society of Pathophysiology, 1998)
  • Invited Lecture, by Invitation (Professor Michael Steer, 1998)

Professional Body Memberships

  • Physiological Society (Member, 2004 - present)
  • International Association of Pancreatology (Member, 2001 - present)
  • American Pancreatic Association (Member, 2000 - present)
  • European Pancreatic Club (Member, 1999 - present)
  • Association of Upper GI Surgeons (Member, 1996 - present)
  • Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (Member, 1993 - present)
  • British Society of Gastroenterology (Member, 1990 - present)
  • Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Executive Committee Member, 1986 - present)
  • Society for Academic and Research Surgery (Member, 1986 - present)
  • Royal College of Surgeons of England (Fellow, 1980 - present)
  • British Medical Association (Member, 1979 - present)

Other Administrative or Committee Roles

  • 1) Council, European Digestive Surgery 2004-7;
  • 2) Referee for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), 2006 et seq; Scottish Executive, 2004 et seq; Czech Ministry of Health, 2001 et seq; Scottish Hospitals Endowment Trust, 2001 et seq; Medical Research Council, 1998 et seq; Wellcome Trust, 1998 et seq; RCS Eng, 1996 et seq; 3) Faculty, American Pancreatic Association, 2004; United European Gastroenterology Week, 2004; Faculty and Organising Committee and Treasurer, European Pancreatic Club, Liverpool 2003, and Heidelberg 2002;
  • 4) Research Awards Committee, CORE (Digestive Disorders Foundation), 2003 et seq; 5) External Advisor, Professorial appointments at Universities in UK, Ghana and Jordan, 2002 et seq;
  • 6) Founder Member and Steering Committee, UK Neuroendocrine Tumour Group, 2000 et seq; Organising Committee UK NET Conferences 2002, UK NET and ENET (European Neuroendocrine Tumour) 2003, UK NET 2004, 2005; 7) Executive Committee, Pancreatic Society GBI; Pancreatic Section, British Society of Gastroenterology, 1998-2001, 2005-9; Research Committee, British Society of Gastroenterology 2005-9;
  • 8) Member of Court of Examiners, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1997-2003, Chair of Core Module Panel 2001-3, Member of Review Group 2001-2 and Member of Quality Assurance Group 2002-3, contribution to supervision, quality assurance, development, intercollegiate profile of MRCS; Member, Panel of Examiners, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2000-2005; 9) Chairman, Interportal Trials Group, 1996-2000; National and International Adviser, Bayer, Novartis Pharma; Ipsen International, Solvay Pharmaceuticals 1990 et seq. 10) Guidelines Review Panel, Liver Section, British Society of Gastroenterology, 1998 et seq; Pancreatic Section, British Society of Gastroenterology, 1999 et seq; UK Neuroendocrine Group 2000 et seq.