Perioperative Medicine

Joanna Chikwe is a specialist registrar in cardiothoracic surgery, who trained at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. She is currently on a two year advanced surgical fellowship in New York, where she is due to take up a post as a consultant surgeon. She has an established track record in teaching and training for surgeons and allied health professionals. She has set up and run several highly rated national training courses, as well as in-house trainee teaching programs. She has published two textbooks, several chapters, numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, and is active in clinical research. Phil Jones obtained a BA(Hons) in Medical Sciences at the University of Cambridge and completed his studies at the London Hospital Medical College, being awarded the MB BS in 1994 by the University of London. His early postgraduate years were spent in acute specialties including Emergency Medicine and General Internal Medicine and he was awarded Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 1997. He then trained in Anaesthetics at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals where he encountered surgical patients from every major specialty. He became particularly interested in intensive care medicine, major trauma and cardiothoracic anaesthesia, the latter augmented with a Clinical Fellowship at the renowned Harefield Hospital in Middlesex. In 2005 he was appointed as a Consultant in intensive care medicine and cardiothoracic anaesthesia at Bart's & The London NHS Trust. Axel Walther is a specialist registrar in medical oncology and Clinical Research Fellow at Cancer Research UK. Axel attended Oxford University Medical School and trained at the Hammersmith, Marsden and Middlesex Hospitals. Outside oncology, Axel's interests are GI medicine and cardiology. His research interests are genetic markers of cancer risk and outcome, and he has collaborated in the discovery of several low-penetrance colon cancer susceptibility loci, thought to make up part of the inherited risk of colon cancer. Axel has presented these findings at global conferences, published in and reviewed articles for high-impact journals and contributed to textbooks on cancer.