I did my medical school training at Oxford University at a time when evidence based medicine was taking off. I then went to Manchester for my junior doctor positions and worked for Professor Mackway Jones who had just set up Best Evidence Topics in Emergency Medicine. He encouraged me to set up a 10 centre study in children's head injuries that became my PhD and I helped NICE to create National Guidelines in this area.
I then entered Cardiothoracic Surgery and continued projects in Evidence Based Surgery first inspired by Prof Ludwig Von Segesser to create Best BETS in Cardiothoracic Surgery for the ICVTS and then by Sam Nashef on the EACTS Clinical Guidelines committee to start to produce guidelines for our community.
I am currently promoting guidelines for the management of arrests after cardiac surgery which I still think is the most important guideline that I have ever helped to create and has the potential to save the most lives and this has led onto the creation of the CALS course ( www.csu-als.org) and also a course for emergencies in the catheter lab called REACT. We also wrote a 9 society guideline for this.

Clinically I spend a lot of my time doing minimally invasive Thoracic Surgery. I particularly like trying our new techniques for both robotic and VATS surgery including subxiphoid approaches for lobectomy and the thymus. I am a proctor for Intuitive and for Cambridge Medical Robotics.

In England we had a very significant issue with lack of access to surgery for Pectus deformities. I have helped to set up a National MDT for pectus, We wrote an international Pectus Best Care guideline published in the EJCTS and I am chief investigator of the RESTORE Trial which is a £2m NHS funded project to determine the cardiovascular benefits of surgery for pectus excavatum.

And of course I love making videos, being involved in CTSNet and watching all your videos, so if you have anything great that you would like everyone to see, please get in contact and we will get it posted for you !!