MSc in Surgical Sciences

Professor Stephen Wigmore
MSc in Surgical Sciences Programme Director

BSc(Hons), MBBS(Lond), MD(Edin), FRCSEd, FRCS (Gen Surg)

Programme Director, Professor Steve Wigmore was appointed Professor of Transplantation Surgery at the University of Edinburgh in 2007. He graduated in Medicine at King’s College, University of London and worked at King’s College Hospital and The Royal Free Hospital before commencing basic surgical training in Edinburgh in 1991. He was a Smith & Nephew Foundation and Wilkie Scholar before taking up a lectureship in clinical surgery in 1996. He trained in surgery with Sir David Carter and Professor James Garden developing an interest in HPB surgery and Transplantation. He worked as a Post Doctoral Scholar at the University of California San Francisco holding a UICC Yamagiwa Yoshida Fellowship. He returned to Edinburgh after being awarded a Wellcome Trust Advanced Fellowship which coincided with his appointment as Senior lecturer and Hon Consultant Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He was appointed to the Chair of Transplantation Surgery at the Birmingham Liver Unit in 2005 returning to Edinburgh in 2007 to his current post.

He has published widely in surgical specialities particularly focusing on the fields of organ pre-conditioning and liver surgery. He has published more than 150 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and reviews research grants for national and international funding agencies. He is currently an Associate Editor of the journal HPB the official journal of the IHPBA. He is a former Associate Editor of the World Journal of Surgery and serves on the Editorial boards of the British Journal of Surgery and Transplantation among other journals.

He is a principal investigator in the MRC Centre for Inflammation Research with laboratories in the Queens Medical Research Institute and maintains an active research group in the fields of experimental and clinical liver surgery and transplantation. He is currently Clinical Director for General Surgery and Transplantation Services at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

He has an active interest in postgraduate education and has been involved in the ESSQ programme since its inception. He has been involved in the development and assessment particularly of years two and three and has been Year 3 Director for the past 4 years.
 

Ms Anna Paisley
MSc Surgical Sciences Year 1 Director

BM BCh, MA, MD, FRCSEd
Consultant General & Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer

Born and educated in Belfast, Ms Paisley attended Oxford University Medical School, qualifying in 1993. She then had house jobs in Oxford and Gloucester, followed by Accident and Emergency in Northampton and Anatomy Demonstrating at Guy's Hospital, London.

Upper GI Surgical Fellow at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne for one year from February 2005. Basic and higher surgical training carried out in South East Scotland, based primarily at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Doctor of Medicine in Assessment of Basic Surgical Trainees awarded from Oxford University in 2003. Ms Paisley was appointed as Consultant General & Upper GI Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh in January 2007.

Ms Paisley’s main clinical interests lie in the management of benign and malignant oesophagogastric disease, together with emergency general surgery.
 

Mr Peter Lamb
MSc Surgical Sciences Year 2 Director

MBBS, FRCS, MD, FRCSEd
Consultant General & Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer

Mr Lamb was appointed as a consultant in 2008 with subspecialist interests in oesophagogastric and minimally invasive surgery. He has an active interest in undergraduate teaching and surgical training.

Mr Lamb’s main research interest is oesophagogastric cancer, and during his training he completed an MD at the Northern Oesophagogastric Unit, Newcastle, on sentinel node mapping in oesophageal cancer. He completed his higher surgical training in the Northern Deanery followed by an oesophagogastric fellowship in 2007/8 at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia.
 

Mr Damian Mole
MSc Surgical Sciences Year 3 Director

BMedSc, MBChB, PhD, FRCS
Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant HPB Surgeon

Damian Mole’s clinical focus is on the surgical management of benign and malignant disorders of the liver, pancreas and bile ducts. In addition to contributing to the tertiary referral HPB specialist team at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, he periodically leads the Emergency General Surgery receiving team and manages common elective general surgical conditions. Damian trained in Birmingham, London, Belfast and the USA prior to moving to Edinburgh in 2006.

Damian’s research is driven by a vision to produce innovative solutions to difficult surgical problems and challenging diseases. His research strategy is based on a critical questioning approach, disease mechanism evaluation and seeking out and building the best teams to discover and deliver these solutions. His current specific challenges are centered on mechanism evaluation and therapies for multiple organ dysfunction triggered by severe acute pancreatitis, and on harnessing the power of regeneration for tissue restitution.

Damian is a Developing Principal Investigator in the MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh. He is a graduate of the Health Foundation Leadership Training Program.