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Along with the ACPGBI office bearers, the Executive Committee includes chairs of the Education and Training, External Affairs, Multidisciplinary Clinical and Research and Audit committees.

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ACPGBI Executive Members 2024-2025

Justin Davies

President

Justin Davies is a colorectal surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, where he is also Deputy Medical Director. He is an Affiliated Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.

   

Athur Harikrishnan

President-elect

Athur (Hari) Harikrishnan is a Consultant Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgeon and trained in South Wales and East Anglia and is based in Sheffield. His interests include cancer, IBD and proctology. He is actively involved in teaching, training and simulation, TPD and runs several courses in Sheffield.

   

Jim Khan

President-in-Waiting

Jim Khan is a specialist Colorectal Surgeon with a comprehensive training in general, laparoscopic and robotic surgery. Main areas of interest are colorectal cancer, robotic surgery, IBD and hernia surgery. Jim graduated in surgery form Wessex, followed by advanced fellowships in Colchester and Korea and is currently a Professor of Surgery at the University of Portsmouth 

   

Laura Hancock

Honorary Secretary

Laura Hancock is a consultant general and colorectal surgeon at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (Wythenshawe). Laura graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine, London and surgical training was undertaken in London, Oxford and the Northwest. This was followed by a National ALSGBI/RCS Eng Laparoscopic Colorectal Fellowship in Leeds in 2015.

   

Nicola Eardley

Assistant Honorary Secretary/Chair, Education & Training Committee

Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon 

Specialises in colorectal cancer services; General Surgery. Colorectal cancer services at the colorectal cancer services at Countess Of Chester

   

David McArthur

Honorary Treasurer

David McArthur is a consultant general surgeon. He is a Consultant Colorectal, General and Laparoscopic Surgeon performing colorectal surgery and colorectal operations on the NHS and privately, at The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust and Spire Parkway Hospital, Solihull.

   

Sushil Maslekar 

Assistant Honorary Treasurer

Consultant general surgeon specialising in hernia repair, haemorrhoid treatment, pelvic floor surgery and implant surgery for continence, colorectal surgery and keyhole surgery.

   

Tom Pinkney 

Chair, Multidisciplinary Committee

Tom Pinkney is a Professor of Surgery at University of Birmingham and Honorary Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at University Hospitals Birmingham. He is Director of the Birmingham Surgical Trials Consortium (BiSTC) and the Birmingham Centre for Observational and Prospective Studies (BiCOPS).  He is also Chair of the Research Committee of the European Society of Coloproctology and past Chair of the ACPGBI IBD Clinical Sub-Committee

   

Elaine Burns

Chair, Research and Audit Committee Chair

Elaine Burns is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at St Marks Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. Her area of clinical interest is colorectal surgery and in particular the surgical management of primary and recurrent colorectal cancer.

   

Katie Adams

External Affairs Committee Chair

Katie Adams is a consultant colorectal surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust where she is also the lead for gastrointestintal surgery.

She regularly presents at national and international academic meetings on colorectal surgery, including robotic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) surgery.