Amazing few days in 🏴 for
@ACPGBI
Annual Meeting. Proud to be the first Welsh President (I think!) & looking forward to leading an amazingly talented team over the next 12 months. Thanks to the outgoing Exec members for jobs well done! And thanks to my family for all support ❤️
Two years of work comes to fruition tomorrow with the launch of the 14th edition of this Cambridge institution of a surgical textbook. Many changes! A huge honour to be asked to replace Prof Calne and Prof Ellis, and to join friend and colleague Prof Chris Watson as co-editor 😎
Honoured to deliver the annual Whitby Dinner lecture
@downingcollege
@Cambridge_Uni
this evening. Going to be talking about common sense and civility in healthcare- not sure that’s what will be expected, but should be fun
@BrennanSurgeon
@ACPGBI
Humbled and honoured to have been elected Chair of IBD Committee of
@acpgbi
. So fortunate to serve with a group of outstanding clinicians in order to drive improvements in the care for our patients with IBD, with huge thanks to
@OmarFaiz_SETOC
for his hard work up to now
Proud to have supported the
@ACPGBI
@EYCN_ACP
Early Years Consultant Network and become the first surgeon to be formally accredited via the European Mentoring and Coaching Council Global Quality Award. Very grateful to have learnt from my mentees too 🙏
Looking forward to a couple of weeks with my family over Xmas. Having a SoMe break, in order to set the example for them to do the same! See you in 2020
Delighted to co-author this editorial with
@BrennanSurgeon
and colleagues on improving communication, behaviour and interactions with others. Not rocket science but some simple messages that certainly help me at times.
Antibiotic Treatment and Appendectomy for Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis: Annals of Surgery
Delighted to co-author this collaborative
@AnnalsofSurgery
paper with Cambridge colleagues
@cam_colorectal
and
@salo75
An honour to be asked by the medical students to deliver the annual Whitby dinner lecture
@downingcollege
@Cambridge_Uni
this evening. With April being
#BowelCancerAwareness
month, good timing to use this topic to illustrate the tilte “Why do we need to learn all this stuff?”
@jamestoml1
Share the pain with colleagues for your support, and share any learning. Share the pain with the patient and family by resisting the human urge to avoid and as Angus says, “run towards the fire”. Deal with it proactively and compassionately, with low index for second opinion
Enhancing the emergency general surgical service: an example of the aggregation of marginal gains. We have published our initial experience with combined EGS and specialist work
@ACPGBI
@asgbi
@bottomdoc
@Neil_J_Smart
👀
Deep gratitude
@cam_colorectal
@ACPGBI
President for strong & stoic leadership during challenging & testing times.Thank you for organising such an inspiring & exciting virtual annual meeting.
So thankful to have been led by an amazing President!
#inclusive
#motivational
It has been great to contribute to a series of 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇺🇸 🇰🇪 anatomical reviews over the past couple of years which we hope will help with
#colorectalsurgery
planning and intraoperative decision making. 🙏
@ColorectalDis
&
@ElsevierConnect
The Surgeon
Very proud of our emergency general surgery team for being shortlisted for the
@HSJptsafety
national awards 2019. Great effort from all concerned to improve EGS patient experience and treatment
@CUH_NHS
Well done all 👍
Delighted to receive this recognition from
@BJSurgery
and thanks to all those
@NICEComms
CRC Committee members contributing to this work, especially our patient/lay representatives for their key input
@ShiYunZhao
@FaheezM
@DrRichardRoope
So rewarding to have supervised a clinical medical student from
@downingcollege
@Cambridge_Uni
in a review of surgical outcomes from our unit, and for him to now be presenting this at an international meeting
@ESCP_tweets
in Vienna 👍
#ESCP2019
Last meeting
@NICEComms
Colorectal Cancer Committee in London today after 2 years formulating updated Guidelines to be published in January 2020. Privilege to be Clinical Lead/Topic Advisor, working with great patient reps, systematic reviewers, GP, nurse & MDT colleagues
Delighted to contribute
@ColorectalDis
. Anatomy remains key 😎 A systematic review and meta‐analysis of variants of the branches of the superior mesenteric artery: the Achilles heel of right hemicolectomy with complete mesocolic excision?
We are seeking to appoint a consultant colleague in the Cambridge Colorectal Unit at Addenbrookes. Incredible colleagues here, including
@cam_colorectal
@PowarSurgeON
@salo75
vibrant city and wonderful
@Cambridge_Uni
Come join us!
Masterful talk by
@AntoninoSpin
on the importance of surgery in penetrating/fistulising small bowel Crohn’s disease. If surgery needed, pre-op optimisation with IR abscess drainage, nutrition, antibiotics, medication key to good outcomes,
#ECCO19
Current Vacancies | CUH Recruitment Substantive Post for consultant colorectal surgeon in Cambridge. Exciting opportunity to come join us at Addenbrookes Hospital
@cam_colorectal
@PowarSurgeON
@SiBucz
@Dukes_Club
🇸🇪 & 🇬🇧 collaboration with
@matt_soop
@MissLHancock
discussing ECCO Guidelines. Anti-TNF therapy before intestinal surgery for Crohn’s disease and the risks of postoperative complications | Journal of Crohn's and Colitis | Oxford Academic.
Special delivery from
@Gut_BMJ
coming to all
@BritSocGastro
members today. The UK
#IBD
guidelines are now in print. Please help to spread the word so they are used to support the best possible care of
#Crohns
and
#Colitis
patients!
Absolutely outstanding talk from Simon Buczacki
@SiBucz
on heterogeneity in colorectal cancer at Alpine Colorectal Meeting. Very proud to have such an outstanding colleague, amongst many others
@PowarSurgeON
@cam_colorectal
Stunning view from the surgical floor
@Hopitaux_unige
🇨🇭 today. Thank you
@ris_frederic
&
@JeremyMeyerGVA
for the kind invitation to present grand rounds on IBD surgery in Geneva- a truly excellent and collaborative surgical unit with a great surgical team
@juliomayol
Used to listen to music in OR, then realised that whenever people needed to “concentrate” the first thing to happen was the music got turned off. So figured no music was the way to go if communication is to be optimised
#SoMe4Surgery
I am delighted to be coming home to 🏴 for this one. Will be a great
@escp_tweets
meeting, superbly organised by
@TorkiJ
and
@jules_cornish
Diolch yn fawr