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Professor Gerry Stansby (Chair)

Professor of Vascular Surgery, Newcastle

Professor Gerard Stansby qualified from Cambridge University and Addenbrooke’s Hospital in 1982. He carried out many junior training posts in Cambridge and the East Anglian area before moving to the Royal Free Hospital as Registrar and subsequently Lecturer in Surgery. In 1993, he went to St Mary’s Hospital in London as a Senior Clinical Vascular Fellow and, in 1994, became Senior Lecturer in General & Vascular Surgery at St Mary’s Hospital and Imperial College, London. In January 2000, he obtained his current position of Professor of Vascular Surgery at the Freeman Hospital, University of Newcastle.

Professor Stansby is the author of more than 100 scientific articles and several books and book chapters, all in the area of vascular surgical research. His special interests include biology of the endothelial cells and platelet–blood vessel wall interactions.

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