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Professor Cliff Shearman

Professor of Vascular Surgery/Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Southampton

Professor Shearman qualified from Guys Hospital Medical School London University and trained in vascular surgery in Birmingham. He was appointed as a senior lecturer/consultant vascular surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham in 1990. In 1994 he moved to Southampton as a NHS Consultant Vascular Surgeon and in 1999 was appointed to the Chair of Vascular Surgery at the University of Southampton.

Professor Shearman currently works in a busy vascular unit which undertakes most vascular and endovascular treatments of arterial and venous disease. The unit serves a local population of 1.2 million people. He has an interest in diabetic vascular disease and has a multidisciplinary diabetic foot care team. Professor Shearman’s research programme is largely directed at determining factors that promote the progression of vascular disease, both environmental and genetic, and how these might be modified.

Professor Shearman was clinical director of surgery in Southampton for 5 years. He is also on the Council and Chairman of the Training and Education Committee of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Specialist Advisory Committee for General Surgery.

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