The Circulation Foundation Committee
CF COMMITTEE 2005-2006
Professor Sir Peter Bell (Chairman)
Mr D Berridge (Honorary Treasurer)
Mr R Baird
Professor J Belch
Professor K Burnand
J Burns (Society of Vascular Nurses)
Mrs C Flatman (Society for Vascular Technology)
Professor G Hamilton
Professor M Horrocks
Mr T Lees
Mr A May
Mr J Thompson
Professor A Watkinson
Mr J Wolfe
Sir Peter Bell
Professor Sir Peter Bell is Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the University of Leicester and honorary consultant surgeon to the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
He qualified at the University of Sheffield in 1961 and thereafter worked in Sheffield, Glasgow, Denver, USA, before returning to Glasgow as a Senior Lecturer and Consultant in 1969. He moved to Leicester as the Foundation Professor of Surgery in 1973.
His interests have been in the fields of general surgery with a special interest in organ transplantation and vascular surgery. He has been Secretary of the International and National Transplantation Societies and the surgical research society He has been President of the European Society for Vascular Surgery, The Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Surgical Research Society and is currently President of the International Society of Vascular Surgeons. He has served on a number of committees including the Cell Board of the Medical Research Council, and been Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was the founding editor of the European Journal of Vascular Surgery.
His research is in the field of organ transplantation and vascular disease both laboratory and clinical based and he has published more than 700 papers in these areas. He has written a number of textbooks on vascular surgery and transplantation.
Sir Peter was one of the founders of the British Vascular Foundation, along with fellow vascular consultant Mr Tony Chant from Southampton, and is currently Chairman of the CF Sub-Committee.
Kevin G. Burnand, MBBS, FRCSl, MS
Kevin Burnand is Professor of Vascular Surgery and
Chairman, Department of Surgery, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, London. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol and St. Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, London.
After house appointment at St Thomas’, his further surgical training was at the Royal Marsden, Kingston-upon-Thames and Salisbury General Hospital, before returning as registrar and senior registrar at St Thomas’.
Professor Burnand is a member of eleven medical and surgical societies, both in the UK and North America. He is a past President of both the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland and of the Venous Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is the President Elect of the Society of Academic and Research Surgeons.
Professor Burnand has been on the editorial board of several medical journals and was Co-Chief Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery from 1992-2002. He has written four books, two with Sir Norman Browse on Diseases of the Veins and Diseases of the Lymphatics. He has written over 150 papers on arterial venous and lymphatic disease in peer reviewed journals, and has a continuing interest in unstable carotid plague, aetiology of aortic aneurysm, venous ulcers and venous thrombosis.
Michael Horrocks, Professor of Surgery,
Royal United Hospital, Bath
Following his move from Bristol in 1992, he has been a member of Council and president of the Vascular Society.
His involvement with the CF is as a result of incorporating the CF into the Vascular Society and he is clearly enthusiastic to see the CF grow and become a major medical charity.
John H N Wolfe, MS FRCS
Consultant Vascular Surgeon, St Mary’s Hospital, London
John trained at St Thomas’ Hospital, London and the Brigham Hospital, Harvard, following which he was appointed to St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London and Hammersmith Post-Graduate Medical School.
He has served on the Council of the Vascular Society of Great Britain & Ireland and is currently President. He has also served on the Council and Specialist Board of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland. He is a member of the European Board of Vascular Surgery and was President in 2004-2005. He is an Honorary Corresponding Fellow of the Vascular Societies of India, Switzerland, South Africa.
His particular interests are complex aneurysmal disease, distal arterial reconstruction and vascular training.