Surgical Specialty Boards
Interest groups and surgical specialties are represented by 11 Surgical Specialty Boards (SSBs), who ensure that the membership's specialist professional interests have a voice within the College.
The SSBs can both raise issues for discussion with the College's Council and have matters referred to them by Council. Council meets with the SSB Chairs twice per year.
SSBs have between four and ten members from a particular specialty, including a trainee representative, SAS grade representative, Council member, member of the Specialty Advisory Committee (SAC), and, where appropriate, surgical sub-specialties.
- Cardiothoracic SSB
- General Surgery SSB
- Neurosurgery SSB
- Ophthalmology SSB
- Oral and Maxillofacial SSB
- Otolaryngology SSB
- Paediatric SSB
- Plastic SSB
- Trauma & Orthopaedic SSB
- Urology SSB
- Vascular Surgery SSB
Read the RCSEd Surgical Specialty Boards Terms of Reference here.
For more information please contact: The Committee Administrator, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DW.
Email: committeeadministrator@rcsed.ac.uk , Tel: + 44 (0)131 527 1555
Cardiothoracic SSB
Chair: Sridhar Rathinam
Deputy Chair: Douglas West
Members:
- Tim Jones
- Lognathen Balacumaraswami
- Stephen Rooney
- Maninder Singh Kalkat
- Vivek Srivastava
- Neil Cartwright
- Mark Jones
- Lawrence Okiror
- Majid Mukadam
- Gillian Hardman
- Tim Graham
- Rana Sayeed
- Bhuvana Krishnamoorthy
General Surgery SSB
Chair: Siong Liau
Deputy Chair: Chelliah Selvasekar
Members:
- Vittal Rao
- Dimitrios Damaskos
- Aung Myint Oo
- Sanjay Pandanaboyana
- Vikram Kate
- Anita Balakrishnan
- Alastair Moses
- Arul Immanuel
- Kwok-Leung Cheung
- Lasitha Samarakoon
- Anne Ewing
- Clare McNaught
- Ian Hawthorn
- Leo Brown
- Dilraj Bilku
- Chris Lewis
- Christian Macutkiewicz
- Shahab Siddiqi
- Matthew Forshaw
Neurosurgery SSB
Chair: Likhith Alakandy
Members:
- Nihal Gurusinghe
- Peter Bodkin
- Jothy Kandasamy
- Atul Tyagi
- Colin Watts
- Mark Wilson
- Teodoro Forcht Dagi
- Pragnesh Bhatt
- Iain Robertson
- Venetia Giannakaki
- Alistair Jenkins
- Alastair Gibson
- Ioannis Fouyas
- Neil Simms
- Alistair Jenkins
Ophthalmology SSB
Chair: Dan Morris
Members:
- Harry Bennett
- Roshini Sanders
- Robert Murray
- Ishtiyak Mahomed
- Muthusamy Palanisamy
- Thomas Kuriakose
- Dipen Boghani
- Laura Hughes
- Ahmed Sallam
- Alan Mulvihill
- Clare Davey
Oral and Maxillofacial SSB
Chair: Craig Wales
Members:
- Mark Ansell
- Richard Graham
- Chetan Katre
- Alexandra Thompson
- Stuart Clark
- Victoria Beale
- John Rowson
Otolaryngology SSB
Chair: Frank Stafford
Deputy Chair: Steven Powell
Members:
- Ranjan Raychowdhury
- Nashreen Oozeer
- Richard Townsley
- Sarah Healy
- Stephen Jones
- Richard Steven
- Sadie Khwaja
- Shyam Singam
- Rory Houston
- Janet Wilson
- Dheeraj Karamchandani
- Rachel Scurrah
- David Baring
- Alun Williams
Paediatric SSB
Chair: Liam McCarthy
Members:
- Robin Garrett-Cox
- Nikola Henderson
- Ewan Brownlee
- Melanie Clarke
- Christopher Driver
- Martyn Flett
- Sean Marven
- Sarah Wood
- Sesi Hotonu
- Amanda McCabe
Plastic SSB
Chair: Alex Munnoch
Deputy Chair: Simon Wood
Members:
- Jeremy Rodrigues
- Kaz Rahman
- Nadeem Khwaja
- Saood Ahmad Rao
- Omar Ahmed
- Suresh Anandan
- Poonam Valand
- Chris Caddy
- Muhammad Riaz
- Mark Henley
- Farida Ali
Trauma & Orthopaedic SSB
Chair: Jaysheel Mehta
Members:
- Vittoria Bucknall
- Anand Pillai
- Kapil Kumar
- Will Eardley
- Sarang Kasture
- Monu Jabbal
- Robin Paton
- Phil Turner
- Mark Bowditch
Urology SSB
Chair: Neil Fenn
Deputy Chair: Alexander Laird
Members:
- Edward Mains
- Faris Abushamma
- Vishwanath Hanchanale
- Susan Willis
- Rickaz Abdul Raheem
- James Blackmur
- Anna Paisley
- Prokar Dasgupta
- Justine Royle
- Tim O’Brien
Vascular Surgery SSB
Chair: Andrew Garnham
Deputy Chair: Andrew Tambyraja
Members:
- Neil Masson
- Mark McCarthy
- Marco Baroni
- Sadasivam Selvakumar
- Peng Foo Wong
- Becky Sandford
- Paul Yang
- Lauren Shelmerdine
- Ahmed Nassef
- Rachel Falconer
- Patrick Coughlin
- Jon Boyle
- Ram Kasthuri
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