Surgical Specialty Boards
Interest groups and surgical specialties are represented by 11 Surgical Specialty Boards (SSBs), which 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 Surgery 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: Maninder Singh Kalkat
Deputy Chair: Douglas West
Members:
- Tim Jones
- Stephen Rooney
- Vivek Srivastava
- Neil Cartwright
- Mark Jones
- Lawrence Okiror
- Mahmoud Loubani
- Nishan Fernando
- Gillian Hardman
- Tim Graham
- Rana Sayeed
General Surgery SSB
Chair: Chelliah Selvasekar
Deputy Chair: Sanjay Pandanaboyana
Members:
- Vittal Rao
- Dimitrios Damaskos
- Aung Myint Oo
- Vikram Kate
- Anita Balakrishnan
- Arul Immanuel
- Kwok-Leung Cheung
- Dorin Ziyaie
- Lasitha Samarakoon
- Stephanie Au
- K K Madhavan
- Ian Hawthorn
- Kamal Aryal
- Christian Macutkiewicz
- Katie Adams
- Peter Lamb
- Kunal Rajput
Neurosurgery SSB
Chair: Likhith Alakandy
Deputy Chair: Teodoro Forcht Dagi
Members:
- Colin Watts
- Mark Wilson
- Pragnesh Bhatt
- Iain Robertson
- Surajit Basu
- David Bennett
- Michael Carter
- Mario Ganau
- Daniel Ochieng
- Venetia Giannakaki
- Anna Paisley
- Ioannis Fouyas
- Neil Simms
- Peter Whitfield
Ophthalmology SSB
Chair: Dan Morris
Deputy Chair: Harry Bennett
Members:
- Muthusamy Palanisamy
- Thomas Kuriakose
- James Cameron
- Dr G Seethapathy
- Rohan Sawant
- James Hazelwood
- Niamh O'Connell
- Zahid Raza
- Alan Mulvihill
- Clare Davey
Oral and Maxillofacial SSB
Chair: Craig Wales
Deputy Chair: Richard Graham
Members:
- Mark Ansell
- Chetan Katre
- Victoria Cook
- Stuart Clark
- Niall McLeod
- Victoria Beale
- Gary Cousin
- Craig Pearce
- Stephen Walsh
- Bilal Aslam-Pervez
- Ailsa Morrison
Otolaryngology SSB
Chair: Steven Powell
Deputy Chair: Nashreen Oozeer
Members:
- Ranjan Raychowdhury
- Richard Townsley
- Stephen Jones
- Richard Steven
- Sadie Khwaja
- Shyam Singam
- Rory Houston
- Nirmal Kumar
- Iain Bruce
- Omar Hilmi
- Alun Williams
- Subbra Palaniappan
Paediatric SSB
Chair: Liam McCarthy
Deputy Chair: Robin Garrett-Cox
Members:
- Ewan Brownlee
- Christopher Driver
- Martyn Flett
- Sean Marven
- Sarah Wood
- Paul Cullis
- Richard England
- Muhammad Amjad Chaudhary
- Sesi Hotonu
- Amanda McCabe
- Raef Jackson
- Gillian Winter
Plastic Surgery SSB
Chair: Omar Ahmed
Deputy Chair: Simon Wood
Members:
- Kaz Rahman
- Nadeem Khwaja
- Saood Ahmad Rao
- Nigel Mercer
- Andrew Diver
- Richard Cole
- Raina Rodrigues
- Stephanie Young
- Suzanne Thomson
- Ye Ru Chin
- Prasenjit Goswami
- Chris Caddy
- Mike Moses
- Liusaidh McClymont
- Nick Wilson-Jones
- Frederick Wyatt
Trauma & Orthopaedic SSB
Chair: Jaysheel Mehta
Deputy Chair: Will Eardley
Members:
- Andrew Port
- Shyam Kumar
- Neil Ashwood
- Douglas Campbell
- Stephen Giles
- Simon Johnson
- Sean Kelly
- Elaine Robinson
- Paul Thorpe
- Julie Craig
- Gareth Rogers
- Robin Paton
- Mark Bowditch
- Donald Campbell
- Dominic Waugh
Urology SSB
Chair: Alexander Laird
Deputy Chair: Edward Mains & Vishwanath Hanchanale
Members:
- Faris Abushamma
- Maeve Dooher
- Arvinda Chippagiri
- Dominic Hodgson
- Andrew Martindale
- Mehwash Madeem
- Rickaz Abdul Raheem
- Katie Brodie
- Ian Hawthorn
- Bhaskar Somani
- Angus Luk
- Justine Royle
- Jo Cresswell
Vascular Surgery SSB
Chair: Andrew Tambyraja
Deputy Chair: Marco Baroni
Members:
- Mark McCarthy
- Sadasivam Selvakumar
- Peng Foo Wong
- Becky Sandford
- Paul Yang
- Dominic Pang
- Emma Scott
- Ahmed Nassef
- Patrick Coughlin
- Ram Kasthuri
- Edward Mulkern
- Andrew Garnham
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