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 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
Vacancies for Membership and Trainee Representatives of the Surgical Specialty Boards
Some of our SSBs are recruiting new Members and Chairs. Please click here for full details.
Cardiothoracic SSB
Chair: Maninder Singh Kalkat
Deputy Chair: Douglas West
Members:
- Tim Jones
- Lognathen Balacumaraswami
- 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
- Alastair Moses
- Arul Immanuel
- Kwok-Leung Cheung
- Dorin Ziyaie
- Lasitha Samarakoon
- Anne Ewing
- Mike Silva
- Ian Hawthorn
- Kamal Aryal
- Christian Macutkiewicz
- Katie Adams
- Peter Lamb
Neurosurgery SSB
Chair: Likhith Alakandy
Members:
- Jothy Kandasamy
- Colin Watts
- Mark Wilson
- Teodoro Forcht Dagi
- Pragnesh Bhatt
- Iain Robertson
- Daniel Ochieng
- Venetia Giannakaki
- Anna Paisley
- Ioannis Fouyas
- Neil Simms
- Peter Whitfield
Ophthalmology SSB
Chair: Dan Morris
Deputy Chair: Harry Bennett
Members:
- Roshini Sanders
- Robert Murray
- Muthusamy Palanisamy
- Thomas Kuriakose
- Zahid Raza
- Ahmed Sallam
- Alan Mulvihill
- Clare Davey
Oral and Maxillofacial SSB
Chair: Craig Wales
Deputy Chair: Richard Graham
Members:
- Mark Ansell
- Chetan Katre
- Victoria Cook
- Alexandra Thompson
- Stuart Clark
- Niall McLeod
- Victoria Beale
- Ailsa Morrison
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
- Nirmal Kumar
- Dheeraj Karamchandani
- Rachel Scurrah
- Iain Bruce
- 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
- Sesi Hotonu
- Amanda McCabe
- Raef Jackson
Plastic Surgery SSB
Chair: Omar Ahmed
Deputy Chair: Simon Wood
Members:
- Jeremy Rodrigues
- Kaz Rahman
- Nadeem Khwaja
- Saood Ahmad Rao
- Poonam Valand
- Chris Caddy
- Muhammad Riaz
Trauma & Orthopaedic SSB
Chair: Jaysheel Mehta
Deputy Chair: Will Eardley
Members:
- Anand Pillai
- Gareth Rogers
- Alexandra Haddon
- Robin Paton
- Mark Bowditch
- Andrew Port
- Shyam Kumar
- Kar Heo Teoh
Urology SSB
Chair: Neil Fenn
Deputy Chair: Alexander Laird
Members:
- Edward Mains
- Faris Abushamma
- Vishwanath Hanchanale
- Maeve Dooher
- Arvinda Chippagiri
- Rickaz Abdul Raheem
- Katie Brodie
- Ian Hawthorn
- Bhaskar Somani
- Justine Royle
- Jo Cresswell
Vascular Surgery SSB
Chair: Andrew Tambyraja
Members:
- Mark McCarthy
- Marco Baroni
- Sadasivam Selvakumar
- Peng Foo Wong
- Becky Sandford
- Paul Yang
- Dominic Pang
- Emma Scott
- Ahmed Nassef
- Patrick Coughlin
- Ram Kasthuri
- Edward Mulkern
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