Mr John Stebbing, Chairman
Mr John Stebbing was appointed in 1999 as a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
He was educated at Dulwich College, and Harvard School (USA) prior to studying medicine at St John's College, Cambridge and UMDS (Guy's Hospital). He qualified with a Distinction in Surgery in 1987 and during his surgical training was awarded a MRC Clinical Training Fellowship (Research in Oxford), the John of Arderne Medal (RSM Section of Coloproctology) and appointed as Hunterian Professor by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Since appointment, he has been actively involved with education and training as a College Tutor in Surgery and as a convener and faculty for a wide repertoire of courses, Clinical management roles have included leadership of the colorectal MDT, Chair of the Network Colorectal Tumor Group and Clinical Director of General Surgery. He has spent a lot of time being involved with endoscopy and bowel cancer screening services locally, as Clinical Lead for Endoscopy and Director of the Surrey Bowel Cancer Screening Programme; regionally as Colonoscopy QA Lead for the SE Coast SHA QARC for bowel screening; and nationally, as a member of the JAG QA of Units Accreditation Working Group, the BCSP Endoscopy QA Group and the National BCSP Evaluation Group.
Mr Ken Hosie, Joint Committee on Surgical Training
Photograph and biography to follow soon
Professor Nariman Karanjia, Joint Committee on Surgical Training
Professor Nariman Karanjia is a specialist Hepto-Biliary and Pancreatic Surgeon. He was trained in General Surgery and Gastroenterology and appointed to the Royal Surrey County Hospital, NHS Trust, Guildford in 1994.
Throughout his career he has been interested in training young surgeons. During his consultant career he has been Deputy Programme Director for the South Thames West Training Programme and subsequently Programme Director for four years.
In 2009 he was appointed to the Specialty Advisory Committee (S.A.C in General Surgery – Royal College of Surgeons of England) and is the S.A.C representative for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy on JAG
He has a particular interest in all aspects of diagnostic endoscopy and therapeutic ERCP.
Dr Antony Ellis, Joint Royal College of Physicians Training Board
Dr Tony Ellis is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist within the John Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust. He is Secretary of the Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC) for Gastroenterology and also represents NESC (Oxford) on this committee as a training programme director. He has been closely involved with the recent revision of the Gastroenterology curriculum. In addition he is a member of the examining board for the specialist certificate examination (SCE) in gastroenterology and is involved in question writing, review and setting of the examination.
Dr Nicholas Carroll, Royal College of Radiologists
Dr Nicholas Carroll is a consultant radiologist at Cambridge University Hospital NHS foundation trust. He is primarily a gastrointestinal radiologist with a subspecialty interest in endoscopic ultrasound and interventional endoscopy. Dr Carroll is currently the chair of the UK EUS users group and represents the Royal College of Radiologists on the JAG Committee. He also represents the UK EUS users on the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) endoscopy committee.
Dr Andrew Summers, Royal College of General Practitioners
Dr Andrew Summers was appointed to the JAG Committee in April 2007, representing the Royal College of General Practitioners, particularly the GP endoscopists. Dr Summers’ current appointments include firstly, being the Principal General Practitioner in Yeovil, Somerset, in a semi urban Practice looking after 13,000 patients. Secondly he is the Associate Specialist in endoscopy for the East Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, undertaking and training diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower GI endoscopy. Thirdly, Dr Summers is an assessor of colonoscopists for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme and one of three accredited screening endoscopists in Somerset. Finally, he is a co-opted member to the steering committee of the Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology.
Vacancy, British Society of Gastroenterology
Dr Alistair McNair, British Society of Gastroenterology
Dr Alistair McNair is a Consultant Gastroenterologist working at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich. He was appointed to the JAG Committee in April 2009 and represents BSG (Endoscopy) as secretary.
Mr Rupert Pullan, The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
Mr Rupert Pullan was appointed as Consultant in General and Colorectal Surgery at South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Torbay Hospital, Torquay, Devon in 1996. He trained at Oxford, taught anatomy at Manchester and trained in surgery at Nottingham, Bristol and the Welsh surgical rotations. He was Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In addition to surgical management of colorectal diseases he has a major interest in colonoscopy and in its teaching. He is co-lead of the Torbay Hospital Regional Endoscopy Training School, an examiner for colonoscopy accreditation for National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme and sits on the Accreditation Board for that programme. He is himself a screening colonoscopist, Centre Director of the South Devon BCS Centre and chairs the SW Peninsula Bowel Cancer Screening Committee. He chairs the colonoscopy subcommittee of the Association of Coloproctology and sits on the JAG Working Group on Quality Assurance of Training Centres and Courses.
Vacancy, Royal College of Nursing
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Mr James Manson, Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons
Mr James Manson is a specialist upper gastrointestinal surgeon working in the South West Wales Cancer Network, based in Swansea. He is a member of the council of the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons (AUGIS) and is their representative on the JAG Committee. Mr Manson attended his first JAG meeting in January 2009 and will be on the committee for three years.
As the representative of AUGIS on the JAG Committee, Mr Manson represents the views of upper GI surgeons, and upper GI surgical trainees in particular. Outside of his JAG responsibilities, Mr Manson is intercollegiate examiner in general surgery, regional coordinator for higher surgical training, editor of the British Journal of Surgery, advisor to National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), advisor to the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) and Royal College assessor on consultant interview committees.
Dr Ana Ignjatovic, Trainees in Gastroenterology
Photograph and biography to follow soon
Mr Michael E.D. Jarrett, Surgical Trainee Representative
Mr Michael Jarrett was recently appointed general and colorectal surgical consultant at Kingston Hospital and sits on the Association of Coloproctology Colonoscopy sub committee. Dr Jarrett was also the endoscopy representative as well as the President of the Colorectal Trainees Dukes Club. He sits on the JAG Committee as the surgical trainees representative with a primarily colorectal background.
Mr Nicholas Watson, Surgical Trainee Representative (Dukes Club)
Mr Watson is a year 5 SpR in General Surgery and Coloproctology. He is currently working at the Royal Derby Hospital, and was appointed to the JAG Committee as trainees' representative in June 2009 in addition to being a member of the Dukes' Club committee.
Dr Paraic McGrogan, British Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Dr Paraic McGrogan is a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill. He is the Gastroenterology representative on the British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN) Committee and chair of the clinical standards group. He is also a member of the endoscopy working group and is the representative for BSPGHAN on the JAG Committee. His role is to act as a link between the society and JAG to ensure that a paediatric perspective is provided in all of JAG’s work. Dr McGrogan is an endoscopy trainer and previously co-ordinated with the National Training Programme in Scotland. Currently, he is the chair of the Scottish Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Group and one of his interests is in developing managed clinical and service networks and ensuring uniformed standards of care including endoscopy for paediatric and the adolescent population.
Mr Simon Huddart, British Association of Paediatric Surgeons
Mr Simon Huddart was appointed to the JAG Committee in May 2009 following recommendation by the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS). Mr Huddart’s responsibility is to represent UK and Eire specialist paediatric surgeons on the JAG Committee and to enable a smooth and practical application of any recommendations by the JAG Committee, relevant to specialist paediatric surgeons.
Mr Huddart sits on the executive committees of British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS), the Welsh Paediatric Society, and the British Paediatric Society for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN). He has held the post of specialist paediatric surgeon in the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff since 1995, with a special interest in GI and oncological surgery in children.
Dr Roland Valori, National Endoscopy Lead
Dr Roland Valori became a member of the JAG Committee in 2003 when he was appointed National Clinical Lead for Endoscopy. Since then he, together with other members of the National Endoscopy team, has worked closely with the JAG and the English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) to create a quality assurance framework for the service. He is the clinical advisor for endoscopy services within the BCSP and lead author for the Endoscopy Chapter of the European Guidelines on Colorectal Cancer Screening, due to be published in late 2009. He is a member of the World Organisation of Digestive Endoscopy (OMED) working party preparing Guidelines for Quality Assurance and Credentialing in Digestive Endoscopy for the World Congress meeting later this year.
Dr Brian McKaig, Federation of Training Centres Chair
Dr Brian McKaig is a Consultant Gastroenterologist appointed at Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust in 2002. He completed a PhD thesis on mucosal wound healing at Nottingham University. Since his consultant appointment, Dr McKaig has developed an interest in postgraduate training having completed a higher degree in medical education with a particular emphasis on endoscopy training and has helped to develop JAG approved endoscopy courses. He was elected to Chair of the Federation of Endoscopy Training Centres in January 2011 and was previously chair of the West Midlands Deanery Gastroenterology STC. He is a current BCSP assessor and has recently been invited to join the BCSP accreditation panel..
Mr Jim McGuigan, The Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
I was born in Belfast close to the Hospital I now work in. I studied Medicine at Queens University Belfast, between 1970 – 1976. I trained in Surgery during 1977 – 1981 in Northern Ireland. I carried out research in a Medical College in Virginia and then went and trained in Thoracic Surgery with Professor Mathews in Birmingham England. I was appointed Thoracic Surgeon 1988 during a period of extreme violence in Northern Ireland, and since then I have become a Programme Director for Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2000.
I am a Senior lecturer at Queens University Belfast and I am currently supervising research carried out by 4 full time research fellows. My main areas of surgical interest remain in Trauma, Oesophageal Cancer, and Endoscopic Surgery. I am a member of the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. I am also representative on the JAG Committee in London; I represent the views of consultant cardiothoracic surgeons and cardiothoracic surgical trainees on endoscopy related issues.
Alison Ball, Endoscopy Associates Group
Picture and biography coming soon.
Mrs Maggie Vance, Nurse Training Representative
Mrs Maggie Vance is Nurse Consultant in Gastroenterology at St Mark’s Hospital, NWLH NHS Trust and leads a team of specialist research nurses and endoscopy nurse practitioners providing nurse led services involving the provision of gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy within the Trust. She has a wide experience of training nurses, doctors and General Practitioners in flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy and is an examiner for the Bowel Cancer Screening accreditation process. Mrs Vance has developed nurse-led theoretical and practical endoscopy training programmes at MSc level for trainee endoscopy practitioners. This course is run in collaboration with Kings College London and she has been involved in the development and implementation of all Wolfson Unit training programmes for both doctors and nurses and is the nurse lead for the St Mark’s Training Centre. She has lectured widely at national and international level presenting both clinical practice and research papers. Mrs Vance won a national Smith and Nephew research foundation scholarship for her Masters thesis examining the role transition from nurse to endoscopist and is currently undertaking a PhD examining the feasibility of a nurse-led flexible sigmoidoscopy colorectal cancer screening programme.
Dr John O’Donohue, Chair of QA (Units) Working Group
Dr John O'Donohue was appointed the Interim Chair of the JAG Units Working Group in April 2009. He is a Consultant Gastroenterologist based at Lewisham Hospital and King's College Hospital, London. He has had an interest in service design and improvement in endoscopy, having been SHA Endoscopy Lead for SE London (2003-2007), then Bowel Cancer Screening Lead for London (2007 until present). He has been a JAG Assessor since 2007. He is active as a member of the JAG Reports QA Committee since 2008 and delivers training for JAG Assessors. The QA Working Group has a broad remit: to build on the recent success of the JAG and the Global Rating Scale (GRS) to achieve and maintain the highest quality Accreditation process in endoscopy. It will revise The GRS and align the JAG visits process closer to the GRS, develop a 'light-touch' re-accreditation process, co-ordinate training of JAG Assessors, and co-ordinate future JAG inspections with other inspecting and accrediting bodies in all four nations within the UK.
Dr Siwan Thomas-Gibson, Chair of QA (Training) Working Group
Dr Siwan Thomas-Gibson is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and the Endoscopy Training Lead at the Wolfson unit, St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow. She was appointed there as a consultant in 2006 following completion of her MD in ‘Improving Training and Assessment in Colonoscopy’.
Her particular interest is in Endoscopic training and she has led on the expansion of courses delivered at St Mark’s. She is external faculty at other JAG centres. Her clinical interests are in luminal gastroenterology: the early detection and management of colonic neoplasia and inflammatory bowel disease. She is an accredited screening colonoscopist and bowel cancer screening accreditor. She has recently joined the team of JAG Unit Assessors.
She was invited to chair one of the newly formed JAG QA Working Groups, the QA Training group in April 2009. The group’s remit will cover the QA of Trainees, trainers, training centres and training courses.
Ms Anji Gardiner, New Ways of Working Reference Panel
Ms Anji Gardiner has been a co-opted member of the JAG Committee since January 2008 representing the Endoscopy Practitioners and is a member of the QA of Training sub group and the e-Learning for Endoscopy working group. Ms Gardiner is a Senior Lecturer based at the University of Hull where she leads the endoscopy and gastroenterology provisions. She has led the development and implementation of online provisions within endoscopy and gastroenterology provisions within the University of Hull and worked very closely with the Modernisation Agency in the past in relation to the development of non-medical endoscopists.