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Grey Turner Lecture: A decade of surgical wounds research by Professor Ian Chetter
Ian Chetter, Professor of Surgery at Hull York Medical School/University of Hull
Date/Time: Thursday 6 June 2024, 5.30 - 6.30pm
Venue: David Shaw Lecture Theatre, Newcastle University Medical School
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More than 10 million surgical operations are performed annually in the NHS, with the majority involving a wound created by surgical incision. Most incised surgical wounds heal by primary intention, with the wound edges closely apposed together. Surgical site infection is the most common complication and may lead to wound breakdown or dehiscence, resulting in an open surgical wound. Indeed some wounds are purposely left open to avoid this complication. These open surgical wounds are often left to heal from the bottom up by the formation of granulation tissue, known as healing by secondary intention. This lecture will summarise a decade of surgical wounds research undertaken under Professor Chetter’s supervision.
Biography
Professor Ian Chetter was appointed as the Professor of Surgery at Hull York Medical School /University of Hull and Honorary Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in February 2011. He qualified from University of Leeds Medical School in 1990, and completed his basic and higher surgical training in Yorkshire. Funded by a Northern & Yorkshire Research Fellowship he obtained MD from the University of Leeds and was awarded a Hunterian Professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2000. Following a 12 month Vascular Fellowship in Adelaide, Australia funded by an Ethicon/ Peter Clifford Fellowship in 2002/3, Ian returned to the UK to be appointed Senior Lecturer at the Academic Vascular Surgical Unit in Hull. Professor Chetter is President Elect of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland to take up term in November 2024 and is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Vascular Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. Professor Chetter’s interests are predominantly Health Services Research and New and Emerging Technologies in arterial and venous disease, wound healing and surgical site infection.
