Gerard Stansby Newcastle, UK
Professor Gerard Stansby qualified from Cambridge University and Addenbrooke’s Hospital in 1982. He carried out many junior training posts in Cambridge and the East Anglian area before moving to the Royal Free Hospital as Registrar and subsequently Lecturer in Surgery. In 1993, he went to St Mary’s Hospital in London as a Senior Clinical Vascular Fellow and, in 1994, became Senior Lecturer in General & Vascular Surgery at St Mary’s Hospital and Imperial College, London. In January 2000, he obtained his current position of Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Newcastle.
Professor Stansby is the author of more than 200 scientific articles and several books. His special interests include platelet–blood vessel wall and vascular risk factors. He is co-chair of the TARGET-PAD group which aims to improve the profile and understanding of PAD in the UK, a Council member of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a Council member of the Venous Forum and an editor for the Cochrane Peripheral Vascular Diseases group and several medical journals. His other interests include undergraduate medical education and carotid surgery. He also has a busy consultant vascular surgical practice at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle.
