Surgical Oncology

Mohammed Asif Chaudry is a specialist registrar in surgery in London and surgical oncologist in training with an interest in gastrointestinal cancer. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford where he was awarded a scholarship and gained MA, BM BCh degrees from Oxford University with distinction in 1999. His subsequent postgraduate training was in Oxford and London. His principal research interest is the tumour antigen EpCAM, its involvement in tumour establishment and metastasis as well as its potential as a target for immunotherapy. He was the chair of the cancer sessions at the International Drug Discovery Science and Technology Conference, held in Beijing and Xian, China in 2007 and 2008, and he has worked on various relief projects with Doctors Worldwide. He was one of the founders of the City Circle, Careers and Mentoring Project, and has contributed numerous chapters for various medical publications. Professor Winslet qualified in 1981 and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Edinburgh in 1985. He was appointed Hunterian Professor RCS England in 1987 and was awarded the Master of Surgery degree from the University of London in 1988 before being appointed Honorary Consultant Surgeon with a special interest in colorectal and oesophagogastric surgery. He has been Chairman of the Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, Professor of Surgery and Head of Department at UCL since 2003 and Professor of Surgery and Head of Department of Surgery at the Royal Free Hospital since 1997. He has lectured and published widely on clinical research aspects of the diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract and is co-editor of the journal 'Colorectal Disease'.