Medical Research

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Invited Lectures

• Diagnosis and management of vascular trauma. Association of Surgeons of Southern Africa, Cape Town, October 1985.
• Lessons of the Lothian Surgical Audit. Scandinavian Health Care Managers. Edinburgh, April 1995.
• What should we do about intersurgeon variation after large bowel cancer surgery? Glasgow Gastroenterology Club. Glasgow, April 1995.
• Assessing consultant activity by objective means. Pay Intelligence Unit, NHS Executive. Perth, October 1995.
• Should patients have access to their own surgeon’s audit data? Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Audit Meeting. Edinburgh, March 1996.
• Lothian and Borders Large Bowel Cancer Project:- the first five years. Lothian Surgical Audit 50th Anniversary Meeting, Edinburgh, June 1996.
• Assessing variations in surgical outcome. Lothian Surgical Audit 50th Anniversary Meeting. Edinburgh, June 1996.
• Intensive surgical training may improve survival following colorectal cancer surgery. Meditech, Asia ‘97. Bangkok, March 1997.
• Changing and improving the outcome of colorectal cancer surgery through regional audit. Meditech, Asia ‘97. Bangkok, March 1997.
• Rectal Cancer Workshop for surgeons, pathologists and oncologists (with P Quirke and RJ Heald). Surgical Skills Unit, Ninewells Hospital. Dundee, May 1997.
• Audit in colorectal cancer. 2nd Nottingham International Cancer Meeting. Nottingham, October 1997.
• Surgical Audit. Aim, tools and limitations. Department of Surgery, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium. Leuven, January 1998.
• Lothian and Borders Large Bowel Cancer Project - an update. Association of Coloproctologists of United Kingdom and Ireland. Jersey, Channel Islands, June 1998.
• Does the surgeon matter? Rectal Cancer Workshop for surgeons, pathologists and oncologists (with P Quirke and RJ Heald). St John of God Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, October 1998.
• Neorectal dysfunction after rectal cancer surgery. Rectal Cancer Workshop for surgeons, pathologists and oncologists (with P Quirke and RJ Heald). St John of God Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, October 1998.
• Lothian and Borders Large Bowel Cancer Project - an update. Association of Coloproctologists of United Kingdom and Ireland. Stockport, June 1999.
• Colorectal cancer surgery. Assessing the performance of individual surgeons against professionally determined standards. Western Australia Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Perth, WA, August 1998.
• Surgical Audit. Western Australia Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Geraldton, WA, August 1999.
• The Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality. Western Australia Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Broome, WA, August 2001.
• Assessing personal performance. Frontiers in Breast Surgery. Perth, WA 2001
• The Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality. Australian Health Association. Perth, WA, September 2002.
• From WASSM to ASSM. The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Melbourne, February 2004.
• Where to from here? Colorectal Cancer Audit Workshop. Colorectal Surgical Society of Australasia. Melbourne, May 2004
• Does mortality audit change practice? The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Melbourne, May 2004.
• Pilonidal Sinus Surgery. Practical Plastic Surgery of the Anus. CTEC, Perth, August 2004.
• Error and Safety Workshop. WA Department of Health. February 2005.
• Clinical Governance. Younger Fellows Symposium. Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Rottenest, Perth, May 2005.
• Lessons from the Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality. The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Perth, May 2005.