Colorectal and Peritoneal Oncology Annual Service Report 2021 - 2022

Service Report 2022 Colorectal and Peritoneal Oncology Centre – The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

4 EDUCATION & TRAINING

4.1 Fellowships

CPOC continues to be a place where specialists from across the UK and the world travel to train and gain invaluable experience in peritoneal tumour management and research.

4.1.1 RCS/ACPGBI Advanced Colorectal Malignancy Fellowship - Branded through the Royal College of Surgeons and the Association of Coloproctology of GB&I, we have had 3 fellows to date with excellent feedback from senior post-CCT UK trainees. Our 20/21 fellow (Ms Sarah Hassan) has been appointed as a consultant colorectal surgeon in Royal Derby Hospital from October this year, 21/22 fellows (pictured below) are Mr Nigel Day (appointed consultant colorectal surgeon at Epsom & St Helier’s Hospitals) and Mr Christopher Kearsey (appointed locum consultant at Royal Preston Hospital). Both will take up these posts in 2022. 4.1.2 European Society of Peritoneal Surgical Oncology (ESPSO) Fellowship: CPOC has been designated by the European Society of Surgical Oncology as a recognised training centre in peritoneal oncology since 2015. To date, we have mentored 9 Fellows registered through this program from the UK and abroad. 4.1.3 Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (Sri-Lanka) Fellowship: We continue to receive an international fellow from Sri Lanka to travel to the UK for overseas training. These fellows have completed their training and are put forward to travel to the Christie for postgraduate specialisation in surgical oncology for a year. Our current fellow is Mr Chamila Lakmal. 4.1.4 National Board of Examiners (India) International Fellow in Surgical Oncology: We continue to appoint an international fellow through a competitive process of selection from The Ganga Ram Hospital in India. Our current fellow is Mr Mayank Mathur. 4.1.5 National Institute of Healthcare Research (NIHR) Academic Clinical Lecturer: We have appointed an ST4 surgical trainee (Ms Meera Patel) developing a career as an independent academic surgeon and helped her apply for this NIHR ACL. Her clinical training is based at the Northwest of England Deanery and academic project on peritoneal metastases from colorectal cancer is based at the CPOC lab in the Manchester Cancer Research Centre. She is on track to apply for a clinician scientist grant application at the end of her specialist training.

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