Adam is delighted to be the co-lead along with my colleague Professor Pete Culmer for the sustainability cross cutting theme within the Leeds Healthtech Research Centre. It is an exciting time for innovation and technology within the sustainable healthcare delivery space and we have ambitious plans to engage with our industry partners and colleagues to deliver real progress in this area.
Adams’s clinical focus is as an Emergency General Surgeon with a focus on the delivery of unplanned surgical care admissions. He is passionate about improving healthcare for this traditionally underserved patient cohort and work hard to deliver new and dynamic pathways to put patients in the right place at the right time, first time. Additionally using ambulatory pathways and initiatives such as the virtual ward means patients can be managed in their own home environment.
Adam is focussed on the delivery of sustainable and green options in surgery working hard towards the future net zero targets. As such he led a Leeds based team to victory in a national competition ‘Green Surgery Challenge’ co-hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Health and Royal College of Surgeons (Eng). Looking at the delivery of net-zero laparoscopic surgery thereafter has allowed him to bring his knowledge to the delivery of surgical techniques across a spectrum of presentations. He works closely with NHSE and other partners in this area and has presented internationally on the subject.
Adam trained in Liverpool as a post-graduate having completed initially a BSc in Pharmacology. As part of his studies he spent a year working with the pharmaceutical firm, Pfizer. He subsequently pursued surgical training throughout the Yorkshire region. He completed a research MD focussed on using oncolytic viruses to treat metastatic cancers and has published widely in a number of areas including in high impact journals and authored a number of book chapters.
Additional areas of interest include surgical training and particularly changing cultures to flatten hierarchy and develop the next generation of surgeons also has a keen interest in global surgery and has worked both locally and in Uganda to deliver a number of laparoscopic simulation courses.
He is delighted to be part of the HRC and excited to see the outcomes it delivers over the next 5 year