My interests lie in Emergency Surgery, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, Perioperative Care and Surgical Training. Dimitrios Damaskos Consultant General Surgeon and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer Department of Surgery Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Contact details Work: 0131 242 3667 Appointments and Activities Current Appointed as substantive consultant in 2017. Director of Scientific Program, ASGBI Executive Board. Vice President of the World Society of Emergency Surgery. Congress Secretary, British Hernia Society. Member of the Surgical Specialty Board (SSB) in General Surgery and Accreditation Lead, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh . Tutor in ChM in General Surgery and BMedSci, University of Edinburgh. Associate member of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Educational/clinical supervisor for trainees in General Surgery. Course Director, Laparoscopic Skills in Emergency Surgery course, RCSEd. Past Born and raised in Greece. Post graduate surgical training at the General Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus, Greece. Emergency Medicine Consultant, Centre Hospitalier de Jolimont, La Louviere, Belgium, 2014-2015. Post CCT Fellow in Emergency General Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 2015-2016. Locum Consultant in General and Upper GI Surgery, NHS Lothian, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 2016-2017. Qualifications MBBS, Democritus University of Thrace School of Medicine, Greece M.Sc. in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece CCT in General Surgery, Ministry of Health of Greece, 2013 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS GenSurg), Edinburgh, 2018 Fellow of the European Board of Surgery – Emergency Surgery (FEBSEmSurg), 2021 Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), 2022 Memberships Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh American College of Surgeons British Hernia Society World Society of Emergency Surgery European Hernia Society Hellenic Surgical Society Member of the International Relationships Committee of the American College of Surgeons Editorial Work Editor in Chief, Surgery in Geriatrics and Frailty (SIGAF) Editorial Board Member for: World Journal of Emergency Surgery (WJES) Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (JTACS) Journal of Abdominal Wall Surgery (JAWS) Hellenic Journal of Surgery (HJS) Frontiers in Surgery - Visceral Surgery Research For more information on Dimitrios's research, click here. This article was published on 2024-02-06
