Clinical Senior Lecturer in Colorectal Surgery Hugh Paterson Colorectal Unit Contact details Work: 0131 537 1547 Appointments and Activities Mr Paterson returned to Western General Hospital as a Clinical Senior Lecturer in 2008. After graduating from Aberdeen he undertook basic surgical training in the West of Scotland followed by 2 years of research into injury-induced host immune responses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed higher surgical training with a colorectal interest in Edinburgh and a post-CCT fellowship in laparoscopic colorectal surgery in UCL St Luc, Brussels. Hugh is the Chief Investigator of ALLEGRO, a £1.3million NIHR-HTA-funded UK multicentre RCT of perioperative IV lidocaine in minimally invasive colorectal surgery. For more information regarding ALLEGRO, please click here. Qualifications Bachelor of Medical Sciences (BMedSci), 1994 Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB), University of Aberdeen, 1994 Fellow Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), Edinburgh, 1998 Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Aberdeen, 2003 Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS GenSurg), 2007 Publications A list of Hugh Paterson’s publications can be found by clicking here. Contact details Work: 0131 537 1547 This article was published on 2024-02-06