Mr Graeme Poston

AUGIS Role: President

Undergraduate Education
St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London.

Postgraduate Training
Hammersmith Hospital with Les Blumgart, Irving Benjamin and Robin Williamson, St Mary’s Hospital with Pierre Guillou, and laboratory research at UTMB, Galveston TX with Courtney Townsend and the late James C Thompson.

Consultant Appointments
1990-2004 Hepatobiliary surgeon Royal Liverpool University Hospital 2004 onwards Hepatobiliary surgeon and Divisional Medical Director, Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool.

AUGIS Roles
Founder council member 1996-8.
Clinical Services Committee Member 1996-8.
BASO representative on Council 2006-9.
Vice President and President Elect 2009-10.

Other Roles
Chair, Mersey and Cheshire Hepatobiliary SMDT.
President, British Association of Surgical Oncology 2006-7.
Chair, Cancer Services Committee, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2006-7.
Chair, Colorectal Cancer Guideline Group, National Collaborating Centre for Cancer (NCC-C) 2009-12.
Council member: UK and Ireland Neuroendocrine Tumour Society; European Society of Surgical Oncology.

Research Interests
Author of over 140 peer reviewed publications. Co-principle investigator of several national and international clinical trials investigating the role of peri-operative chemotherapy in resection of colorectal liver metastases and biliary cancers, and ablation techniques of liver tumours. Other research interests include decision making models and neural networks in the management of advanced colorectal cancer, quality of life issues in the management of primary and secondary hepato-biliary malignant disease and health economics of the treatment of hepato-biliary cancers.

Interests Outside Of Medicine
Collecting modern art, surviving the rough at West Lancashire, exploring South America, and hoping against hope that despite their recent run of good fortune, Man U will never emulate Liverpool Football Club’s historic dominance of both the domestic and European football agenda.