Mr Jeremy Ward

AUGIS Regional Representative: North West

Training
Jeremy Ward qualified in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 and undertook surgical training in posts around Merseyside and in Liverpool. He has been a Consultant Upper Gastro-intestinal Surgeon at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2002, specialising in benign and malignant oesophagogastric work and biliary surgery.

Other Posts
Jeremy is Lead Clinician for Upper GI Cancer, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. He is also a College Tutor and an examiner for the IMRCS at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

AUGIS Role
He has been the North-West Region Council representative since January 2007. He is also AUGIS representative on the Council of the Association of Coloproctology.

Research and Other Interests
His main research interest is the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis, and he spent three years working in the Physiological Laboratory, University of Liverpool with Professor Ole Petersen and Professor Robert Sutton, being awarded his MD thesis in 1989.

He also has a significant interest in training, teaching on national MRCS and FRCS courses, and on the CCrISP Course.

Hobbies
Hobbies include mountaineering (both summer and winter), skiing and sailing.