Riaz Agha
Core Surgical Trainee
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Riaz Agha has a wide range of professional interests and affiliations including being Founder, Managing and Executive Editor of the International Journal of Surgery, Council Member for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Section of Plastic Surgery at the Royal Society of Medicine and board level appointments to; the Elsevier Editorial System Advisory Board, the Map of Medicine Fellows Board and the Association of Surgeons in Training. He sits on the Web Committee for the World Association of Medical Editors and has used his web expertise to help build two military websites for NATO and also developed WikiSurgery.com, the largest surgical encyclopedia on the web. He is an Ambassador for Enterprise UK and was cited as an “inspirational entrepreneur” by The Rt. Hon. John Hutton MP, Former Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform at his keynote speech during Enterprise week 2007. He has been a Consultant on healthcare and technology to a member of the Joint Ventures Board of the Bank of Scotland, former Vice-Chairman of the Governing Council of University College London and the former Chairman of the Further Education Council. He graduated from Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' Medical School with Distinctions and a 1st Class Honours in his Bachelors degree in Anatomy. With a keen interest in research, he has won over 25 academic prizes and published over 30 papers. Most recently Riaz has been involved in the creation of International Journal of Surgery: Case Reports, the first open access journal in Elsevier's 130 year history.
Riaz's NICE Scholarship research work “Towards National Surgical Surveillance” looks at an interdisciplinary area of research encompassing public health, public policy and surgery. He intends to gather data from Acute NHS Trusts on six standardised metrics for surgical surveillance recommended by the WHO. This data will be analysed together with HSMR and NPSA incident reports. Such research will allow us to quantify disease burden, track mortality rates and benchmark outcomes, allow us to analyse the effects of new interventions, act as an early warning system for poor outcomes, guide health system programming, policy and assessment. He will be supervised in this endevour by Professor Martin Roland, Professor of Health Services Research at Cambridge University and supported by Professor Dennis Orgill, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Professor Michael Baum, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University College Londonand Professor David Rosin, Former Vice-President, The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
This page was last updated: 20 September 2011
