Editorial teams

Martyn is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon with an interest in advanced and recurrent pelvic malignancy, and Honorary Associate Professor at Morriston Hospital and Swansea University Medical School, a position he took up in 2021. Following medical school at Southampton University, Martyn trained in England and Wales, completing fellowships with the Swansea Pelvic Oncology Group and the John Goligher Colorectal Unit, Leeds. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and has been a BJS Editor since 2018.

Robert is Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Bristol, Bristol Surgical Trials Centre and Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. He is an academic Vascular Surgeon in the Bristol, Bath and Weston Vascular Network with a special interest in diabetes-related lower-limb complications and minimally invasive surgery. His research focuses include clinical trials, the new technology development and evidence-based practice. Robert has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers and has been a BJS Editor since 2015.

Niels completed medical school at Leiden University Medical School, the Netherlands then obtained a PhD in organ transplantation at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam before surgical training. Having completed two clinical fellowships in HPB and peritoneal malignancy at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam and the Erasmus MC, Niels took up his current position as Staff Surgeon with a special interest in HPB and peritoneal malignancy at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in 2016. Niels has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers and was a BJS Open Associate Editor (2017–2020) before taking up the role of Associate Editor at BJS in 2020.

Kjetil completed his medical training at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He trained in general surgery and obtained a fellowship in gastrointestinal surgery at the Stavanger University Hospital in Norway, where he is a Consultant General and HPB Surgeon. In 2007, he completed a PhD in translational and molecular cancer research and is the current lead for a translational research group in cancer and head of the Clinical Surgery Research Unit at Stavanger University Hospital. He has been a Professor at the University of Bergen since 2011 and from 2017 to 2018 was a visiting Professor and Honorary Consultant at the department of HPB surgery at the Royal Infirmary/University of Edinburgh. His main interest is cancer biology and gastrointestinal research, with a focus on hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases. Kjetil has published over 350 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and edited books, and has been a BJS Editor since 2010.

Malin received her MD and PhD in molecular biology from the University of Oulu, Finland in 2001. From 2003 to 2005 she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. Malin completed surgical training at Umeå University Hospital from 2005 to 2012. She was appointed Professor of Surgery at the university in 2013 where she headed the breast and endocrine surgery unit between 2012 and 2020. In 2021, she was appointed Professor of Surgery at the University of Helsinki. She is affiliated to both Umeå and Helsinki University Hospitals. Her research interests are breast and pancreatic cancer, tumour stroma, matrix biology and cancer biomarkers. Malin has published over 175 peer-reviewed papers and has been a BJS Editor since 2014.

Bas obtained his MD in 1997 and started a PhD programme in molecular and clinical aspects of oesophageal cancer at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, which he completed with honours in 2001. In 2006 he was registered as a General Surgeon and completed a clinical and research fellowship (upper gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery) at the Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia. Bas has been a Staff Surgeon at the Erasmus MC Rotterdam since 2008 where he is the programme lead for oesophagogastric disease. His clinical interests are benign and malignant diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract. Bas has been an author on over 250 peer-reviewed papers and has been a BJS Editor since 2014.

Michael currently works as a consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon in St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. He undertook his undergraduate degree in University College Dublin and then proceeded with surgical training in the Republic of Ireland. He was competitively selected as a TIG oncoplastic breast surgery fellow in Imperial College London NHS Trust and was subsequently appointed there as a consultant. He is a founding member of the Irish Surgical Research collaborative and has over 65 publications with a strong focus on management of the axilla in breast cancer. He has recently been awarded both the Ronald Raven and Simpson Smith Travelling Fellowships with a focus on surgical prevention of breast cancer associated lymphedema. He joins BJS and BJS Open as Editor Assistant in 2023.

Philip obtained his MD in 2014 in Bern, Switzerland and received his medical doctorate from the University of Bern with a study on image guided liver surgery. He then completed a minimally invasive research fellowship at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Philip completed his general surgical training in Heidelberg, Zürich and Bern. He is a fellowship-trained HPB and liver transplantation surgeon (2021-2013 University Hospital of Zürich) and his clinical areas of interest are HPB surgery and especially robotic surgery. Philip has a strong academic interest in clinical outcome research. He joined BJS as an Editor Assistant in July 2023.

Katy has been a Consultant Vascular Surgeon in the Somerset and North Devon Vascular Network since 2014. Following medical school at the University of Birmingham, she completed surgical training in the West Midlands and South West of England. Katy received her Medical Doctorate by thesis from the University of Birmingham on the outcomes from ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy for chronic venous disease, particularly patient-reported outcomes. Katy first joined the BJS family as BJS Editor Assistant in 2015 and has been a BJS Open Editor since its launch in 2017 under the leadership of Derek Alderson.

Laura is a surgeon and post-doc researcher at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli in Rome. She trained in surgery at the Sant’Andrea Hospital of Rome and was a Clinical Fellow at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London in 2009. Laura completed her PhD in early 2013 with a thesis on translational medicine and has since become a research enthusiast. In 2014 she was awarded a post-doc Fellowship position with the prominent Fondazione Veronesi with a project on microRNA in gastrointestinal oncology. Her main area of interest is gastrointestinal surgery and surgical oncology. She was Chair of the Young Board of the Italian Society of Surgical Oncology (YSICO) from 2017 to 2019, Chair of the European Society of Surgical Oncology Young Alumni Club from 2018 to 2020 and is currently SICO Secretary General. Her studies range from clinical to translational investigations and a bioengineering implementation of surgical devices. To date, she has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. In late 2016, Laura joined the BJS team as an Editorial Assistant. She was later appointed Associate Editor at BJS Open in 2018 and subsequently BJS Open Editor in 2019.

Frank is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter with a specialist interest in advanced disease and diverticulitis. Following medical school at Imperial College, he completed his surgical training in the Peninsula region (Southwest England) as well as fellowships in Aarhus and Barcelona. Frank received his Medical Doctorate by thesis from University College Dublin in colonic translational research including gastrointestinal physiology, complex gels and microbiome. Following this he completed a Masters in Genomic Medicine to support his current research interests in epigenetics. His editorial experience includes a year as BJS Editor Assistant and three years as Associate Editor of Colorectal Disease.

Giovanni graduated from Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna and then studied HPB surgery and multiple organ transplantation at the San Raffaele Hospital, Milan in addition to the New York University and Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA. He completed surgical training at the University of Verona and was a Research Fellow in pancreatic surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA before his current position as junior faculty at the Verona Pancreas Institute. Giovanni has published over 170 peer-reviewed papers and was BJS Editor Assistant 2020–2021.

Patricia is a consultant colorectal and robotic surgeon who graduated from medical school at the University of Acalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. She completed her high surgical training in the UK, a colorectal and robotic surgery fellowship, and, in Spain, robotic surgery fellowship, Santander. She obtained her PhD in 2018, focused on pelvic floor diseases. Her clinical and research interests are colorectal cancer, recurrent rectal cancer and robotic surgery. Patricia joined BJS and BJS Open as an Editor Assistant in July 2023.