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Clinical Doctoral Fellow

Imperial College London

Aug 2019 – Present
Jim is currently working on ways to develop an integrated, chemically aware surgical robot, with the ability to detect cancer margins by the use of intraoperative mass spectrometry and linear discriminant analysis on the vapour generated by the robotic surgical electrocautery. This will form the basis of his PhD thesis.
 
 
 
 
 

Academic Clinical Fellow—Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

University of Birmingham

Aug 2016 – Aug 2019 Birmingham
A prestigious joint clinical and academic training programme with a national training number in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Research training and experience was at the Institute of Head and Neck Studies and Education (InHANSE), whilst surgical training was at University Hospitals Birmingham and the Royal Worcestershire Hospital.
 
 
 
 
 

Trust Doctor—Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

City Hospitals Sunderland

Aug 2015 – Aug 2016 Sunderland
A busy district general hospital, with substantial hands on experience in dento-alveolar, trauma and skin cancer surgery. Emergency experience on the first on-call rota.
 
 
 
 
 

Trust Doctor—Emergency Medicine

South Tyneside District Hospital

Aug 2011 – Aug 2015 South Shields
Throughout my dental degree, I continued to maintain and develop my general medical skill, working as a middle grade in a busy emergency department, with significant clinical and managerial responsibility.
 
 
 
 
 

Core Surgical Trainee

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals

Aug 2010 – Aug 2011 Hull
My basic surgical training was undertaken at Hull Royal Infirmary and the nearby Castle Hill Hospital. In this teaching hospital setting, I undertook training in a wide variety of general surgical and otorhinolaryngology procedures, as well as preparing the research project to be undertaken during my dental degree.
 
 
 
 
 

Foundation Programme Trainee

City Hospitals Sunderland

Aug 2008 – Aug 2010 Sunderland
My foundation medical training was in Sunderland, where I gained experience of general, breast and vascular surgery, as well as acute medicine, geriatric medicine, general practice, radiology and haematology. In my second year I passed the MRCS.

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Recruitment to my iKnife study is going well.

As many people in the world redirect their time and energy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have had to follow suit, and my …

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NCRI Trainee Member

I have been appointed as a trainee member of the National Cancer Research Institute Head and Neck Cancer group. Through my secondment …

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