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George Ramsay

George Ramsay
George Ramsay
George Ramsay

PhD FRCS

Senior Clinical Lecturer

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Email Address
george.ramsay@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address

Health Services Research Unit

University of Aberdeen

Health Sciences Building

Foresterhill

Aberdeen

AB25 2ZD

School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
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Biography

George Ramsay is a Senior Lecturer in the Health Services Research Unit, having joined the unit in 2021. He is also a Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

Before moving to HRSU, he was a SCREDS clinical lecturer in the Rowett Institute of the University of Aberdeen. His clinical training started in the University of Edinburgh where he undertook his undergraduate training, followed by his surgical training in the North and North East of Scotland. During his training, he took time out to undertake a PhD in Mucosal Immunology studying the lymphocytes in the small and large intestine that are key to maintaining health of these organs.

His current research interests are in describing and characterising Emergency General Surgery, assessing and improving outcomes in colorectal cancer management and medical education.

 

Qualifications

  • BSc Medical Microbiology 
    2004 - University of Edinburgh 
  • MBChB Medicine 
    2007 - University of Edinburgh 
  • PhD Mucosal Immunology 
    2015 - University of Dundee 
    Environmental signals that control T lymphocytes in the Gastrointestinal Tract
  • FRCS General Surgery 
    2019 - Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 
  • MFSTEd Surgical Education 
    2015 - Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

I am the North Cancer Alliance Prehabilitation Clinical Lead

External Memberships

Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Association of Coloproctologisty of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Chair of the Emergency General Surgical Subcommittee of ACPGBI

 

Latest Publications

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Prizes and Awards

Our group's paper on the Management of Acute Cholecystitis in Scotland: A population Wide Cohort Study, presented by Mr Sendhil Rajan won the Moynihan Prize of the ASGBI meeting in May 2023

Research

Research Areas

Education

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Biomedical Sciences

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Nutrition and Health

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Research Specialisms

  • Clinical Medicine

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Publications

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  • A national survey of attitudes to research in Scottish General Surgery Trainees

    Roxburgh, C. S., Richards, C. H., O'Neill, S., Ramsay, G., Velineni, R., Robson, A. J., Watt, D. G., Mittapalli, D., Milburn, J. A., Robertson, A. G., Jamieson, N. B., Scottish Surgical Research Group
    Scottish Medical Journal, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 9-15
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Impact of the Scottish Bowel Cancer Screening Programme on patient and tumour characteristics at a single centre

    MacKay, C., Ramsay, G., Rafferty, A., Loudon, M.
    Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 7-11
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Prognostic Value of Lymph Node Ratio and Extramural Vascular Invasion on Overall Survival for Patients Undergoing Curative Colon Cancer Resection

    Parnaby, C., Scott, N., Mackay, C., Ramsay, G., Guha, A., Samuel, L., Murray, G. I., Loudon, M.
    Tripartite Colorectal Meeting of the American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS), pp. 167
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Analysis of outcome using a levator sparing technique of abdominoperineal excision of rectum and anus. Cylindrical ELAPE is not necessary in all patients

    Ramsay, G., Parnaby, C., Mackay, C., Hanlon, P., Ong, S., Loudon, M.
    European Journal of Surgical Oncology, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 1219-1224
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Complications after laparoscopic and open subtotal colectomy for inflammatory colitis: A case-matched comparison

    Parnaby, C. N., Ramsay, G., Macleod, C. S., Hope, N. R., Jansen, J. O., Mcadam, T. K.
    Colorectal Disease, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 1399-1405
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • B3 core biopsy suspicious of a papilloma: how should we proceed?

    Dawson, A. G., Ramsay, G., Gagliardi, T.
    International Journal of Surgery , vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 610
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A highly selective approach to oesophagogastric cancer resections and its impact on post operative survival

    Ramsay, G., Yeap, E., Mackay, C., Park, K., Nanthakumaran, S.
    17th AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting, pp. 46
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Urgency of referral confers no impact on outcome gastric cancer patient

    Ramsay, G., Mackay, C., Yeap, E., Park, K., Nanthakumaran, S.
    17th AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting, pp. 49
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Immediate breast reconstruction using Bovine pericardium after skin sparing mastectomy

    Chaturvedi, S., Yeap, E., Ramsay, G.
    Association of Breast Surgery
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • Immediate implant-based breast reconstruction using bovine pericardium (Veritas®) for optimal tissue regeneration

    Dawson, A., Ramsay, G., McKay, C., Chaturvedi, S.
    Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 222-222
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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