George Ramsay

George Ramsay
George Ramsay
George Ramsay

PhD FRCS

Senior Clinical Lecturer

About
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

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

  • Outcomes reported in elective colorectal cancer surgery research for older patients: A scoping review

    Xavier, H., Bhattacharya, Y., Poobalan, A., Brazzelli, M., Ramsay, G.
    Colorectal Disease
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A Quantitative Analysis of Intraoperative Distractions and When They Occur During General Surgical Operations

    Raftery, D., Emmanuel, S., Ramsay, G.
    Cureus, vol. 16, no. 5, e60700
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Dietary fibre supplementation enhances radiotherapy tumour control and alleviates intestinal radiation toxicity

    Then, C. K., Paillas, S., Moomin, A., Misheva, M. D., Moir, R. A., Hay, S. M., Bremner, D., Roberts (nee Nellany), K. S., Smith, E. E., Heidari, Z., Sescu, D., Wang, X., Suárez-Bonnet, A., Hay, N., Murdoch, S. L., Saito, R., Collie-Duguid, E. S. R., Richardson, S., Priestnall, S. L., Wilson, J. M., Gurumurthy, M., Royle, J. S., Samuel, L. M., Ramsay, G., Vallis, K. A., Foster, K. R., McCullagh, J. S. O., Kiltie, A. E.
    Microbiome, vol. 12, no. 1, 89
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Reversal of stoma with biosynthetic mesh fascial reinforcement: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Dewantoro, D., Manson, P., Brazzelli, M., Ramsay, G.
    Colorectal Disease, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 632-642
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Stoma-free survival after anastomotic leak following rectal cancer resection: worldwide cohort of 2470 patients

    Greijdanus, N. G., Wienholts, K., Ubels, S., Talboom, K., Hannink, G., Wolthuis, A., de Lacy, F. B., Lefevre, J. H., Solomon, M., Frasson, M., Rotholtz, N., Denost, Q., Perez, R. O., Konishi, T., Panis, Y., Rutegård, M., Hompes, R., Rosman, C., van Workum, F., Tanis, P. J., de Wilt, J. H., Bremers, A. J., Ferenschild, F. T., de Vriendt, S., D'Hoore, A., Bislenghi, G., Farguell, J., Lacy, A. M., Atienza, P. G., van Kessel, C. S., Parc, Y., Voron, T., Collard, M. K., Muriel, J. S., Cholewa, H., Mattioni, L. A., Frontali, A., Polle, S. W., Polat, F., Obihara, N. J., Vailati, B. B., Kusters, M., Tuynmann, J. B., Hazen, S. J., Gruter, A. A., Amano, T., Fujiwara, H., Salomon, M., Ruiz, H., Ramsay, G., TENTACLE-Rectum Collaborative Group
    British Journal of Surgery, vol. 110, no. 12, pp. 1863-1876
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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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

Biomedical Sciences

Nutrition and Health

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.