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

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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.

Publications

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  • Does the mechanism of referral impact on outcome of Gastric cancer patients?

    Ramsay, G., Yeap, E., Mackay, C. D., Qadir, A., Park, K., Nanthakumaran, S.
    10th International Gastric cancer congress
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts
  • Evaluation of laparoscopic simulation training in the North of Scotland training deanery

    Gale, M. D., Bradley, A., Ramsay, G., Kumar, M., McAdam, T. K.
    Fifth International Skills Conference, pp. 58
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts
  • Ectopic gynaecomastia on the inner aspect of the thigh in an otherwise healthy man

    Ramsay, G., Dawson, A., Chaturvedi, S.
    Journal of Surgical Case Reports, vol. 2012, no. 12, rjs025
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Colorectal resection for inflammatory colitis unresponsive to medical therapy: a single centre review of immediate post operative outcomes and operative technique

    Ramsay, G., Parnaby, C., Hope, N., Macleod, C., Ramage, M., McAdam, T.
    7th Scientific and Annual Meeting of the European Society of Coloproctology, pp. 32
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
  • Does bowel screening influence outcome?

    Mackay, C., Ramsay, G., Rafferty, A., Loudon, M.
    7th Scientific and Annual Meeting of the European Society of Coloproctology, pp. 53
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
  • Does the location of colorectal carcinoma differ between screened and unscreened populations?

    Mackay, C. D., Ramsay, G., Rafferty, A., Loudon, M. A.
    Colorectal Disease, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. e689-e691
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Is outcome in rectal carcinoma influenced by bowel screening?

    Mackay, C., Ramsay, G., Rafferty, A., Loudon, M.
    7th Scientific and Annual Meeting of the European Society of Coloproctology, pp. 53
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
  • Should the Extralevator Abdominoperineal resection be universally adopted?

    Ramsay, G., Parnaby, C., MacKay, C., Hanlon, P., Ong, S. Y., Loudon, M.
    7th Scientific and Annual Meeting of the European Society of Coloproctology, pp. 57
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
  • Urgency of referral and its impact on outcome in patients with colorectal cancer

    Ramsay, G., MacKay, C., Nanthakumaran, S., Craig, W. L., McAdam, T. K., Loudon, M. A.
    Colorectal Disease, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. e375-e377
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A prospective comparison of outcomes in a case-matched population of primary vs. revisional laparoscopic fundoplication

    Craig, W., Ramsay, G., Scrimgeour, D., Davies, P., Krukowski, Z.
    Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ALS), pp. S184
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
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