Professor Stephen J Wigmore

Professor Stephen Wigmore
Professor of Transplantation Surgery and Honorary Consultant Surgeon
Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgical Services and Edinburgh Transplant UnitRoyal Infirmary of Edinburgh

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Clinical interests

Professor Wigmore's interests lie in liver transplantation and HPB resectional surgery. His principal research focus is on the cell and molecular biology of organ pre-conditioning and stress protein expression. Other research interests include the Kupffer cell, innate immunity, endotoxin handling and functional assessment of the liver in the context of surgery and transplantation. He is also involved in medical education and distance learning.

Qualifications

Professor Wigmore's educational qualifications are:

Bachelor of Science (BSc 1st Class Hons) Immunology & parasitology King’s College, University of Edinburgh, 1986
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), King’s College School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of London, 1989
Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSEd), 1993
Doctor of Medicine (MD) University of Edinburgh 1997
Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS Gen Surg), Intercollegiate Board General Surgery & Transplantation, 2001

Appointments and activities

Current

Professor Wigmore returned to Edinburgh as Professor of Transplantation Surgery in 2007.

Currently he is also:

Clinical Director for General Surgery and Transplantation appointed 2009
Director of Year 3 Master of Science (MSc) in Surgical Sciences (Edinburgh Surgical Sciences Qualification) 2008-
Specialist advisor on Organ Donation & Transplantation to the Chief Medical Officer Scotland. 2008-
Member of Research Allocation Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 2009-
Member of the James IV Association of Surgeons 2010-
Associate Editor of HPB, the official journal of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA) 2011-
Member of editorial boards of British Journal of Surgery, Transplantation, World Journal of Surgery, Journal of Surgical Case Reports
Member of Panel of Experts EME and HTA programmes
Scientific expert for Agence Recherche Francais
Advisory Board National HPB Cancer Network
Ad hoc reviewer MRC, Wellcome Trust, RCS, Israel Science Foundation, Hungarian Academy of Science, Netherlands Erasmus programme.

Past

Professor Wigmore graduated from King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry and, after two further years in London, moved to Edinburgh to undertake his basic and higher surgical training with Professor Sir David Carter and Professor James Garden.
His thesis on hepatic acute phase protein expression in cancer was followed by a visiting post doctoral scholarship at the University of California San Francisco, as a Yamagiwa Yoshida Fellow of the UICC with Dr Bill Welch. On his return he was awarded an Advanced Fellowship by the Wellcome Trust.
He held this post as a senior lecturer and honorary consultant surgeon at the Scottish Liver Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Professor Wigmore was appointed Professor of Transplantation Surgery at the University of Birmingham and Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre in 2005.
Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the British Transplantation Society 2005-7.
Associate Editor World Journal of Surgery 2007-2010.
Member of Research Board Medical Research Scotland 2007-2010.
HEFCE Clinical Senior Lectureships Awards committee 2006-2009.

Awards and distinctions

Professor Wigmore has been the recipient of numerous postgraduate awards and distinctions:

Smith & Nephew Foundation Medical Research Fellowship 1993.
Wilkie Research Scholarship University of Edinburgh.1994-5.
Chiene Medal - University of Edinburgh, School of Surgery. 1995 & 6.
Francis Mitchell Caird Prize in Surgery. Triennial prize awarded jointly by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh 1996.
Yamagiwa Yoshida Fellow Union Internationale Contre Le Cancer UICC 2000.
Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland Travelling Fellow 2000.
SHERT Travelling Fellow 2000.
Wellcome Trust Advanced Fellowship 2001.
External examiner Chinese University of Hong Kong 2007, 2009.
James IV Travelling fellow 2008.
Member of James IV Association 2010.

Publications

A list of Professor Wigmore's publications is available from the PubMed.gov website.

Professor Wigmore's publication list

This article was published on Apr 24, 2012