Mr Malcolm West is an Associate Professor in Colorectal Surgery and Prehabilitation Medicine at the University of Southampton, and a consultant colorectal and complex cancer surgeon at University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. Malcolm trained as a clinical academic in Merseyside, Wessex and London.
Malcolm is a senior investigator for the Fit-4-Surgery Consortium and the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre. His research focuses on improving perioperative and long-term outcomes in patients undergoing major surgery. His research interests include interrogating the pathophysiological mechanisms of changing fitness, nutrition, body composition, frailty and mitochondrial function with cancer therapies and the implementation of prehabilitation interventions to rescue and improve metabolic health, physiological resilience, and cancer outcomes.
Malcolm has published extensively with significant high impact papers published in prehabilitation and perioperative medicine. Malcolm was awarded the British Journal of Surgery, John Farndon Prize in 2015 and again in 2017 for his research in predicting surgical outcomes using CardioPulmonary Exercise Testing. Malcolm was awarded the Royal College of Surgeons, England, Minimally Invasive and Maximally Invasive (MIMICC) fellowship in Complex and Robotic colorectal cancer surgery at St. Mark’s Hospital, London (2020-2021). He was the Association of Surgeons Great Britain and Ireland Moynihan Travelling Fellow for 2021. He is the current Surgical Lead for the NIHR Wessex Research Delivery Network.