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Biography: Mansoor Khan

Mansoor Khan MBBS(Lond) PhD MBA FRCS(GenSurg) FEBS(GenSurg) FACS CMgr FCMI FFTACC AKC is an experienced Consultant Oesophagogastric, Trauma and General.  He is a Veteran from the Royal Navy, reaching the rank of Surgeon Commander after completing over two decades of military service with distinction. 

Having successfully obtained his FRCS in General Surgery in 2010, he subsequently got deployed on a busy tour at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, followed directly by a 1-year Trauma Critical Care Fellowship at the world-renowned R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, USA. He was appointed a Consultant General Surgeon in the Defence Medical Services of the UK, and subsequently was awarded a Fellowship of the European Board of Surgery and Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons.  Since appointment as a Consultant Trauma Surgeon he has undertaken multiple operational tours and was the Lead Clinician for the Military Team that was awarded the Military Civilian Health Partnership Award in 2014 for Team of the Year, for work in Afghanistan. He completed his Military career with a 4-month tour of South Sudan on a United Nations deployment. 

Military positions have included being the Consultant Advisor in General Surgery (Head of General Surgery) to Medical Director General Royal Navy, and the Senior Lecturer in Military Surgery at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. Current positions include Visiting Professor of Physics at Imperial College London and a number of international Adjunct Professor of Surgery (USUHS, Bethesda and Shock Trauma, Baltimore, NIHR positions, overseas Academic positions, Editor/Associate Editor and Reviewer for multiple journals, undergraduate and postgraduate examiner, Co- Director of the Definitive Surgical Trauma Skills course at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a member of multiple international surgical organisations as well as being faculty on multiple international surgical training courses.  He is keen on research and has published extensively with over 200 publications, book chapters and conference papers and secured more than £3.5 Million in research grants.  He is also the award-winning Co-Author of ‘Trauma: Code Red’ and ‘Fundamentals of Frontline Surgery’.

His interests include research into Primary Injury Prevention, Blast Mitigation strategies, Haemorrhage control, Trauma education, Physiological monitoring, studying the gut microbiome in relation to trauma and hypoperfusion and research into Oesophagogastric and General Surgical techniques and advances.