Outside Events

ICSM National conference

Speakers

Professor Peter Openshaw

Peter Openshaw is Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College London, and an Honorary Physician in the Department of Respiratory Medicine at the St Mary's Campus of the Imperial College NHS Trust. His research is on the immunology of the lung, viral lung disease, vaccination and immunopathogenesis of viral disease.  In 1999, he was among the first 100 elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2014 he became President of the British Society for Immunology, the first clinician to hold the position. In the following year he became vice-Chair of The New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) which advises the government on the threat posed by new and emerging respiratory viruses.

Mr Nebil Behar 

Nebil Behar trained as a colorectal surgeon in London. He is a consultant emergency surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where he specializes in dealing with abdominal emergencies and complications after general and colorectal operations, most commonly complex hernias, appendicitis, diverticular disease and  bowel obstruction. Mr Behar is the program director for higher surgical training in North West London, and is  passionate about helping trainees gain better decision making skills. Mr Behar’s wider research aims are to improve outcomes in emergency surgery through increased use of laparoscopy and other novel techniques.

Dr Sheraz Markar

Sheraz Markar is a surgical registrar and clinical lecturer in General Surgery at Imperial College London. He qualified in 2007 from Cambridge University, and has undertaken international fellowships in Seattle and San Diego, USA, Karolinksa Institute, Sweden, and Lille, France. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Dr Markar was awarded his PhD in 2016 for breath analysis in oesophago-gastric cancer. He is continuing his novel research into non-invasive volatile organic compound profiling of gastrointestinal cancer during his ongoing clinical lectureship; his work has received  coverage in the British media including in The Telegraph . 

Dr Andre Kubler

Andre Kubler is currently a foundation year 2 doctor at the Imperial College Healthcare Trust where he is a medical student mentor, and part of the transplant surgery team at Hammersmith Hospital. He undertook an intercalated MB BS PhD at Imperial College and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. His research earned him the Arthur Dannenberg Award and resulted in several publications on potential immunotherapeutic targets in tuberculosis. This work, funded by the NIH and Howard Hughes Medical Institutes, took place in China, South Africa, India, the UK and the USA.