Sherif Awad

Contact

• workRoom E Floor, West Block Division of GI Surgery, E Floor, West Block, Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre NIHR BRU
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 82 31144
• fax0115 82 31160
• sherif.awad@nottingham.ac.uk

Teaching Summary

I have taught 3rd and 5th year medical student undergraduates on their clinical attachments in Queen's Medical Centre.

I am a CCrISP instructor and part of the local faculty in Nottingham.

I have co-convened regional pan-speciality advanced laparoscopic suturing teaching sessions utilising animal carcass.

Research Summary

Current research interests include: perioperative optimisation/nutrition, metabolic conditioning, insulin resistance, carbohydrate loading/treatment, enhanced recovery after surgery, sarcopenia and… read more

Recent Publications

• AWAD, S. and LOBO, D. N., 2012. Metabolic conditioning to attenuate the adverse effects of perioperative fasting and improve patient outcomes Current Opinion In Clinical Nutrition And Metabolic Care. 15(2), 194-200
• AWAD, S, DHARMAVARAM, S, WEARN, C, DUBE, M and LOBO, DN, 2012. A randomized controlled double-blind study on the effects of 1-liter intraoperative infusions over 1 hour of 4% succinylated gelatine (Gelofusine(r)) and 6% hydroxyethyl starch (Voluven(r)) on blood volume. British Journal of Anaesthesia. (In Press.)
• AWAD, S, BLACKSHAW, PE, WRIGHT, JW, MACDONALD, IA, PERKINS, AC and LOBO, DN, 2011. A Randomized Crossover Study Of The Effects Of Glutamine And Lipid On The Gastric Emptying Time Of A Preoperative Carbohydrate Drink Clinical Nutrition. 30(2), 165-171
• AWAD, SHERIF, CONSTANTIN-TEODOSIU, DUMITRU, CONSTANTIN, DESPINA, ROWLANDS, BRIAN J, FEARON, KENNETH C H, MACDONALD, IAN A and LOBO, DILEEP N, 2010. Cellular mechanisms underlying the protective effects of preoperative feeding: a randomized study investigating muscle and liver glycogen content, mitochondrial function, gene and protein expression. Annals Of Surgery. 252(2), 247-53

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Current Research

Current research interests include: perioperative optimisation/nutrition, metabolic conditioning, insulin resistance, carbohydrate loading/treatment, enhanced recovery after surgery, sarcopenia and body composition changes in cancer patients, changes following bariatric and metabolic surgery.

I am co-supervising a PhD research fellow with Prof Dileep N Lobo. We are undertaking NIHR portfolio-adopted research studies investigating:

1) Whether differences in body composition alter development of insulin resistance following major abdominal surgery and whether these changes are ameliorated by preoperative carbohydrate treatment (http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN16597586/nottingham);

2) Whether acute changes in body composition in patients with oesophagogastric cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy alter development of insulin resistance and surgical complications (http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN15674981/nottingham).

I am presently in receipt of research grants from: CORE (Digestive Diseases Foundation), ESPEN (European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism), Nottingham University Hospitals Charity, and the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre NIHR Biomedical Research Unit.

Past Research

I undertook my PhD into the 'Metabolic and cellular effects of carbohydrate-based preconditioning drinks' (http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk/1572/) under the excellent supervision and mentorship of Professors Dileep N Lobo and Ian A Macdonald. I undertook a number of collaborative patient and healthy volunteer studies utilsing techniques that included magnetic resonance spectroscopy, differential centrifugation, spectrophotometry, RT-PCR, Western Blotting and gamma gastric scintigraphy.

• AWAD, S. and LOBO, D. N., 2012. Metabolic conditioning to attenuate the adverse effects of perioperative fasting and improve patient outcomes Current Opinion In Clinical Nutrition And Metabolic Care. 15(2), 194-200
• AWAD, S, DHARMAVARAM, S, WEARN, C, DUBE, M and LOBO, DN, 2012. A randomized controlled double-blind study on the effects of 1-liter intraoperative infusions over 1 hour of 4% succinylated gelatine (Gelofusine(r)) and 6% hydroxyethyl starch (Voluven(r)) on blood volume. British Journal of Anaesthesia. (In Press.)
• AWAD, S, BLACKSHAW, PE, WRIGHT, JW, MACDONALD, IA, PERKINS, AC and LOBO, DN, 2011. A Randomized Crossover Study Of The Effects Of Glutamine And Lipid On The Gastric Emptying Time Of A Preoperative Carbohydrate Drink Clinical Nutrition. 30(2), 165-171
• AWAD, SHERIF, CONSTANTIN-TEODOSIU, DUMITRU, CONSTANTIN, DESPINA, ROWLANDS, BRIAN J, FEARON, KENNETH C H, MACDONALD, IAN A and LOBO, DILEEP N, 2010. Cellular mechanisms underlying the protective effects of preoperative feeding: a randomized study investigating muscle and liver glycogen content, mitochondrial function, gene and protein expression. Annals Of Surgery. 252(2), 247-53
• AWAD, SHERIF, STEPHENSON, MARY C, PLACIDI, ELISA, MARCIANI, LUCA, CONSTANTIN-TEODOSIU, DUMITRU, GOWLAND, PENNY A, SPILLER, ROBIN C, FEARON, KENNETH C H, MORRIS, PETER G, MACDONALD, IAN A and LOBO, DILEEP, 2010. The effects of fasting and refeeding with a 'metabolic preconditioning' drink on substrate reserves and mononuclear cell mitochondrial function. Clinical Nutrition.
• ALOYSIUS, M M, ZAITOUN, A M, AWAD, S, ILYAS, M, ROWLANDS, B J and LOBO, D N, 2010. Mucins and CD56 as markers of tumour invasion and prognosis in periampullary cancer. The British Journal Of Surgery. 97(8), 1269-78
• SUTTON, P A, AWAD, S, PERKINS, A C and LOBO, D N, 2010. Comparison of lateral thermal spread using monopolar and bipolar diathermy, the Harmonic Scalpel and the Ligasure. The British journal of surgery. 97(3), 428-33
• HERROD, PHILIP J J, AWAD, SHERIF, REDFERN, ANDREW, MORGAN, LINDA and LOBO, DILEEP N, 2010. Hypo- and hypernatraemia in surgical patients: is there room for improvement? World journal of surgery. 34(3), 495-9
• AWAD, SHERIF, HERROD, PHILIP J J, FORBES, EWAN and LOBO, DILEEP N, 2010. Knowledge and attitudes of surgical trainees towards nutritional support: food for thought. Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland). 29(2), 243-8
• AWAD, SHERIF, CONSTANTIN-TEODOSIU, DUMITRU, MACDONALD, IAN A and LOBO, DILEEP N, 2009. Short-term starvation and mitochondrial dysfunction - a possible mechanism leading to postoperative insulin resistance. Clinical Nutrition. 28(5), 497-509
• AWAD, SHERIF, ALLISON, SIMON P and LOBO, DILEEP N, 2008. The history of 0.9% saline. Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland). 27(2), 179-88
• AWAD, SHERIF, ALLISON, SIMON P and LOBO, DILEEP N, 2008. Fluid and electrolyte balance: the impact of goal directed teaching. Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland). 27(3), 473-8
• MAKRIS, S A, KARKOS, C D, AWAD, S and LONDON, N J M, 2006. An "all-comers" venous duplex scan policy for patients with lower limb varicose veins attending a one-stop vascular clinic: is it justified? European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery. 32(6), 718-24
• AWAD, S, KARKOS, C D, SERRACHINO-INGLOTT, F, COOPER, N J, BUTTERFIELD, J S, ASHLEIGH, R and NASIM, A, 2006. The impact of diabetes on current revascularisation practice and clinical outcome in patients with critical lower limb ischaemia. European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery. 32(1), 51-9
• SERRACINO-INGLOTT, F, AWAD, S, BARCLAY, A and NASIM, A, 2005. The use of a cell saver during repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms increases early survival. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 87(6), 475