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Expertise Summary
Coloproctology
prehabilitiation and exercise interventions to improve outcomes
pilonidal sinus
surgical training
surgical emergencies
Teaching Summary
Undergraduate medical education.
Post graduate training in General Surgery.
www.learncolorectalsurgery.com
School of Surgery https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/school-of-surgery/id642197143?mt=2
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHgorCu13L7iXGpVv1yfBCQ
Research Summary
Novel treatments for pilonidal sinus
Treatment of anal fissure
Improving outcomes in elderly patients having surgery
Role of Micro RNAs in colorectal cancer
Endocannabinoids in gut permiability
Selected Publications
CRUICKSHANKS, H.A., VAFADAR-ISFAHANI, N., DUNICAN, D.S., LEE, A., SPROUL, D., LUND, J.N, MEEHAN, R.R. and TUFARELLI, C., 2013. Expression of a large LINE-1 driven antisense RNA is linked to epigenetic silencing of the metastasis suppressor gene TFPI-2 in cancer Nucleic Acids Research. 41(14), 6857-6869 PEACOCK O, CLAYTON S, ATKINSON F, TIERNEY GM and LUND JN, 2013. "Be Clear on Cancer." The impact of the UK national bowel cancer awareness campaign. Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. (In Press.)
MITCHELL WK, LUND JN and WILLIAMS JP, 2013. The role of carbohydrate drinks in preoperative nutrition. Comment 2. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 95(1), 82-3 WATTS ES, PEACOCK O, GUPTA A, SPEAKE WJ and LUND JN, 2013. Anyone for TAMIS? Techniques in coloproctology. 17(2), 253-5
Past Research
1st randomized trail of topical GTN in the treatment of chronic anal fissure. This work, published in The Lancet, set a new paradigm in the treatment of this common condition, and became first line treatment world wide.
Future Research
A multicentre, international radomised trail of the role of topical diltazem in the treatmetn of chronic anal fissure. (currently finished recruitment and awaiting completion of data collection).