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Two surgeons gain NIHR Awards Mr Rob Jones and Mr Rajarshi Mukherjee, two LUHFT General Surgeons, have gained prestigious NIHR Research Awards. Mr Jones, Consultant Hepatobiliary Surgeon, has now been appointed as the NIHR North West Coast Lead for Surgical Research. This role involves developing and promoting recruitment into surgical studies and clinical trials for all surgical specialties in hospitals across the North West.
Additionally, following strong competition, Mr Rajarshi Mukherjee, Consultant General and Major Trauma Surgeon, has been awarded a prestigious NIHR Northwest Coast Research Scholar Award to pursue further clinical research for the benefit of Acute Surgical patients in the region.
“Research is a fundamental part of helping our patients. We need to continuously evolve and improve what we do to help improve outcomes that matter to patients. Through this role I aim to widen access to ensure all surgical patients are offered the opportunity to enrol in surgical research,” said Mr Jones.
As research lead for emergency general surgery, Mr. Mukherjee last year led establishment of the Liverpool EmerGenT Academy, a platform for acute general surgical research, service quality improvement and educational activity within the Trust.
Mr Jones is also the Bowel Cancer UK National Surgical Research Lead for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer, and is actively engaged in clinical and translational research, running a number of clinical trials and supporting an active translational research programme. 12 | LUHFT Life
Based in General Surgery at Aintree and working in the Regional Major Trauma Unit, Mr Mukherjee said: “Emergency General Surgery is in desperate need of research and innovation. Through the NIHR award a vast number of surgical patients will benefit from current and future advances right from the hospital’s ‘front door’.”
