Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon
MA (Cantab), MBBChir, PhD, FRCS
Overview
Areas of expertise
Medico-Legal experience
Mr Rashid has been acting as an expert witness for a number of years. He has undergone expert witness training and is happy to be instructed by both Claimant and Defendant law firms in personal injury and clinical negligence cases.
Clinical Practice & Experience
Mr Rashid is currently appointed as a Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI). Having received training in all the common forms of vascular surgery, Mr Rashid went on to be a Fellow in Australia learning advanced endovascular and vascular techniques with a particular focus on diabetic foot disease and limb salvage.
Clinical Interests
Mr Rashid has an interest in all aspects of vascular surgery particularly minimally invasive techniques, including percutaneous EVAR and tumescence-free endovenous ablation. He has a particular focus in limb preservation and diabetic foot disease with complex, ultra-distal re-vascularisation using both open surgical and endovascular techniques. He has developed the most comprehensive MDT Limb Preservation and Foot Service in the North-West of England to include complex foot surgery, coordinated offloading and advanced wound management techniques.
Research Interests
Mr Rashid has both clinical and laboratory-based research interests. His basic science research was in regenerative medicine having completed a PhD in tissue engineering, a post-doctoral lectureship in endothelial progenitor stem cells and more recently the role of progenitor stem cells in diabetes and peripheral arterial disease. In addition to this, he has also undertaken clinical research in venous, renovascular and aneurysm disease. His current focus is on trials to improve wound healing in neuroischaemic and diabetic foot disease.
Summary of Publications
Mr Rashid has over 50 publications and conference presentations including 10 peer-reviewed, first-author publications in leading medical and scientific journals. These cover basic science topics in regenerative medicine; the broad range of vascular surgery from venous, aortic and peripheral arterial disease; and more recently wound healing in the diabetic foot.
Teaching & Training
Mr Rashid is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. Notably, he has developed surgical skills workshops for trainee surgeons and has lectured medical students. He is often an invited speaker at regional, national and international conference and symposia on peripheral arterial disease as well as being on the advisory boards of several multinational healthcare companies.
Prizes and Awards
2011: Charing Cross Symposium Revision Course Prize
2010: Charing Cross Symposium Surgeons-in-Training Prize
2004: Young Investigator Award for outstanding research from the International Society for Applied Cardiovascular Biology
2004: Prize for best selected abstract at the Renovascular Forum
2003: Patey Prize co-author: Society of Academic & Research Surgery Annual Forum
Memberships of Professional Bodies & Learned Societies
General Medical Council (GMC)
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCS)
British Medical Association (BMA)
Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland (VSGBI)
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