Executive Committee members 2023-2024

Lillian Reza

President

Lillian is an ST7 in the North-East Thames London deanery. She was the Dukes’ Club Proctology committee representative in 2021-2022 and Vice-President in 2022-2023. She is completing a PhD at St Mark’s Hospital on the classification and management of pouch fistula with Mr Phil Tozer, Professor Sue Clark, and Professor Ailsa Hart. I am interested in developing educational content and training courses for colorectal trainees across the country. I am passionate about representing trainee views, and improving access to information and opportunities.
Twitter: @LillianReza

Charlotte El Sayed

Vice President

Andrew Yiu

Secretary


I am a General Surgery-themed CT2 in London. I graduated from King’s College London, where I also completed a BSc in Medical Genetics. I am interested in improving patient outcomes and surgical education through the use of digital surgery. I am also involved in organising the Portsmouth Colorectal Congress, which focuses on robotics and other advances in colorectal surgery.
Twitter: @andrew_yiu

Susanna Green

Abdominal Wall rep


I am a Leeds graduate, LTFT ST7 Colorectal trainee and mummy. I completed my core and higher training in the North West and Yorkshire deaneries and I have a special interest in abdominal wall reconstruction. I very much enjoy teaching, have recently been part of faculty for regional small bites closure courses, and the Leeds Cadsim cadaveric AWR course, and hope to continue to encourage interest from trainees in the importance of incisional hernia prevention. I hope to generate enthusiasm and engagement from Dukes Club members in the evidence based changes to abdominal wall closure, and also facilitate further learning about AWR techniques.

Twitter: @susiekgreen

Ioanna Drami

Advanced cancer & peritoneal malignancy rep


Ioanna is a higher surgical trainee (ST5) in the North East and Central London deanery, with a special interest in colorectal cancer. Her academic background includes a BSc in Biomedical Sciences at QMUL and an MSc at Imperial College in Reproductive and Developmental Biology. Ioanna elected to take time out of training to undertake a PhD at St Mark’s Institute and Imperial College, under the supervision of Mr Ian Jenkins and Professor Stella Knight, as part of the BiCyCLE research group.

Twitter: @ioannadrami

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Hannah Javanmard-Emamghissi

Emergency general surgery rep

Hannah is an ST4 in the East Midlands, returning to training having finished a 3 year research fellowship with the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit. Her PhD work focussed on emergency laparotomies in extreme-risk populations. Her interests include collaborative research and quality improvement in emergency general surgery.
Twitter: @hannahjavanmard

Taner Shakir

Robotics rep

Taner is an ST6 currently OOP at UCL; his research involves improving robotics training with digital adjuncts. His core and higher surgery deanery has been the East of England, where he is also the Dukes Club regional representative. He is passionate about training, having led and delivered multiple trainee focussed robotics courses.

Twitter: Taner_Shakir

Orestis Argyriou

IBD & intestinal failure rep

 

I am an ST6 in the North-West London Deanery, and have recently come out of training, to undertake my research, leading to a PhD, in IBD and Pouch Surgery, at St Mark’s Hospital. Prior to that, I completed my CST in the North-West Deanery (Mersey), as well as an MSc in Medical Education with the University of Liverpool. I have been the North-West London regional Dukes rep for the past 2 years, and have participated in the organisation of various local events, as well as the delivery of a course for medical students at Imperial College London.
Twitter: @OrestisArg

Farah Khasawneh

The Proctology rep

I am the proctology representative in Duke’s Club and a EDI committee
member for ASGBI. I finished medical school and general surgery training in Jordan and am currently a colorectal surgery registrar at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. I am also completing an MD on FIT in symptomatic and high-risk for CRC patients with University of Leicester.
Twitter: @farahkh__

Rezuana Tamanna

Education and training rep

I am a Trust SHO in West Hertfordshire NHS Trust, currently working in colorectal surgery. As an Education & trainee representative , I aim to provide wider range of hands on training courses such as: laparoscopic courses, Cadaveric courses

Annalise Katz-Summercorn

Research & audit rep


I am currently an ST7 trainee in the East of England, with an interest in Colorectal malignancy. I graduated from Cambridge University in 2008 and completed my junior training in London. I was later awarded a CRUK fellowship to undertake a PhD in the early detection of GI cancer, in the Fitzgerald lab in at the MRC Cancer Unit in Cambridge. My research focussed on the early detection of oesophageal adenocarcinoma by integrating genomics with expression and methylation data on samples from a large cohort of patients. This gave me a huge set of transferrable skills to apply to Colorectal research, with publications in Nature and Science and a number of international presentations and prizes.

Twitter: @Annalise_KS

Michael Okocha

The Pelvic Floor Society rep


Twitter: @thetraumasurg

Katie Siggens

JAG & colonoscopy rep


I’m ST6 in Wessex region, currently out of programme doing a PhD in advanced endoscopy where my research focuses on artificial intelligence in colonoscopy. I graduated from the University of Nottingham before moving to Wessex for surgical training, where I’m also the regional representative for Dukes Club.
Twitter: @SigKat3

Delphine Couderq

ASiT rep


Twitter: @DelphCouderq

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