GMC Number: 6145643

Year & location of first qualification: 2006, University of Bristol

Specialty: Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia 

Clinical interests: Research, echocardiography

Secretary: Department of Anaesthesia Secretaries 

Telephone: 0117 442 4641

BSc(Hons)
MBChB
MRCP(UK)
FRCA
FFICM 

GMC number: 4201953

Year of first qualification: 1995, University of Birmingham

Speciality: Cellular Pathology

Clinical interests: Thoracic and gynaecological pathology

Secretary: Alison Johnson

Telephone number: 0117 414 9878

GMC Number: 4620484                                                                                                                                    

Year of first qualification: 1999, University of Bristol

Specialty: Urology

Clinical interests: General urology and non-muscle invasive bladder cancer

Secretary: Owen Collings 

Telephone number: 0117 414 5003

Miss Burden's trained in Bristol and Exeter, where her interest in urology first sparked. She spent a year working in Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand. Upon returning to the UK, she started surgical training in the South West. She undertook a research MD during surgical training in novel urological diagnostic tests. Miss Burden joined NBT as a consultant urological surgeon in 2016.

Roles include -
-NBT clinical lead for Bladder Cancer
-NBT work experience lead
-Bristol Urological Institute lead for teaching and courses
-Educational supervisor

She has an interest in teaching and currently lectures and supervises students at the University of Bristol. She runs several local teaching courses including the 'Essentials in Urology' and teaches on courses for the British Association of Urological Surgeons.
 

Specialty: Cellular Pathology

GMC Number: 6160446

Year of first qualification: 2006, Bristol

Specialty: Dermatology

Clinical interests: Inflammatory dermatology, dermoscopy of skin lesions, skin cancer and minor surgery, vulval dermatology

Secretary: Carole Wathan

Telephone number: 0117 414 7621

Dr Helen Audrain is currently the clinical lead for dermatology at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT).

British Association of Dermatologists
British Society for the study of Vulval Diseases BMA MRCP (UK) 

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Year of first qualification: 2003, University of London

Specialty: Upper GI Surgery

Clinical interests: Laparoscopic (keyhole) abdominal surgery including: Bariatric Surgery, Hiatal Surgery (Reflux disease), Biliary disease (gallstones), Hernia Surgery

Secretary: Kate Hewings

Telephone: 0117 414 0837

Mr James Hopkins is currently the Clinical Lead for GI Emergency Surgery at North Bristol NHS Trust.

Mr Hopkins MA DPhil FRCS completed his post-graduate medical training at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, University of London in 2003. Prior to medical school he completed an undergraduate degree and doctorate in Biochemistry and Metabolism at the University of Oxford (1990 – 1997) and was a Research Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston MA from 1998 – 2000.

After medical school Mr Hopkins completed basic surgical training in the London Deanery (Imperial College 2005 – 2008), higher surgical training in the Wessex Deanery (2008 – 2015) with a concurrent clinical lectureship at the University of Southampton (2011 -2015) completing sub-specialist training at the Solent Centre for Digestive Diseases at QA hospital Portsmouth – specialising in bariatric surgery, and obtaining his CCT in 2015. Following this he undertook a post-CCT Bariatric surgery fellowship at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton before joining North Bristol NHS Trust.

His specialist interests are in laparoscopic (keyhole) abdominal surgery, in particular the management of gallstone disease, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and all types of hernias. Mr Hopkins has a specialist interest in Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction for complicated or recurrent hernias. He is also a fully trained Bariatric (weight-loss) surgeon having completed a sub-specialist and fellowship training. He offers a range of operations for severe and complex obesity including gastric band, gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy within the team at NBT. 

Mr Hopkins has an interest in clinical outcomes research and has been the lead in the in the development of a Core-Outcome Set for Bariatric Surgery (the BARIACT Project) as part of the ByBandSleeve randomised controlled trial. Mr Hopkins is the NBT site Principle Investigator for the ByBandSleeve multicentre RCT. He is a member of the National Bariatric Surgery Registry data committee, with responsibility for the NBSR.co.uk website, and was an advisor on the 2012 NCEPOD enquiry into bariatric surgery – Too lean a service?

Mr Hopkins is a member of Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons, ASGBI, British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (of which he recently completed his tenure on BOMSS Council).

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The Bristol Neuromuscular Research Group is a team of doctors, healthcare professionals and scientists who are committed to improving the lives of individuals with neuromuscular conditions through research.  The group has been in existence since 2009 and has gradually been increasing its portfolio of high quality research.  It is now in the process of consolidating and expanding its research work in an effort to become a world class centre of excellence for neuromuscular research in the South West.

The research group is part of the University of Bristol's School of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Neurosciences.  It also works closely with the SW Neuromuscular ODN in order to ensure research is embedded into daily NHS clinical practice. 

Further information about the Bristol Neuromuscular Research can be found on the University of Bristol's website.