Emeritus Professor Cliff Shearman BSc, MB BS, FRCS, MS
Professor of Vascular Surgery, Head of Wessex Postgraduate School of Surgery,Associate Medical Director Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Professor Cliff Shearman is Professor of Vascular Surgery within Medicine at the University of Southampton.
Professor Shearman qualified from Guys Hospital Medical School London University and trained in vascular surgery in Birmingham. He was appointed as a senior lecturer/consultant vascular surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham in 1990. In 1994 he moved to Southampton as a NHS Consultant Vascular Surgeon and in 1999 was appointed to the Chair of Vascular Surgery at the University of Southampton.
Professor Shearman is vascular surgeon in a busy vascular unit which undertakes most vascular and endovascular treatments of arterial and venous disease. The unit serves a local population of 900,000 people. His research program is largely directed at determining factors that promote the progression of vascular disease, particularly in diabetes. These include environmental, genetic and haemodynamic factors, and how they might be modified to improve clinical outcomes.
Professor Shearman is Associate Medical Director for R and D in Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust. He was on the Council and Chairman of the Training and Education Committee of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and President of the Society (2009-10). He was appointed head of the Wessex Post Graduate School of Surgery in 2007.
Qualifications
BSc (1st) University of London (1976)
MB BS Guys Hospital Medical School, University of London (1979)
FRCS Royal College of Surgeons of England (1983)
Master of Surgery University of London (1989)
Appointments held
Senior Lecturer/Consultant Vascular Surgeon University of Birmingham 1990-1994
Consultant Vascular Surgeon/Hon Senior Lecturer Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust 1994-1999
Professor of Vascular Surgery University of Southampton 1999-