Mr David Anthony Rew MA MB MChir (Cantab) FRCS (London) QVRM VRSM TD
Consultant General Surgeon, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Surgery
Mr David Rew is a Honorary Senior Lecturer and Consultant General Surgeon within the faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton.
The University of Southampton creates an open and welcoming cross-disciplinary environment, within which I can test and develop cutting edge digital concepts and strategies with engaging, interested and supportive professional academic colleagues at all levels of career progression
For the past decade, I have led a unique programme in digital transformation, data visualisation and cancer data systems at University Hospital Southampton.
Our solution informs the global search for an efficient and unifying electronic patient record for health professionals, for clinical researchers and for all citizens, and it creates new opportunities in many public sector and commercial applications.
As a consultant surgeon in full time NHS professional practice, I have a broad range of academic and educational interests which contribute to the work and reputation of the University of Southampton.
As the international Subject Chair for Medicine of the Content Selection and Advisory Board of the SCOPUS Citation System since 2009, I make a significant contribution to securing quality standards and ethics in global academic publishing.
One rewarding highlight of my SCOPUS role has been my contribution to the internationalisation of academic output from the STEM communities of Russia and the Cyrillic language states.
As a member of the Territorial, Regular and Army Reserve from 1975 to 2018, my contributory work in developing and delivering complex trauma care in the Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan was recognised in HM the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2015.
I am an Innovation and Thought Leader in the NHS and UHS Digital Exemplar Programmes. My influential and original work in creating, developing and delivering transformative enhancements to the electronic patient record programme and its research elements has been recognised though international consultancies.
In 2017, I was appointed to membership of the Strategic Advisory Team for Healthcare Technologies of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Qualifications
MB BChir, Medical Sciences, University of Cambridge 1981
MA, University of Cambridge 1982
FRCS, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1985
MChir, Master of Surgery, University of Cambridge, 1991
TD, Territorial Decoration, Services to the Crown, 1994
VRSM, Voluntary Reserve Service Medal, Services to the Crown, 2007
QVRM, Queen’s Voluntary Reserve Medal, Services to the Crown, 2015
+ operational service medals for the Gulf (1991), Iraq (2003) and Helmand, Afghanistan (2008)
Key Professional and Academic Posts
Cancer Research Campaign Fellow, Southampton, 1989-1991
Senior Lecturer in Surgery, University of Leicester, 1994-1999
Consultant General Surgeon, Southampton Hospitals, 1999 - >
National Secretary, Association for Cancer Surgery, 2000-2002
Editor in Chief, European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2002 -2009
Member of Council, international Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE), 2008-2010
Subject Chair for Medicine, SCOPUS CSAB, 2009 – present
Director of Communications, Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, 2012 – 2016
Member, HealthCare Technologies Strategic Advisory Team of the UK EPSRC, 2017 - >
Visiting Professor, Southampton Solent University, 2017+