Venous Access Made Easy

About Ahmed ShalanAndrew ThompsonJames Forsyth

James Michael Forsyth MBBS MRCS PGDip (HPE) is a vascular and endovascular surgery registrar completing his specialist training in the Yorkshire Deanery England. He qualified from St George's Hospital Medical School (University of London) in 2011. He has a passion for medical education and service improvement and has specific interests in diabetic foot disease and vascular access.Ahmed Shalan MBBS MRCS ChM is a vascular surgery trainee in the West Midlands England. He graduated from Cairo Medical School 2007. He moved to England in 2013 as speciality doctor of vascular and endovascular surgery in York Teaching Hospital for 5 years where he developed and coordinated the assisted venous access service. He has passion for patient and medical education. Andrew Thompson MBBS BMedSci MD(Res) FRCS(Gen) is a consultant vascular surgeon and the lead clinician for North Yorkshire Vascular Unit. He qualified from The Royal London and St Bartholomew Hospitals Medical School in 1998 wrote his thesis on abdominal aortic aneurysm genetics at University College London for the British Heart Foundation in 2007 and completed his training with the Oxford postgraduate deanery in 2010. He spent a year (2011) as the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland Endovascular Fellow at St Marys Hospital London. He is currently a consultant vascular and endovascular surgeon at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where he manages all major vascular pathology as part of a team of surgeons and radiologists for a population of 800000. His interests include distal reconstruction renal access complex abdominal aortic surgery and thoracic outlet syndrome.