Professor John MacFie, ASGBI President
John MacFie qualified in 1974 from University of Birmingham, obtained his FRCS in 1978 and was awarded his MD in 1980. After two years full-time research under the direction of Professor J C Goligher in the University Department of Surgery in Leeds, he completed surgical training and was appointed Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, NZ in 1984 and Consultant Surgeon, Scarborough hospital in 1986.
His clinical interests remain predominantly colorectal with a specific commitment to the management of patients with intestinal failure and those with inflammatory bowel disease. He maintains an active interest in nutrition and metabolism, ethics and care of the critically ill.
John MacFie has received a number of prizes and research grants over the years. In 1996 he was awarded a Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, was the recipient of the John F Kinney prize for Nutrition and Metabolism in 2001, the British Journal of Surgery editorial prize (John Farndon) in 2003 and 2011 and the Moynihan prize in both 2005 and 2007. He has written over 200 papers and many book chapters. Particular interests include energy metabolism in surgical patients, the utilisation of fat emulsions, the use of peripheral parenteral nutrition, the ethics of nutritional support and gut barrier function.
He was elected Regional Advisor and Programme Director for General Surgery in Yorkshire in 2000 and served for 5 years. He was appointed to the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2002 and acts as external examiner for the universities of Cork, Southampton and Leeds. He is a Governor of the BUPA Foundation. He was appointed Professor of Surgery by the Post Graduate Medical Institute, University of Hull in 2005. He is Director of the Postgraduate MSc Programme in the University of Hull, current President of the Leeds Regional Surgical Club and President of the Association of Surgeons of GB and Ireland. In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the James IV Surgical Foundation.
He holds Honorary Fellowships with the Royal College Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.