Dr Mark Skues
Editor-in-Chief
mskues@gmail.com
Professor Douglas McWhinnie
Editor-in-Chief
douglmcwhinnie@gmail.com
Mark graduated from Nottingham University Medical School in 1980, and after house jobs in Stoke-on-Trent, Nottingham and training in cardiorespiratory medicine in Mansfield, embarked on a career in Anaesthesia, with posts in Nottingham, Bristol, Hamilton New Zealand, and Sheffield. He was appointed Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Therapy in 1992 in Chester. A subsequent competitive interview in 1999 saw him appointed as Director of Day Surgery in the same trust that coincided with the development of a new stand-alone five theatre Day Surgery Centre that opened in 2001. He was appointed to Council of the British Association of Day Surgery in 2009, was the Editor of the Journal of One Day Surgery from 2009 to 2011, President Elect from 2010 to 2012, and President of the Association between 2012 and 2014. Mark was appointed a member and subsequently Chair of the Scientific Subcommittee for Ambulatory Anaesthesia with the European Society of Anaesthesiology from 2014 to 2018. He was appointed as an Editor of the Journal ‘Ambulatory Surgery’ in 2015.
Dr Skues is an author of over 100 peer reviewed papers, including three book chapters on Ambulatory Surgery, and has lectured nationally and internationally on a variety of topics. He was appointed as Editor of Ambulatory Surgery in 2016 and has developed the Bibliography which is now available – a huge project and now a great resource.
Doug McWhinnie graduated from Glasgow University Medical School in 1977 and was appointed Clinical Lecturer in Surgery and Surgical Tutor at Oxford University in 1983. While completing his research MD with Honours in the immunology of Renal Transplant rejection, he developed an interest in day surgery through day case laparoscopic cholecystectomy and laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair. He was appointed Consultant general and Vascular Surgeon in Milton Keynes in 1993 and in 1997 opened the first dedicated 23 hour unit in the UK to complement an expanding day unit. Doug was an executive member of the commissioning group which , in 2005, opened the Milton Keynes Ambulatory Treatment Centre successfully co-locating preassessment, day surgery and 23 hour surgery in the same building.
In 1998, he became a council member of the British Association of Day Surgery, and having held a number of executive positions, was appointed President of the Association in 2008. After joining the General Assembly of IAAS in 2010, he was appointed Surgical Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ambulatory Surgery the following year and to the Executive Council in 2013. Doug has lectured widely and published extensively on ambulatory surgery. He co-authored the Oxford Handbook of Day Case Surgery, and has contributed to several standard surgical textbooks on day surgery. His main interest relates to patient safety and the design of ambulatory pathways.
In addition to his work in ambulatory surgery, Doug is Professor and Director of Clinical Studies for the new independent University of Buckingham Medical School, with the first intake of students in January 2015.