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David Maclean

David Maclean graduated from London University and is a fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, England and Wales and Scotland. He is currently Honorary Consulting Surgeon, Barts & the London NHS Trust.

Among senior appointments he has held are Consultant Surgeon, the London Hospital from 1981 to 2003, Surgical Tutor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1976 to 1981 and Surgical Adviser to the Royal Hospitals Trust Legal Department from 1998 to 2004.

From 1986 to 2004 he was Examiner in Surgery at the Society of Apothecaries, of which he is also a yeoman. He was a member of the Board of Examiners for Final FDS RCS at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1980 to 1984. He is a member of the British Medical Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

David's special interests are biliary, pancreatic, oesophago-gastric and laparascopic surgery, benign and malignant breast disease and the training and selection of surgeons and medical students. Among various papers he has contributed a chapter on surgery to "Emergencies in Medical Practice" (1963) and the abdomen in "Hutchisons Clinical Methods", the classic textbook on clinical examination. He has lectured widely on peptic ulcer, gastrointestinal bleeding, bile duct tumours, pancreatic carcinoma and chronic pancreatitis.