James is currently working as a Consultant Transplant and Vascular Access Surgeon at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is a specialist in kidney and and pancreas transplantation and vascular access surgery and has particular interest and expertise in complex and re-do and salvage access surgery and access in patients with central vein pathology.
James currently leads the dialysis access and pancreas transplant programmes. He inserted Europe's first HeRO graft in 2013 and currently has the biggest European experience of HeRO graft usage in central vein stenosis. He has also developed a vascular access programme for patients with intestinal failure. James is an educationalist and has a Masters in Education. He is involved with undergraduate and postgraduate training and has been responsible for the development of surgical educational supervisors across Health Education Thames Valley. He is one of the Trust's leads for education and has just been appointed the Training Programme Director for Core Surgery in HETV. When not frantically working he enjoys cooking, triathlons, armchair sporting punditry and spending time with his wife and two children.
Mr Paul Gibbs
Consultant Vascular and Transplant Surgeon, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth
Paul Gibbs qualified at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in 1992. He did his higher surgical training in both vascular surgery and renal transplantation in the Wessex region from 1997 to 2004. This included an MD in renal transplant immunology. Paul has worked in renal transplant units in Cardiff, Oxford and Portsmouth before being appointed as a vascular and renal transplant surgeon in Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust in February 2005, where he is clincal director of the transplant programme. He has always had a keen interest in vascular access and leads on this in his own trust.