Colin Bicknell

Colin Bicknell

Professor of Vascular Surgery

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

London, UK

Colin Bicknell is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Professor of Vascular Surgery at the Imperial Vascular Unit, London.

He is clinical lead for the National Vascular Registry, chair of the audit and quality improvement committee for the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, co-chair of the Aortic Special Interest Group to lead patient prioritised aortic research in the UK. He is a council member of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Professor Bicknell is the past-President of the British Society of Endovascular Therapy and past-Chair of The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust Research Advisory Group.

He directs a translational aortic clinical research programme, leading research trials, including the NIHR funded EARNEST trial, a multicentre long-term trial of the benefits of early stenting after acute uncomplicated type-B aortic dissection.

He is a member of the Editorial Boards for the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and the Journal of Endovascular Therapy. He is the Course Director of the Imperial Health Policy MSc for nearly ten years and has overseen the graduation of over 300 students.