Mr. Di Chiara is currently a consultant thoracic surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals. In this episode he talks about his career path and gives students some helpful advice regarding applying to such an incredibly competitive pathway.

Mr. Di Chiara trained in Italy in cardiothoracic transplantation and cardiac surgery before coming to the UK. He has been a visiting fellow twice at the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital and Chengdu Thoracic Surgery Centre.

Most notably, Mr. Di Chiara is known for introducing unilateral VATS surgery at Oxford, where he now performs complex thoracic operations. These include sleeve lobectomies, chest wall resections and segmectomies. He also has an interest in research and has managed to include Oxford University Thoracic Surgery in a national randomised controlled trial on the management of rib fractures, funded by the NIHR.

InciSioN UK bring you a podcast with Mr Magnus Arnander a consultant Orthopaedic surgeon at St. George's Hospital London. In this episode, he talks about his career, journey through medical school and talks about how students can engage with surgery early on in their career. He also talks about his sub-speciality in hand, elbow and shoulder surgery.

InciSioN UK brings you a podcast with Mr Alex Trompeter for the month of November. Our theme this month is Global Orthopaedic surgery. Mr Trompeter is a Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon at St. George’s University Hospital, London and holds the position of Honorary Reader in Orthopaedic Surgery at St George’s University of London. In this episode, he talks about his career, journey through medical education and his interests in global orthopaedic surgery.

Dr Beryl Sawyer - advocacy lead, Miss Katya Marks - webmaster, Miss Natasha Dougland - social media lead and Ines Ongenda - education lead brings you this conversation where they share about their experience as part of InciSioN UK committee and all that they go out of it. We thank you again for joining us this year and we hope you will enjoy what the next committee is preparing for you.

In this final episode of the 2019-2020 committee of InciSioN UK, Ines Ongenda chats with Aimee from InciSioN Burundi about their work in Burundi, the big successes and some of the challenges they are facing on the path of providing surgical care to Burundians and forging strong relationships with the local population. 

Dr Beryl Sawyer chats with Shahnur Shah from InciSioN Kenya about. how he got interested in Global Surgery along with the work he has been doing as part of the group.

Dr Beryl Sawyer from InciSioN UK chats with Davina, Chair at InciSioN Australasia about her interest Global Surgery and her work as part of InciSioN Australasia.