Council Member

Biography

Dr Riaz Agha is currently a junior doctor on a surgical rotation at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.  He also works as a Clinical Supervisor for Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge and is a National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Scholar.  He is Founder, Managing and Executive Editor of the International Journal of Surgery.

Riaz is Council Member for the Section of Plastic Surgery at the Royal Society of Medicine and board member for the; Elsevier Editorial System Advisory Board, Map of Medicine Fellows Board, Advisory Board of Patients Know Best and the Association of Surgeons in Training.  He sits on the Web Committee for the World Association of Medical Editors, has built two military websites for NATO and also founded and developed WikiSurgery.com.

He is an Ambassador for Enterprise UK and has been a Consultant on healthcare and technology to a member of the Joint Ventures Board of the Bank of Scotland, former Vice-Chairman of the Governing Council of University College London and the former Chairman of the Further Education Council.  He graduated from Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ Medical School with Distinctions and a 1st Class Honours in his Bachelors degree in Anatomy. With a keen interest in research, he has won over 25 academic prizes and published over 30 papers.  Most recently Riaz has been involved in the creation of International Journal of Surgery: Case Reports, the first open access journal in Elsevier’s 130 year history.

Competing interests statement

Riaz is Managing and Executive Editor of the International Journal of Surgery. 

Posted by Riaz Agha, COPE Council Member on April 28^th 2010