MrJosephShalhoub

Summary

BSc MBBS FHEA PhD DIC MEd FFSTEd FRCS FEBVS

Consultant Vascular Surgeon
Imperial Vascular Unit
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
St Mary’s Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital, London

Consultant Vascular Surgeon
Cleveland Clinic London

Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
Academic Section of Vascular Surgery
Division of Surgery
Department of Surgery & Cancer
Faculty of Medicine
Imperial College London

Mr Joseph Shalhoub is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon appointed at the Imperial Vascular Unit, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St Mary’s Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital, London, and Cleveland Clinic London. He qualified with honours from Imperial College School of Medicine, completing his postgraduate surgical training in London including St Mary’s Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, and St Thomas’ Hospital. Mr Shalhoub is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS), and was awarded the Gold Medal for the highest mark in the Fellowship of the European Board of Vascular Surgery (FEBVS) examination. After receiving his Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) and gaining entry onto the General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register, he undertook a post-CCT Senior Clinical Fellowship in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.

Mr Shalhoub has a strong academic and educational background which compliments his evidence-based clinical practice. He is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London where he is an investigator for a number of studies, including National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) government-funded large multi-centre randomised clinical trials:

Joint Chief Investigator: Inpatient GRAduated Compression stocking use as an adjunct to Extended duration pharmacoprophylaxis for venous thromboembolism prevention – the GRACE multi-centre randomised controlled trial (NIHR HTA GRACE Trail)
https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR155294

Joint Chief Investigator: Examining the benefit of graduated compression stockings in the Prevention of vEnous Thromboembolism in low-risk Surgical patients: a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial (NIHR HTA PETS Trial)
https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR133776
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/department-surgery-cancer/research/surgery/clinical-trials/pets-trial/

Joint Chief Investigator: Best Endovenous treatment, including STenting, versus best non-endovenous treatment in chronic proximal deep venous disease – the BEST multi-centre randomised controlled trial (BHF BEST Trial)

Principal Investigator & Co-Applicant: Perineural Local Anaesthetic Catheter aftEr Major lowEr limb amputatioN Trial (NIHR HTA PLACEMENT Trial)
https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR134746/

Investigator: Innovate UK Smart Grant, Dynamically Adaptive Prosthetic Limbs Enabled by Autonomous Soft Robotic Interfaces

Investigator: Innovate UK Smart Grant, Adaptive Prosthetic Limbs Enhanced by Machine Learning and Soft Robotics

Co-Investigator: THRomboprophylaxis in Individuals undergoing superficial endoVEnous treatment (NIHR HTA THRIVE Trial)
https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR152877/

Co-Investigator: Diagnostic tools to establish the presence and severity of peripheral arterial disease in people with diabetes (NIHR HTA DM PAD Study)
https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR131855
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/department-surgery-cancer/research/surgery/clinical-trials/dm-pad-trial/

Co-Investigator: Compression Hosiery to Avoid Post-Thrombotic Syndrome (NIHR HTA CHAPS Trial)
https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/17/147/47
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/department-surgery-cancer/research/surgery/clinical-trials/chaps-trial/

Co-Investigator: Does Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation improve the absolute walking distance in patients with Intermittent Claudication compared to best available treatment? a multicentre randomised controlled study (NIHR / MRC EME NESIC Trial)
https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/15/180/68
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/department-surgery-cancer/research/surgery/clinical-trials/nesic/

Co-Investigator: Examining the benefit of graduated compression stockings as an adjunct to low dose low molecular weight heparin in the prevention of venous thromboembolism in elective surgical inpatients identified as moderate or high risk for venous thromboembolism – a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (NIHR HTA GAPS Trial)
https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/14/140/61
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1309

He completed his BSc, PhD and Masters in Education (MEd) all at Imperial College London, receiving Research Fellowships from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Circulation Foundation. To date, he has secured more than £15.6 million in research funding as principal applicant or co-applicant, and has published more than 260 Pubmed indexed articles.

Mr Shalhoub is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FFSTEd), Council Member and past Honorary Secretary of the Surgery Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), Executive Committee Member of the Vascular and Endovascular Research Network (VERN), Council Member of the Surgical Research Society (SRS), Examiner for the Fellow of the European Board of Vascular Surgery (FEBVS) examinations, and member of the panel of question writers for the JCIE Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Vascular Surgery. He was a Council Member and twice past Vice-President of the Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT), and past Associate Editor (Vascular Surgery) of the International Journal of Cardiology (Elsevier).

Research Areas of Focus

• Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
• Arterial Disease, including Peripheral Arterial Disease and Carotid Disease
• Diabetes Foot Disease and Limb Salvage
• Venous Disease
• Thrombosis
• Clinical Trials
• Collaborative Research
• Vascular Biology
• Metabolic Profiling in Vascular Disease
• Vascular Imaging
• Surgical Education and Training
• Big Data and Epidemiology

Collaborations

• Systems Medicine, Imperial College London
• Professor Claudia Monaco, Professor of Cardiovascular Inflammation, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford
• Dr David Owen, Imperial College London
• Professor Manuel Mayr and Dr Athanasios Didangelos, Vascular Proteomics, King’s College London

Sources of Funding

• Joint Chief Investigator, National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) Project Grant NIHR133776
• Joint Chief Investigator, British Heart Foundation (BHF) Clinical Study Grant CS/F/21/190038
• Investigator, Innovate UK Smart Grant
• Co-Investigator, National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) Project Grant NIHR134746
• Co-Investigator, National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) Project Grant NIHR131855
• Co-Investigator, National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) Project Grant 17/147/47
• Co-Investigator, National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Technology Assessment / Medical Research Council Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (NIHR / MRC EME) Project Grant 15/180/68
• Co-Investigator, National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) Project Grant 14/140/61
• Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Circulation Foundation
• Stroke Association
• Union Internationale de Phlébologie
• Rosetrees Trust
• Graham-Dixon Charitable Trust
• Peel Medical Research Trust

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