User:Desmond Winter

Des Winter is the Editor-in-chief of BJS (formerly the British Journal of Surgery incorporating the European Journal of Surgery, Swiss Surgery, and Acta Chirurgica Scandinavia), a premier surgical journal with a global reach. Des is a medical graduate with a postgraduate doctorate of the National University of Ireland and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin. His current clinical positions are consultant surgeon at St Vincent’s University Hospital and professor at the affiliated University College Dublin. He has authored over 300 academic papers in peer-reviewed journals in addition to multiple book chapters and serving as editor on several books. The recipient of multiple Irish and international awards, he won the Association of Great Britain and Ireland Medal for the maximum score in the professional exit examination (Intercollegiate Fellowship) in 2004.