Nick trained at Oxford University, Guy’s Hospital, London, and Melbourne, Australia. He is a Consultant Upper GI Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Professor of Surgery at Oxford University. He set up the Oxford Oesophagogastric Cancer Centre in 1997 and from 2017 to 2022 Nick was Cancer Lead for Oxford University Hospitals. In 2020 he was awarded his Fellowship ad hominem of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, for services to surgery.
Nick’s main interests are in the surgical management of oesophagogastric cancer and complex benign disease, and he speaks regularly nationally and internationally on these topics. He is President of the Association of Upper GI Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland.
Nick first visited Palestine in 2008, and since then has travelled each year with fellow Oxford Consultants to Palestine to teach medical students in the West Bank and Gaza. Since 2012 he has led a group of Oxford Consultants specialising in surgery, medicine, paediatrics, and obstetrics and spends a week in Gaza each October with students from the Islamic University of Gaza and Al Azhar University. Nick joined the Board of Trustees of IMET2000 (International Medical Education Trust) in 2016 and has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2018.