Ms Aileen McKinley has been a Consultant General Surgeon in Aberdeen since 2004. She is originally from Northern Ireland and graduated from Edinburgh University. She started her surgical training in Edinburgh and completed higher surgical training in the North of Scotland.

She has a particular interest in colorectal conditions and in the treatment of colorectal cancer, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. She also has extensive specialist experience in the diagnosis and treatment of pelvic floor disorders. She has developed the Sacral Nerve Stimulation service in Aberdeen, providing the most up-to-date treatment for faecal incontinence.

She is actively involved in teaching and is the Training Programme Director for the surgical programme in the North of Scotland Deanery.

She is actively involved in clinical research into colorectal conditions and is currently recruiting into national randomised controlled trials concerning the post-operative management of Crohn’s disease (TOPPIC), the best treatment for fistula-in-ano (FIAT) and the prevention of parastomal herniation (PROPHECI).

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Professor Adilia Warris’s primary research area is the host-fungus interaction in specific patient groups. Over the recent years our work has provided us with new concepts and hypotheses concerning fungal pathogenesis in patients with Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD).  Invasive infections by A. nidulans are exclusively seen in patients with this particular primary immunodeficiency disorder and behave more aggressively and result in higher mortality rates. The phenotype of A. nidulans with regards to its interaction with CGD phagocytes is clearly different from A. fumigatus, being the most common cause of invasive aspergillosis in other susceptible patient groups. The defective immune responses in patients with Cystic Fibrosis shows commonalities with the CGD host with respect to antifungal effector mechanisms and those are currently being explored by us.

Her current research is directed at the unravelling of the molecular mechanisms underlying the hyperinflammation mounted by the CGD host upon encountering A. nidulans, to define the involvement of specific pathogen associate molecular patterns (PAMPs) and to characterize the systems involved in the innate recognition of this pathogen. A thorough knowledge of the underlying  pathogenesis is urgently needed to improve patient management.

She is a member of the Aberdeen Fungal Group (AFG) and also holds an Honorary Consultant position in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.

Dr Lazaraviciute is an Academic Foundation Year 2 Doctor, currently working in Breast Surgery. Dr Lazaraviciute’s main clinical and research interests are in surgery, with her previous work focused on systematic reviews and clinical review articles in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Trauma and Orthopaedics and General Surgery. Currently working on several projects in Trauma and General Surgery, Dr Lazaraviciute is also interested in teaching and quality improvement, with her most recent accomplishment (along with Grampian Trainee Leads) being the establishment of the Aberdeen Mentorship Scheme for Foundation Doctors.

Asha graduated from Bangalore Medical College, India in July 1996 and was awarded a Post Graduate Diploma in Ophthalmology from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India in July 1999. Following employment as a Registrar in Ophthalmology between July 1999 to January 2002 in various hospitals in India, Asha moved to Enschede in The Netherlands in February 2002 and then to Aberdeen in 2003.

Asha joined the University of Aberdeen in 2004 and was appointed as a Teaching Fellow in Anatomy (2005), where she developed a keen interest in teaching. Asha was appointed as Deputy Coordinator of Year 2 MBChB in 2010 and contributed to the development and implementation of the new MBChB curriculum.

Asha successfully completed the Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (Medical Education) in 2013 and became an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.

In January 2015, Asha led on the re-launch of the Scottish Anatomists Group, a collegiate network of Anatomy teachers in Scotland and North of England and successfully organised its first meeting in recent years in April 2015.

Jonathan Pettitt graduated from Imperial College with an upper second class degree in Biochemistry. He then carried out postgraduate research within the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, investigating the structure and expression of collagen genes in the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum.

Whilst at Cambridge he was seduced by the many charms of the non-parasitic nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and upon completing his PhD he went to Bill Wood’s lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder as an HFSPO long term postdoctoral fellow. Here he initiated work investigating the role of cadherins during C. elegans development.

In 1994 Dr Pettitt obtained a two year EMBO fellowship to continue this work in the laboratory of Ronald Plasterk at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, and learn the reverse genetics techniques pioneered there. He moved to the University of Aberdeen in 1996 where he became group leader and Lecturer in genetics within the newly built Institute of Medical Sciences.

Alan is from Edinburgh, and graduated from Aberdeen University in 1996 with an intercalated BSc and MBChB. After junior hospital jobs in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh, he started Radiology training in 2000. Alan was appointed as a Radiology Consultant in 2006 and spends half his time in the NHS, with specialist interests in thoracic imaging and nuclear medicine/PET. His academic role is as programme lead for the MBChB and Deputy Director for the Institute of Education in Medical and Dental Sciences. He contributes to and leads educational and imaging research. He also is a Council member of the Academy of Medical Educators, is a GMC Education Associate and leads undergraduate education strategy for the Royal College of Radiologists.

Kim qualified from Aberdeen University. His initial surgical training took place in Glasgow and this period also included a period of research into Head and Neck Cancer at the Beatson Institute, Glasgow. He was appointed Consultant ENT Surgeon at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and the Royal Aberdeen Childrens Hospital in 2000 and is an Intercollegiate ENT Examiner for the College of Surgeons. Kim was appointed NHS Director of Undergraduate Medical Teaching at Aberdeen University in 2008, and is experienced in all aspects of general ENT surgery with particular experience in specialty treatment for Head and Neck conditions, including allergy, voice and swallowing problems. He has published widely in the medical literature on all aspects of ENT surgery and is a co-author on seminal ENT books including “Stell and Maran’s Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology” as well as National ENT-UK Head and Neck Guidelines and SIGN Guidelines on Head and Neck cancer.

Elected Member of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Council and Co-Chair of the Recently Appointed Consultants' Committee. Marion is also part of the Equality and Diversity group at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Marion is a Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

She is also Associate Postgraduate Dean for the Medical Specialties at the North of Scotland Deanery.