Surgical Society: Transplant Surgery Chair

Hi everyone, my name is Jahnavi and I am excited to run to be your new Transplant Chair! Transplant surgery is an incredibly diverse and multidisciplinary field, overlapping with multiple surgical specialties and ethical debates surrounding the profession.

As an aspiring surgeon, this is a field I am passionate to grow interest for and provide early exposure to through my connections with surgeons from my Surgical Sciences iBSc next year. My roles of being an Academic Rep for 2 years and the Preclinical Rep of Surgical Society last year have helped me develop key teamwork and leadership skills necessary to build a strong foundation for and establish Transplant surgery’s position within our already successful society.

With that in mind, my key aims for the year are:

• Holding talks with transplant surgeons to explore the key types of transplant surgery, including which organs are commonly transplanted and the career pathways for different sub-specialities
• Organising a debate around current logistical and ethical challenges of organ transplant and how new initiatives such as paired and pooled and domino surgeries are trying to overcome these
• Exploring transplant surgery on a global scale, understanding the organ black market and how cases of illegal transplants abroad present in the NHS, as well as transplant surgery’s role in humanitarian aid
• Collaborate with the education subcommittee to deliver NEW interactive tutorials for CPP modules in the Y1&Y2 Medicine curriculum