Congratulations to Surg. Lt. Cdr. Cara Swain RN, who *nailed* the public defence of her surgical PhD yesterday! Huge thanks to her supervisors at @karolinskainst (where PhD examination requires candidates to literally nail their thesis to the Library wall). Well done Cara!

Medtech innovators, engineers, trauma clinicians, life-scientists. Get ready to apply @DASAccelerator to develop your gen-after-nxt device to halt Non Compressible Haemorrhage. Sign-up to the DASA mail-list at tinyurl.com/yc6rb2k2 to get alerts for Call launch in early Sept.

Thanks Wendy - huge privilege and very indebted to this definitive text....!

I will still be posting from @nigeltai concerning @NHSBartsHealth trauma surgery and @CommsC4TS updates. Many thanks to the amazing colleagues at RLH and @AirborneMedics @16AirAssltBCT and @JHubMED_Defence for bringing me this far. End/x

Very much looking forward to working with fellow military and clinical surgical academics, collaborating with my Def Prof and DCA colleagues, and seeking new opportunities to bring the fruits of surgical research to our service people.

The department has a very distinguished pedigree, and has been *brilliantly* led in recent times by Prof @MidwinterMJ , Prof Rory Rickard and, most recently Prof Linda Orr - *the* NIHL research guru! Never has UK Military Surgical Research been in finer shape.

Think this is my first "Honoured to be..." tweet, but... *circumstances*. This week I took up the @RCSNews Chair of Military and Trauma Surgery as Head of the Academic Dept of Military Surgery at @DMS_RCDM 1/x

Fantastic day @RCSnews yesterday for the @DMS_MilMed Colt Foundation Research meeting. Congratulations to all the prize winners, especially Surg Lt Cdr Cara Swain @TriScalpel, for winning the lightning presentation category for her PhD work about educational use of LTT.

After a lot of work behind the scenes, my first tweet since taking over as Defence Professor of Surgery is to celebrate that the registration for the inaugural UK Defence Surgical Research Conference is now live! Check your inboxes for the link to sign up.

Theme 2. Preservation & Regeneration of Soft Tissues using Biophysical Approaches. @unibirmingham @UniofNottingham