CURRICULUM VITAE

Ms Alessandra Ferro,MD

Specialist in General Surgery

Locum Consultant in Upper Gastrointesti-

nal, General & Laparoscopic Surgery, with

special interest in HPB,acute biliary

pathology & abdominal wall surgery.

Former Post CCT Senior Fellow in Hepato-

biliary and Liver Transplant surgery

CURRICULUM VITAE Miss A Ferro, MD, Specialist in General Surgery Personal Information

Name: FERRO, Alessandra F. G.

Telephone Number: Mobile: +44-075**-******

Date of Birth: 16th September 1982

Place of Birth: Genzano di Roma (RM) - ITALY

Citizenship: Italian, EU

UK residence status : Settled - Indefinite leave to remain E-Mail Address: adsqwk@r.postjobfree.com, adsqwk@r.postjobfree.com

GMC Number: 7477615

GMC Specialist Register: Full registration with a licence to practice, since June 2014 General Surgery

Registration to Italian Medical Register : Ordine dei Medici e dei Chirurghi di Cosenza, n 7271 since 16/04/2007

Medical degree (MBBS) : October 2006, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy, grade 110/110 cum laude

Certification of Completion of Training (Italy) : March 2014, General Surgery, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy, grade 70/70

Spoken Languages: Italian: Mothertongue

English: Advanced level- written & spoken fluently French: Advanced level- written and spoken fluently Spanish: Intermediate level- written and spoken

Education

Sept. 1995 – July 2000: Secondary School: Liceo Classico B.Telesio, Cosenza, Italy Diploma in Classical Studies. Grade obtained: 100/100. Oct. 2000 – Oct. 2006: Faculty of Medecine and Surgery, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy

Feb. 2004- Aug. 2004: Erasmus student exchange program at Cardiff University, School of Medicine

Oct. 2006: Degree in Medicine. Dissertation of Graduation Thesis:

‘RESULTS OF THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF GIANT

RETROPERITONEAL SARCOMAS: COMPARATIVE STUDY ON

73 CASES’ Grade obtained: 110/110 cum laude

Nov. 2006: Medical Licence (equivalent to UK Full Registration with Li- cense to practice). “Abilitazione alla professione di Medico Chirurgo” Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy. April 2007 –present: Registration with Italian medical regulatory body: “Ordine dei Medici e Chirurghi della Provincia di Cosenza” n. 7271 Confidential 2

CURRICULUM VITAE Miss A Ferro, MD, Specialist in General Surgery Career Summary

Post-Graduate Training

Nov. 2006 – March 2008: Trust Grade Surgical Trainee. Institute of Digestive Surgery, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy. Prof. G. B. Doglietto

Role: Participation in the operating theatre, management of inpatients, participation to MultiDisciplinary meetings, research. Subjects covered: Surgical oncology, Colorectal surgery, Gastroe- sophageal surgery, Breast surgery, Soft tissue sarcoma surgery, En- docrine surgery, Elective and Emergency surgery.

March 2008 – March 2014: General Surgery Official National Training (CCT) Department of Surgical Sciences, Oncology and Gastroenterology Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

Prof. D. Nitti, Prof C.R. Rossi, Prof. R. Bardini

Role: General Surgery Training Doctor (from ST1 to ST6). Participa- tion in the operating theatre as 1st and 2nd assistant on major surgery and as 1st operator on minor surgery; independent management of inpatients, assistance in out-patient clinics, constant and active partic- ipation to HPB MultiDisciplinary meetings; on call for inpatient and A & E.

Subjects covered: Surgical oncology, Hepatobiliary surgery, Colorec- tal surgery, Gastroesophageal surgery, Vascular surgery, Breast surgery, Bariatric surgery, Melanoma and soft tissue sarcoma surgery, Endocrine surgery, Elective and Emergency surgery. Dissertation of Specialty Thesis:

‘RESULTS OF THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF COLORECTAL

CANCER LIVER METASTASES. MONO-ISTITUTIONAL RET-

ROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS’

Grade obtained: 70/70

Fellowships

Nov. 2011 –April 2012: Clinical Fellowship in Surgical Oncology Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy- Villejuif- France Dr. S. Bonvalot, Prof. D. Elias

Role : "faisant fonction d'interne"; first assistant of Dr. S. Bonvalot, head of the Sarcoma Unit. Independent management (under consul- tant supervision) of inpatients; assistance in out-patient clinics; par- ticipation to Surgical oncology Classes and to Multidisciplinary meetings; on call and night shifts; participation to research projects; participation to congresses. Extensive exposure, as 1st assistant to sarcoma surgery & abdominal surgery, particularly : giant retroperi- toneal sarcomas, CRC liver metastases, HIPECC

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CURRICULUM VITAE Miss A Ferro, MD, Specialist in General Surgery May 2012 – June 2012: Clinical Fellowship in Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Trans- plantation

Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg (Hautepierre)- France Prof. P. Bachellier

Role : "faisant fonction d'interne"; participation in the surgical theatre as 1st or 2 assistant (major hepatectomies, pancreatectomies, liver transplantation, abdominal urgencies); management of semi intensive care unit postoperative ward; participation to Multidisciplinary meet- ings; on calls for inpatients and A & E.

May 2013 – Oct. 2013: Clinical Fellowship in Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Trans- plantation Centre Hepatobiliaire- Hopital Paul Brousse- Villejuif- France

Prof. D. Castaing, Prof R. Adam, Prof D. Cherqui.

Role : "faisant fonction d'interne"; participation in the surgical theatre as 1st assistant (major hepatectomies, pancreatectomies, liver trans- plantation); autonomous management of patients in the ward (under consultant supervision); weekly presentations to Multidisciplinary meetings ; participation to congresses and teachings; on calls for HPB and liver transplant.

April 2014 – July 2014: Travelling break

Aug. 2014 – March 2015: Clinical Fellow in Hepatobiliary surgery (HPB) Professor N. Heaton, Mr A. Prachalias.

Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Institut of Liver Studies King’s College Hospital NHS Fondation Trust

Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS

Duties and responsibilities undertaken: assisting in the operating theatre on HPB cases; on calls, with autonomous management (but still under consultant supervision) of inpatients, A & E and referral from other hospitals.

Areas covered: Surgical oncology, Hepatobiliary diseases (surgical

& conservative management), Elective and Emergency surgery. Feb. 2015 – March 2015: Locum Senior Clinical Fellow in General Surgery & Trauma Liver, Renal & Surgery Department

General Surgery Division

King’s College Hospital NHS Fondation Trust

Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS

Duties and responsibilities undertaken: Trauma Fellow & General Surgery/ Acute Surgical Unit SCF

March 2015 – Sept. 2016: Senior Clinical Fellow in HPB and Liver Transplant Surgery Professor M. Malagò, Mr D. Sharma, Professor B. Davidson. Confidential 4

CURRICULUM VITAE Miss A Ferro, MD, Specialist in General Surgery Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery & Liver Transplantation Service Royal Free Hospital NHS Fondation Trust

Pond Street, London NW3 2QG

Duties and responsibilities undertaken: Primary surgeon / 1 st as- sistant in the operating theatre on HPB and Liver Transplant cases; Outpatient Clinic; ward management; on calls in the ward, for emer- gency theatres and multiorgan retrievals; referrals from A&E, outliers and other hospitals.

Areas covered: Surgical oncology, Hepatobiliary diseases (surgical

& conservative management), Liver Transplant, Elective and Emer- gency surgery.

October 2016 – March 2017: Senior Fellow in HPB and General Surgery Mr Myrddin Rees.

Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit

Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital

Basingstoke RG24 9NA

Duties and responsibilities undertaken: Primary surgeon / 1 st as- sistant in the operating theatre on HPB cases; Outpatient Clinic; ward management; General surgery on calls for A&E and emergency the- atres.

Areas covered: General Surgery, Hepatobiliary diseases (surgical & conservative management), Elective and Emergency surgery. March 2017- August 2017: Locum Senior Fellow in General Surgery / Emergency Surgery / Trauma Surgery

King’s College Hospital London,

Bart’s NHS Trust London,

Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Kent

August 2017-Dec. 2017: Locum Senior Fellow in General Surgery/Emergency Surgery Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Kent

January 2018 - January 2019 : Upper GI and General Surgery Consultant Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Kent

Areas covered: Upper GI surgery, General Surgery, Elective and Emergency surgery. UGI /HPB cancer MDT, benign UGI /HPB MDT February 2019- August 2022: Ad Hoc (via DRC Locum agency) Locum UGI and General Surgery Consultant,

Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust, London

Areas covered: Upper GI,General and Emergency surgery. April 2019- April 2021 : Emergency and General Surgery Consultant, Confidential 5

CURRICULUM VITAE Miss A Ferro, MD, Specialist in General Surgery North Middlesex University Hospital, London

Areas covered: Upper GI, benign HPB and general elective surgery, General, abdominal wall reconstruction surgery, acute biliary service, benign HPB and Colorectal OP clinic,

Emergency surgery, UGI cancer MDT, benign HPB MDT

June 2021- October 2022 : UGI and General Surgery Consultant, Croydon University Hospital, London

Areas covered: Laparoscopic Upper GI, benign HPB, general elective surgery, abdominal wall reconstructions, UGI & General Surgery OP clinic, Emergency surgery, UGI /HPB cancer MDT, benign UGI /HPB MDT/ abdominal wall surgery MDT Education

Publications

1. Athanasopoulos PG1, Hadjittofi C, Dharmapala AD, Orti-Rodriguez RJ, Ferro A, Nasralla D, Konstantinidou SK, Malagó M. Successful outflow reconstruction to salvage traumatic hepatic vein-caval avulsion of a normothermic machine ex-situ perfused liver graft: case report and management of organ pool challenges. Medicine (Baltimore)2016 Apr;95(15):e3119.

2. Fabio Pacelli, Antonio Pio Tortorelli, Fausto Rosa, Valerio Papa, Maurizio Bossola, Alejandro Martin Sanchez, Alessandra Ferro, Roberta Menghi, Marcello Covino, and Giovanni Bat- tista Doglietto. Retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma: prognostic factors and therapeutic approaches; Tumori 2008; 94: 497-504.

Presentations (International)

1. Hypoxic Antiblastic Stop-flow Pelvic Perfusion: a Step in the Therapeutic Flow-chart of Recurrent Colorectal Cancer, A.Ferro, P.Pilati, D.Miotto, E. Mammano, D. Nitti 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, 23-27 September 2011, Gastrointestinal Malignancies, Poster Session 2. Can recist be considered a predictor of outcome in patients with liver metastases from colorectal cancer?” A.Ferro, P.Pilati, D.Nitti. 34th Congress of the European Society of Surgical Oncology in partnership with BASO. 29-31 October 2014, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Poster Session

10th London Surgical Symposium”- Imperial College, London 6th September 2016 3. The role of surgery in the treatment of colorectal liver metastases: What changed over the years? A.Ferro, P.Pilati, D.Nitti. 34th Congress of the European Society of Surgical Oncology in partnership with BASO. 29-31 October 2014, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Poster Session. 10th London Surgical Symposium”- Imperial College, London 6th Sep- tember 2016.

Conference Participation

• 10th London Surgical Symposium- Imperial College, London 6th September 2016 Confidential 6

CURRICULUM VITAE Miss A Ferro, MD, Specialist in General Surgery

• 34th Congress of the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) in partnership with BASO – Liverpool, United Kingdom, 29-31 October 2014,

• 115th French Congress in Surgery – Paris 2nd- 4th October 2013

• Journées du Centre Hepato- biliaire Paul Brousse – Surgical sessions – Paris-7th -8th June 2013

• Soft tissue sarcomas in Veneto: quality and care in the innovation – Padova- 5th April 2013

• Joint meeting on HPB surgery: liver metastasis – Treviso 20th-21stSeptember 2012 Prof. N. Bassi

• European Multidisciplinary Cancer Conference 2011 (ECCO ESMO ESTRO) - Stock- holm, Sweden – 23rd -27th September 2011.

• Peritoneal Carcinomatosis; cyto-reductive surgery and hyperthermic chemotherapy. Istituto Oncologico Veneto, Padova, 8th June 2010.

Courses

• New Appraiser Online Webinar- MIAD - North Middlesex University Hospital, London 30th October 2020

• Training to Teach (TtT) - Teaching in the Clinical Environment training course- Royal Free Hospital, London 23rd November 2016

• Advanced Laparoscopic Liver and Pancreatic Surgery (ALLPS) - Southampton General Hospital,UK 29th-30th October 2015

• National Organ Retrieval Service Study Day for North London, Royal Free London, 6th May 2015.

• Cerner Millenium Clinicians Course - Royal Free Hospital, London 14th April 2015

• BLS + AED training- King’s College Hospital, London 3rd September 2014

• ATLS Course for Doctors – Padova, Italy, 13th-15th February 2014

• First course of Advanced Liver Interventional Oncoradiology – Padova 19th -20th October 2012

• Séminaire de Techniques Chirurgicales en Cancérologie digestive et hépatique - Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France 26th-27th January 2012

• E-surge 2011- European sarcoma and GIST surgery Masterclass – Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France 24th-25th November 2011

Teaching

1. I have been formally and informally teaching junior doctors in formal sessions and in the clin- ical setting (2012-2014, Padova, Italy).

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CURRICULUM VITAE Miss A Ferro, MD, Specialist in General Surgery 2. Formal teaching to Nutrition students (undergraduates) regarding Surgical techniques and perioperative management in patients with hepatobiliary diseases (February 2014, Padova, Italy)

3. Formal teaching to UCL undergraduate medical students (MBBS4) throughout the all acad- emic year 2015-2016 regarding HPB surgery (pathology, physiology and surgical techniques) covering the following topics:

• Surgical anatomy of liver, pancreas and biliary tree

• Liver and pancreas physiology and physiopathology

• Indications of pancreatic surgery and liver surgery: benign vs. malignant disease

• Indications of liver transplantation

• Surgical resective techniques of pancreas, liver and biliary tree (video sessions)

• Liver vascular inflow and outflow in view of major liver extended resections

• Clinical signs and metabolic consequences after liver and pancreatic surgery

• Nutritional aspects in hepatopancreatobiliary surgery. Educational and Clinical Supervisor for Medical Students (UCL, St George’s Uni- versity- Grenada - US, St George’s University London ), Fy1s and surgical Trainees Formal Teaching to FY1s at North Middlesex Hospital, London - Emergency Surgery and Benign HPB topics

Formal Teaching to FY1s at Croydon University Hospital, London - Acute HPB surgery

Appraiser

Laparoscopic Trainer

Date Signature

12/09/2022

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