Eleri Cusick Editor

Paul Johnson is Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Islet Transplant Programme. Paul qualified in Medicine from the University of Leicester and trained in Paediatric Surgery in Oxford, Melbourne and Great Ormond Street. His particular clinical interests are paediatric and endocrine surgery, and cell transplantation. Research interests include optimising human islet isolation, and understanding normal pancreatic development and islet neogenesis. Paul was awarded a Hunterian Professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England for this research in 1998. He is currently Immediate Past President of the International Pancreas and Islet Association (IPITA) having served as President from 2011-2013 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The American Academy of Paediatrics in February 2010. I currently sit on a number of Research Boards and Editorial Boards. Spencer Beasley has worked as a paediatric surgeon and paediatric urologist first at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne until 1996, and then in Christchurch, NZ where he set up a regional paediatric surgical service for the South Island and more recently, the Wellington region. He has a long-standing interest in oesophageal atresia and testicular descent and led an active research team looking at the role of sonic hedgehog in both foregut and hindgut development until thwarted by the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010. He is a former President of the Pacific Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Paediatric Surgeons and Vice-President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Eleri Cusick qualified and completed initial surgical training in Aberdeen. Following this she moved to a career registrar post at Birmingham Children's Hospital. She worked as a senior registrar in Leeds and spent 12 months in Nancy, France before obtaining a consultant post in Paediatric Surgery at Bristol Children's Hospital where she worked from 1994 -2021. Her clinical interests included upper and lower gastrointestinal surgery in addition to neonatal surgery. She had a particular interest in teaching and training, serving on the BAPS Education Committee and the Specialist Advisory Committee on Training Education. She has been involved in the Intercollegiate Exam since 2003, serving as the Chair of the Paediatric Surgery Intercollegiate Board from 2020-2023.