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Malcolm A. West

Malcolm A. West MD, PhD, FRCS

Colorectal Surgery
Southampton, England, United Kingdom

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Mr. Malcolm West is a Visiting Fellow and an honorary colorectal surgical specialist registrar at the University of Southampton. Malcolm trained as an undergraduate at the University of Malta before moving to the North West and Merseyside for foundation jobs and core surgical training. He completed an NIHR funded Ph.D. in exercise physiology, perioperative surgical risk stratification, and mitochondrial energetics. During his Ph.D., Malcolm was the Clinical Lead for the Perioperative Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) service at University Hospitals Aintree. He was then appointed as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Wessex in 2014 and then an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in 2016.

Malcolm is a senior investigator for the Fit-4-Surgery Consortium. He works on several workstreams, however, all aimed at improving postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing major surgery. He is achieving that by reducing the variability around perioperative risk stratification and by utilizing tailored multimodal prehabilitation interventions. His research interests include interrogating the pathophysiological mechanisms of changing fitness, Sarco-cachexia, and mitochondrial function with cancer therapies, and the implementation of rehabilitation interventions to rescue and improve metabolic health, physiology, morbidity, and cancer outcomes.

Malcolm is a member of the Steering Committee for the Wessex Fit-4-Cancer Surgery trial – WesFit, a Wessex-wide pragmatic factorial design randomized controlled study to assess the efficacy of the implementation of a multi-modal prehabilitation program in patients undergoing elective major intracavity cancer surgery. He is the Chief Investigator for the Frailty and sarcopenia Outcomes in Emergency General Surgery (FrOGS) trial, an NIHR funded, trainee-led, and delivered observational study interrogating the effect of CT measured body composition and frailty scores on mortality in patients admitted with an acute surgical pathology.
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