The college has an elected SAS member who sits on the College Council and also on the SAS Committee, aiming to represent the views and requirements of our SAS membership, both within the college and externally.
Members of the SAS Committee
Majid Mukadam MBE (SAS Committee Chair)
Majid Mukadam (MBE FRCS(C-Th), MRCS(Edin), MCh(CVTS), PGCE(UoB)) has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh since 2000. He joined the SASLC Committee in May 2016 & is also a member of the Cardiothoracic Surgical Specialty Board.
Helen Jones
Helen Jones is a Specialty Doctor in Colorectal Surgery in Oxford. Following her training in the Mersey region, she took a ten-year career break away from medicine, during which she pursued further study.
Lasitha Bhagya Samarakoon
Mr Lasitha Bhagya Samarakoon (MBBS (Col.), MRCSEd, MMed (NUS), ChM (UoE), FEBS (EBSQ), FRCSGlasg, FRCSEd (Gen), FFSTEd) graduated from the University of Colombo in 2010 with First-class honours.
Mamun Dornseifer
Mamun Dornseifer is currently working as a Trust Grade Doctor in the Department of General Surgery at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust in London.
Paul Yang
Mr Paul Yang is a Specialty Doctor in Vascular Surgery at NHS Lanarkshire. Following his initial medical training, he pursued a period of full-time research earning MSc (Med Sci) & PhD degrees in cardiovascular science from the University of Glasgow.
Sanjit Das
Mr Sanjit Das is an Associate Specialist in Urology from the South West of England.
Ajay Bajoria
Mr Ajay Bajoria is an Associate Specialist in Trauma and Orthopaedics at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. He is the SAS lead at Queens Hospital, Burton, and is also the SAS representative at the PG School of Surgery, West Midlands.
Daniel Odhiambo Ochieng
Mr Daniel Odhiambo Ochieng (LIMIS, BSc Anat (Hons), M.B.Ch.B., MCS(ECSA), FC Neurosurg (SA), FRCSEd (Neuro.Surg)), is a neurosurgeon and spine surgeon trained in Kenya, South Africa, and Britain.
Tim Graham
Mr Tim Graham (RCSEd Vice-President) is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in Clinical Surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University of Birmingham and Royal Centre for Defence Medicine UK.
Karthikeyan. P. Iyengar
Mr. Karthikeyan. P. Iyengar (MS (Orth), DNB (Orth), MRCS (Edn), MCh (Orth) (Liv), FRCS (Tr&Orth), FFSTEd, FAcadMEd (AoME)) has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh since 2009 & joined the SASLC Committee in November 2022.
Nader Ibrahim
Nader Ibrahim is currently working as an Locum Educational Doctor (LED) at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery department.
Catherine Diver
Catherine Diver joined the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) SAS committee in 2022 and also holds the position of RCSEd Educational Tutor.
SAS Representatives on SSBs:
Julie Craig - Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
Ms Julie Craig is the SAS (Staff Grade, Associate Specialist & Specialty Doctor) representative on the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgical Specialty Board.
Nishan Fernando - Cardiothoracic Surgery
Mr Nishan Fernando (MBChB, MRCSEd, FHEA, FFSTEd) is a Specialty Surgeon in the North of Scotland Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit, bringing with him 16 years of experience in Cardiothoracics.
Lasitha Bhagya Samarakoon - General Surgery
Mr Lasitha Bhagya Samarakoon (MBBS (Col.), MRCSEd, MMed (NUS), ChM (UoE), FEBS (EBSQ), FRCSGlasg, FRCSEd (Gen), FFSTEd) graduated from the University of Colombo in 2010 with First-class honours.
Daniel Odhiambo Ochieng - Neurosurgery
Mr Daniel Odhiambo Ochieng (LIMIS, BSc Anat (Hons), M.B.Ch.B., MCS(ECSA), FC Neurosurg (SA), FRCSEd (Neuro.Surg)), is a neurosurgeon and spine surgeon trained in Kenya, South Africa, and Britain.
Paul Yang - Vascular Surgery
Mr Paul Yang is a Specialty Doctor in Vascular Surgery at NHS Lanarkshire. Following his initial medical training, he pursued a period of full-time research earning MSc (Med Sci) & PhD degrees in cardiovascular science from the University of Glasgow.
Gillian Winter - Paediatric Surgery
Mrs Gillian Winter graduated from Aberdeen Medical School in 2004 and completed her paediatric surgical training in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Birmingham.
Rickaz Raheem - Urology
Mr Rickaz Raheem has a robust background in SAS and was recently appointed Consultant Urologist following a successful CESR application. He is a member of the Urology Surgical Specialty Board at RCSEd.
Shyam Singam - Otolaryngology
Mr Shyam Singam completed his undergraduate and ENT postgraduate training at Coimbatore and Madras Medical Colleges in India between 1981 and 1989. He then underwent training in the Republic of Ireland, where he attained his ENT Fellowship in 1995
Rohan Sawant - Ophthalmology
Rohan Sawant, MBBS, DNB (Ophthalmology), FRCS Glasgow (Ophth.), MRCSEd. (Ophthalmology), FRCOphth, graduated from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India in 2003.
Prasenjit Goswami - Plastic Surgery
Prasenjit Goswami MBBS, MS General Surgery, MRCSEd, DNB Plastic Surgery, graduated from Silchar Medical College, India, in 1998 and did his residency in hospitals in New Delhi.
Committee meetings are held three times a year.
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Contact us
If you require any information relating to the Committee's activities, please e-mail: saslc@rcsed.ac.uk