The DILEMMAstudy team

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Study Coordinators


Andrew Cresswell

Andrew Cresswell is a Consultant General Surgeon with an interest in Emergency General Surgery working at Rotherham General Hospital (Yorkshire) in the United Kingdom.

Anil Hormis

Anil Hormis is a Consultant in Anaesthesia & Critical Care Medicine with an interest in peri-operative management of elderly patients undergoing emergency surgery working at Rotherham General Hospital (Yorkshire) in the United Kingdom.

Giordano Perin

Giordano Perin is a higher general surgical trainee in the Yorkshire and the Humber deanery. He is also the main developer for this website and associated content.

Gabriele Bellio

Gabriele Bellio is a Consultant General Surgeon with an interest in Emergency General Surgery working at Piove di Sacco Hospital (Padua) in Italy.

Alberto Favero

Alberto Favero is a surgical trainee with an interest in Traumathology working at Krankenhaus Neuwerk Hospital, Mönchengladbach, Germany.

Sergio Ghirardo

Sergio Ghirardo is a Consultant Physician with an interest in intensive care working at University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.

The DILEMMA Study Group - Surgery


Name Institution No. recruited
Paras Batra, Anselm Agwunobi Wythenshawe Hospital 6/15
Arin Saha Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust 6/15
Ajay Belgaumkar, Omnia Mohamed Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust 0/15
Edward Whiteman, Rina George Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals 3/15
Nilofer Husnoo, Athur Harikrishnan Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 5/15
Adam Peckham-Cooper Leeds Teaching Hospitals 1/30
Dimitrios Damaskos, Tania Triantafyllou Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 10/15
Sarah Hillary Chesterfield Royal Hospital 5/15
Mandeep Kaur, Mansoor Khan Royal sussex county hospital 0/15
Riccardo Affaniti, Diego Visconti Hospital Citta' della Salute Torino 1/20
Alan Biloslavo, Pio Corleone Cattinara University Hospital, Trieste 6/20
Pietro Fransvea, Caterina Puccioni Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS 6/20
Mauro Podda, Adolfo Pisanu Cagliari University Hospital, Cagliari 2/20
Konstantinos Toutouzas, Maximos Frountzas Hippocration General Hospital of Athens 1/20
Dr Ajaz Wani, Suhail Khuroo SMVD NH Hospital, Jammu, India 0/20
Dr Tapan Patel Baroda Medical College and SSG Hospital 0/20
Fatima Rauf, Fakhar Munir Sial, Muhammad Hanif Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan 0/20
Wolfram Trudo Knoefel Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf 0/20
Gary Bunting, Rami Oweiss Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust 12/15
Daniel Marshall Y&H Core Surgical Training Coordinator 0/6

The DILEMMA Study Group - Anaesthesia


Name Institution No. recruited
Archana Panickar, Richard Harold Rotherham General Hospital 3/15
Luke Bishop, Sarah Vest Calderdale and Huddersfield 5/15
Lauren Elliott, John Nicholls Wythenshawe Hospital 15/15

The DILEMMA Study Group - Intensive Care


Name Institution No. recruited
Anil Hormis Rotherham General Hospital 1/30
Tim Jackson Calderdale and Huddersfield 2/15
Lauren Elliott, John Nicholls Wythenshawe Hospital 6/15

Yorkshire and the Humber Study Coordinators (Emergency Medicine and Geriatric Medicine)


Name Institution
Thomas Locker Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust