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Professor Angus Watson

Professor Angus Watson
Professor Angus Watson
Professor Angus Watson

BSc, MB ChB, MD, OBE, FRCS(Ed)

Clinical Chair in Surgery

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School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

Professor Watson is the Clinical Chair of Surgery at the University and Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He holds an adjunct Chair of Surgery at the University of Southern Denmark and an Honorary Chair of Surgery at the University of St Andrews. He directs the clinical research groups across the Medical School.

He is an honorary consultant general and colorectal surgeon at NHS Highland. Angus trained in Manchester-England, Scotland and New Zealand before being appointed a consultant surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 2005. He moved to Inverness in 2009.

He was awarded an OBE for services to surgery and surgical research in the King's New Year's Honours List in 2006.

Angus's main clinical interests are emergency and colorectal surgery. His research interests are diverse. He is a Chief Investigator of a wide range of national and international clinical trials. He innovations include the Scottish Surgical Boot Camp and he was the architect and clinical lead behind Scotland's colon capsule endoscopy programme (ScotCap). He has over 250 peer reviewed book chapters, publications and conference papers. Angus is a volunteer surgeon for UK-Med and has recently operated in Ukraine (2022/23) and Gaza (2024/25) delivering emergency surgical care in these areas of conflict.

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Director of the Clinical Research Groups in the Institute of Applied Health Sciences

External Memberships

Vice President, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Volunteer Surgeon for UK-Med, the UK's Emergency Medical Team

Latest Publications

  • Correction to: Expert consensus on best content of a robotic surgical curriculum: a systematic review (Journal of Robotic Surgery, (2025), 19, 1, (721), 10.1007/s11701-025-02893-2)

    Kieslich, A. K., Jardine, R., Ibrahim, H., Calvert, A., Walker, K. G., Walker, K. A., Watson, A. J.
    Journal of robotic surgery, vol. 20, no. 1, 261
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates
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  • Associations between demographic, clinical and dietary factors and flares in inflammatory bowel disease: the PRognostic effect of Environmental factors in Crohn’s and Colitis (PREdiCCt) prospective cohort study

    Constantine-Cooke, N., Gros, B., Plevris, N., Williams, L. J., Jones, G., Kyle, J., Kennedy, N. A., Velasco-Pardo, V., Rudge, A., Alexander, D., Anderson, C. A., Brusco de Freitas, M., Derr, L. M., Derikx, L. A., Gilchrist, S., Henderson, P., Horgan, G. W., Irving, P., Lamb, C. A., Jostins-Dean, L., Lindsay, J. O., MacDonald, J., Mowat, C., Murray, C., Parkes, M., Siakavellas, S. I., Vallejos, C. A., Gaya, D. R., Rhodes, J. M., Johnstone, A. M., Weir, C. J., Lees, C. W., PREdiCCt study group, Ahmed, S. (ed.), Akhtar, M. (ed.), Alexakis, C. (ed.), Allen, P. (ed.), Arnott, I. D. (ed.), Banim, P. J. (ed.), Barbour, J. A. (ed.), Bredin, F. (ed.), Connor, E. (ed.), Cotronei, C. (ed.), Covil, K. (ed.), Creed, T. (ed.), Dhar, A. (ed.), Donovan, F. (ed.), Durai, D. (ed.), Smith, M. (ed.), Watson, A. (ed.)
    Gut, vol. 75, no. 8, pp. 1491-1504
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Utility of colon capsule endoscopy in colorectal cancer and post-polypectomy surveillance

    Ibrahim, H., Dequaire, J., Abdelwahed, A., Jardine, R., Watson, A.
    European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 678-683
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Defining post–colon capsule endoscopy colorectal cancer (pCCECRC)-an International Capsule Endoscopy Research (iCARE) group consensus statement

    Ibrahim, H., Lei, I. I., Murchie, P., Koulaouzidis, A., Watson, A. J. M., iCARE consensus collaborative
    Surgical Endoscopy, vol. 40, pp. 4548–4557
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Protein misfolding enteropathy predicts and prognosticates neurodegenerative disease years before symptom onset

    Langerová, T., MacVicar, E., Press, R., Read, F. L., Piana, M., Murdoch, S., Innes, J., Wilson, J., Watson, A. J., Waldron, F. M., Ramsay, G., Gregory, J. M.
    Gastroenterology
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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Prizes and Awards

OBE King's New Year's Honours 2026

Publications

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  • The role of prophylactic mesh placement to prevent incisional hernia in laparotomy.: Is it time to change practice?

    Sugrue, M., Johnston, A., Zeeshan, S., Loughlin, P., Bucholc, M., Watson, A.
    Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 323-329
    Contributions to Journals: Review articles
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  • Time for metrics in emergency surgical care -: The role of an emergency surgery registry

    Parlour, R., Johnson, A., Loughlin, P., Watson, A., Sugrue, M., Drake, A.
    Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 306-315
    Contributions to Journals: Review articles
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  • The impact of stapling technique and surgeon specialism on anastomotic failure after right-sided colorectal resection: an international multicentre, prospective audit

    the 2015 European Society of Coloproctology Collaborating Group, Watson, A.
    Colorectal Disease, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 1028-1040
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Cost Effectiveness of Stapled Haemorrhoidopexy and Traditional Excisional Surgery for the Treatment of Haemorrhoidal Disease

    Kilonzo, M. M., Brown, S. R., Bruhn, H., Cook, J. A., Hudson, J., Norrie, J., Watson, A. J. M., Wood, J.
    PharmacoEconomics - Open, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 271-280
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • The development and validation of a scoring tool to predict the operative duration of elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

    Bharamgoudar, R., Sonsale, A., Hodson, J., Griffiths, E., ColeS Study Group, West Midlands Research Collaborative, Ahmed, I., Watson, A. J. M.
    Surgical Endoscopy, vol. 32, pp. 3149-3157
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A single-centre study on 1000 consecutive cases of transanal haemorrhoidal dearterialization

    Smart, N. J., Watson, A.
    Techniques in coloproctology, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 247-248
    Contributions to Journals: Letters
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  • Risk factors for unfavourable postoperative outcome in patients with Crohn's disease undergoing right hemicolectomy or ileocaecal resection. An international audit by ESCP and S-ECCO

    2015 European Society of Coloproctology collaborating group, Watson, A. J. M.
    Colorectal Disease, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 219-227
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A pragmatic multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing stapled haemorrhoidopexy with traditional excisional surgery for haemorrhoidal disease: the eTHoS study

    Watson, A. J., Cook, J., Hudson, J., Kilonzo, M., Wood, J., Bruhn, H., Brown, S., Buckley, B., Curran, F., Jayne, D., Loudon, M., Rajagopal, R., McDonald, A., Norrie, J.
    Health Technology Assessment, vol. 21, no. 70, pp. 1-224
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Is referral of postsurgical colorectal cancer survivors to cardiac rehabilitation feasible and acceptable?: A pragmatic pilot randomised controlled trial with embedded qualitative study

    Hubbard, G., Adams, R., Campbell, A., Kidd, L., Leslie, S. J., Munro, J., Watson, A.
    BMJ Open, vol. 6, no. 1, e009284
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Cost-Effectiveness of Haemorrhoidal Artery Ligation versus Rubber Band Ligation for the Treatment of Grade II–III Haemorrhoids: Analysis Using Evidence from the HubBLe Trial

    Alshreef, A., Wailoo, A. J., Brown, S. R., Tiernan, J. P., Watson, A. J., Biggs, K., Bradburn, M., Hind, D.
    PharmacoEconomics - Open, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 175-184
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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