Hamilton George
George Hamilton is Professor of Vascular Surgery at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and at University College London Medical School.
He graduated from University of Glasgow Medical School, Lecturer in Surgery at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, subsequently a Fulbright Scholar and Clinical and Research Fellow in Vascular Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He became Consultant and Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital in 1987 where he established a regional vascular unit specialising in complex vascular disease and Professor of Vascular Surgery at University College London Medical School since 2003. Held several appointments including Chair of the Joint Vascular Research Group of Great Britain and Ireland, executive counsellor on the International Society for Applied Cardiovascular Biology, President of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2007, President of the European Society for Vascular Surgery in 2013, and Serjeant Surgeon until 2016.
His specialist clinical interests are in paediatric and renovascular disease and a founding member of the Paediatric Renovascular Group providing national and international vascular surgical services at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London. He also has a special interest in Vascular Malformations at the Royal Free Hospital.
Professor Hamilton has a long standing interest in vascular haemodynamics, particularly in the development of biomaterials mimicking the properties of human vessels, established a multi-disciplinary research group contributing significantly to basic and clinical vascular research. In 2013 he co-established the European Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting focused on Vascular Research - Vascular Biology, Materials & Engineering also known as the ESVS Spring Meeting.