Naylor Ross
Ross Naylor graduated MBChB from Aberdeen University in 1981 (MD 1990) and undertook his surgical training in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Leicester. He was appointed consultant vascular surgeon to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in 1993, before returning to Leicester in 1995. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Vascular Surgery at the Leicester Vascular Institute and is a Past-President of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland (VASGBI; 2011-2012). He has co-edited three textbooks of vascular surgery and co-authored 536 publications and 77 book chapters. His specialist clinical and research interests relate to carotid and cerebral vascular disease.
Professor Naylor served on the Councils of the VSGBI, (2006-2012), the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS; 2010-2016) and the World Federation of Vascular Societies (2018-2021). He has served on the Editorial Boards of the British Journal of Surgery (2000-2005), the Journal of Vascular Surgery (2003-2008; 2016-2020) and the European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery (EJVES; 2006-2016). He is a past Senior Editor (2010-2013) and Editor-in-Chief of EJVES (2013-2016) and was awarded honorary ESVS membership in 2018. He has also served as chairman of the 2018 and 2023 ESVS clinical practice guidelines on the management of carotid and vertebral artery disease.