Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham

Ara Darzi Warkes, Baron Darzi of Denham, of Gerrards Cross in the County of Buckinghamshire KBE PC FMedSci, HonFREng, FRCS, FRCSI, FRCSEd, FRCPSG, FACS, FCGI, FRCPE HonFRCPI FRCP ( born May 7, 1960 in Iraq ) is of Armenian and Iraq -born British surgeon, university professor, and politician of the Labour Party, which is a life peer member of the House of Lords since 2007.

Life

Surgeon and university lecturer

After schooling Darzi graduated in medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and earned a Doctor of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. He was between 1991 and 1994 surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital in London and then became a surgeon at London's St Mary 's Hospital. In 1994 he moved to Imperial College London and was nigh 1995-2001 Tutor for surgery in the digestive tract at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and from 1995 to 1999 member of the Council of the surgical section of the Royal School of Medicine.

In 1996 he took over the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London and was subsequently also board member of the Association of Coloproctology (1997 to 1999) and member of the Policy and Evaluation Advisory Group of the Nuffield Trust (1997 to 2001). In 1998 he became the Hunterian Professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons and was also head of the Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, and the Department of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthesia Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College.

During this time he was also 1998 Member of the Steering Council of the Society for Surgical Research ( Surgical Research Society ) and member of the Education Department of the Royal College of Surgeons and was at the same time between 1998 and 1999 secretary and board member of the Society for Minimally Invasive Therapy. Darzi, who since 1999 Member of the Steering Committee for new and emerging applications of technology in the National Health Service (NHS ) and a member of the Education Committee of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons ( EAES ), was between 2000 and 2003 member of both the modernization Action Group of the NHS as well as Chairman of the London Modernisation agency.

For his services he was in 2002 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and led from then on the additional name "Sir". Darzi is also a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the American College of Surgeons, the City and Guilds of London Institute, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. In 2013 he became a member of the Royal Society.

House of Lords member and junior ministers

By Letters Patent of 12 July 2007 Darzi was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Darzi of Denham, of Gerrards Cross in the County of Buckinghamshire to the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was on 19 July 2007 his Introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house he belongs to the Group of the Labour Party.

In the following years he was during the tenure of Prime Minister Gordon Brown between 2007 and 2010 Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and in 2009, Privy Councillor.

Publications

Darzi wrote in the course of his career to date, more than 10 books and 600 scientific papers for journals such as the Journal of Surgery and Annals of Surgery. His best-known books include:

  • Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair, 1994, ISBN 978-1-899066-01-8
  • Retroperitoneoscopy, 1996, ISBN 978-1-899066-29-2
  • Atlas of Laparoscopic Surgical Technique, 1997, ISBN 978-0-7020-2011-7
  • Clinical Surgery, 2003, ISBN 978-0-632-06394-9
  • Key topics in surgical research and methodology, co-authors Thanos Athanasiou and Haile Deba, 2010, ISBN 978-3-540-71915-1
  • Evidence Synthesis in Healthcare: A Practical Handbook for Clinicians, co-author Thanos Athanasiou, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-85729-175-2
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