Professor Ashok Handa

Professor Ashok Handa, FRCS
Associate Professor of Surgery and Consultant Vascular Surgeon
Clinical Tutor in Surgery and Associate Director of Clinical Studies

Ashok Handa is Associate Professor of Surgery at Oxford University and Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. He is the Director for Surgical Education and responsible for the undergraduate curriculum in surgery. He is Director of the Collaborating Centre for values-based practice in Health and Social Care based at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.  He is responsible for leading on education and research for the centre. He is Fellow in Clinical Medicine and Tutor for Graduates at St Catherine’s College. He is the Principle Investigator for the OxAAA study, investigating the cause of abdominal aortic aneurysms. He is recognised nationally as a surgical educator and was the inaugural Training Programme Director for Vascular Surgery for Wessex and Oxford. He is a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee for Vascular training and was the national lead for selection in vascular surgery for the last 3 years. He is the national lead for the curriculum in vascular surgery.  He sits on the Council of the Medical Defence Union and is a member of their cases committee providing expert advice on high value cases. He has over 180 publications and many on the topic of values-based practice, shared decision making and consent. He has a clinical and research interest in patient safety and is the Governance lead for the Thames Valley Vascular Network.