BSET Secretary

Qualified from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School in 1986. He trained in vascular surgery at Leicester and Adelaide. He was appointed a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 1999 and moved to the Chair of Vascular Surgery at St George's, University of London in 2002.

The St George's Vascular Institute is a large tertiary referral centre with an extensive practice in complex thoracic and abdominal aortic surgery. The Unit performs over 200 endovascular aortic procedures annually, and has a carotid stent programme.

Professor Thompson trained in vascular biology as a Wellcome Training Fellow and now runs a large, multi-disciplinary research group investigating the molecular basis of the aneurysmal process and carotid plaque rupture.