Professor Ian Loftus

Ian Loftus was trained as an academic vascular surgeon in Leicester and moved to London to help develop a regional complex aortic surgery programme. He is now Professor of Vascular Surgery at St George’s, University of London. He is immediate Past-President of the European Society of Vascular Surgery, and Past-President of the 2 major UK professional societies, the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Society for Endovascular Therapy. He has been involved in the development of the UK National Vascular Registry (NVR) including publication of outcomes, and is Chair of the NVR Programme Board. He is currently Deputy- Chair of the National Clinical Reference Group for vascular surgery and sits on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Other previous roles include Regional Director of the National Aneurysm Screening Programme, Clinical Tutor for Critical Care at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Chair of the UK Vascular Society Committee for Audit and Quality Improvement, and member of the Department of Health working party on peri-operative care. Professor Loftus has published over 300 papers, is co-author of the 2018 European Guidelines for the management of aortic aneurysms. the forthcoming European Guidelines for the management of thoracic aortic disease, and co-editor of the textbook, A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice, ‘Vascular and Endovascular Surgery’.

Varicose veins, aortic aneurysms, thoracic outlet syndrome, popliteal entrapment syndromes