John Fletcher

Biography

 Professor John Fletcher has been at Westmead Hospital since it opened in 1978 when he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Surgery. He is now Professor of Surgery and Head of the University of Sydney Department of Surgery. He is Western Sydney Area Director of Vascular Surgery, Director of the Westmead Vascular Biology Research Centre and Director of the Westmead Vascular Laboratory (for non-invasive assessment of patients with vascular disease). He was the first Australian and New Zealand Vice-President of the International Union of Angiology (IUA) in 1998-2000 and is an Adviser to the Executive Board. He served on the Executive Committee of the Surgical Research Society of Australasia from 1991-1996 and was President 1997-1998. He is a member of Editorial Boards of Acta Phlebologica, the Annals of Vascular Diseases and the Cochrane Peripheral Vascular Diseases Group, a member of the Court of Examiners in Vascular Surgery of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Chairman of the Australia and New Zealand Working Party on Prevention and Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism. He was appointed President of the International Surgical Thrombosis Forum (ISTF) in 2008. He has written extensively on vascular topics. Major clinical interests are the endovascular management of aortic aneurysm, the non-invasive investigation of vascular disease and the prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism.

Research Interest

 Basic research interests are the cellular mechanisms in atherosclerotic plaque formation, inhibition of intimal hyperplasia following vascular interventions and prevention of prosthetic vascular graft infection.