Qualifications:   MD, ChM, DSc, FRCS FACS (Hon), FRSE, FMedSci, RSBiol
Major awards: 
International Society of Surgery/ Société Internationale de Chirurgie, 1993 Prize of the Society for "pioneering work in minimal access surgery".
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Gold Medal, 1997
Knight Bachelor - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1998
Gold medal of the Royal Society in 2002
Queen’s award for higher and continued education, 1999
The Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) outstanding achievement award - March 2001
The Nissen Prize – German Surgical Association – May 2001
Gimbernet’s prize – Catalonian Surgical Society – October 2001
Hon FACS, American College of Surgeons, 2005 for ‘outstanding contributions to the science and practice of surgery’
Hon Member American Surgical Association, 2006 ‘for seminal contributions to surgical science’
International Steven Hoogendijl prize ‘for outstanding contributions to Medical technology’ 2012.

Present appointments:
Senior Scientific Advisor and PI Surgical Technology and Robotics Group, Institute for Medical Science and Technology (IMSaT), University of Dundee
Professor of Surgery and Medical Technology, Scuola Superior Sant’Anna, Pisa Italy

Previous senior appointments:
Professor of Surgery & Chairman of Department, Surgery and Molecular Oncology, University of Dundee
Director Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit for Scotland
Director of Cuschieri Skills Centre, University of Dundee

Editorial appointments
Editor: Surgical Endoscopy, 1992 -2017
Editor: Seminars in Laparoscopic Surgery, 1993 – 2000

Books and Monographs: 23

Original publications in peer review journals:  over 600

European and USA patents: 49