ASSOC. PROF. MALCOM WEST

Malcolm is an Associate Professor in Colorectal Surgery and Prehabilitation Medicine at the University of Southampton. He is a clinical academic surgeon specialising in complex abdominal and pelvic cancers, with an interest in recurrent colorectal cancer. He trained in the North West and Wessex regions in the UK and has completed a Royal College of Surgeons Fellowship in complex cancer and robotic surgery at St. Mark’s Hospital, London. He also completed a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded PhD in exercise physiology, perioperative risk stratification, prehabilitation and mitochondrial bioenergetics.

His research aims to improve outcomes in patients undergoing major cancer surgery utilising personalised risk stratification and tailored multimodal prehabilitation interventions. He interrogates the pathophysiological mechanisms of changing fitness, nutrition, and body composition with cancer therapies, whilst using prehabilitation interventions to improve physiological resilience, patient-reported and cancer outcomes.

Malcolm is a core member of the Southampton NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and the NIHR Global Health Research Unit with an interest in global surgery and cancer outcomes. He is co-chair of the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit for the South of England, is the Surgical Specialty Lead at the Wessex Clinical Research Network and supervises multiple BSc, MSc, MD and PhD students nationally.