Alun Huw Davies (born 16 January 1960) MA, DM, DSc, FRCS, FHEA, FEBVS, FLSW, FACPh, is a Welsh professor of

vascular surgery Vascular surgery is a surgical subspecialty in which diseases of the vascular system, or arteries, veins and lymphatic circulation, are managed by medical therapy, minimally-invasive catheter procedures and surgical reconstruction. The specialty ...

at the Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and former President of Sections at Royal Society of Medicine.

Early life and career

Alun Huw Davies was born in 1960 in

Swansea Swansea (; cy, Abertawe ) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea ( cy, links=no, Dinas a Sir Abertawe). The city is the twenty-fifth largest in ...

, Wales to Stanley Charles and Vera Davies. Secondary education at Bishop Gore School, Swansea. In 1981 he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College) and four years later got his Master of Arts degree from the same place. A year prior to it he also obtained Bachelor of Medicine degree from University of Oxford (Magdalen College) and in 1993 got both Master of Arts and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the same place. Besides those alma maters Alun also attended University of Bristol, University of Plymouth and Harvard University. Since 1994 he works at the Charing Cross Hospital. Alun Davies is a member of various organizations including the American College of Phlebology, the European Society of Vascular Surgery, the Vascular Surgical Society, the Vascular Society for Great Britain and Ireland and the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. He is a Senior investigator at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), an Emeritus Fellow of the Australasian College of Phlebology and is a director of both the European College of Phlebology and Imperial College Private Healthcare. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Learned Society Of Wales in 2020. He is an editor of ''

Phlebology Phlebology is a medical speciality that is concerned with venous issues including the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the veins. A medical specialist in this field is known as a phlebologist. The specialty of phlebology has developed to en ...

'' ''Venous News'' and a contributor to the ''Vascular Surgery: Principles and Practice'' which was released in 2014. He also wrote 2 chapters for the ''Thrombosis and Embolism: from Research to Clinical Practice''. He has written over 500 peer reviewed articles mainly on Vascular disease.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Alun Huw 1960 births Living people Alumni of the University of Bristol Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of the University of Plymouth Harvard University alumni Presidents of the Royal Society of Medicine People from Swansea Fellows of the Higher Education Academy NIHR Senior Investigators