Paediatric Surgery (Published and Forthcoming Oxford Specialist Handbooks) Unknown - 2009

Mark Davenport qualified in 1981 from Leeds University with MBChB (distinction in paediatrics). His general training was in surgery in hospital in Leeds and Sheffield with specialist training in paediatric surgery in Manchester and Great Ormond Street. His specialist interests include liver and biliary surgery in neonates and children and also the problems associated with antenatal-detected surgical malformations in neonates. He was appointed to King's College Hospital as a consultant in 1974, and from 1999 became Head of Department and led the supra-regional service for biliary atresia surgery. He has a research degree (ChM) in experimental liver transplantation and maintains an active research group in aspects of paediatric liver disease. He is currently a Reader in Paediatric Surgery at King's College, London and is author of the BMJs"ABC on Paediatric Surgery".
Agostino Pierro qualified as a Specialist in General Surgery with honours from the University of Rome in 1985 before becoming a specialist in paediatric surgery in 1990. Since 1994 he has been Nuffield Professor of Paediatric Surgery and Head of Department of Paediatric Surgery at the Institute of Child Health, University College London Medical School. His current research interests are in the physiology, nutrition and metabolism of the surgical infants and children.