“CHANGING THE WORLD - FEET FIRST.”
Cliff is of course known to many of us and it is a great honour to have him give the Foott Memorial Lecture 2023.

On 12 April 2018 he was elected as Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons for 3 years.
Cliff Shearman is Emeritus Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Southampton and a Non-Executive Director on the Trust Board at the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch NHS Foundation Trust. He was President of the Vascular Society of Great Britain in 2010.  After postgraduate training in Birmingham under Peter London in the Birmingham Accident Hospital he was appointed as a consultant and senior lecturer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in 1990 before moving to Southampton in 1994. Cliff Shearman has had a number of roles in training and was the Head of the Wessex Postgraduate School of Surgery (1997-2012) and established the new Vascular SAC (2012-2015) which rolled out the new Vascular Training Programme in the UK.

He was made an OBE in the 2021 Queen’s birthday honours