Professor Nick Cheshire is the head of vascular surgery and a professor of vascular surgery. In 2010, he led a city-wide review of vascular surgical services in London, and the recommendations were adopted as the model for service delivery across the UK. At the Royal College of Surgeons, he developed a national vascular skills training package, which has been used in the UK for over 15 years. His areas of interest include lower limb disorders, vascular, venous, and carotid surgery, coronary stenting, and aneurysms. He focuses clinically and in research on the application of technology to complex arterial disease. Professor Cheshire pioneered stent graft repair of thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aneurysms in the UK, reducing peri-operative mortality by up to 50%. He has developed a novel helical stent and helical prosthetic arterial graft, which are less susceptible to kinking and fracture and have advantageous fluid mechanical properties. His simulation program includes a system that allows mission rehearsal prior to carotid stenting and a fully functional simulated cath-lab suite, the first of its kind. His award-winning research includes robotically controlled endovascular intervention and combined fluoro-CT endovascular navigation. He is a founder member of the British Society for Endovascular Therapy and a former council member of the Society of Academic & Research Surgeons and the Vascular Society. His expertise includes endovascular surgery, reconstructive surgery, venous surgery, abdominal surgery, carotid surgery, coronary stenting, aneurysm, and lower limb disorders.