Ara Darzi#
| Membership Number: | 7271 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7815-7989 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - present Executive Chair, Fleming Initiative, Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- 2012 - present Executive Chair, World Innovation Summit for Health, Qatar Foundation
- 2010 - present Co-Director, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
- 2005 - present Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery (Professor of Surgery), Imperial College London
- 2005 - present Professor of Surgery, The Institute of Cancer Research
- 1998 - present Consultant surgeon with an interest in Coloproctology and Minimal Invasive Surgery at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Royal Marsden Foundation Hospital NHS Trust
- 2015 - 2022 Non-Executive Director, NHS Improvement, NHS England
- 2007 - 2009 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
- 1994 - 1998 Consultant Surgeon/Honorary Professor, St Mary’s Hospital
- 1992 - 1994 Honorary Consultant Surgeon/Senior Lecturer, Central Middlesex Hospital
Fields of Scholarship
- Patient safety
- Surgical technology
- Surgery
- Health policy
- Healthcare design
- Diagnostic technologies
- Health innovation
Honours and Awards
- 2022 HonDS Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- 2019 Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, Japan
- 2018 ACS Member of the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators
- 2017 Order of Honour, Armenia
- 2016 OM. Order of Merit, United Kingdom
- 2014 Sash of Independence, Qatar
- 2013 HonFRCSI Honorary Doctorate Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
- 2013 NAM Foreign Associate Member, National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies (US), formerly IoM
- 2013 FRS Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2012 International Honorary Membership, Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery
- 2011 FACS (Hon) Honrary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
- 2009 PC. Member of her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, United Kingdom
- 2007 Appointed to House of Lords
- 2006 HonFREng Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- 2004 Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence, United Arab Emirates
- 2003 FMedSci Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
- 2002 KBE. Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
- 2001 Queen’s Anniversary Prize in Higher and Further Education, United Kingdom
