11 Jun 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
MAHSC Inaugural Lecture: Prof Dimitris Poulikakos & Prof Javed Sultan
Online
Join us in a lecture series that celebrate MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chairs in Greater Manchester, hear their professional and personal journey, clinical and research areas, plans for the future with an opportunity to share your questions.
The MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chairs are awarded on an annual basis by The University of Manchester’s Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health Promotions Committee. They are awarded to individuals from across Greater Manchester who have made a major contribution to their clinical specialty, including excellence in research and education. There are now 86 MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chairs.
Professor Dimitrios Poulikakos is a Consultant Nephrologist, Clinical Director for Renal Services in Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Director co-chair of the NHSE Northwest Kidney Network and holds a MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chair at the University of Manchester.
He graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and completed an MD (Res) at St George’s, University of London in computerised electrophysiology for cardiac risk stratification in chronic kidney disease. He has been leading the arrhythmia in dialysis workstream of the UK Cardio-renal Clinical Study Group. His clinical and research interests include cardiac risk stratification, acute kidney injury, dialysis technology, and health inequalities in kidney care. He has led and contributed to collaborative research and innovation programmes across the UK and Africa.
Mr Javed Sultan was trained in Newcastle upon Tyne by Professor Griffin OBE and the team till 2013. During this time he was awarded the Gold Medal for the Intercollegiate Speciality Examination in General Surgery. He developed a passion for prehabilitation and enhanced recovery, following 5 years at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, an internationally recognised unit. Then he moved to the Salford Royal hospital with a large centralised OG service covering 3.2 million. Subsequently he became Unit Clinical Lead, GM Cancer Lead for OG cancer and completed a 3 year term as OG Lead for the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons (AUGIS). He is currently National Clinical Lead for upper GI cancer by NHS England. Javed’s aims are to improve the complex 62-day OG pathway, reduce treatment variations within the UK and improve outcomes. He has recently been appointed as Deputy Director at the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) affiliated with the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
Leadership is clearly a passion of his, but he also has an academic interest in prehabilitation and perioperative care. He is currently leading a research programme with Manchester Metropolitan University and Southampton. This is investigating the mechanistic effects of resistance and hypoxic altitude training on sarcopenia, muscle, function, mitochondria and the tumour microenvironment in OG cancer. He has been awarded a grant of £250K to fund a feasibility randomised controlled trial investigating the different exercise regimes.
He has been appointed in January 2025 as an Honorary Clinical Chair by the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC).
