Jonathan Boyle
Qualified from the University of Leicester in 1991. He trained in Leicester, Southampton and Portsmouth and was involved in the early development of EVAR within the UK, work that led to his MD thesis. He undertook a year of endovascular training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital prior to his appointment as Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge in 2002. He served as President of the Rouleaux Club 2001-2002.
He has active research interests in EVAR, patient outcomes and quality improvement in vascular surgery, publishing extensively on these topics.
He served as President of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2021-2022) and was British Society of Endovascular Therapy President from 2013-2015. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.
He has held senior postgraduate training roles including Programme Director for Core Surgical Training in the East of England from 2007-2012 and Chairman of the Vascular Specialty Advisory Committee (SAC) overseeing vascular training in the UK and Ireland from 2015-2018. He is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Professor to Johns Hopkins Hospital and Massachusetts General Brigham, USA.
He is a past Chair of the Audit and QI Committee of the Vascular Society and was the driving force behind the Peripheral Arterial Disease Quality Improvement Framework (PAD-QIF) and collection of aortic device data within the National Vascular Registry. This work has led to his recent appointment as Chair of the Vascular Surgery and Interventional Radiology Steering Group for NHS England’s Outcomes and Registries Programme, working of registry medical device capture. He is also a Vascular Clinical Lead for the National Consultant Information Programme (NCIP) for Vascular Surgery at NHSE set up in response the Paterson Enquiry to provide a single repository of consultant practice and drive quality improvement. In 2023 he was appointed at Clinical Lead for Vascular Surgery for the Getting It Right First Time Programme (GIRFT) for NHS England. In these roles he has developed significant expertise in using both registry and administrative data to deliver improved patient care.