Ajay Kakkar#
| Membership Number: | 7336 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - present Chancellor, University of Lincoln
- 2021 - present Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University College London
- 2021 - present President, Thrombosis Research Institute, London
- 2021 - present Chairman, Kings Health Partners, London
- 2014 - 2021 Chairman, UCLPartners, University College London
- 2009 - 2024-present Honorary Consultant Surgeon, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- 1999 - 2004 Senior Lecturer and Consultant Surgeon, Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College, London, UK
- 2016 - 2022 Chairman, Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC)
- 2020 - present Chairman, Board of Trustees, The King’s Fund
- 2022 - present Chair, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
Fields of Scholarship
- Venous
- Novel anticoagulants
- Thrombosis
- Arterial
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
- 2023 Honorary Doctor of Medical Science for distinction in Medicine, The Queen’s University of Belfast
- 2022 Honorary Companion of the Chartered Institute, CILEX, (The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives)
- 2022 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) for Services to Healthcare and Public Services
- 2019 Honorary Fellow, UK Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2019 Honorary Member, British Association of Surgical Oncology – Association of Cancer Surgery (BASO – ACS)
- 2019 Honorary Bencher, The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
- 2017 Member, James IV Association of Surgeons
- 2016 Fellow, King’s College London
- 2016 Fellow, Alleyn’s School, London
- 2015 Tom Reeve Lecture, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS)
- 2014 Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of London
- 2014 Member, Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council
- 2011 Gerald Townsley Memorial Lecture, Medway Hospital Kent
- 2010 Honorary Fellow, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford
- 2010 Honorary Fellow, Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
- 2010 Life Peerage (nomination of House of Lords Appointments Commission)
- 2010 12th Varma Lecture, St George’s University of London
- 2009 Fellow, South African Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (SASTH)
- 2009 Wellcome Memorial Lecture, Royal Society of Medicine
