Professor Ian Chetter was appointed as the Professor of Surgery at Hull York Medical School /University of Hull and Honorary Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust in February 2011. He qualified from University of Leeds Medical School in 1990, and completed his basic and higher surgical training in Yorkshire. Funded by a Northern & Yorkshire Research Fellowship he obtained MD from the University of Leeds and was awarded a Hunterian Professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2000. Following a 12 month Vascular Fellowship in Adelaide, Australia funded by an Ethicon/ Peter Clifford Fellowship in 2002/3, Ian returned to the UK to be appointed Senior Lecturer at the Academic Vascular Surgical Unit in Hull. He is currently Vascular Tutor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Council Member of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and Executive Committee Member/Local Surgical Speciality lead for NEYNL CLRN.  

Professor Chetter’s interests are predominantly Health Services Research and New & Emerging Technologies in arterial and venous disease, wound healing and surgical site infection. In addition he has interests in the molecular biology of aneurysmal disease, ishaemia reperfusion, translational research in therapies for intermittent claudication and educational research analyzing the value of endovascular simulation.