Mr Josh Burke is a General Surgery Registrar in Manchester and is currently completing his RCSEng and Bowel Cancer UK PhD fellowship investigating gastrointestinal anastomotic leak at The University of Leeds. After graduating from The University of Manchester in 2015 he completed his Academic Foundation Training at in East London at The National Institute of Bowel Research. Following he completed an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Leeds and a post graduate certificate in Medical Education and Health Research. He is the current Past President of The Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT), postgraduate lead for the NIHR MedTech Foundation, Chair of the ASiT/RADAR Trainees Committee and FOS:TEST Report and former steering committee member of STARSurg UK. He also sits on RCS England Review of Equality and Diversity Panel and the The Academy of Trainee Doctors Group.