Professor Alok Tiwari is a consultant vascular surgeon at University Hospitals Birmingham and a visiting professor of vascular surgery at Birmingham City University and Honorary Associate Professor at University of Birmingham. He qualified from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London in 1996. He then undertook basic surgical training at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex. Professor Tiwari undertook a Master of Surgery degree at the Royal Free Hospital in London. His thesis was the ‘Development of a hybrid cardiovascular graft using a tissue engineering approach. He presented and published extensively from this. Professor Tiwari received specialist registrar training in London including Kings College Hospital and Royal Free hospital and Essex in both general and vascular surgery. During this time, he undertook a one-year Vascular fellowship Westmead Vascular Unit in Sydney, Australia where he learnt endovascular techniques to allow the treatment of patients using minimally invasive methods including angioplasty and Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR). He has worked in Singapore for 12 months where learnt to further deal with complex diabetic foot disease and advanced endovascular angioplasty for limb salvage (to avoid leg amputations). He was instrumental in the development of the diabetic foot service ay Queen Elizabeth hospital. He has over 110 published articles in journals in many aspects of vascular surgery. He is the current training program director in vascular surgery in the West Midlands.