Prof. Mark Taylor

Professor Mark Taylor is a Consultant HPB Surgeon at BHSCT and Visiting Professor at Ulster University. He trained in Belfast and at the Regional HPB and Transplant Unit in Edinburgh. He is the former President of GBI Hepato-pancreato-biliary Association (GBIHPBA) and the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (PSGBI). He sits on the Medical Advisory Board of Bowel Cancer UK,  He served as the Lead for Education, Training and Research with The Association of Upper GI Surgeons (AUGIS) from 2014-2019. In 2016, he was appointed by the then Stormont Health Minister to an independent expert panel (Bengoa panel) tasked with reconfiguration of Northern Ireland’s Health Service. In 2017 he was appointed to the Department of Health’s Transformation Implementation Group (TIG) and in 2020 to its Regional Management Board. In 2018 Mark was appointed Director of Professional Affairs (NI) for the RCS of England, a post held for 5 years stepping down at end of tenure in 2023. He is a member of the Department’s Elective Care Management Team & Expert Clinical Panel and recently chaired the 'Review of General Surgery' for DOH. He has published extensively in the field of Hepatobiliary Surgery. His current research interest is in sonodynamic drug delivery therapy in pancreatic cancer (sonotarg). He is passionate about innovation, change and collective leadership within the HSCNI. He is a trustee NIPANC.