Rate My Professor James Haddow

Prior to joining the University of Otago in 2019, Haddow trained as a surgeon in the UK, where he founded the London Surgical Research Group in 2010, a trainee-led collaborative that expanded to 800 members, generating 21 publications with 787 co-authors. He also coordinated the NIHR healthcare technology co-operative Enteric, bridging researchers and industry for innovations in digestive diseases, and completed a Darzi Fellowship with training from the King's Fund and Manchester Business School. In New Zealand, he has redesigned patient pathways, including the Day-case Abscess Pathway at Canterbury District Health Board, and contributed to quality improvement as Clinical Lead at Southern DHB. Haddow has co-authored key publications such as Woodfield et al., 'Integration of a patient-orientated eHealth intervention in the setting of an established enhanced recovery after surgery program can reduce complications and length of stay: An observational study' (mHealth, 2026); STRATA Collaborative, 'External validation of CholeS conversion from laparoscopic to open cholecystectomy (CLOC) risk score in Aotearoa New Zealand' (ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2024); Amer and Haddow, 'External validation of the Oakland Score to assess safe hospital discharge among adult patients with acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding' (ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2024); and STRATA Collaborative, 'Variation in the practice of cholecystectomy for benign biliary disease in Aotearoa New Zealand' (HPB, 2023). His involvement in international collaboratives like STRATA demonstrates his impact on surgical outcomes research.