Professor George Hanna is Head of the Department of Surgery & Cancer at Imperial College London, a consultant upper gastro‑intestinal cancer surgeon and an accomplished academic researcher. He specialises in oesophageal and gastric cancer surgery, including advanced laparoscopic treatments, and his laboratory leads pioneering work on volatile organic compound analysis in breath as a non‑invasive diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal cancers. Elected a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in 2022, his interests span surgical innovation, diagnostics and training of surgical competency.