Summary
Professor Ian Chetter was appointed as the Professor of Surgery at Hull York Medical School /University of Hull and Honorary Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in February 2011. He qualified from University of Leeds Medical School in 1990, and completed his basic and higher surgical training in Yorkshire. Funded by a Northern and Yorkshire Research Fellowship he obtained MD from the University of Leeds and was awarded a Hunterian Professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2000. Following a 12 month Vascular Fellowship in Adelaide, Australia funded by an Ethicon/ Peter Clifford Fellowship in 2002/3, Ian returned to the UK to be appointed Senior Lecturer at the Academic Vascular Surgical Unit in Hull. Professor Chetter received a five year NIHR Senior Investigators Award in April 2018.
Professor Chetter is the Royal College of Surgeons Surgical Specialty Lead for Research in Vascular Surgery and is also currently Chair of the Research Committee, an Executive Committee Member, and Committee Member for the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
MBChB – 1990 (University of Leeds)
FRCS (Eng) – 1994
MD – 2000 (University of Leeds)
FRCS (Gen Surg) – 2002
Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Ultrasound – 2005 (University of Leeds)
Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Education – 2011 (University of Newcastle)
Course development
Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland:
Development of ASPIRE Educational Programme of Courses for Vascular Trainees ST3 – ST8.
Academic conference is in the planning stages with plans to run the conference in Hull in 2021
Postgraduate Teaching
Supervisor for Leeds PG Cert Ultrasound Course
Undergraduate
Major contribution to development of undergraduate RCS courses (Anatomy Summer School and Surgical Skills for Students)
Phase 1 clinical placement tutor and Phase 3 tutor
Contributed to development and provision of HAiRT course
iBSc supervisor
Developed and provided SSCs
Developing teaching skills in others
Supervise and support research fellow undertaking MClinEd
All research fellows undergo formal Hull York Medical School training in teaching and assessment
Examiner
1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th year Hull York Medical School students
Internal examiner for the University of Hull
External examiner for Universities of Newcastle and Leeds
Journal Article
Postoperative remote first care for financially and environmentally sustainable healthcare
Lathan, R., Hitchman, L., Walshaw, J., Ravindhran, B., Carradice, D., Smith, G., Chetter, I., & Yiasewmidou, M. (2025). Postoperative remote first care for financially and environmentally sustainable healthcare. npj Digital Medicine, 8, Article 299. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-025-01585-3
Comparative Performance of Clinician and Computational Approaches in Forecasting Adverse Outcomes in Intermittent Claudication
Ravindhran, B., Lim, A., Pymer, S., Prosser, J., Cutteridge, J., Nazir, S., Mohamed, A., Hemadneh, M., Lathan, R., Kapur, R., Johnson, B. F., Smith, G. E., Carradice, D., & Chetter, I. C. (2025). Comparative Performance of Clinician and Computational Approaches in Forecasting Adverse Outcomes in Intermittent Claudication. Annals of vascular surgery, 120, 138-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avsg.2025.05.009
Environmental and financial cost of surgical-site infection by severity after lower limb vascular surgery
Lathan, R., Daysley, H., Ravindhran, B., Lim, A., Cutteridge, J., Sidapra, M., Long, J., Hitchman, L., Beltran-Alvarez, P., Carradice, D., Smith, G., & Chetter, I. (2025). Environmental and financial cost of surgical-site infection by severity after lower limb vascular surgery. BJS Open, 9(3), Article zraf015. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsopen/zraf015
Negative pressure wound therapy for surgical wounds healing by secondary intention is not cost-effective
Saramago, P., Gkekas, A., Arundel, C. E., Chetter, I. C., & SWHSI-2 Trial Investigators. (2025). Negative pressure wound therapy for surgical wounds healing by secondary intention is not cost-effective. British journal of surgery, 112(5), Article znaf077. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znaf077
Approaches to improve 12-month circuit primary patency and target lesion primary patency in arteriovenous fistulae: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Ravindhran, B., Parovic, M., Staniland, T., Howitt, A., Nazir, S., Lathan, R., Carradice, D., Smith, G., & Chetter, I. (in press). Approaches to improve 12-month circuit primary patency and target lesion primary patency in arteriovenous fistulae: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Journal of vascular access, https://doi.org/10.1177/11297298251332043
Research interests
Professor Chetter’s interests are predominantly Health Services Research and New and Emerging Technologies in arterial and venous disease, wound healing and surgical site infection. In addition he has interests in the molecular biology of aneurysmal disease, ischaemia reperfusion, translational research in therapies for intermittent claudication and educational research analysing the value of endovascular simulation.
Most recent:
VENUS 6: A Randomised Controlled Trial of compression therapies for the treatment of venous leg ulcers (Co-applicant - NIHR HTA Grant 2020 – 2024)
INITIATE: High INtensity Interval Training In pATiEnts with intermittent claudication: a proof-of-concept trial (PI – NIHR RfPB Grant 2019 – 2021)
SWHSI 2: Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of Negative Wound Therapy versus usual care for surgical wounds healing by secondary intention (PI – NIHR HTA Grant 2018 – 2022)
Multiple Interventions for Diabetic Food Ulcer Treatment (MIDFUT) Trial (Collaborator – NIHR Programme Grant 2017-2022)
NIHR Senior Investigators Award (2018 – 2022)
RCS Vascular Surgical Specialty Lead (2016 – 2019)
SWHSI 1Surgical wounds healing by secondary intention: characterising and quantifying the problem and identifying effective treatments (PI NIHR Programme Grant 2011 – 2016)
NESIC: A Multicentre Randomised Controlled Study: Does Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Improve the Absolute Walking Distance in Patients with Intermittent Claudication compared to best available treatment? (Co-Investigator MHRA EME Grant 2018 – 2020)
Basil 2: Multi-centre randomised controlled trial to compare the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a "vein bypass first" with a "best endovascular first" revascularisation strategy for severe limb ischaemia due to infra-geniculate arterial disease (Co-applicant NIHR HTA Grant 2014 – 2023)
Basil 3: Multi-centre randomised controlled trial of clinical and cost-effectiveness of drug coated balloons, drug eluting stents and plain balloon angioplasty with bail-out bare metal stent revascularisation strategies for severe limb ischaemia due to femoropopliteal disease (Co-applicant NIHR HTA Grant 2017 – 2021)
Co-investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
Wolfson Equipment bid 2023 - Confocal Imaging ZEISS Elyra 7 with Lattice SIM²
Funder
Wolfson Foundation
Grant
£500,000.00
Started
1 October 2024
Status
Ongoing
Project
THrough knee AMputation impact on Quality of Life compared to abovE knee amputaTion (HAMLET)
Funder
National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£830,442.00
Started
1 June 2024
Status
Ongoing
Project
The DRESSINg trial: A multicentre randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of Dialkylcarbamoylchloride (DACC) coated post-operative dressings versus standard care in the prevention of Surgical Site Infection in clean or clean contaminated vascular surgery
Funder
Healthcare Infection Society
Grant
£80,076.00
Started
1 October 2023
Status
Ongoing
Project
DRESSINg: DACC in the REduction of Surgical Site INfection
Funder
National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£305.00
Started
1 February 2017
Status
Complete
Project
Depilation Feasibility PPI: The Impact of Depilation upon Wound Healing and Post-Surgical Complications: A Feasibility Study (The DEPILATION-Feasibility STUDY) - Patient and Public Involvement
Funder
National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£450.00
Started
1 July 2021
Status
Complete
Project
An umbrella review of exercise for people with intermittent claudication
Funder
National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£500.00
Started
1 August 2021
Status
Complete
Project
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy compared to best available treatment for patients with intermittent claudication - NIHR RDS PPI Application
Funder
National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£500.00
Started
28 November 2021
Status
Complete
Project
First-in-man clinical trial investigating the effect of hair cycle modulation on wound healing
Funder
Academy of Medical Sciences
Grant
£30,000.00
Started
1 March 2023
Status
Complete
Project
Improving outcomes in patient with diabetic foot disease
Funder
National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£494.40
Started
1 June 2018
Status
Complete