James Kinross is a reader in Colorectal Surgery at Imperial College London and head of the department of colorectal surgery at Imperial College NHS trust. His clinical interest is in robotic and digital surgery for colorectal cancer and he chairs the AI taskforce for the ACPGBI. He is a graduate of the NIHR leadership programme and he was an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Surgery and an Ethicon Laparoscopic Fellow in Colorectal Surgery. He was awarded a Royal College of Surgeons of England training fellowship during his PhD on the gut microbiome and he was funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences as an early stage lecturer. He is a visiting Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. He is currently funded by CRUK, DASA, UKRI and the EPSRC. He performs translational research into a diverse set of research themes such as digital surgery, robotics, computational and systems biology in surgery and the gut microbiome. James serves as a mentor for several training surgeons and he is currently supervising 7 PhD candidates and he has published over 200 peer reviewed papers.