{"id":730,"date":"2026-10-21T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=730"},"modified":"2026-10-21T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:41:53","slug":"head-of-department-of-surgery-and-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/10\/21\/head-of-department-of-surgery-and-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Department of Surgery and Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW200078659 BCX8\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.imperial.ac.uk\/g.hanna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW200078659 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW200078659 BCX8\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Professor George Hanna<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW200078659 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW200078659 BCX8\"> has accepted an extension to his appointment as Head of the Department of Surgery and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW200078659 BCX8\">Cancer for<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW200078659 BCX8\"> two years, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW200078659 BCX8\">until <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW200078659 BCX8\">31 January 2029<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW200078659 BCX8\">.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW200078659 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor George Hanna has accepted an extension to his appointment as Head of the Department of Surgery and Cancer for two years, until 31 January 2029.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}