Khayam Ashraf Butt
Job description
Responsible for surgical clinical practice for medical students from UiT (The Arctic University og Norway). Clinical research at Nordlandssykehuset (NLSH) and PhD-scholar at UiT.
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Publications outside Cristin
1. Augestad KM, Butt K, Ignjatovic D, Keller DS, Kiran R. Video-based coaching in surgical education: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Surg Endosc 2020; 34(2): 521-35.
2. Butt K, Augestad KM. Educational value of surgical telementoring. J Surg Oncol 2021; 124(2): 231-40.
3. Airazat M Kazaryan, Lars L Eftang , Pål Ødegård, Butt K, Martin Hagve et al. The treatment of appendicitis should be standardized. Tidsskr Nor Legeforen 2022 Vol. 142. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.22.0232
4. Butt K, Jonas OS, Trichet LO, Sjo O, Hartvigsen G, Edwin B, Augestad KM. Surgical telementoring as teaching tool in the operating room: trans-Nordic IDEAL stage 2a telementored series of a robotic ventral mesh rectopelearning curve. Br J Surg 2024; 111(6).
5. Butt K, Sjo, O. Edwin, B. Hartvigsen, G. Augestad, K. . Evaluating the Role of SURGical TElementoring in the Acquisition of Surgical Skills of Laparoscopic CHolecystectomy (SURGTEACH). Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. BMJ Surg Interv Health Technol 2024; Submitted.
Research interests
PhD-theme: Implications of surgical telementoring in clinical surgery and surgical education
Additional Projects funded by HelseNord:
1. Pre- and postoperative telemedical evaluation of patients. A prospective pilot study evaluating safety, feasibility and financial implications (HNF1555-2020)
2. The scope of near-infrared light for visualization vessel anatomi in laparoscopic surgery (HNF1726-2024)
Teaching
Seminars for 6th year medical students:
Surgical propaedeutics
Anorectal surgical conditions
CV
Khayam Ashraf Butt
E-mail : Khayam.ashraf.butt@nordlandssykehuset.no & dr_khayam@hotmail.com
Address: Løvetannveien 5, 8004, Bodø, Norway
Aim
Special interest in laparoscopic and robotic colorectal cancer surgery which has been the main interest/surgical activity during the last 10 years. Aiming for more academic experience. In a Phd-program at UiT, The Norwegian arctic university.
Work Experience
Paediatric department, Fredrikstad County hospital, Norway Oct 2002 – Feb 2003
- Medical resident with temporary license
Surgical and Medical department, Fredrikstad County hospital, Norway Feb 2003 — Feb 2004
- Compulsory hospital-internship
Nordkapp municipality, Honningsvåg, Norway Feb 2004 – Sept 2004
- Compulsory GP-internship
Allmed legesenter (GP-office), Hammerfest municipality, Norway Sept 2004 – Okt 2005
- General practitioner
- 1 year of GP-practice eligible for speciaity in general surgery (according to Norwegian rules for specialty in general surgery)
Rønvik legesenter (GP-office), Bodø municipality, Norway Nov 2005 – Jun 2006
- General practice
Surgical department, Bodø hospital Trust, Norway Jun 2006 – jun 2007
- Surgical registrar
- Registrar in rotation between departments of GI-, vascular- and urological surgery
Surgical department, Fredrikstad county hospital, Norway Jun 2007 – Oct 2009
- Surgical registrar
- Surgical registrar in rotation between departments of GI-, vascular- and urological surgery.
GI-surgical department, Fredrikstad county hospital Oct 2009 - Mar 2012
- Senior surgical registrar, GI-surgery (B-gren stilling)
- Surgical registrar, full time at GI-surgical department.
University hospital of Northern Norway (UNN), Tromsø April 2012 – Feb 2014
- Consultant under supervision
- Compulsory experience (B-gren tjeneste) required before applying for speciality in GI-surgery.
GI-surgical department, Bodø hospital Trust, Norway Feb 2014 - Today
- Consultant GI-surgeon with special interest/activity in colorectal cancer surgery
Qualifications
Basic school education in Norway.
Jun 2002: Cand.med. University of Pecs, Hungary
Jan 2003: Cand.med. University of Oslo, Norway
Aug 2004: Norwegian authorization as medical doctor, authorization no. 8599475
Oct 2007: Speech at the annual surgical meeting of norwegian GI-surgeons with heading: "Downstaging of rectal cancer, our experience at Fredrikstad county hospital"
2015: Applied and received Norwegian speciality in General surgery.
2015/2016: Applied and received Norwegian speciality in GI-surgery.
2016: Interest and start of experience with robotic surgery, daVinci Xi for colorectal cancer surgery.
2017/2018:
Initialized quality improving project/study at Bodø hospital Trust:
“A Structured Educational Approach to Robotic Ventral Mesh Rectopexy”
Assessment of SAGES Educational Recommendations for Surgical Telementoring.
2018:
Speech at “amazing technology symposium” at 26th EAES meeting in London UK.
Presentation of the mentioned telementoring study.
2019:
Contributing author/surgeon in multicenter study-Nordic Rectal Prolaps Trial.
Initiated in Aarhus Denmark.
2017/2018:
Interest in telementoring/telemedicine. Start of a quality improving project exploring feasibility, applicability and economic aspects of e-platform for pre and postoperative outpatient evaluation at surgical department NLSH Bodø
Jun 2019:
Co-author of publication in Surgical Endoscopy- “Video-based coaching in surgical education: a systematic review and meta-analysis”.
June 2021:
Supervision of 6th year medical student, Olav Salterød Jonas, in master’s thesis in medicine:
“Telementoring in robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery. A critical assessment of the learning curve using GEARS score”.
A prospective cohort study
Aug 2021:
Educational value of surgical telementoring
Journal of Surgical Oncology 124(2):231-240. DOI:10.1002/jso.26524
March 2022:
Poster presentation at SAGES meeting 2022, Denver Colorado:
Surgical Telementoring in Clinical Practice: Two Projects Following an Educational Protocol in accordance with SAGES Recommendations.
April 2022:
Applied for and accepted PhD-studies at UiT:
“Implications of telecommunication technology in clinical surgery and surgical education”.
March 2023:
Speech at the National annual meeting of robotic surgery, Bergen (March 2023):
“An educational curriculum for telementored robotic ventral mesh rectopexy”.
2024:
Butt K, Jonas OS, Trichet LO, Sjo O, Hartvigsen G, Edwin B, Augestad KM. Surgical telementoring as teaching tool in the operating room: trans-Nordic IDEAL stage 2a telementored series of a robotic ventral mesh rectopexy learning curve. Br J Surg 2024; 111(6).
2025:
Submitted article for publishing in JMIR Publications:
Evaluating the Role of SURGical TElementoring in Acquisition of Surgical Skills of Laparoscopic CHolecystectomy (SURGTEACH). Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
References
Henrik Sloth – Senior colorectal surgeon. Institution: NLSH, Bodø Tel no: 004524253328 , 75534000
Peter Rancinger – Head of dep gastrointestinal surgery Insttution: SØF, Fredrikstad Tel no: 0046708969337, 69 86 00 00 Torunn Nestvold – Head of surgical dep Institution: NLSH, Bodø Telefon: 755 34000, 47010920
Knut Magne Augestad – Phd, Prof of surgery, Univ of Oslo, Campus A-HUS, knut.magne.augestad@gmail.com, tlf.no. +4797499442