At the Sylvester O Halloran Perioperative Scientific symposium held in the GEMS on the 4th and 5th of March 1016 Dr Leon Walsh, a GEMS PhD student and Clinical Tutor was awarded the ASGBI/Sylvester O’Halloran Published Paper prize for his paper titled, “An appraisal of the computed axial tomographic appearance of the human mesentery based on mesenteric contiguity from the duodenojejunal flexure to the mesorectal level