Ryan Kerstein

Ryan Kerstein is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Associate Medical Director of Research and Innovation at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, an NHS Clinician Entrepreneur Fellow and the Technology Editor and Writer for the Royal College of Surgeon (Eng) Bulletin journal. 

Ryan has been involved in medical Innovation for the last 17 years, including founding his own healthcare start-ups. His first, ASep Healthcare Ltd, was setup in 2004 to commercialise Tournistrip, a single-use tourniquet Ryan designed as a student. They have sold over 60 million Tournistrips in 30 countries. More recently, during the COVID pandemic, Ryan was a Co-Founder of WeShare.Healthcare, a social enterprise to rapidly share clinical innovation to help unlock NHS services. Ryan is also an advisor to several start-ups in the healthcare sector.