Mr Ashish Sinha

Professional statement

Mr Ashish Sinha is a highly skilled and trusted consultant colorectal and general surgeon with over 15 years’ of experience based in Central and West London. He is a consultant surgeon at the world-renowned St Mark’s – The National Bowel Hospital, London and a senior clinical lecturer at Imperial College, London. He has expertise in inherited colorectal cancer syndromes and polyposis and is the consultant surgeon to the St Mark’s Centre for Familial Cancer.  

He performs surgery for a wide range of conditions focusing principally on colorectal cancer, polyposis and other benign colonic conditions like diverticular disease. He typically performs minmally invasive or laparoscopic surgery. He offers laser surgery for treatment of common proctology conditions such as haemorrhoids, fistula and pilonidal sinus, as well as providing diagnostic colonoscopy for colorectal cancer prevention.

His surgical practice covers the full aspect of colorectal surgery including stoma reversal, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) surgery including colitis and Crohn’s disease, prolapse surgery and excision of skin tags and warts. Additionally, he offers surgical treatment for conditions including hernia (inguinal/incisional, stoma related and abdominal wall), lumps and bumps excision and emergency treatment such as appendicectomy and abscess drainage.  

Mr Sinha was awarded a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (BMBS) degree from the University of Nottingham in 2004. He undertook further training in general and colorectal surgery in the South East Thames Region, London surgical rotation. His research thesis into inherited colorectal cancers and cancer genetics over two years at the Polyposis Registry, St Mark’s Hospital, culminated in him being awarded a MD from Imperial College, London.

His work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and he continues his research work, concentrating on inherited colorectal cancer syndromes, emergency general surgery in elderly patients and minimally invasive surgery. 
 
He is a member of several medical organisations, including the International Society for Inherited Gastrointestinal Tumours and St Mark’s Association.