Ms Kat Baker

MsKatBaker is a highly respected consultantcolorectalsurgeon based in Oxford. She is renowned for her expertise in colorectalcancer, Crohn’sdisease and ulcerativecolitis, and also specialises in roboticsurgery. She offers broad portfolio of cases using the DaVinciXirobot, including anterior resection, right hemicolectomy with intra-corporeal anastomosis, subtotal colectomy and proctectomy and pouch surgery. She also provides a full proctology practice.

Ms Baker qualified in medicine from the University of Bristol in 2006. She later undertook a RoyalCollegeofSurgeonsresearchfellowship based at University Hospitals Bristol and the University of Bristol. In 2015, she completed an MD in cellular and molecular medicine and colorectal cancer and led an NIHRportfolioadoptedstudy. In recognition of the excellence of her research, Ms Baker received the JohnofArderneMedal from the Royal Society of Medicine and the Rosetreesessayprize. Following this, she was awarded a highly esteemed Fulbrightscholarship, in which she travelled to New York Presbyterian Hospital and Colombia University, USA to research colorectal cancer outcomes. In this period, she also completed a Value Based Healthcare course at Harvard University. In 2019, the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) named Ms Baker as TraineeColoproctologistoftheYear. The following year, she embarked on a specialist fellowship in colorectal surgery, including the use of robotics, at the internationally renowned RoyalBrisbaneandWomen’sHospital, Australia. Since 2021, she has been appointed as a consultant colorectal surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Ms Baker sees privatepatients at Nuffield HealthTheManorOxfordHospitals.

Throughout her esteemed career, Ms Baker has held a number of key roles, including with the European Society of Coloproctology as an Education and Training Committee member. She is also a former president of the Dukes' Club of the UK Colorectal Surgery Trainees’ Society and has volunteered as a medic on various charity treks around the world. Ms Baker has published a number of academicpapers which appear in peer-reviewed journals and has appeared as an invitedspeaker at key national and international meetings. She is currently an investigator on several national studies researching robotic surgery and inflammatory bowel disease. She is a fellow of the RoyalCollegeofSurgeons and a member of the British Association of Cancer Research and the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, amongst others.