Mr Nima Abbassi-Ghadi

 Professional experience

• More than 15 years of experience
• Consultant General Surgeon, BMI Mount Alvernia Hospital, Guildford (present)
• Consultant General Surgeon, Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust (present)

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 Sub-specialties

• Antireflux surgery
• Upper gastrointestinal cancer 
• Gallstones
• Abdominal wall hernia repair
• Endoscopy
• Laparoscopic surgery
• Gallstone surgery
• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Laparoscopic bile duct exploration
• Femoral hernia repair
• Umbilical hernia repair
• Hiatal hernia repair
• Dyspepsia
• Removal of skin and subcutaneous lesion
• Diagnostic endoscopy
• Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)
• Naso-Jejunal (NJ) tube and Naso-Gastric (NG) tube placement
• Achalasia
• Laparoscopic Heller cardiomyotomy
• Laparoscopic small bowel resection
• Laparoscopic appendicectomy
• Laparoscopic feeding jejunostomy
• Endoscopic/Laparoscopic placement of gastrostomy feeding tubes
• Barrett's oesophagus
• laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
• laparoscopic gastric bypass
• laparoscopic mini-gastric bypass

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 Teaching posts

• Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Surrey
• Co-supervisor of a PhD project funded by the Royal College of Surgeons and the Mason Medical Research Foundation
• Gives lectures to surgical trainees in the South East of England
• Regularly teaches Advanced Trauma Life Support

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 Education

• FRCS Royal College of Surgeons of England (2017)
• PhD Imperial College London (2015)
• BMBS The University of Nottingham (2005)
• BMedSci The University of Nottingham (2003)

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 Publications and conferences

• View some of Mr Abbassi-Ghadi's research on ResearchGate
• He has published in leading journals such as Cancer Research, Cancer Discovery, and Advanced Materials.
• Abbassi-Ghadi N, Antonowicz SS, McKenzie JS, Kumar S, Huang J, Jones EA, Strittmatter N, Petts G, Kudo H, Court S, Hoare JM, Veselkov K, Goldin R, Takáts Z, Hanna GB. De novo lipogenesis alters the phospholipidome of esophageal adenocarcinoma. Cancer Res. 2020. [Epub ahead of print]
• Abbassi-Ghadi N, Durakovic S, Piessen G, Gatenby P, Singh S, Sultan J, Preston S. Laparoscopic versus open gastrectomy for adenocarcinoma of the stomach: peri-operative and five-year oncological outcomes. Surgical Endoscopy. 2019. PMID: 31591656 [Epub ahead of print]
• Davidson JR, Kumar S, Franklin D, Eaton S, Curry J, De Coppi P, Mohammadi B, Dawas K, Abbassi-Ghadi N. Respiratory function tests defining the success of fundoplication allograft pulmonary function after lung transplant: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. [Epub ahead of print]
• Abbassi-Ghadi N, Golf O, Kumar S, Antonowicz S, McKenzie JS, Huang J, Strittmatter N, Kudo H, Jones EA, Veselkov KA, Goldin R, Takats Z, Hanna GB. Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry imaging of esophageal lymph node metastases. Cancer Res. 2016; 76(19):5647-5656. PMID: 27364550
• Murugaesu N, Wilson GA, Birkbak NJ, Watkins T, McGranahan N, Kumar S, Abbassi-Ghadi N, Salm M, Mitter R, Horswell S, Rowan A, Phillimore B, Biggs J, Begum S, Matthews N, Hochhauser D, Hanna GB, Swanton C. Tracking the genomic evolution of esophageal adenocarcinoma through neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Cancer Discov. 2015; 5(8): 5821-31. PMID: 26003801.
• Patel K, Abbassi-Ghadi N, Markar S, Kumar S, Jethwa P, Zaninotto G. Peroral endoscopic myotomy for the treatment of esophageal achalasia: systematic review and pooled analysis. Dis Esophagus. 2016; 29(7): 807-819. PMID: 26197973.
• Kasivisvanathan R, Abbassi-Ghadi N, McLeod AD, Oliver A, Rao Baikady R, Jhanji S, Cone S, Wigmore T. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing for predicting postoperative morbidity in patients undergoing hepatic resection surgery. HPB (Oxford). 2015; 17(7): 637-43. PMID: 25994624.
• Kumar S, Huang J, Abbassi-Ghadi N, Mackenzie HA, Veselkov KA, Hoare JM, Lovat LB, Španěl P, Smith D, Hanna GB. Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Exhaled Breath for the Identification of Volatile Organic Compound Biomarkers in Esophageal and Gastric Adenocarcinoma. Ann Surg. 2015; 262(6): 981-90. PMID: 25575255.
• Kasivisvanathan R, Abbassi-Ghadi N, Kumar S, Mackenzie H, Thompson K, James K, Mallett S. Risk of bleeding and adverse outcomes predicted by thromboelastography platelet mapping in patients taking clopidogrel within seven days of non-cardiac surgery. Br J Surg. 2014; 101(11): 1383-1390. PMID: 25088505.
• Abbassi-Ghadi N, Kumar S, Cheung B, McDermott A, Knaggs A, Zacharakis E, Moorthy K, Carby M, Hanna GB. Anti-reflux surgery for lung transplant recipients in the presence of impedance-detected duodenogastroesophageal reflux and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome: A study of efficacy and safety. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2013; 32(6): 588-95. PMID: 23540400.

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 Prizes and awards

• Awarded the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland travelling Scholarship to partake in a clinical fellowship at the National Cancer Centre in Seoul, Korea.
• Awarded the International Diseases of The Esophagus Travelling Scholarship for the most cited research paper in 2017.