Mr Somaiah Aroori

 Professional experience

• More than 25 years of experience
• Consultant Hepatobiliary, Transplant and General Surgeon, Nuffield Health Plymouth (present)
• Consultant Hepatobiliary, General and Transplant Surgeon, Derriford Hospital (2011 - present)

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 Sub-specialties

• General surgery
• Complex hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery
• Renal and liver transplants
• Laparoscopic liver and pancreatic surgery
• Laparoscopic bile duct exploration
• Inguinal hernias
• Laparoscopic gallbladder, bile duct, hernia, liver, pancreas, and adrenal surgery

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 Positions in public associations

• Secretary to Minimally Invasive Liver Pancreatic Society of UK
• Great Britain and Ireland Hepato Pancreatico Biliary Association Committee member

 Teaching posts

• ATLS instructor
• Convener and faculty member - Core laparoscopic surgical skills course
• Convener and faculty member - Laparoscopic cholecystectomy course
• Keynote Lecture, Liver MRI Study Day, Radiology Academy, Plymouth (2015)
• Complex Liver Surgery, Plymouth Liver Study Day, Postgraduate Medical Centre, Plymouth (2014)
• Course Director for MILAPS UK Cadaveric Laparoscopic Liver Surgery course
• European Trauma Course Instructor
• Director for Laparoscopic Intraoperative Ultrasound course
• Director for Laparoscopic Intraoperative Ultrasound course
• FRCS Examiner
• MRCS examiner

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 Education

• Masters in General Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (1999)
• European Diploma in HPB Surgery in 2011
• Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education from University of Plymouth 2009
• Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) 2009
• Doctor of Medicine (MD) 2005, Queen's University of Belfast
• European Expert Panel Member on Laparoscopic Liver surgery guidelines

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 Publications and conferences

• The Southampton Consensus Guidelines for Laparoscopic Liver Surgery: From Indication to Implementation.
• Predicting the difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy: development and validation of a pre-operative risk score using an objective operative difficulty grading system.
• Morbidity Following Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy.
• Expanding the definition of covid-19 deaths will show the true effect of the pandemic.
• Splenic preservation versus splenectomy in laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy: a propensity score-matched study.
• Intention to Treat Laparoscopic Versus Open Hemi-Hepatectomy: A Paired Case-Matched Comparison Study.
• Intraoperative ultrasound versus fluorescence and X-ray cholangiography for the identification of bile duct stones, biliary anatomy and bile duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Time for a randomized controlled trial?
• Delayed Presentation of Urinoma Following Renal Transplant Biopsy: A Case Report.
• Comparison of lipase and amylase for diagnosing post-operative pancreatic fistulae.
• The Cholecystectomy As A Day Case (CAAD) Score: A Validated Score of Preoperative Predictors of Successful Day-Case Cholecystectomy Using the CholeS Data Set.
• A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing the short- and long-term outcomes for laparoscopic and open liver resections for liver metastases from colorectal cancer.
• The development and validation of a scoring tool to predict the operative duration of elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
• Percutaneous Cholecystostomy for Severe Acute Cholecystitis: A Useful Procedure in High-Risk Patients for Surgery.
• Clinical assessment before hepatectomy identifies high-risk patients.
• Comparison of risk-scoring systems in the prediction of outcome after liver resection.
• Impact of portal vein infiltration and type of venous reconstruction in surgery for borderline resectable pancreatic cancer.
• Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy Using the Modified Prolonged Prefiring Compression Technique Reduces Pancreatic Fistula.
• Population-based cohort study of variation in the use of emergency cholecystectomy for benign gallbladder diseases.

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 Prizes and awards

• Best outgoing student of the Andhra Pradesh University of Health Sciences, India 19996
• Gold Medal in Surgery
• Gold Medal in Pathology
• Padma Bhushan Dr Shiva Reddy Gold Medal in Opthalmology
• Best Outgoing student of Gunutur Medical College for the year 1996
• Best Research Prize award for the year 2003 by Belfast City Hospital

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 Professional membership

• International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
• Association of Upper GI Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
• European Society for Organ Transplantation
• European Association for Endoscopic Surgery
• Society of Academic and Research Surgery
• European-African Hepato Pancreatico Biliary Association
• Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
• Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
• Royal College of Surgeons of England
• General Medical Council
• Great Britain and Ireland Hepato Pancreatico Biliary Association

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