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Mr Amir Darakhshan is a leading consultant colorectal and general surgeon who is based in London. He specialises in the management of inflammatory bowel disease, hernia repair, pelvic floor disorders, and he's an expert in laparoscopic surgery. Mr Darakhshan graduated from King's College Hospital London and received his surgical training in London and the South East of England. He also received his specialist colorectal training at the Concord Repatriation General Hospital in Sydney, St Thomas' Hospital, University College Hospital, St Mark's Hospital and King's College Hospital, London, where he developed his interests in Pelvic Floor disorders, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Laparoscopic surgery. He is a member of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland and the Pelvic Floor Society and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Awarded a Doctor of Medicine in 2008, Mr Darakhshan's thesis at the Royal London Hospital explored the use of the Gracilis Neosphincter for treating incontinence. He has published on general surgical, colorectal and pelvic floor disorders.

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Mr Jaroslaw Krupa is a leading consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon in Leicester and Nottingham who specialises in breast cancer, reduction, augmentation, mastopexy and various other types of breast reconstruction surgery. Mr Krupa graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw, Poland in 1995. He continued his postgraduate training at the University College London Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital. Mr Krupa obtained his PhD in minimally-invasive surgery and was awarded an oncoplastic surgery fellowship at the National Institute of Cancer in Milan, which is one of Europe’s most prestigious breast cancer centres. Mr Krupa holds a special interest in the modern treatment of breast cancer, particularly in reconstruction after mastectomy as well as in oncoplastic procedures allowing breast-conserving surgery and excellent cosmetic outcomes in breast cancer patients. His work is published in peer-reviewed journals.

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Mr Sakhawat (Zak) Rahman is a prestigious consultant general surgeon based in London, specialising in open and advanced laparoscopic (keyhole) surgical techniques. From his private clinics in London, he offers a broad range of procedures for hernias, pancreatic cancer, pancreatic disorders, gallstone disease, gastric / oesophageal diseases and obesity. As a specialist hepatobiliary surgeon, Mr Zak Rahman has developed a special interest in the treatment of gallstone disease and its surgical management. He has a strong clinical and medicolegal practice centred around the surgical management of gallstones (cholecystectomy) and bile duct injuries as a result of clinical negligence due to substandard care. He is currently leading the development of a fast track pathway to deliver high quality care to patients with symptomatic gallstones. Well-respected for his contributions to surgical research, Mr Rahman became a Hunterian Professor of Surgery for the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2007, and is among the pioneers of laparoscopic pancreatic and upper GI surgery in the UK. Mr Rahman undertook fellowships in renowned centres of excellence in Hong Kong and Germany and has gained experience in prestigious centres across the UK. Mr Rahman was recently voted as one of The Best Gallbladder Surgeons in the UK by his peers: The Good Doctors Guide: Meet the best doctors for gallbladder and IBD.

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Mr Krishna Moorthy is a leading London surgeon specialising in general surgery, upper gastrointestinal surgery for cancer, bariatric surgery and hernia surgery. He performs laparoscopic gastric banding, laparoscopic gastric bypass and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Mr Moorthy has performed over 3000 laparoscopic procedures of which nearly 1000 are bariatric procedures. He is also a specialist in the surgical management of cancers of the stomach and the oesophagus and at present works in the reputable surgical unit in St Mary’s Hospital. He also specialises in all kinds of hernia surgery. He focuses on improving patient safety and quality of care in surgery. He was involved in the development of the World Health Organisation surgical checklist which is now used throughout the NHS and often gives lectures on surgical training, patient safety in surgery, quality improvement and bariatric surgery. Mr Moorthy also performed the UK’s first robotic gastric bypass procedure.

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Miss Aimee Di Marco is a leading consultant thyroid and endocrine surgeon in London, who specialises in and practises exclusively thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgery.  She is an expert in thyroid cancer, parathyroid disease, thyroid nodules, the surgical management of hyperthyroidism and adrenal disease. Miss Di Marco qualified from the University of Cambridge and Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine in 2004 with distinction. She underwent basic and higher surgical training in London. Miss Di Marco was awarded a doctorate in 2016 from Imperial College London for her work on surgical technology. In 2017 Miss Di Marco became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and was awarded the ASGBI gold medal for outstanding performance. She undertook the prestigious T.S Reeve Fellowship in the endocrine surgery unit of Sydney University at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia before returning back to London. Miss Di Marco is actively involved in teaching and research. She has co-authored over 25 peer-reviewed research papers. She sees patients at the Lister Hospital in Chiswick and Chelsea and at Imperial Private Healthcare at the Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals.  She has regular private clinics but may also be available at others times - please contact her PA to discuss your requirements.

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Professor Tan Arulampalam is an award-winning consultant general surgeon based in Colchester, Essex and London, with a special interest in minimally invasive pilonidal sinus (EPSIT) and anal fistula surgery,(VAAFT), gallbladder surgery, hernia surgery and colorectal surgery. He has also developed skills in minimally invasive pilonidal sinus (EPSIT) and anal fistula treatment (VAAFT). He also specialises in minimally invasive techniques, using both laparoscopy and endoscopy in many of his procedures. Professor Arulampalam is a dedicated consultant and is equally committed to teaching. Currently, he runs numerous surgical and laparoscopic skills courses and has developed a masters programme in minimally invasive and robotic surgery. His current interest is the use of artificial intelligence in surgery, blockchain technology in medicine, patient safety and human factors and how we train the surgeon of the future. Professor Arulampalam gained his Medical Degree by the University of London following five years at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, training at numerous London teaching hospitals. His Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England was awarded in 2003 after which he was awarded a travelling fellowship by the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ALSGBI). He is on the research committee of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons and a member of the council of the ALSGBI. Today, Professor Arulampalam runs his private practices, teaches and spends time doing charity work, including his membership on the Board of Beating Bowel Cancer and training surgeons in low and middle income countries. He also co-edited the Essential Surgery (6th Edition), a surgical textbook featuring simplified problem-solving with illustrations, which is used by medical students in the UK and around the world.  With a focus on value-based healthcare, Professor Arulampalam is looking to triage patients through telephone consultations and video consultations so that he can ensure patients are on the correct pathway from an early stage and get their diagnosis accurately. This is good for the patient, the doctor, and is extremely time efficient.

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Mr Gianluca Bonanomi is an expert consultant surgeon based in London who specialises in general, upper gastrointestinal and bariatric surgery. He has a special interest in minimally invasive keyhole surgery techniques including laparoscopic surgery for inguinal hernia, gallbladder disease, acid reflux and upper gastrointestinal conditions. Mr Gianluca Bonanomi completed his medical education and general surgery training at the University of Pisa in Italy and subsequently undertook further specialist surgical training in the United States, United Kingdom and France. He completed a research fellowship in minimally invasive and robotic surgery and a clinical fellowship in advanced laparoscopic surgery and bariatrics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in the US where he was appointed as attending and assistant professor of surgery. He has achieved extensive experience in metabolic and bariatric surgery and offers all types of treatment including endoscopic intragastric balloon placement, laparoscopic gastric banding, gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and revisional procedures. He has been the clinical lead for the Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Service at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, where he received several clinical excellence awards for his role and for working towards the establishment of a recognised multidisciplinary referral centre. He is also Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. He will provide you with an informed, experienced and honest account of the options, risks and benefits of advanced laparoscopic surgery applied to common surgical conditions such as inguinal hernia, gallbladder stones, acid reflux, hiatal hernia, obesity and upper gastrointestinal diseases. Mr Bonanomi currently holds professional memberships at the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons (AUGIS), British Medical Association (BMA), British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS) and International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO). Former member of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) and the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (EAES). His research interests have included minimally invasive surgical techniques, robotics applications in surgery and the metabolic implications of obesity. He is fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish.

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Mr Mohsin Dani is a leading consultant oncoplastic and cosmetic breast surgeon specialising in all aspects of breast disease, benign and malignant, breast augmentation, reconstruction and reduction. He provides oncoplastic surgery for breast cancer patients and performs breast reconstruction with the use of implants or the patient’s own fat or muscle tissue. Mr Mohsin Dani trained as a specialist registrar in Surgery in Kent, Surrey & Sussex Deanery after finishing graduation. He specialised in breast cancer and benign breast disease, complex reconstruction and cosmetic breast surgery. He has also taken part in fellowships in Helsinki and Paris and worked alongside experts in this field. His special area of interest is local perforator based flaps (LICAP, MICAP) which allows for filling of soft tissue defects and volume replacement of large tumours with patient's own body fat, thus avoiding Mastectomy and complex reconstruction. Other areas of interest include therapeutic reduction, mastopexy (breast lift) and lipofilling (fat transfer). He recently won Best Oncoplastic and Aesthetic Breast Surgeon in England after introducing an advanced technique of local perforator based flap surgery to Kent and London. This technique allows women to preserve their breasts by retaining normal breast tissue and recovering quickly with little hospital stay.

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Mr Radu Mihai is an expert consultant endocrine surgeon specialising in thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgery, hernia surgery and laparoscopic cholecystectomy practising in Oxford. Mr Mihai is the President Elect of the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons. Although adult operations represent the vast majority of his work, he regularly sees children who need thyroid or parathyroid operations and has an additional interest in familial endocrine diseases (MEN-1 and MEN-2 syndromes). After graduating from medical school in 1991, he spent three years training in clinical endocrinology before moving to the UK and obtaining a PhD in endocrine surgery from Bristol University in 1998. He completed all surgical training in the UK working as a lecturer of surgery at Bristol University and a fellow in endocrine surgery in Oxford. In 2007, he was then appointed as a consultant endocrine surgeon at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is the Director of Research for the European Society of Endocrine Surgeons and a co-author of the European guidelines for the treatment of adrenocortical cancer and the use of neuromonitoring in thyroid surgery. To date, he has performed over 350 laparoscopic and retroperitoneoscopic adrenal operations for benign adrenal tumours and metastatic disease. He has a strong commitment to postgraduate education and is regularly invited to teach students, postgraduate doctors and surgical trainees. For the last eight years, he has been an examiner for the European Fellowship in Endocrine Surgery. In 2005, he was nominated Hunterian Professor of Surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons.

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Mr Greg Wynn is a leading consultant general surgeon in Colchester who holds a specialist interest in abdominal, laparoscopic and colorectal surgery. Mr Wynn obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in anatomy from University College London Medical School in 1992. He went onto complete his basic surgical training at Cambridge, King’s Lynn and Norwich. He then returned to London where he was appointed to the South East Thames Higher Surgical Training Programme and started his registrar years at the Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells. Mr Wynn’s rotation took him through Eastbourne, Lewisham, Medway, Brighton and finally to St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Mr Wynn completed his training at Colchester and was awarded a national fellowship in laparoscopic surgery. He has undertaken fellowships in rectal cancer in Sao Paulo, in natural orifice surgery in Rio de Janeiro and in advanced minimal access surgery in Hong Kong. Mr Wynn is clinical director of the ICENI Centre for research, innovation and training in Colchedter and is involved in the training of all healthcare professionals, including undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors. In the UK, he is a national trainer for rectal cancer surgery. Mr Wynn's keen interest in training has led him to develop the world’s first virtual reality laparoscopic colorectal training curriculum.

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Mr Dominic Coull is a leading consultant laparoscopic general and colorectal surgeon, based in Reading.and is an examiner for The Royal College of Surgeons. His areas of expertise lie in minimally invasive hernia surgery, modern minimally invasive management of haemorrhoids, colonoscopy, laparoscopic colorectal surgery, colorectal cancer, investigation of  rectal bleeding and altered bowel habit (diarrhoea, constipation), Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's disease, Pilonidal sinus surgery, anal fistula and anal fissure treatment  and skin lesion removal. He qualified in 1995 from the University of London and obtained a subsequent Masters of Surgery degree in Inflammatory Bowel Disease . After further training, he obtained a prestigious laparoscopic surgical fellowship in colorectal and general surgery jointly at two World-renowned surgical units in Basingstoke and Frimley, before being appointed as a consultant at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. Mr Coull has acquired a vast amount of training and experience in his field and is considered an expert in laparoscopic surgery across Europe. Alongside his consultancy work, he is on the teaching faculty to train other European consultants at surgical training facilities in Paris, Hamburg and the UK. He currently practices privately at the Circle Reading Hospital and Spire Dunedin Hospital. He prides himself on delivering first-rate, reassuring and honest consultations with his patients to support and guide them through their surgical procedures. His average length of stay for patients following colorectal cancer surgery is three days contrasted with the national average of eight days. Additionally, his successful colonoscopy completion rate stands at 99% - well above the national requirement of 90%.

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Mr Balaji Nagammapudur is a consultant surgeon who sees patients at Nuffield Health—North Staffordshire and Spire Regency Hospital—Macclesfield. Mr Balaji is a part of Infinity Surgery a group of highly experienced bariatric and complex Upper GI surgeons. Mr Balaji focuses on upper GI (Food pipe and stomach) surgery and bariatric(weight loss) surgery, including the treatment of hiatal hernias. He also performs general and keyhole surgery including treatment of gall stones and hernias. He often carries out and is highly talented in performing these procedures. Mr Balaji also works for the NHS in the department of upper GI and bariatric surgery at the University Hospital North Midlands, Stoke on Trent. He also offers services in general, laparoscopic, upper GI and weight loss surgery at the Nuffield hospitals, Newcastle under Lyme, Clayton, Stoke on Trent. Mr Balaji completed a formal higher surgical training with a particular interest in oesophagogastric and bariatric surgery in the UK and a fellowship in Oesophageal surgery in the USA. He has been a consultant surgeon in India and the UK since 2009. Mr Balaji is the clinical lead for Upper GI surgery and he is a part of professional organisations in the UK and internationally in the field of oesophageal, laparoscopic and bariatric surgery.

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Mr Sean Ramcharan is an experienced consultant laparoscopic general and colorectal surgeon. He sees patients at Nuffield Health Warwickshire Hospital and has a specialist interest in advanced minimally invasive surgery. Mr Ramcharan has thorough expertise when it comes to performing surgery to treat the gallbladder, hernias, as well as other gastrointestinal, colorectal and perianal problems. Mr Ramcharan is an expert when it comes to managing bowel conditions such as diverticular disease, colitis, IBS, and bowel cancer. He frequently performs flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy and polypectomy. Mr Ramcharan also offers treatment of perianal problems, pilonidal sinuses, bumps and lumps of the skin, and subcutaneous tissue (except for the breast). He is an extremely skilled diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopist, having completed higher surgical training at the West Midlands Deanery as well as many leading UK hospitals. He gained thorough expertise in the treatment of the full spectrum of colorectal and general surgical disorders. Mr Ramcharan undertook further advanced laparoscopic training in complex rectal and minimally invasive transanal surgery in Holland. Having performed over a thousand laparoscopic operations and over 500 laparoscopic hernia repairs, Mr Ramcharan is one of few expert consultant colorectal and general surgeons with such a breadth of experience. He has an excellent track record of superb patient pain and comfort satisfaction scores. He is also an active researcher, contributing work to peer-reviewed medical journals and for the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick. 

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Mr Deepak Hariharan is a consultant general and hepato-pancreato-biliary surgeon in London who specialises in gallbladder surgery, liver surgery, pancreas surgery, laparoscopy, hernia surgery and pancreatitis. Mr Hariharan has dedicated himself to improving the quality of surgery and enhancing the patient experience. He has been instrumental in setting up the Hot Cholecystectomy Pathway, which promotes immediate or early gallbladder surgery for emergency cases with symptomatic gallstones. He has also assisted in building an enhanced recovery programme after HPB (hepato-pancreatico-biliary) cancer surgery to advance postoperative care. Aside from his consultancy work, Mr Hariharan has a clinical research interest in promoting early diagnosis and treatment in HPB cancers and has investigated possible diagnostic biomarkers in urine samples for pancreatic cancer. Pancreas Cancer Research Fund financed a £1.6M clinical study in 2019 that aims to verify the accuracy and reliability of a urine test in diagnosing early-stage pancreatic cancer. Furthermore, Mr Hariharan has published in multiple peer-reviewed papers and is also both a tutor and mentor to undergraduate and post-graduate trainees and nurses.

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Mr Sumohan Chatterjee is a top consultant breast oncologist based in Wilmslow and Cheadle. He specialises in oncoplastic/reconstructive breast surgery and breast augmentation. He also treats a wide range of problems affecting the breasts including breast lumps, cysts, pain and cancer. In 1992, Mr Chatterjee qualified from the University of Calcutta, India. He then travelled to the UK to complete his basic surgical training in the Yorkshire region. After completing his FRCS, he became a research fellow at the Academic Surgical Unit in Hull and published several papers on MRI breast and sentinel node biopsy. In addition, he completed higher surgical training in the North West deanery in where he worked on the breast ward at Nightingale Centre and Christie's Hospital, until 2004. He then became a national oncoplastic fellow at Sheffield Breast Unit. In addition to his consultant roles, he is an enthusiastic educator. He is currently an Honorary Senior Lecturer of the University of Manchester and Edge Hill University. He has both taught and produced courses on implant based breast reconstruction. He has also lectured in many locations around the world including Singapore and Bangladesh. In the past he has been a foundation tutor and is now the lead for postgraduate trainees and principle investigator in national cancer trials in his breast unit.

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Brendan Smith is a highly trained and dedicated consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon with over 15 year's of specialist experience. This wealth of experience has resulted in leading expertise across the field of oncoplastic breast surgery, such as breast reconstruction, breast cancer, breast reduction, breast augmentation, benign breast diseases and revisional breast surgery. He has a extremely strong background in teaching and training breast reconstruction techniques to those in training and consultant professionals also. He has been course director for the level 2 Oncoplastic Breast Reconstruction Surgery course at the Royal College of Surgeons and Association of Breast Surgery of the UK and ireland Since 2011. He is also joint programme director for the Oxford Oncoplastic Breast Surgery Course teaching on it since it's inception in 2013. He is also a faculty member for the Level 1 Oncoplastic Breast Reconstruction Surgery course formally at the Royal College of Surgeons and now the Association of Breast Surgery of the UK and Ireland. He qualified in 1991 from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School,  completed his college fellowship exams (FRCS Eng 1996) and achieved a research fellowship studying the ‘detection of micrometastases in breast cancer’  gaining a higher Masters of Surgery degree  (MS University of London) in 2003. As a dedicated career breast surgeon from this early stage he gained his senior surgical training through the University of Oxford Surgical rotation in 1996 completing his FRCS exit examination (Gen Surg) in 2004. During senior surgical training in 2003 he succeeded in gaining his first choice preference of one of the first National UK Oncoplastic fellowships at the Christie and South Manchester University Hospitals. Throughout his career, he has been dedicated to treating his patients using modern and innovative techniques in oncoplastic breast surgery to try and avoid mastectomy, where possible, including therapeutic mammoplasty, lipofilling (fat transfer), partial breast reconstruction using perforator flap techniques and neoadjuvant systemic treatment when necessary.  He has extensive experience in  breast reconstructive techniques using nipple sparing or skin sparing mastectomy  Pre Pectoral and partial sub pectoral ADM  breast reconstruction, Autologous and implant assisted LD flap reconstruction. He also works with an experienced plastic surgeon for patients having DIEP or free TRAM flap breast reconstruction He was appointed as the first Oncoplastic Breast surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in 2004. He set up the oncoplastic breast unit  and has continued to develop it introducing new technology and techniques over the last 15 years. He has trained many other practicing oncoplastic consultants over that time many of whom  now work in the Oxford surgical deanery Furthermore, he continues to contribute to his field in the form of research, currently focusing on extending the surgical research portfolio locally.

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Mr Antonio Manzelli is an extensively trained and highly skilled consultant general surgeon in Exeter with more than 15 years of professional expertise. His main surgical interests consist of upper GI (gastrointestinal) surgery and HPB (hepato-pancreatico-biliary) surgery. He has gained experience in all common open and advanced laparoscopic procedures as well as vascular surgical procedures.  He also performs upper GI (gastrointestinal) endoscopy and surgery for gallstones, bile ducts, hernias, liver conditions and splenic cysts, pancreatic pseudocysts, stomach GISTs (gastrointestinal stromal tumours), spleen issues and conditions of the small bowel. Mr Manzelli qualified with a PhD in Robotics at Tor Vergata University of Rome, a PhD in HPB at the University of Verona and an MSc in Day Surgery at the University of Venice. Later in his training, he specialized in the US with a fellowship in trauma at UPMC in Pittsburgh and a fellowship in abdominal organ transplantation at UIC in Chicago. He worked as a consultant surgeon at Tor Vergata University of Rome Hospital before moving to the UK for a Fellowship in HPB at UOH in Oxford. In 2011, Mr Manzelli was appointed as a consultant hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust in 2011. Private patients can access his first-rate surgical care in acclaimed clinics at the of Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital and the private patients' ward of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

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Professor Muntzer Mughal is an esteemed consultant general surgeon, based in London. Specialising in gastroesophageal cancer, gastroesophageal reflux, hiatal and abdominal wall hernias. He has particular expertise in managing complications of surgery of the stomach and the oesophagus including oesophageal reconstruction and ​trachea-oesophageal fistula. Currently practising from his private clinics on London's Harley Street and the London Digestive Centre on Welbeck Street, he also serves as a consultant honorary clinical professor in surgery at University College Hospitals London and Director of Surgical Oncology at Cleveland Clinic London. Professor Muntzer Mughal has 35 years of experience in his field, and has led on centralisation of surgery for cancer of the oesophagus and stomach in the North West as well as North and Central London.  

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Mr Bijendra Patel is a pioneering upper GI and laparoscopic surgeon based in London. Mr Patel provides expert care and attention to patients with both common and complex surgical problems including indigestion, abdominal pain, hernia, heartburn, gallstones and cancer of the oesophagus and stomach. He is the Clinical Lead for General & Emergency Surgery at Royal London Hospital and North East London Network Director for Upper GI Surgery. Mr Patel is a world leader in establishing higher education degrees for acquiring operative surgical skills by simulation. He founded the Masters course in Surgical Skills and Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London and has set up a "Virtual Reality Surgical Simulation Centre" for training surgeons. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Surgical Simulation. Originally graduating from the University of Bombay in 1989, Mr Patel moved to the UK in 1994 to pursue training in general surgery and higher specialist training in laparoscopic and gastrointestinal surgery. After being awarded the Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in 2004, Mr Patel was appointed consultant upper GI surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust, where he works to this day.

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Mr Haresh Devalia is a leading Breast Plastic, Oncoplastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Breast Surgeon who practices in London, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells. He takes pride in performing, as well as teaching, higher surgical training in saving breasts in order to avoid mastectomy, as well as in reconstruction. He specialises in breast augmentation, breast reduction, and breast lift among various other aspects of breast surgery. Mr Devalia is one of the first ten breast surgeons certified in cosmetic breast surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is Chair for Breast Cancer Kent (TSSG), responsible for providing guidelines and maintaining the high standard of care across the county. Along with his partner in practice Mr Mohsin Dani, he won the ´Best Oncoplastic and Aesthetic Breast Surgeons in England´ award for exemplary work, including the advanced technique of breast conservative surgery using a local perforator flap. Mr Devalia qualified from Bombay University in 1995, before completing his higher surgical training in the Oxford and London deanery, as well as at The Royal Marsden Hospital and St George's Hospital London. Mr Devalia was certified as ´Best Student at National Level´ in general surgery and was awarded a gold medal. He also serves as an educational supervisor for higher surgical trainees, training both cosmetic and constructive procedures. His work on the clinical management of breast cancer has been widely published in journals.

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