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Mr Ahmed R. Ahmed is one of London's leading surgeons. Practising on Harley Street and other reputable clinics, he specialises in laparoscopic (keyhole) gastrointestinal and hernia surgery as well as having a specialist interest in weight loss. He has been committed to education and training, winning numerous prizes and awards throughout his career and now he serves as a senior lecturer at Imperial College London. He runs his own research team investigating mechanisms of weight loss surgery as well as researching newer technologies for helping people lose weight. He forms an integral part of numerous professional bodies including the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society and has been widely published in numerous field-related, peer-reviewed journals.   Mr Ahmed will provide you with a friendly and honest opinion regarding your suitability for surgery, putting your safety and well-being as the first priority. He pays particular attention to pre and postoperative care in order to optimize the outcome of your operation and provide you with a smooth recovery after surgery. Mr Ahmed has >99% success in achieving a complete laparoscopic result without converting to open surgery.

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Mr Sanjay Agrawal is one of London's leading consultants in the specialty of bariatric, laparoscopic and upper GI Surgery and is certified as a 'Master Surgeon in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery™ (MSMBS™)'. He has a broad range of surgical expertise and is one of the country's prominent experts in obesity and weight-loss surgery. Mr Agrawal has undergone extensive training in the UK, Belgium, Japan and India and has undertaken more than 2,000 general surgical procedures so far. In addition, he has an experience of over 1,000 laparoscopic bariatric procedures to date. Mr Sanjay Agrawal is a well-respected and very active member of the medical community, dividing his time between consultation and surgery, teaching, committee membership, publishing books and articles and even finding time for television appearances as an expert in his field. 

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Miss Christina Choy is an experienced oncoplastic breast surgeon based in London, with a specialist expertise in one stop rapid assessment for various breast symptoms and lumps, family history risk assessment and genetic testing, breast screening and counselling, state of the arts management for both benign breast disease and breast cancer. She works at HCA hospitals in London with a group of dedicated multidisciplinary team members to provide holistic personal care with updated and cutting-edge management approaches for breast management. She is a trustee for Breast Cancer Hope Charity which promotes breast cancer research for improvement of breast cancer awareness and disease treatment. Miss Christina Choy qualified from the Medical School of the University of Sydney in 1986 and undertook her postgraduate training in surgery and has worked in various major centres in Australia, Hong Kong and the UK, including The Royal Marsden Hospital and St Bartholomew’s Hospital. She worked as consultant breast surgeon in the NHS previously and was Lead for the Breast Service at the Homerton University Hospital. She has worked in the private sector since 2003. From January 2017 she has worked exclusively for HCA private hospitals including the London Breast Institute at the Princess Grace Hospital, the Harley Street Clinic, the Portland Hospital for women and the new HCA specialist unit at the Chiswick Outpatient and Diagnostic Centre. Miss Choy is actively involved in research and has worked in conjunction with the pathology department at St Bartholomew's Hospital on a study of the gene arrays and demographic data of young women, particularly Afro-Caribbean women and other ethnic groups, presenting with breast cancer. Other projects that she is involved in include research into barriers to women accessing early diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer in various ethnic groups (in conjunction with King's College Hospital, recently presented in Parliament for Black Afro-Caribbean and Ethnic Minority Group, BAEM), the development of a 23 hours model for early discharge after breast cancer surgery and an audit to determine if sentinel node of highest isotope count can be the predictor of nodal status in breast cancer.

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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. Currently practising from his private clinic on London's Harley Street, he also serves as a consultant surgeon and head of upper GI services along with being an honorary clinical professor in surgery at University College Hospitals London. Professor Muntzer Mughal has amassed a great deal of experience in his field, including setting up a specialist unit in oesophagogastric surgery, which was chosen to be the centre of the Lancashire and South Cumbria cancer network. Professor Mughal has a great deal of interest in teaching and has worked in many national organisations to improve the quality of surgery across the UK. His programme was selected as the Best Surgical Training Programme by a national training survey in 2010. 

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Mr Ali Alhamdani is one of London's leading bariatric surgeons. He has performed over 2,500 procedures and provides the full range of obesity surgery procedures including gastric bypass, gastric band, gastric sleeve and revisional bariatric surgery. Mr Alhamdani has had extensive training in laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery in the UK, Europe and America. A surgeon at the forefront of his field, he was one of the pioneers in using the stretta procedure - a minimally invasive endoscopic procedure used to treat GORD (gastro-oesophageal reflux disease).  Mr Alhamdani has a reputation for performing extremely safe surgery with a very low complication rate and a zero mortality rate. He always prioritises the well-being of his patients, and makes sure they understand all of the options available and are actively involved in making decisions about their treatment.  He has published several articles about bariatric surgery in reputable scientific magazines.

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Professor Hemant Kocher is an internationally renowned professor of liver and pancreas surgery at the University of London. He is a leading consultant general, laparoscopic and HPB surgeon based in London. His special interests include diseases of the gallbladder and bile duct, the liver, and the pancreas. He counts innovative surgical techniques and patient care pathways among his research interests. Professor Kocher qualified from the University of Mumbai with various distinctions before travelling to London and completing his MD at King's College London.  A supremely knowledgeable and dedicated professional, Professor Kocher runs a multi-disciplinary pancreas and liver research program at the Barts Cancer Institute. He is at the cutting-edge of his field and keen to offer up-to-date, evidence-based techniques and treatments for his patients. Professor Kocher has been a prolific research contributor to his discipline and has published widely. Highly respected by his peers, he has made numerous appearances in the press, worked with medical charities, and has been interviewed by the BBC. He has also gained both national and international recognition, receiving numerous prestigious awards in his field, chairing national and international committees and conferences.

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Mr Andrew Clarke is a leading consultant general, colorectal and laparoscopic surgeon based in Poole and Bournemouth in Dorset. After gaining his qualification from the University of Manchester in 1988, Mr Clarke went on to gain further training in numerous teaching hospitals in the north-west. In 2002 Mr Clarke became a Consultant Surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and by 2004, he moved to Dorset where he set up a dedicated pelvic floor surgery service in Poole.  Mr Clarke's surgical skills cover general and colorectal surgery and he has a special interest in using endoscopy and laparoscopy to treat hernias, haemorrhoids and to repair pelvic floor disorders. Mr Clarke's contribution to treating pelvic floor conditions, such as prolapse, constipation and bowel incontinence, has seen him become founder of the Southern Pelvic Floor society and member of the National Pelvic Floor Society in the UK.

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Timothy Rees Worthington is a top general surgeon based in Guildford. He specialises in removing gallstones and hernias and treating the liver and pancreas. He is an expert in laparoscopic surgery, holding the position of Laparoscopic Tutor at the Minimal Access Therapy and Training Unit at the University of Surrey. After graduating from the University of Birmingham, Mr Worthington was awarded the Royal College of Surgeons Simpson Research Fellowship and studied the biology of pancreatic cancer. He earned his MD in 2001, after which he underwent higher surgical training in London and undertook further specialist training at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He became a consultant surgeon at University College Hospital, London in 2004, before later moving to the Royal Surrey County Hospital. Mr Worthington leads the Hepatopancreaticobiliary Unit at the Royal Surrey County Hospital and University of Surrey in the development of minimally-invasive surgery for pancreatic and liver disease and is an acknowledged expert in the field. 

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Mr Cheuk Bong Tang is a leading Essex-based consultant general surgeon specialising in upper GI surgery. Among his areas of expertise are hernia (abdominal wall  and hiatal) repair and gallbladder issues, performing gastrectomies and oesophagectomies. He is also well-versed in using modern techniques such as robotic surgery and laparoscopy to carry out surgical procedures. He lead the development of endoscopic surgery for lesions of the stomach and gullet, and introduced RFA ablation (HALO) for Barrett's oesophagus at Broomfield. A graduate of UCL (University College London), Mr Tang went on to train at post-graduate posts in London, the North-West and Singapore, before pursuing higher surgical electives in Hong Kong and Japan. He was previously the Clinical Lead for upper GI cancer at Broomfield Hospital,  and is now the Clinical Lead for upper GI surgery.

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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.

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Mr Zaed Hamady is a leading consultant general surgeon who is based in Southampton, Winchester and Portsmouth, and specialises in gallstones, hernia, liver and pancreatic surgery. Mr Hamady qualified with an MBChB from the University of Baghdad and moved to the UK to complete his basic surgical training. He started his clinical research training in Leeds and was awarded a Royal College of Surgeons Research Fellowship in 2005 and a Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellowship in 2006 to carry out research into the genetic engineering of a human gut bacterium. Mr Hamady received surgical training in liver and pancreatic surgery in Leeds and obtained a firm grounding in HPB benign and cancer surgical practice, as well as liver transplant surgery. Mr Hamady is currently examiner in the Royal College of Surgeon of England and Edinburgh, he is the secretary of the British Association of Surgical oncology and continues his research on pancreatic and liver cancer in University of Southampton 

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Mr James Kirkby-Bott is a consultant general surgeon based in Southampton. He specialises in endocrine surgery and is an expert in the management of endocrine diseases, hernias and gallbladder problems. He also set up one of the UK's leading acute surgery and trauma units in Southampton. Mr James Kirkby-Bott can be seen privately at Nuffield Wessex Hospital and Spire Southampton University Hospital on various days. Mr Kirkby-Bott qualified at St George's Medical School and went on to train as an endocrine surgeon at the Hammersmith Hospital in London and was the International Endocrine Fellow in Lille, France where he spent 12 months carrying out research and operating alongside leading specialists. When awarded his Fellowship of the European Board of Surgery in Endocrine surgery he was one of just four surgeons in the UK to be awarded this. Mr Kirkby-Bott founded the Wessex Endocrine Society, a charity providing patient centred training and education in surgical endocrinology across Wessex. Mr Kirkby-Bott is a Q member and specialist in Quality Improvement (QI) having been involved in numerous QI projects and regional lead for the Emergency Laparotomy Collaborative (2015-2017) and The Wessex Emergency Surgery Network (2017-present). He is currently Consulting for the Academic Health Science Networks emergency laparotomy project. In 2018 he was appointed to a senior role in University Hospital Southampton as co-director for clinical outcomes. Other awards to his name include the Norman Tanner Prize medal, given by the Royal Society of Medicine in 2008 and Braun Aesclepius prize in endocrine surgery awarded in 2011. Mr Kirkby-Bott is equally committed to his research and has several scientific papers on the role of vitamin D in parathyroid surgery, as well as several book chapters and the first textbook dedicated to Parathyroid disease, to his name.

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Mr Irfan Halim is a highly esteemed and sought after Consultant General and Laparoscopic Surgeon in London. From his private clinics; BMI The London Independent Hospital, The Blackheath Hospital and BMI Hendon Hospitals as well as Highgate Hospital and Harley Street clinics, he offers the full range of General Surgical expertise including upper GI surgery, colorectal surgery, bariatric surgery, laparoscopic surgery, endoscopies and treats hernias. He has a specialist interest in Virtual Reality surgery, medical education and ultra-minimally invasive surgery. He holds one of the highest volume practices in the UK, seeing approximately 300 new patients on a monthly basis and personally performs over 1200 procedures annually. His outcomes, both short-term and long-term are excellent with supporting data acquired through regular audit work and his overall daycase procedure rate is over 99%. His outcomes also favour him as the surgeon of choice for most hospital staff members requiring general surgical advice or treatment for themselves or their family and friends. Mr Halim qualified in 2000 from Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals Medical School with prizes and distinctions and trained in general surgery with sub specialisation in laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery on the North Thames Higher Surgical Rotation. He completed his specialist training in GI surgery at UCL Hospitals, with additional specialist training in cancer surgery at the Royal Marsden Hospital and bariatric surgery at the Homerton Hospital. He won numerous awards, and in 2014 became fellow to the Royal College of Surgeons England. He is also qualified in Law and holds a masters in Surgical Technology from Imperial College London as well as an MBA (masters in business administration) from the US.  Having previously worked as an NHS Consultant Surgeon at West Hertfordshire NHS Hospitals Trust and the North East London NHS Treatment Centre since 2016, Mr Halim has recently moved into full-time private practice. He has a very large practice in day case procedures including gallbladder, hernia surgeries, cosmetic skin procedures and colorectal surgery with an impressive turnaround from consultation to completed treatment. Mr Irfan also offers courses to GP's on topics such as hernia surgery, rectal bleeding and haemorrhoids. He has published numerous textbooks and several textbook chapters about bariatric and general surgery as well as having taught on numerous courses over his career to date. He is also an article reviewer for BMJ Case Reports, The International Journal of Surgery and The Journal of Vascular Surgery and Research. Mr Halim is a member of a number of a number of organisations such as the British Medical Association, Association of Upper GI Surgeons-UK and British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society-UK, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) as well as the World Endoscopy Organisation (WEO). He is a highly sought after speaker at major international conferences.

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Mr Atif Alvi is a highly-trained laparoscopic colorectal surgeon with his NHS practice based at Watford General Hospital. He holds a special interest in keyhole surgery for bowel cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, hernia and gallbladder surgery for stones. He also treats proctological disorders like haemorrhoids, anal fistulas and anal fissures. He has completed a Training the Trainers course fron St Marks Hospital in colonoscopy and has been certified as a JAG - Accredited trainer and endoscopist (colonoscopy, gastroscopy, sigmoidoscopy). Mr Alvi trained in the East Anglian region (Cambridge) and finished his higher surgical training (CCT) in September 2010, working in various specialties of surgery and certified specialist training in colorectal surgery. He has also formally completed Fellowship in Laparoscopic Colorectal surgery.  Mr Alvi has performed more than 400 open and 600 laparoscopic colorectal operations with good surgical and oncological outcomes comparable to national standards.

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Mr Bart Decadt is an experienced consultant general surgeon based in Manchester, Cheshire, Warrington and Blackpool. He is an expert in laparoscopic bariatric and upper GI surgery (including surgery for hernias, gallbladder problems and acid reflux). Mr Decadt originally qualified in Belgium. He performed his surgical training at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and in Manchester (UK). He gained an MD at the University of East Anglia on Evidence Based Laparoscopic Surgery where he was involved in the first gastric band procedures performed in the UK in 1997. Mr Decadt won the 1st European prize in Linz (Austria) in 1999 (EAES congress) with his randomised study comparing the best surgical versus the best medical treatment for patients with severe acid reflux disease. This world-unique study involving over 300 patients proved for the first time the superiority of laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery above medication in terms of quality of life and longterm outcome. Mr Decadt was appointed consultant surgeon at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust in 2005 where he was Lead Consultant for Upper GI Surgery. He also obtained an honorary consultant position in Manchester Royal Infirmary where he pioneered laparoscopically assisted surgery for stomach and oesophageal cancer. He was part of the surgical team granted one of the first NHS bariatric contracts in the UK in 2007 involving over a 1000 patients. Mr Decadt performs all routine bariatric (weight reducing) and diabetic (treating type 2 diabetes) surgical procedures including gastric sleeve, bypass, band, balloon and revisional procedures. He is committed to providing his patients with the highest standard of care, making sure that the best service is given through each step of their weight-loss journey.

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Mr Jalal Sameen Kokan is an esteemed Consultant Oncoplastic breast surgeon working privately at BMI The Alexandra Hospital, Spire Regency Hospital, The Wilmslow Hospital and The Christie Clinic. Mr Kokan runs a one stop breast clinic (clinical examination, Mammogram and Ultrasound and biopsy on the same day) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The clinic endeavours for patients to be seen as soon as possible, either on the same or next day, with support from an expert team of breast care specialists and professionals, including brease care nurses, radiologists and oncologists. Mr Kokan specialises in benign and malignant breast problems, carrying out lumpectomies, mastectomies, sentinel node biopsies and breast reconstructions. He also performs cosmetic breast surgery, including breast reduction, augmentation and breast lift. Alongside his private practice, Mr Kokan is a consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon for the East Cheshire NHS Trust and is the principal investigator for international breast cancer clinical trials at Macclesfield General Hospital. He is also the lead breast reconstructive surgeon at MDGH. Mr Kokan has treated over 1000 breast cancer patients, performed more than 200 breast reconstructions and reductions and more than 100 augmentations in both his NHS and private practice. He sees around 150 new symptomatic and screen-detected breast cancers a year. Mr Kokan is a senior clinical advisor in breast surgery to the Parliamentary and health service Ombudsman. He is a member of the Association of Breast Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow. He is also an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow. Mr Kokan also offers free consultations for cosmetic breast patients.   

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Mr Petr Hanek is a leading consultant surgeon with a special interest in colorectal surgery and laparascopic (keyhole) procedures. Mr Hanek has over 25 years of experience and training in a wide range of procedures including treatment of bowel/rectal cancer, diagnostic laparoscopy, lap. cholecystectomy, lap. appendectomy, inguinal hernia repair, abdominal wall hernias, anal fissure and anal fistula management, and treatment of pelvic pain syndrome and benign colorectal diseases. Having graduated from Charles University, Prague in 1990, Mr Hanek moved to the UK 15 years ago  with 12 years of experience behind him in University Hospital in Prague where he had been in a position of leading bowel cancer surgeon. He was later appointed Consultant General & Colorectal Surgeon at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He now practises privately at BMI Chelsfield Park Hospital and Spire Alexandra Hospital, and can conduct appointments in English, Slovakian, Czech or Russian.

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Mr Himaz Marzook is an esteemed consultant general surgeon who is highly experienced in gallstone disease, gall bladder removal, hiatus hernia surgery, groin and incisional hernias, and the treatment of indigestion, heartburn and upper abdominal pain. Mr Marzook works privately at Spire Little Aston Hospital, Nuffield Derby, BMI The Priory, Queen's Burton Clinic and Sutton Medical Consulting Centre. He has repaired numerous complex and recurrent hernias in the groin, including incisional hernia, and is an expert in hernia surgery, lumps and bumps and has performed a number of emergency surgeries for appendicitis.  Mr Marzook graduated from medical school in Sri Lanka in 1995 before moving to the UK. He gained his extensive experience in the surgery of the liver and gallbladder from his training at a specialised tertiary hospital in Liverpool. He trained in upper gastrointestinal surgery in West Yorkshire and Hull. After his training, he was appointed to the post of consultant laparoscopic general and upper gastrointestinal surgeon at the University Hospital of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.  At present, along with his private practice and NHS post, he is an honorary senior lecturer at Leicester University School of Medicine where he trains undergraduate medical students and is the foundation programme director for junior doctors. Mr Marzook strives for the highest level of patient care, providing the very best standard of surgical treatment and patient satisfaction for all his patients. He also provides courses for GPs on gallstone disease and hernia surgery. He's a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Hernia Society UK, the College of Surgeons Sri Lanka and the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons. 

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Mr Andrew Hollowood is a consultant upper GI and laparoscopic surgeon in Bristol, specialising in minimally invasive and endoscopic treatments of oesophageal and gastric disease since 2006. Among his treatments offered are hernia surgery of any type, including hiatal hernia, diaphragmatic and incisional hernias and all groin hernias, gallbladder surgery and surgical techniques for the treatment of reflux and achalasia. His private practice can be found at Spire Bristol Hospital. He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1993 before continuing his studies in Birmingham and becoming a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He also completed a clinical placement at the National Cancer Centre in Tokyo, Japan.  Mr Hollowood is also the strategy lead for Bristol University Hospitals, having previously held the post of clinical chair for surgery in the head and neck division. He also dedicates his time to research and has contributed to numerous research papers, some of which can be found on PubMed. He is a member of the Association of Upper GI Surgeons, the Association of Laparoscopic Surgery and the International Gastric Cancer Association.

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