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Mr Arnold Christiaan Goede is an expert colorectal and general surgeon based in Buckinghamshire whose expertise includes laparoscopic colorectal and general surgery, colonoscopy and gastroscopy, laparoscopic and open hernia surgery, gallbladder surgery and assessment and management of patients with pelvic floor dysfunction and prolapse. Mr Goede works at the BMI Chiltern Hospital where he practices as a specialist colorectal surgeon and attends patients with general abdominal, colorectal and pelvic floor problems. He was previously the director of the department of general surgery and is director of medical education for the St George's School of Medicine, Grenada. In addition, he is also the educational supervisor to higher surgical trainees attending from Oxford, and is the regional representative at the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGB) for the Oxford Chapter. In 1996, Mr Goede graduated from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. After moving to the UK, he worked as a basic surgical trainee for four years and then went on to graduate with an MS from the University of London. In 2004, he attained a Higher Surgical Training number on the Oxford Training Scheme where he completed his specialist training in 2010. During this time he gained clinical exposure to complex colorectal surgery and laparoscopic surgery and generated a specialist interest in these areas and pelvic floor surgery as well. He finished his training with an Advanced Laparoscopic Colorectal and Pelvic Floor Surgery Fellowship. Mr Goede is within the top 5 surgeons in the UK by volume for bowel cancer resections with excellent outcomes. Additionally, he is the Enhanced Recovery Programme Lead, the Nutrition Lead for Surgery, Combined abdominal wall reconstructive surgeon with plastic surgeons, and the lead general surgeon for the National Spìnal Injuries Unit, giving Mr Goede a wide and varied, yet highly specialist general and colorectal surgery practice.

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Mr Charles Evans is the Head of Gastrointestinal Surgery at the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire. He is a leading consultant general surgeon and one of a small number of UK surgeons specially trained in robotic surgical techniques. He specialises in robotic rectal cancer surgery and is an international trainer in robotic colorectal surgery training across Europe and the UK.  Working across Leamington Spa and Coventry, Mr Evans has a wide practice covering hernia surgery, diagnostic and interventional endoscopy, bowel resection for cancerous and non-cancerous conditions, anal fissure and fistula, haemorrhoids, and appendix removal. Following paediatric surgical training through experience working in the Oxford Paediatric Surgical Department and at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Mr Evans also performs general paediatric surgery including procedures such as hernia and hydrocele repairs, and circumcisions. Mr Evans completed basic surgical training in London and was awarded an MD from the University of London following research into colorectal cancer and minimally invasive surgery. He undertook higher surgical training at the Oxford Deanery following which he was selected for the National Ethicon Fellowship in Advanced Colorectal Surgery. He completed his training with a further fellowship in complex colorectal surgery at St Mark's Hospital, London. He has an interest in perianal conditions including haemorrhoids, fistula, and fissures. He performs laparoscopic and open hernia repairs and holds specialist accreditation for therapeutic colonoscopies. Mr Evans continues to have an active role in surgical research, presenting at national and international conferences. He is a regular reviewer for journals including the British Journal of Surgery and Colorectal Disease, and at UHCW he is heavily involved in research focusing on early cancer detection and advances in robotic surgical techniques.

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Mr Andreas Prachalias is a leading consultant surgeon at the London Liver Centre with special interests in liver, biliary, and pancreatic surgery, as well as liver transplants. Mr Prachalias trained as a general surgeon in Greece before becoming a fellow of the Liver Unit at Kings College Hospital, London.  At the forefront of his field, he has contributed to numerous scientific papers and is focussed on providing the best care to his patients using the latest minimally invasive techniques. In 1999 he was appointed as a senior lecturer at Athens Medical school and he has also been and an invited guest speaker on advances in hepatopancreatobiliary surgery by the Royal Society of Medicine. 

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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 has an international experience practicing in the UK and currently practising privately in King's College Hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Mr Alvi trained in the East Anglian region (Cambridge), and in London, 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 450 open and 600 laparoscopic colorectal operations with good surgical and oncological outcomes comparable to national standards, with approximately 97% of his bowel cancer cases being performed laparoscopically.  Furthermore, Mr Alvi is an experienced endoscopist, having performed over 5000 colonoscopies with a completion rate of 97%. 

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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 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 Antony Pittathankal is a consultant breast oncoplastic, endocrine, and general surgeon in the Essex and London areas. His specialisations in both breast cancer surgery and breast plastic surgery make him a standout surgeon in his field. This allows him to integrate oncologically safe surgery with cosmetically pleasing results for his patients. Currently, he is practising in multiple hospitals where he works with all breast and endocrine related issues and procedures. During his training, Mr Pittathankal worked with some of the finest surgeons in their fields. To this day, he is still connected with these surgeons to work with and provide the best options for all his patients. Each procedure that Mr Pittathankal does is taken care of with careful cosmetic principles, no matter how large or small the case may be. His patients can be rest assured that all advice he provides is with their health and aesthetic appearance in mind. Mr Pittathankal has created a devoted, multidisciplinary team to assist him with his cases. This team includes breast cancer specialist nurses, radiologists, pathologists, oncologists, anaesthetists, and administrative assistants. With his team by his side, patients receive incredibly attentive care.  Outside of his surgical work, Mr Pittathankal also trains junior surgeons in his specialities. These junior surgeons are trained in breast surgery, breast plastic and reconstructive surgery, and keyhole surgery. 

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Miss P.G. Roy is a highly-trained consultant breast and oncoplastic surgeon whose areas of expertise include breast cancer, family history of breast cancer, breast reduction, breast augmentation, breast implant surgery and breast reduction. She is the senior Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals and offers private consultations at Nuffield Health The Manor Hospital and GenesisCare in Oxford. She was listed amongst the top breast surgeons in UK by 'Daily Mail' in 2018, chosen by her peers.  She graduated from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India and obtained her MD degree in research from Dundee University which focused on molecular markers in breast cancer. She did her higher surgical training in Oxford followed by a national oncoplastic breast fellowship in Nottingham, UK. Miss Roy established a high-quality oncoplastic unit in Oxford for the treatment of breast cancer, which is actively engaged in clinical trials and research. She provides specialist surgical techniques to breast cancer patients such as partial and total breast reconstruction to improve oncological and aesthetic results. Additionally, she can offer implant reconstruction using ADM, total breast reconstruction with latissimus dorsi flap and nipple-areola reconstruction and symmetrization procedures for women who develop asymmetry following their cancer treatment. Miss Roy is a founder trustee of Oxford Breast Buddy Group, a breast cancer support group that aims to support women with a new diagnosis of breast cancer. She works alongside a psychologist to encourage counselling and support to her patients as and when needed along the treatment pathway. She is an examiner for FRCS Surgery examination with Intercollegiate Specialty Board and Regional Surgical QA advisor for National Breast Screening Programme in UK. She is also the principal investigator for national and international trials in breast surgery in Oxford and a Surgery Specialty lead for NIHR Thames Valley and South Midlands CRN network to encourage participation and facilitate engagement in surgical trials. 

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Professor Andrew Baildam is a leading oncoplastic breast surgeon based in Greater Manchester and London, who specialises in all areas of breast health including breast surgery, breast reconstruction and breast cancer, particularly in women who have a family history of the disease. Professor Baildam trained in surgical oncology and then additionally plastic and reconstructive breast surgery, and was appointed as a consultant surgeon and an honorary senior lecturer in surgical oncology at The Christie Hospital, Manchester. He was then appointed to St Bartholomew’s Hospital as the Professor of Breast and Oncoplastic Surgery, Queen Mary University of London. After 36 years in the NHS he now works in the independent sector. As he holds a keen interest in patients with genetic breast cancer and oncoplastic breast surgery, Professor Baildam has over 180 peer-reviewed publications, abstracts and chapters, and has innovated a number of approaches to breast cancer surgery. Professor Baildam is past President of The Associate of Cancer Surgery and the Chair of Royal College of Surgeons of England Cancer Surgery Committee. He pioneered the cross-specialty breast surgery oncoplastic training fellowships in the UK.  

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Mr Talvinder Gill is a highly experienced colorectal surgeon who has a specialist interest in laparoscopic colorectal surgery. He is skilled in single incision laparoscopic surgery and scarless surgery. Mr Gill is also a lecturer and offers courses to GPs on advanced laparoscopic surgery, bowel cancer, and colorectal disease. He is the only surgeon in the North East who performs single incision laparoscopic colorectal surgery regularly. He studied at the Institute of Medical Sciences at Banaras Hindu University where he graduated with an MBBS, he later went on to gain a Masters of Surgery at the Institute of Medical Sciences and a fellowship at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. Mr Gill also completed a laparoscopic colorectal fellowship in Colchester. He gained a chair at the North England Cancer Network in 2012, he was a multidisciplinary clinical committee member at The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, and became the cancer services committee member at the Royal College of Surgeons in 2013. Mr Gill has also had work published in a range of well-known journals, on topics including, single port laparoscopic colorectal surgery, the role of ADRC in anal fistulae, and transanal endoscopic surgery for early rectal cancer.

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Mr Jason Smith is a leading consultant surgeon based in London with a special interest in general, colorectal and laparoscopic procedures. He offers expertise in hernia, gallstone and anal fistula treatments, alongside endoscopy procedures and bowel and haemorrhoid surgery. He privately practices at BMI The Clementine Churchill Hospital and BMI Syon Clinic. Mr Smith also leads the NHS laparoscopic colorectal surgical unit at West Middlesex University Hospital in West London. Mr Smith is highly qualified, graduating from The Royal Free Hospital and University of London. He completed his surgical training on the North West Thames, Reading and St Mark's Hospital (Harrow) rotations. As well as leading the laparoscopic colorectal surgical unit at West Middlesex University Hospital, his previous extensive experience led him to developing the comprehensive service.  Mr Smith is an experienced clinical educator. He has been involved in teaching nurses, students and junior doctors for many years as well as regularly teaching on national courses. Recently his focus has been management and leadership. Mr Smith's research is widely published in peer-reviewed journals and he is an active member of  various medical organisations including Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland (ASGBI), The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) and the National Bowel Cancer Audit Programme (NBOCAP).

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Mr Parv Sains is a leading general surgeon based in Sussex and London. He has a specialist interest in coloproctology, laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery and hernia surgery. He is an expert in treating hernias and haemorrhoids and other perianal conditions such as fissures and fistulas. He also performs bowel surgery and gallbladder surgery for gallstones. Mr Sains qualified from the University of Birmingham Medical School before undergoing surgical training in London in the South-West Thames training region. He undertook a two-year fellowship at St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College London. During this time, he was also an honorary research fellow and earned a Doctorate in Medicine (MD). During this time, he developed an interest in utilising new surgical technologies and techniques in his practice in order to deliver the best care to his patients. Now practising privately at BMI Goring Hall Hospital and the Spire Montefiore and Spire St Anthony's Hospitals, Mr Sains is a dedicated surgeon who is known for his expertise and excellence in patient care. Mr Sains has a keen interest in patient safety, medical law and clinical governance. His current roles apart from being a consultant surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton are the governance lead for the department of surgery and is one of the Medical Examiners for the Trust. Also his interest in teaching and training of new surgeons and medical students holds the title of honorary clinical senior lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. 

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Dr Omar Abu-Bakr is a leading consultant venous surgeon and phlebologist in London, Guildford and Bristol who holds a special interest in treating varicose veins. His areas of expertise include varicose veins surgery, thrombophlebitis, leg ulcers, perforating veins and thread veins. He is a specialist in general ultrasonography. His slogan 'the art of treating varicose veins' is with good reason as his patients have a 3% recurrent rate following his treatment of varicose veins. With over 13 years’ worth of experience, Dr Abu-Bakr is the first ever surgeon to describe the Multi-Pass technique, which treats huge varicose veins using the Endovenous Radial Laser 1470 nm and without the need for open surgery. The technique was described in the second international meeting of the College of Phlebology in London in March 2018. Proudly, Dr Abu-Bakr won second prize for the best scientific paper. Dr Abu-Bakr is also the first surgeon in the UK and second worldwide who treats varicose veins with the new high-intensity focused ultrasound known as SONOVEIN S, which is the only method in the world that does not require anaesthesia. He is the second surgeon in the UK to treat varicose veins using the Endovenous Microwave Ablation (EMWA). In 2020, Dr Abu-Bakr and his team at The Whiteley Clinic were awarded the Best Varicose Veins Treatment (UK) by Global Health & Pharma magazine.

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Mr Michael Stechman is an experienced endocrine and general surgeon based in Cardiff. He currently sees patients at Spire Hospital Cardiff and performs keyhole surgery for groin and abdominal hernia and gallstones, as well as thyroid and parathyroid surgery. His specialist interest is endocrine surgery (surgery of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands), which includes thyroid surgery for thyroid cancer and benign thyroid lumps, overactive thyroid disease, and parathyroid removal for high blood calcium. Please check with your GP in case they advise you to see an endocrinologist rather than an endocrine and thyroid surgeon. He is also an experienced general surgeon including day case keyhole gallbladder and hernia surgery. Mr Stechman undertook his higher surgical training in Oxford where he completed an MD with the Molecular Endocrinology group and a national Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) Fellowship in endocrine surgery. He has previously been the Quality and Safety Lead for General surgery on the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. In addition to his clinical work, he is also Director of Year five for the Medicine MBBCh course at Cardiff University Medical School, which allows him to train and assess medical students as they prepare to become junior doctors. He is the current honorary secretary of the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons (BAETS), the national society that represents thyroid surgeons in the UK. He has co-authored more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to several chapters in surgical textbooks. Mr Stechman has also co-hosted a webinar series on endocrine surgery topics in collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons and BAETS.

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Professor Brian Davidson is a world-leading consultant in hepato-pancreatico-biliary (HPB) and liver transplant surgery in Central London. He is based at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, where he has worked for over 30 years, and is on the liver unit team at The Wellington Hospital in St John's Wood, Westminster. He specialises in liver resection, biliary tract and pancreatic surgery, particularly the Whipple procedure. This procedure is a complex operation used to treat tumours and other disorders of the pancreas, intestine and bile duct. He also has particular interest in the use of laparoscopic surgery to treat gallbladder, spleen and bile duct problems such as cholecystectomy, portal hypertension and splenectomy. He is regularly sought after to provide a second opinion.    Professor Davidson is also Professor of Surgery and Head of Surgical Research at University College London (UCL). Following his promotion to personnel chair in surgery at UCL at the age of 39, he was the youngest professor of surgery in the UK at the time. During this time at UCL, right up to the present day, he has established a research programme investigating HPB disease with a large number of UK collaborators. Subsequently, he has produced a highly-successful team that has published over 420 peer-reviewed papers.  Alongside his significant clinical academic work, Professor Davidson is also the course director for the UCL MSc in evidence-based healthcare and has extensively lectured about clinical trials and evidence-based healthcare. He has also been widely published in these two areas of interest. He has authored over 22 textbook chapters and supervised 34 successful PhD and MD degrees and trained a large amount of HPB and liver transplant surgeons.    Professor Davidson is also an advisor to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Healthcare Commission and the National Cancer Peer Review programme and chairs the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) London grant-funding panel for Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB). He is currently a UK Editor for the UK Cochrane Group and director of the London editorial base for its HPB group. 

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Mr Ioannis Christakis is a vastly experienced consultant endocrine surgeon in Nottingham. He specialises in surgical treatments for parathyroid surgery, thyroid gland surgery and adrenal gland surgery. He has over 10 years of experience and trained in the MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, Texas which is one of the top Cancer Centres in the USA. During this time he has also completed fellowships at some of the UK's best known NHS foundation trusts, such as King's College Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals and University College Hospitals NHS Trust.  Mr Christakis has a doctorate degree (PhD) in Endocrinology and Investigative Medicine from Imperial College London and is an honorary clinical assistant professor at University of Nottingham, School of Medicine. Mr Christakis has a special interest in research in the field of endocrinology having completed two master’s degrees, a doctorate degree from Imperial College London, and the above-mentioned post-doctorate fellowship. He has published numerous studies in peer-reviewed Journals and contributed chapters in books.

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Mr Hazem Khout is a leading consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon based in Nottingham. His areas of expertise include breast cancer, cosmetic breast surgery, benign breast problems, immediate and delayed breast reconstruction, therapeutic mammoplasty, chest wall flaps and lipofilling. Mr Khout graduated in 1998 and later completed his training in general surgery. He subsequently became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2010, and two years later, he joined the Edinburgh Breast Unit for one year to obtain his breast oncoplastic fellowship. Since 2013, Mr Khout has been practising as a consultant breast oncoplastic surgeon. He was appointed at the Nottingham Breast Institute in 2015 and also by the Public Health of England as a professional clinical advisor for the breast screening programme in the East Midlands. Aside from his consultancy work, Mr Khout has a passion for educating undergraduate and postgraduate trainees, and by 2010, he was a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. Additionally, he holds research interests in the areas of new technologies for oncoplastic breast surgery, breast care genetics and breast cancer survivorship. Mr Khout is the co-founder of the Nottingham Breast care clinic (NBC) at Nottingham Spire Hospital. He also leads on several projects at NHS and private sector including the unique Oncoplastic Forum (OPF) at the Nottingham Breast Institute. The project aims to deliver a patient-centred care by offering each patient with the utmost personalised care surgical plan.  Mr Khout works within a team of oncoplastic and plastic surgeons, advanced breast practitioners and specialist breast nurses in his private practice based at Spire Nottingham. 

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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 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, 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), International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO) and Medical Protection Society (MPS). 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 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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