Our Obesity Surgeons

Mr Shamsi El-Hasani

Registered Member of:

• General Medical Council (GMC 4256685)
• European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons
• ARABMED (Arab Medical Union)

 

 Career Synopsis:

• Qualified in Medicine, Baghdad 1979
• Won the Badge of Honour of the Ministry of Health, Baghdad 1991
• Trained as a Consultant Surgeon in 1999
• Has worked for both NHS and private practice for almost 10 years
• Regularly lectures at the University of Leeds and University of Sheffield
• Began working for The Hospital Group, 2008

 

Prof Michael McMahon

Registered Member of:

• General Medical Council (GMC No. 2207414)
• Association of Endoscopic Surgeons (UK and Ireland)
• Past President of the Pancreatic Society (UK)
• Founder member of the society of Mimimally Invasive General Surgeons 

 

Career Synopsis:

• Qualified in Medicine, Sheffield 1967
• Lectured at the University of Leeds, 1974
• Currently holds the position of Consultant General and Laparoscopic Surgeon, Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director of the Leeds University Department of Surgery
• Prof McMahon was in fact the FIRST surgeon in the UK to perform the laparoscopic (minimally invasive) gastric bypass surgery
• Began working for The Hospital Group in 2004

 

Mr Martin Richardson

 

Registered Member of:

• General Medical Council (3340419)
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
• International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO)

 

Career Synopsis: 

•  Qualified in Medicine, Edinburgh, 1989
• Specialist training in 3 centres in Glasgow, focusing on ganding, gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric balloon placements.
• Attended courses in both Europe and the USA from 2001 - 2007, furthering his experience and knowledge in bariatric surgery
• Consultant Surgeon (UGI, bariatric and laparoscopic) for the NHS, 2003
• Began working for The Hospital Group, 2008

 

Mr Abeeza Sarela

Registered Member of:

• General Medical Council (GMC 4677974)

 

Career Synopsis:

• Qualified in Medicine, Bombay 1991
• Intercollegiate Speciality Board, 2001
• Worked as a Consultant Surgeon, NHS Leeds
• Began working for The Hospital Group in 2008

 

Mr Audun Sigurdsson

Registered Member of:

• General Medical Council (3642317)
• British Obesity Surgery Society
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
• Association of Endoscopic Surgeons (UK and Ireland)

 

Career Synopsis:

• Qualified in Medicine, Iceland 1983
• Became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1991
• Appointed Consultant Surgeon, in Upper Gastrointestinal and Advanced Laparoscopic surgery, West Midlands, 1999
• Operative Instructor in Laparoscopic Surgery for hospitals in the West Midlands
• Underwent training in advanced laparoscopic surgery, Cleveland Clinic Ohio, USA
• Began working for The Hospital Group in 2006

 

Mr Paul Super

 

Registered Member of:

 

• General Medical Council (3182365)
• British Medical Association
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Association of Surgeons
• Association of Upper GI Surgeons
• British Surgical Obesity Society

 

Career Synopsis:

• Qualified in Medicine, London 1987.

• Consultant in Upper GI surgery Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham in 1999

• Trained in Bariatric surgery in 2001 by visiting units in Belgium (Prof Pattyn, Gent), Austria (K Miller), and endoscopic training laboratories in Hamburg and Strasbourg where live operating on animal models allowed for development of bariatric surgical skills in both band insertion and laparoscopic gastric bypass.

• Shortly afterwards he developed the provision of Bariatric Surgery at Heartlands Hospital which now offers Laparoscopic gastric banding and gastric bypass procedures to NHS patients from all over the Midlands and UK. 

• Began working for The Hospital Group in 2007