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.