I am an experienced general/gastrointestinal surgeon. I have completed 40 years on the emergency rota and can provide opinions in any area relating to emergency general surgery. I am a specialist upper GI surgeon and my particular interest is surgery of the stomach, oesophagus and gall bladder, including malignant disease. I am an experienced endoscopist including a very large practice in therapeutic upper GI endoscopy (stenting, dilatation, ablation, endoscopic mucosal resection). I have provided over 300...

General and upper GI surgery, HPB (liver and pancreas) surgery, gallbladder/bile duct surgery, soft tissue (sarcoma) cancers, liver and pancreatic disease, skin sarcoma and melanoma, oncological and cancer surgery, minimal access surgery (robotic/laparoscopic surgery) and liver transplant and multi-organ retrieval surgery.

Extensive experience of indications for & management of acute & chronic liver diseases in hospital practice • Management of disorders of the bile ducts & pancreas & their appropriate investigation • Experience of the problems associated with endoscopy & endoscopic therapeutic techniques, including ERCP • Experienced in the assessment, investigation & management of patients requiring adult liver transplantation • Extensive list of published peer review articles, review articles, book chapters & proceedings

Subspecialist interests: • Surgical management of pancreatic, liver, gallbladder & biliary tree disease • Emergency general surgery • Daycase surgery • Procedures: • Laparoscopic & open liver, pancreatic & biliary surgery (benign & malignant disease) • Laparoscopic & open cholecystectomy, bile duct exploration, management of bile duct injuries, splenectomy, hernia surgery, minor operations, e.g. skin lesions • Trained in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)