Colorectal surgery

Prior to his appointment at St Mark’s Hospital he was a consultant surgeon in Sydney Australia where he did most of his training. He has a speciality interest in inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal failure, pelvic floor surgery and surgery for early cancer. He has extensive experience in minimally invasive surgery and has been innovative in developing minimally invasive surgical techniques. Janindra has clinical, educational and research experience. He was awarded a PhD in molecular genetics …

Mr Kapil Sahnan is a Consultant Surgeon at St Mark’s Hospital, London and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Surgery & Cancer, at Imperial College London. He specialises in inflammatory bowel disease, complex proctology and robotic surgery. He has trained as a surgeon in Oxford, Bristol, London and completed an ESCP/Intuitive accredited fellowship in robotic surgery at the Val D’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona. He completed his PhD at Imperial College London in …

Mr Peter McDonald is a Consultant Gastrointestinal Surgeon whose clinical research includes cancer, Crohn’s Disease and proctological conditions. He was Honorary Editor of the Royal Society of Medicine, President of the Section of Surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine and President of the St Mark’s Association.

Mr Phil Tozer was trained as a general and colorectal surgeon in London with a focus of both his clinical and academic training under Professor Robin Phillips at St Mark’s Hospital. His thesis in idiopathic and Crohn’s anal and rectovaginal fistula was the beginning of a passionate interest in advanced proctology and IBD. His clinical and academic work continue to focus on these areas of the Fistula Research at St Mark’s.

On returning to this country in 1992 she first worked as a Colorectal Surgical Fellow in a District General Hospital and then took up a research post at St Mark’s Hospital in Harrow to obtain an MD through the University of London. At the beginning of 1998 she became a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital and University College Hospitals in Central London and Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London.

Ms Elaine Burns is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at St Marks Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. Her area of clinical interest is colorectal surgery and in particular the surgical management of primary and recurrent colorectal cancer. Elaine Burns trained in Coloproctology/Surgical Oncology in the North West London region, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and St Mark’s Hospital. She studied at the University of Edinburgh and spent three years in …

Professor Omar Faiz is a Consultant Colorectal, General Surgeon at St Marks Hospital and Professor of Practice (Colorectal Surgery) at Imperial College. His area of clinical interest is colorectal surgery and in particular the surgical management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and colorectal cancer. Professor Faiz is Clinical Director of St Mark’s. He has wide research interests and he supervises a number of PhD and MD research fellows at Imperial College.

Sue Clark trained in medicine at Cambridge University and St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London. She spent two years in full time research at St Mark’s Hospital with an Imperial Cancer Research Fund Fellowship. She was based in the Polyposis Registry and worked on various clinical aspects of desmoid disease in familial adenomatous polyposis as well as studying the genetic changes within these rare tumours. The resulting MD thesis won the Raymond Horton-Smith Prize for the best thesis of …