Consultants by speciality
colorectal surgery
Our Consultants specialising in Colorectal Surgery are listed below.
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- Clinic:
- Monday evening
- Clinic: Alternate Friday afternoons & Tuesday afternoons.
Clinics: Alternate Monday Mornings
PROFILE
- Michael Jarrett MA DM BM FRCS
- Consultant General & Colorectal Surgeon
- Speciality: General Laparoscopic and Colorectal Surgery
- My clinical interests are as follows:
- Upper and lower GI endoscopy (OGD / colonoscopy). I am a member of the National Joint Advisory Group on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (JAG)
- Open surgery: Colonic resections, proctology including haemorrhoidectomy (Milligan Morgan, stapled and HALO), fistula and fissure surgery, hernia repairs and general surgical procedures (including excision of skin and subcutaneous lesions, node biopsies, Zadek's procedure for ingrowing toenails etc.)
- Laparoscopic surgery: Cholecystectomy, hernia repairs, colonic resections, appendicectomy, ventral mesh rectopexy for internal and external rectal prolapsed.
- Faecal incontinence: I have a special interest in this area and am a national leader in the use of Sacral Nerve Stimulation for faecal incontinence resistant to conservative measures.
Main NHS Hospital: Kingston Hospital
- Clinic:
- Thursday am
Professor Devinder Kumar PhD FRCS
Appointments
- Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon , St George’s Hospital
- Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery, St George’s University of London
- Honorary Consultant Surgeon, The Royal Marsden Hospital
Memberships
- Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons
Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
American Association of Gastroenterology
Clinical Interests
Treatment of Crohns disease, ulcerative colitis, colorectal cancer, advanced and recurrent bowl cancer, IBS and faecal incontinence. Endoscopic procedures; colonoscopy, gastroscopy and day case surgery.
Professor Kumar qualified from the University of Delhi in 1975, and completed his surgical training at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children, The Royal London Hospital, The North Hampshire Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. He then completed his training obtaining a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in the USA. In 1989 he was appointed as consultant senior lecturer in surgery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. In 1994 he took up a position at St George’s Hospital, London as Consultant Surgeon and was appointed Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery in 2004.
As well as his work with Crohns disease, colitis and bowel cancer, Professor Kumar has developed a special interest in the management of pelvic floor disorders.
He has published more than one hundred original papers and reviews in national and international journals, written more than fifty book chapters and has authored/edited six books.
Professor Kumar gives regular guest and keynote lectures at National and international meetings. With his team of colleagues and patients he has set up a charity, www.boweldisease.org.uk (opens in new window) to raise funds to do research into bowel diseases.
- Private Secretary: Susan Topham 07901001753
- Clinic:
- Friday evening
- Appointments: 020 8336 0053
- Clinic: Alternate Monday evenings