Professor D Kumar: Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon, St George’s Hospital. Inflammatory bowel disease and gastro-intestinal motility disorders. Faecal incontinence and colorectal cancer.

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.

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