Our Consultants

Clinic: Monday evening

Clinic: By arrangement

Alberic Fiennes trained at St Bart’s Hospital London and qualified in 1976. After broad training in all aspects of Surgery, he became Senior Lecturer in Surgery then Consultant Surgeon at St George’s Hospital and Medical School from 1990 to 2007, where he founded the current bariatric service. He was Director of Bariatric Surgery at University College London Hospital from 2007-2009. He is currently Secretary and President Elect of the British Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS).

An early convert to laparoscopic surgery, he undertook keyhole gallbladder surgery from 1991 and contributed internationally to the development of keyhole ”TEPP” hernia repair from 1992. He was the first UK surgeon to offer these operations as day surgery.

He has been active in Bariatric Surgery, both keyhole and open since 1995 when he took on the aftercare of patients who had undergone weight-loss surgery in the 1970s and 80s, working over the years with leading colleagues in this field. The team he now leads has fourteen years’ experience, during which time he has undertaken nearly a thousand procedures and has trained many fellow bariatric surgeons.

The same experience has taught him not only to be a committed patient advocate, but to empathise with the needs, fears and hopes of patients seeking bariatric surgery.

He is now privileged to lead a team of professionals with long NHS and independent sector experience who share one passion: to support patients in their recovery from the 21st century disease of severe overweight.

“Patients suffering from severe overweight have a disease that may spoil every aspect of their lives. From us they need not only safe and correct professional care but understanding, kindness and support – to be helped, not judged. They should expect access to a multi-professional and holistic framework, committed with them to their long-term care and well-being. I am extremely fortunate to be able to place such a team at patients’ disposal.

Clinics: Alternate Monday mornings, Saturday mornings monthly.
020 8946 0597

The Surrey Weight Loss Surgery Centre

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

• Private secretary: Serena Gunn
• Telephone: 020 8543 9924 Fax: 020 8540 4507 
• Clinic: Alternate Monday am

Clinic: By arrangement

Clinic: By arrangement

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 to raise funds to do research into bowel diseases.

Private Secretary:
Susan Topham 07901001753

Clinic: Thursday am

Clinic: Friday evening

Appointments: telephone 020 8336 0053

Clinic: Alternate Tuesday evenings

Website: http://vascularconsultant.co.uk/

Clinic: By arrangement

Appointments: 01342 715506

Clinic: By arrangement

Clinic: By arrangement

Clinic: Wednesday evenings

Clinic: By arrangement

Marcus Reddy is Consultant Surgeon at St George's Hospital. He is the lead Upper GI Surgeon at St George's and developed the South Thames Bariatric Service which is preferred provider for NHS bariatric surgery in the region.

Mr Reddy trained in London and Australia where he trained in upper GI surgery, liver transplant, hepatobiliary surgery and laparoscopic surgery. His NHS and private practice spans a range of laparoscopic and open general surgery. He has a particular interest in laparoscopic gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy, Roux en Y gastric bypass, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, laparoscopic and open hernia repairs. He performs anti-reflux surgery such as laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication and surgery for achalasia for local and regional patients.

Mr Reddy has published on management of biliary injuries following cholecystectomy, unusual hernias such as interparietal hernias and also follow-up of hernia repairs performed with pre-peritoneal techniques.
He performs cholecystectomy and hernia repairs as day-case when appropriate and uses non-diathermy techniques such as Ultracision Harmonic Scalpel to avoid electrical conduction complications in laparoscopic surgery.

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The Surrey Weight Loss Surgery Centre

Clinic: Alternate wednesday evenings

Clinic: Alternate Tuesday evenings

Clinic: Tuesday evening and Friday am

Clinic: by arrangement