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Mr Adam Howard is a Laparoscopic and Vascular Consultant Surgeon and is Clinical Director for the Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals Regional Vascular Unit. He specialises in hernia, excessive sweating, varicose veins, aneurysms, carotid surgery and diabetic foot. Mr Howard's clinical interests include laparoscopic hernia repair and cholecystectomy, aortic aneurysm repair (laparoscopic, open and stentgrafting), arterial bypass surgery and renal dialysis access surgery. Mr Howard performed the world's first total laparoscopic repair of cyclists' pelvic arteries and leaking aneurysm stentgrafts (Type One Endoleak repair).

Mr Howard trained in London Hospital Medical College in 1994 and later graduated as Doctor of Medicine from Imperial College in 2005. His surgical training was mainly in major London centres under Professor Thompson (St Georges Vascular Unit), Professor Greenhalgh (Charing Cross Hospital) and Professor Lumley (Royal London Hospital).

Mr Howard has been a consultant surgeon in Colchester since 2007 and during this time has set up a nationally recognised laparoscopic aneurysm surgery programme, endovenous radiofrequency varicose veins service, fast track carotid surgery service, VTE (Venous Thromboembolism) prevention programme and a multidisciplinary diabetic foot vascular clinic. He is also a senior lecturer in minimally invasive surgery and robotics at Anglia Ruskin University.