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Appointed Consultant Colorectal & General Surgeon at the James Paget University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in January 2006. Colorectal cancer lead from 2006- 2018. Lead for surgery department since 2016..

Worked at various UK hospitals from 1994 to 2005. Last appointment before joining JPUH was as Associate Specialist at West Suffolk Hospital Bury St. Edmunds.

Qualified from Indira Gandhi Medical College Shimla India in 1985 and then underwent higher surgical training from 1987 to 1993 at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh,

In 1994 completed FRCS in General Surgery. Over 30 years of extensive surgical experience.

Examiner for Intercollegiate Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons, PLAB examiner for the General MedicalCouncil. Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of East Anglia, Norwich. Actively involved in teaching and training of junior and higher surgical trainees and medical students.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• General surgery; Lumps and bumps
• Colorectal surgery; Hemorrhoids, fistula, pilonidal sinus disease, Diverticular disease, bowel cancers, inflammatory bowel disease, etc.
• Laparoscopic surgery; bowel, hernias, gall bladder, etc.
• Lower Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; Colonoscopy and Flexible sigmoidoscopy
• General Paediatric surgery