Professor Sina Dorudi

Professor Sina Dorudi is a Professor of Surgical Oncology previously appointed as a consultant colorectal surgeon to St Bartholomew's and The Royal London Hospital in 1996 where he was Professor of Surgical Oncology and Lead Colorectal Cancer Surgeon before leaving in 2010. He is currently Medical Director at The Princess Grace Hospital where he has continued his busy practice as a colorectal surgeon.

Professor Dorudi qualified in London in 1983, training extensively in general and colorectal surgery in Kent, London and Oxford. He continued to complete a senior speciality fellowship in colorectal surgery in Sydney, developing his skills in pelvic and rectal cancer surgery and undertook a period of research at the CRUK Colorectal Cancer Unit at St Mark's Hospital, London and was awarded his PhD in 1994.

Professor Dorudi's research focuses on improving the prognostic stratification of colorectal cancer patients following surgery and the immunology of differing colorectal cancer phenotypes. He is a well-established postgraduate trainer in pelvic surgery and is jointly responsible for delineating the new undergraduate surgical curriculum for 2008.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• All aspects of colorectal surgery (open and laparoscopic)
• Laparoscopic procedures ('keyhole surgery')
• General surgery (particularly abdominal wall and groin hernia)
• Gastroscopy OGD
• Colonoscopy
• Flexible sigmoidoscopy
• Fistulas/pilonidal sinus (including laser treatment)
• Haemorrhoids ('piles')
• Fistulas/pilonidal sinus (including laser treatment)
• Bowel cancer
• Rectal bleeding
• Colorectal disease
• Crohns
• Ulcerative colitis
• Colon cancer
• Anal fistula
• Rectal cancer
• Hernias
• Inguinal hernia

Qualifications

MB BS St Mary’s Hospital Medical School 1983

FRCS Royal College of Surgeons of England 1987

PhD University of London 1995

FRCS (Gen) Award of Completion Certificate in Specialist Training 1997