Profile:

Majid Hashemi is a gastrointestinal surgeon, specialising in gastric and oesophageal cancer, laparoscopic surgery, and obesity surgery and reflux disease.

He established and led one of the first specialist multidisciplinary obesity surgery clinics in the UK, the North London Obesity Surgery Service - NLOSS. This innovative comprehensive multidisciplinary service helped raise the general profile of obesity surgery in London, and formed a template for the modern pathway driven care for patients with obesity.

He has performed over 460 obesity surgery procedures and over 1,000 laparoscopic procedures as a consultant and is active in training and development in laparoscopic surgical techniques, education and research. He has delivered over 20 lectures on obesity surgery to diverse groups including GPs, upper GI specialists, allied health professionals and healthcare managers.

Since 2001 he was Undergraduate Tutor and Lead for Academic Surgery at the Archway Campus, University College London.

 

He has initiated and led advanced laparoscopic training workshops in the Middle East which included live demonstrations, lectures and seminars on laparoscopic techniques and reflux related pathology. He currently supervises a number of active research projects in this field with established collaborations with basic scientists and funded researchers. The early results of this research have been presented at international meetings and have resulted in a number of publications and citations. He is frequently invited to comment in the media on issues relating to obesity surgery and reflux disease.

He qualified from Manchester in 1988, obtained the FRCS in 1993 and completed his specialist surgical training in London and Cambridge (Addenbrooke’s) and at other hospitals in Anglia. From 1997 – 1998 he spent 15 months working as an oesophageal fellow to Professor Tom Demeester at USC, Los Angeles. He was appointed as a consultant and Senior Lecturer in 2001.

In August 2007 he left the Whittington Hospital where he had been the sole bariatric surgical consultant for almost 6 years and took up a new appointment at University College London Hospital in order to help in the further development of obesity, oesophageal and gastric surgery as the Lead for oesophageal and gastric surgery.

Links:

www.thewellingtonhospital.com

www.essentiallymedical.co.uk

www.harleystreeton15.com