Professor Omar Faiz : General surgery

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Overview

Specialises in

Lower GI surgery

Offers

Face-to-face consultations
Video and telephone consultations

About me

Omar Faiz is the Clinical Director and a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at St Mark's Hospital and Professor of Practice in Colorectal Surgery at Imperial College.

His areas of clinical interest within colorectal surgery are the surgical management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), hereditary cancer syndromes, colorectal cancer and proctology.

He trained in General and colorectal Surgery within London and the South East of England and undertook specialist colorectal fellowships at St Mark’s Hospital and Valencia University Hospital prior to taking up a consultant post at Imperial College in 2008 (St Mary’s Campus) and then taking up a consultant position at St Mark’s hospital in 2012.

Professor Faiz has wide research interests and he has supervised 20 PhD and MD research fellows at Imperial College. His principal research interests include colorectal surgical epidemiology, health services research and surgical outcome research. He has authored 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has also authored 11 book chapters and three text books.

Professor Faiz holds, or has held, various leadership positions at a national level. He is the ex-Chairman of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) IBD subcommittee and Chair of the national Ileal Pouch Registry.He has contributed twice towards guideline development for the 'IBD Standards' and also NICE in 2015. Prof. Faiz has Chaired an international gastrointestinal surgery initiative of Global Comparators - a benchmarking and quality improvement group comprising sixty highly recognised worldwide academic hospitals (2014-2018).

He currently represents the ACPGBI on the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Standards board and is the Lead for IBD Surgery for the ACPGBI. He is currently on the Board of Surgical-European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (S-ECCO) and is an Associate Editor for the journal Colorectal Disease.

In 2018 the Daily Mail published a Good Doctors Guide for IBD, compiled through clinical peer consensus, where Professor Faiz was listed and described as 'a very good, high volume surgeon at a major centre, supported by an excellent team.'

Areas of interest

Laparoscopic (Keyhole) and Robotic Colon and Rectal cancer surgery (lower GI); Colonic and Rectal disease management including inflammatory surgery (IBD) and Colorectal Cancer surgery; Hereditary Bowel Cancer/ Polyposis surgery, intestinal failure surgery, Abdominal Wall Repair, Proctology (Haemorrhoids and fistula surgery); Fissure, flexible sigmoidoscopy

Medical secretaries

Anaesthetists worked with

Professor Omar Faiz has worked with Dr Emad S Aziz at the following hospitals:
- London Clinic (1-5)
Professor Omar Faiz has worked with Dr Matthew Andrew Clayton at the following hospitals:
- London Clinic (1-5)

Professor Omar Faiz has worked with Dr Ashish L Shetty at the following hospitals:
- London Clinic (1-5)
Professor Omar Faiz has worked with Dr Nibedita Ghosh at the following hospitals:
- London Clinic (1-5)

About me

Current NHS consultant posts held

St Mark's Hospital & Academic Institute
North West London Hospitals Trust
Harrow.

Research interests

Mr Faiz is an academic surgeon with extensive research experience.
- Over 160 accepted peer-reviewed publications
- 15 book chapters
- Authored 3 text books.

(Additional) Languages spoken

Publications

Mr Faiz has generated research that have been reported widely throughout the print and television media.
Media reports on his research have appeared in the Independent, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Sky News, BBC News & CNN.

Courses offered to GPs

1. Improving outcome in surgery
2. The surgical management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
3. The future of colorectal cancer surgery

My outcomes

My qualifications & training

Qualifications

MBBS University of London 1994
FRCS(Eng) Royal College of Surgeons 1999
MS University of London 2007
FRCS (Gen Surg) Royal College of Surgeons 2008
BSc(Hons) University of London 1991

GMC registration

Reference number 4277233

Professional bodies (positions held - last 3 yrs)

Chairman of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Subcommittee f Association of Coloproctology for Great Britain and Ireland 2014
Chairman of the National Ileal Pouch Registry Association of Coloproctology for Great Britain and Ireland 2014
Surgical Representative Inflammatory Bowel Disease Standards Group 2014
Surgical Representative National IBD Audit Royal College of Physicians 2014
Member for the Scientific Advisory Committee National Cancer Intelligence Network (Public Health England) 2014

Details of entry to specialist register

General Surgery , 2008

Affiliations / memberships

Royal College of Surgeons
Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
Royal Society of Medicine
St Mark's Association
European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO)

My private practice

Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)

Procedures completed

H2510
Rigid sigmoidoscopy (including proctoscopy and biopsy) - (1-5)

London Clinic (1-5)
H5240
Banding of haemorrhoids - (1-5)

London Clinic (1-5)
20365
Follow-up out-patient consultation - remote - (1-5)
H6840
Flexible pouchoscopy +/- biopsy and/or removal of polyp(s) - (1-5)

London Clinic (1-5)
M2530
Ureterolysis - unilateral - (1-5)

London Clinic (1-5)
H2502
Diagnostic flexible sigmoidoscopy (including forceps biopsy and proctoscopy) - (1-5)

London Clinic (1-5)
H4430
Examination of rectum under anaesthetic (as sole procedure) - (1-5)

London Clinic (1-5)
H0750
Laparoscopic right hemicolectomy +/- stoma - (1-5)

London Clinic (1-5)
H5561
Endoscopic ablation for an anal fistula with flap - (1-5)

London Clinic (1-5)
H4480
Dilation of stricture of rectum - (1-5)

London Clinic (1-5)
H6260
Proctoscopy (+/- biopsy) - (1-5)
J0900
Diagnostic laparoscopy (including any biopsy) - (1-5)

London Clinic (1-5)

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