- Fee assured
- Awaiting verification
- Not in Open Referral network
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
- Georgie Jeffery
- London Surgical Partnership 116 Harley Street London W1G 7JL
- 020 3475 9540
- Professorfaiz@medicalsecretarial.co.uk
Anaesthetists worked with
- Dr Matthew Andrew Clayton
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- Dr Ashish L Shetty
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- Dr Elizabeth Whitehead
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- Dr Nibedita Ghosh
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Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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20365
Follow-up out-patient consultation - remote - (1-5)
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H2510
Rigid sigmoidoscopy (including proctoscopy and biopsy) - (1-5)
London Clinic (1-5)
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H6260
Proctoscopy (+/- biopsy) - (1-5)
London Clinic (1-5)
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H4430
Examination of rectum under anaesthetic (as sole procedure) - (1-5)
London Clinic (1-5)
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H2502
Diagnostic flexible sigmoidoscopy (including forceps biopsy and proctoscopy) - (1-5)
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