Launch
Website- Bupa Platinum consultant
- Fee assured
- Awaiting verification
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- General
- Neonatal
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Professor De Coppi is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the Head of the Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine at the UCL Institute of Child Health both located in London, England. Concomitantly, from 2009 he has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina and from 2005 he has been an Honorary Assistant Professor in pediatric surgery, University of Padua, Italy.
He has a special interest in congenital malformations and their treatment using minimally invasive techniques. He has focused his research interests on stem cells and tissue engineering by trying to find new modalities for the treatment of complex congenital anomalies. While working with Anthony Atala, M.D., at the Boston Children’s Hospital (Massachusetts), he identified the possibility of using stem cells from amniotic fluid for therapeutic applications. This finding generated an international patent and garnered the cover story of Nature Biotechnology January 2007. This finding has opened the door to discovery for novel approaches to correct congenital malformations. More recently, his team has demonstrated that these cells are able to differentiate into various tissues and to replace functional activity in animal model of diseases. He is now focused on developing reliable methods for stem cell isolation, expansion and differentiation at a clinical level (GMP-grade). Finally, in 2010 he was part of the team that performed the first successful transplantation of a tissue-engineered trachea on a child at the Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Areas of interest
• Neonatal and paediatric surgery • Keyhole surgery • Hernia • Fundoplication • Appendicectomy • Undescended testes • Oesophageal atresia • Diaphragmatic hernia • Tissue engineering and major reconstructions • Anorectal molformation
Medical secretaries
- Manisha Patel
- 020 7762 6943
- manisha.patel@gosh.nhs.uk
Anaesthetists worked with
- Dr David Glyn Williams
Not Fee Assured
- Dr Davina Wong
Fee Assured
- Dr Daniel Taylor
Fee Assured
- Dr Alastair M Skelly
Fee Assured
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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T2012
Laparoscopic repair of inguinal hernia - bilateral - (1-5)
Great Ormond Street Hospital (1-5) The Portland Hospital for Women and Children (1-5)
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G2331
Laparoscopic repair of hiatus hernia with anti-reflux procedure (e.g. fundoplication) - (1-5)
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G5010
Open excision of congenital lesion of duodenum (including malrotation) - (1-5)
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T2400
Repair of umbilical/paraumbilical hernia (irrespective of age) - (1-5)
Great Ormond Street Hospital (1-5) The Portland Hospital for Women and Children (1-5)
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H0280
Laparoscopic appendicectomy - (1-5)
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