Our multidisciplinary approach
Our multidisciplinary team meets regularly to discuss the best approach to complex cases, including patients with cancer or chronic conditions. These meetings are attended by a broad range of medical experts, including specialised surgeons, hepatologists, radiologists, oncologists, histopathologists, gastroenterologists and other healthcare professionals.
Our hospital is unique within the private sector for the clinical diversity and quantity of specialists it employs, which allows our hepatology patients to benefit from the finest, most informed treatment plans.
Clinical interests: Hepatobiliary disease, interventional endoscopy
Languages spoken: English
Clinical interests: Endoscopy, dyspepsia, inflammatory bowel disease, liver disease, bowel cancer screening
Languages spoken: English/Hindi/Punjabi/Urdu
Clinical interests: Endoscopy, bowel disturbance, liver disease, and pancreas and biliary disease.
Languages spoken: Arabic/English
Professor Adam Frampton
/ Consultant General and Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgeon
General surgery, General, Hepatobiliary, Upper GI surgery
Clinical interests: Removal of skin ‘lumps and bumps’ (e.g. lipoma, sebaceous cysts, skin tags, abscess drainage); Gallstone disease (Open/laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) with on-table cholangiography, Open/laparoscopic common bile duct (CBD) exploration and clearance, Completion cholecystectomy (previously abandoned elsewhere), Repair of bile duct injuries/biliary reconstruction); Groin and abdominal wall hernia repair (e.g. inguinal, femoral, umbilical, incisional, recurrent); Management of acute and chronic pancreatitis (multidisciplinary and multimodal approach); Pancreatic pathology (benign/malignant) e.g. Pancreatic cancer, Pancreatic cystic lesions (Open/laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy, Pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple's procedure/PPPD), Total pancreatectomy and splenectomy, Central pancreatectomy); Biliary and liver pathology (benign/malignant) (e.g. gallbladder polyps, hepatocellular carcinoma, colorectal liver metastases, biliary-tract cancers (gallbladder, ampullary, cholangiocarcinoma), liver cysts, liver adenoma, focal nodular hyperplasia), Open/laparoscopic liver resection (hepatectomy); Splenectomy for haematological malignancies; Excisional biopsy, including groin and axillary lymph nodes; Diagnostic laparoscopy to investigate abdominal symptoms; Duodenal pathology (e.g. gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST), duodenal adenoma/cancer); Management of neuroendocrine tumors (NET) such as small bowel/carcinoid and pancreatic, as well as metastatic disease to the liver; Robotic surgery; Multimodal treatment to increase the resectability of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer and colorectal liver metastases; Assessment of acute abdominal problems and emergency surgery (e.g. laparoscopic appendicectomy for appendicitis, abscess drainage, treatment of bowel obstruction/bowel perforation); Surgical oncology
Languages spoken: English
Professor Nigel Heaton
/ Consultant Hepatobiliary Surgeon
Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, Liver transplantation
Clinical interests: Living donor transplantation, complex hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, liver transplantation.
Languages spoken: English
Clinical interests: General hepatology, liver transplantation
Languages spoken: English/French
Clinical interests: Liver surgery, including living donor transplantation, and complex hepatobiliary surgery.
Languages spoken: Arabic/English/Italian
Clinical interests: Leading the minimum invasive liver and pancreatic surgery in the UK and internationally, and open surgery for advanced pancreatic and liver cancers, having performed the largest number of laparoscopic and Robotic pancreatic and liver operation in the UK, including the 1st Robotic Whipple’s operation in the UK and Malaysia, and 1st synchronous liver resection. Described a number of new techniques for pancreatic and liver operations such as non-touch technique for pancreatic cancer surgery (JAMA Surg 14), pancreatic anastomosis following resection -LVPJ (Arch Surg 11) and LPG (HBNS 16), and rapid induction of liver regeneration prior to major liver resection -RALPPS (Ann Surg 15; Cancers 19).
Languages spoken: Chinese/English
Dr David Sherman
/ Consultant Physician, Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist
Gastroenterology, Endoscopy, Hepatobiliary, Inflammatory bowel disease
Clinical interests: All aspects of liver and biliary/pancreatic disease. Endoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease, dyspepsia, Helicobacter, irritable bowel syndrome.
Languages spoken: English
Clinical interests: Upper and lower gastrointestinal cancer, gastro-oesophageal reflux, Barrett's Oesophagus, bowel screening, IBS, Crohn’s and colitis, pancreas and hepatobiliary disorders. Procedures including endoscopy, colonoscopy, ERCP, EUS, EMR/ESD, capsule endoscopy, oesophageal manometry and pH studies.
Languages spoken: English/Punjabi/Urdu
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