Dr Carel Le Roux Consultant in metabolic medicine
- Patient age group
- Adults
- Consultant registered on
- 04/02/1998
- Primary medical qualifications
- MBChB FRCP FRCPath PhD
- Foreign languages
- Gender
- Male
- Services
- Hospitals
Background
Dr Carel Le Roux is a metabolic medicine physician with an interest in obesity. He is a reader in metabolic medicine at Imperial College, London. He specialises in managing patients prior to and after bariatric surgery. He also specialises in pharmacotherapy to reduce their complication risks and optimise the health benefits of weight loss. His research interest is in the mechanisms of how bariatric surgery works.
Expertise
Chemical pathology, Bariatric medicine, Lipidology