Professor Sanjay Purkayastha

Background

Professor Sanjay Purkayastha is a consultant general surgeon with a specialist interest in bariatric and upper GI surgery. He is also a senior lecturer at Imperial College London. His research interests are varied and include surgical education especially digital mobile technologies, clinical research in bariatric and metabolic surgery, assessing the health of healthcare organisations, single port laparoscopic surgery and surgical evidence synthesis. He has a busy general surgery practice both for elective (planned) surgery and emergencies which includes working as a trauma surgeon in one of London’s busiest major trauma centres at St Mary’s Hospital.

Professor Purkayastha was one of the first surgeons in the UK to carry out robotic bariatric surgery. He is one of four surgeons at the Imperial Weight Centre, which is a Tier 3 and Tier 4 service for weight loss management and surgery for obesity. He routinely carries out gastric bands, sleeve gastrectomies and gastric bypasses, all via laparoscopic surgery (keyhole surgery).

Professor Purkayastha provides all his bariatric data to the National Bariatric Surgery Registry (NBSR) as he believes that transparency of results and outcome/volume-based surgery ensures the safest and best results for patients. His general surgery practice includes laparoscopic surgery for hernias of all kinds, gall bladder surgery and anti-reflux surgery (surgery for treatment of severe heartburn) as well as emergency surgery work outside trauma that includes management of conditions such as appendicitis, gallstones, pancreatitis, bowel obstruction, hernia emergencies and the management of many other conditions that present with abdominal pain. His NHS practice is at St Mary’s Hospital, Praed Street, London.

Expertise

Bariatric surgery, general surgery, upper GI surgery, surgery for diabetes, provision of emergency and trauma surgery

Research & publications

Bariatric surgery, surgical management of type 2 diabetes, surgery to optimise type 1 diabetes, surgical education, digital healthcare, healthcare economics, surgical evidence synthesis, clinical trials.