Mr Ajit Abraham, General, Laparoscopic, Robotic & Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) Surgeon
Mr Ajit Abraham
General, Laparoscopic, Robotic & Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) Surgeon
Mr Ajit Abraham MBBS, MS, MA (Medical Ethics & Law), FRCS (England), FRCS (General Surgery)
General, Laparoscopic, Robotic & Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) Surgeon
Mr Ajit Abraham
General, Laparoscopic, Robotic & Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) Surgeon MBBS, MS, MA (Medical Ethics & Law), FRCS (England), FRCS (General Surgery)
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About Mr Ajit Abraham
GMC number: 4491323
Year qualified: 1989
Place of primary qualification: Poona
Mr Ajit Abraham MBBS, MS, MA (Medical Ethics & Law), FRCS, FRCS (General Surgery) was born in Kumasi, Ghana, schooled in Manchester, and trained as a general surgeon in Pune, India. He returned to the UK in 1993 and trained in hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery and liver transplantation in London, mainly at the Royal Free and the Royal London Hospitals.
He has been Consultant General, Trauma & HPB Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS since 2005. He is also an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University London.
He is an active clinical surgeon whose specialist HPB interests include surgical management of benign and malignant disease of the liver, gall bladder and bile duct, and pancreas, complex gallstone disease, and acute and chronic pancreatitis.
He has expertise in related open, laparoscopic and robotic surgical approaches. He also has over two decades of experience of elective and emergency general surgery including open and minimally invasive approaches to a variety of general surgical conditions such as groin and incisional hernias, and the acute surgical abdomen. He has expertise in the management of chest, abdomen and pelvic trauma as a trauma surgeon at the Royal London, the first dedicated major trauma centre in the UK. His other areas of interest are clinical leadership, quality improvement and patient safety and he was Health Foundation QI Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Harvard from 2011-12. He also has an MA in Medical Ethics & Law from Keele University, UK, 2004.
At Barts Health, he was the Clinical Director for Surgery 2010-11, Associate Medical Director for Improvement, Innovation, 2013-14, Executive Group Director for the Surgery & Cancer Clinical Academic Group, 2014-2016. Chair of the Boards of Surgery & Cancer 2017-18, and Barts Health Deputy Chief Medical Officer 2016 -18.
On surgical sabbatical 2018-19, he re-established and led the HPB surgical service at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore delivering open and minimally invasive hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgical care to the local population. He is also the Principal of The Staff College for Leadership in Healthcare.
He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals in the fields of HPB & general surgery and contributed to chapters in major medical and surgical textbooks. He has been involved in teaching and training at all levels including for the MBBS, the intercollegiate FRCS, and RCS courses.
He has a longstanding ‘Hatha Vinyasa’ Yoga and ‘Vipassana’ meditation practice.
Areas of expertise
- Acute and chronic pancreatitis
- Complex gallstone disease
- Cystic disease of the pancreas (including IPMN and MCN)
- Gallbladder and bile duct cancer
- Gallstones
- General surgical abdominal emergencies including appendicitis
- General surgical conditions including groin hernias and incisional hernias, lumps and bumps
- Neuroendocrine tumours of the pancreas
- Pancreatic cancer
- Primary and secondary cancers of the liver
- Related minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgery
- Trauma of the chest, abdomen and pelvis
Professional memberships
Articles by Mr Ajit Abraham
The role of perioperative inflammatory-based prognostic systems in patients with colorectal liver metastases undergoing surgery