Ms Anna Kamocka

 Professional experience

• More than 15 years of experience
• Consultant Bariatric, Upper GI and General Surgeon, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust (2022 - present)
• Bariatric Fellow, University of Rochester (2021 - 2022)
• Clinical Research Fellow, Imperial College London (2016 - 2019)

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 Teaching posts

• Established West Middlesex Surgical Simulation Centre (2023)
• Mentor, West Middlesex Hospital Clinical Attachment Training Programme (2022)
• Train the Trainers (2020)
• Virtual teaching forum for surgical trainees at the Royal Surrey County Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Lecturer at the MSc in Surgical Innovation, Imperial College London (2019)
• Supervisor of BSc students, Imperial College London (2017 - 2019)

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 Education

• ASMBS accredited Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Fellow (2022)
• CCT in General and Upper GI Surgery (2021)
• JAG accreditation in Upper GI Endoscopy (2021)
• FRCS, The Royal College of Surgeons of England (2020)
• PhD, Imperial College London (2019)
• MEd (Masters in Surgical Education), Imperial College London (2014)
• Lekarz (MBBS equivalent), Medical University of Bialystok (2006)

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 Publications and conferences

• Chan C, Jamson AH, Cheng T, Patwardhan M, Brewer JO, Galloway D, Collins C, Pawa N, Smith J, Kamocka A. Improving Management of Obstructive Jaundice: A Single-Centre Experience – AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting, Oxford 2023
• Kamocka A. Combining Bariatric Surgery with Obesity Pharmacotherapy – invited speaker, ASO COMs Meeting, Belfast 2023
• Kamocka A, Fehervari M, Smith A. – BOMSS Journal Club 2023
• Kamocka A. Bariatric Fellowship in the USA – invited speaker, AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting, Aberdeen 2022
• Kamocka A. Why is fighting obesity so difficult? – invited lecture at the MONARCH Patient Support Group Meeting, Rochester, NY 2022
• Lead of GECKO Collaborative (Global Evaluation of Cholecystectomy Knowledge and Outcomes) in the West Middlesex Hospital (2023)
• Obesity and metabolic surgery outcomes – analysis of the UK National Bariatric Surgery Registry (2018 and 2021)
• The GRAVITAS Trial (2016 - 2018)
• The LONG LIMB Trial (2016 – 2019)

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 Prizes and awards

• Royal College of Surgeons Research Fellow (2018 - 2019)
• Foster-Schauer Award, Obesity Week, Las Vegas (2019)
• PhD Travel Award, Imperial College London (2017)
• Scholarship for Bariatric Mini-Fellowship with Dr Bruno Dillemans, AZ Sint-Jan Hospital, Belgium (2015)
• Best Poster Award BOMSS (2017) – “Bariatric surgery makes obese patients healthier, analysis of the National Bariatric Surgery Registry”
• British Journal of Surgery Prize at the BAETS International Meeting, Poitiers, France – “Impact of routine voice therapy on voice outcome after thyroid surgery – preliminary results of an RCT” (2011)
• Surgical Teacher of the Year Award – University of Oxford (2010)
• 3rd Prize in Women in Surgery Poster Competition, Annual WinS National Conference, London – “Cost implication of adopting a policy of early cholecystectomy in a district hospital” (2008)
• 1st Prize at the Regional Coloproctology Chapter Meeting, Cambridge – “Clostridium difficile diarrhoea in a defunctioned colon” (2009)
• Primus Inter Pares and Primus Expert – prize for the best medical student in the region of Northeast Poland, 2006 and Academic Student Scholarship for outstanding performance (2001 - 2006)

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 Professional membership

• The Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS)
• British Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society
• Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland
• Association for the Study of Obesity

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