Mr Sanjay Agrawal

 Professional experience

• More than 25 years of experience
• Consultant Surgeon, Homerton University Hospital (NHS) (present)
• Honorary Senior Lecturer, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary, University of London (present)
• Book Editor (Chief), ‘Obesity, Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery: A Practical Guide’ (Springer 2015)
• Fellow, American Society of Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (FASMBS)
• Director of London International Bariatric Surgery Symposium (LIBSS)

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 Sub-specialties

• Obesity surgery
• Bariatric surgery
• Weight loss surgery
• Gastric sleeve surgery
• Gastric band surgery
• Gastric bypass surgery
• Gallstone surgery
• Hernia surgery

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 Positions in public associations

• Member of International Scientific Committee in the 6th Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders, European Chapter (IFSO-EC) held at Square Congress Centrum, Belgium (2014)
• Member of International Committee in the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) (2015 - 2016)

 Teaching posts

• Honorary Senior Lecturer, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London (present)

 Education

• FRCS (General Surgery), Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in General Surgery (September 2007)
• FRCSGlasg, The Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow (1999)
• FRCSEd, The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (1999)
• Master of Surgery (MS) in General Surgery, Seth G.S. Medical College & King Edward VII Memorial (KEM) Hospital, University of Bombay, India (1999)
• MBBS, R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, University of Calcutta, India (1994)

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 Publications and conferences

• Invited to be speaker at many conferences, and has made a number of television documentary appearances representing obesity and bariatric surgery
• Edited a book titled ‘Obesity, Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery: A Practical Guide’ published by Springer (September, 2015) - This book has achieved >190,000 individual chapter downloads worldwide so far.
• Over 130 publications including x 6 book chapters, x 34 articles and x 88 abstracts in peer-reviewed journals.
• Director of London International Bariatric Surgery Symposium (LIBSS) in 2019 - It was a hugely successful event attended by approx. 200 attendees from 22 countries around the world.

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 Prizes and awards

• Awarded ‘Fellow’ of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery society - FASMBS in 2016.
• International Book release for the textbook titled ‘Obesity, Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery: A Practical Guide’ published by Springer at the 20th World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO) held on 27th August, 2015 in Hofburg Imperial Palace, Vienna, Austria.
• Nominated & inclusion in the Silver Jubilee (25th) Edition of the Asian Who’s Who International publication – launched at the London Dorchester Hotel on 10th December, 2012.
• Awarded Certificate of “Bariatric Surgeon of ExcellenceTM”, “BSOETM” (now called ‘Surgeon of Excellence in Metabolic and Bariatric SurgeryTM’, ‘SOEMBSTM’) by Surgical Review Corporation (SRC) of United States of America (USA) in October, 2012.
• Awarded ASiT Bariatric Fellowship with Dr Bruno Dillemans in Brugge (Bruges), Belgium for 3months (5th October, 2009 to 18th December, 2009).
• Awarded the first Post-CCT Bariatric Fellowship under the National Surgical Fellowship Scheme through the Royal College of Surgeons of England in partnership with the Surgical Specialist Associations at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton in 2008 for 12 months (13th March, 2009 to 12th March, 2010).
• Awarded Ethicon Short Term Clinical Visit Grant by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for the Gastric Fellowship at National Cancer Center & Cancer Institute Hospital in Tokyo in September, 2008.

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 Professional membership

• Fellow of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)
• Member of the International Federation of Surgical Obesity (IFSO)
• Member of the British Association of Obesity and Metabolic Surgeons (BOMSS)
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow
• Member of the British Medical Association

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