Prof. Ameet Patel MS FRCS
Experience
- Consultant Surgeon at King's
College Hospital (1999-present)
- Prior to Consultant appointment,
trained in Australia with Mr George
Fielding, who has an international
reputation in obesity surgery.
- Since 1999, undertaken more than
3000 surgical procedures, 90% of
which have been Laparoscopic.
- 2-3 obesity operations performed
per week at present
Training: Organisation of Courses and
demonstrations for other surgeons
- Training course: laparoscopic
gastric band (2006) King's College
Hospital
- Training course: laparoscopic
gastric bands in the Super-obese at
King's College Hospital (2000)
- Trained other surgeons in the
United Kingdom in laparoscopic
gastric banding
- Live link demonstration of
laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric
bypass surgery at the President's
Day for the Royal Society of
Medicine 2004
- Live link demonstration of
Laparoscopic Gastric Banding at The
International Medical Conference in
Amman, Jordan, April 2006
- Live link demonstration of
laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric
bypass surgery at the International
Live Laparoscopic Surgery Meeting,
Dundee, May 2007
- Proctoring other surgeons for
both laparoscopic gastric banding
and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric
bypass
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