Bariatric Surgery Team

The Bariatric Group is unique in that there are only three weight loss surgeons in the UK who have passed the rigorous international assessment process of the American Society for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery for Centres of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery – and all three work in our team! We are very proud that this translates into excellence of care for our clients.

The surgeons meet regularly as a team to discuss new approaches to patient care and to ensure that there is consistency of care across all of our surgery centres. Collectively they have performed over 2,500 bariatric surgery operations in the past 3 years. Mr Richard Welbourn is the Director of Surgery for the team.

The Bariatric Group is committed to the highest standards of treatment practice and all of our surgeons have experienced working in both the NHS and private sectors. Their committment to the advancement of bariatric surgery also extends to the collecting and publishing data on our treatment outcomes and measuring the impact of the treatment on patients. Our team regularly presents data at UK and international medical conferences and several team members hold leadership positions on UK medical bodies such as the Royal College of Surgery, the British Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society and the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons.

		Richard Welbourn Surgeon Mr Welbourn is a senior Bariatric surgeon at both the Musgrove Park Hospital and Nuffield Health Hospital in Taunton. He specialises in laparoscopic surgery of the stomach and upper gastrointestinal tract and regularly trains other surgeons in laparoscopic techniques, including Bariatric surgery. He has been performing obesity surgery operations since 2003, both within the NHS and private sectors. Mr Welbourn is accredited by the American Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery as meeting the criteria for a surgeon of a Centre of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery.
		David Mahon Surgeon Mr Mahon joined the team in 2006 and performs Bariatric surgery at both the Musgrove Park Hospital and Nuffield Health Hospital in Taunton. Mr Mahon is accredited by the American Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery as meeting the criteria for a surgeon of a Centre of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery.
		Grant Sanders Surgeon Mr Sanders joined the team in 2008 and performs Bariatric surgery at the Nuffield Health Hospital in Plymouth, Devon.
		Tim Wheatley Surgeon Mr Wheatley joined the team in 2008 and performs Bariatric surgery at the Nuffield Health Hospital in Plymouth, Devon. He also has an NHS Bariatric surgery practice in Plymouth.
		Richard Krysztopik Surgeon Mr Krysztopik joined our team in 2009 and performs Bariatric surgery at the newly built Circle Hospital in Bath. He has been performing Bariatric surgery for the past three years.
		Nick Davies Surgeon Mr Davies joined the team in 2007 and performs Bariatric surgery at the Nuffield Health Hospital in Bournemouth, Dorset. He also has an NHS Bariatric surgery practice in Bournemouth.
		Ian Finlay Surgeon Mr Finlay joined the team in 2006 and performs Bariatric surgery at Duchy Hospital in Truro, Cornwall. He also has an NHS Bariatric surgery practice in Truro.
		Dan Titcomb Surgeon Mr Titcomb joined the team in 2010 after being appointed a Consultant Upper GI Surgeon at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He spent time working at the Bariatric Surgery Centre of Excellence based in Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton and was previously a substantive Consultant in Gloucestershire, assisting in the development of their weight loss management service. Having been awarded an AUGIS (Association of Upper GI Surgeons) travel fellowship in 2009, Mr Titcomb worked at the Cancer Institute Hospital Tokyo, Japan, training in advanced minimally invasive Upper GI surgery, as well as undertaking bariatric surgery training courses in Versailles and Gothenburg.
		Sanjay Agrawal Surgeon Mr Sanjay Agrawal is a Consultant Surgeon in Bariatric (Obesity), Laparoscopic and upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Surgery at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London. Mr Agrawal specialises in laparoscopic gastric bypass, laparoscopic gastric band and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for obesity, laparoscopic hernia (groin & incisional) repairs, laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gallstones, laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, & advanced laparoscopic surgery. Mr Agrawal has had extensive training in Laparoscopic and General Surgery both in UK and in India and has undertaken more than 2000 surgical procedures to date. In addition, Mr Agrawal has an experience of over 350 laparoscopic bariatric procedures (including >200 laparoscopic gastric bypasses). Mr Agrawal had the honour of being the first post-CCT Fellow in Bariatric and Upper GI Surgery for 12-months awarded 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, UK. He has also completed a 3-month fellowship in Bariatric Surgery with Dr Bruno Dillemans at St. Jan Hospital in Bruges, Belgium awarded by Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT), UK. Mr Agrawal was a Visiting Fellow on the Ethicon Short-term Clinical Visits programme awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Ethicon Foundation Fund in the Gastric Surgery Division at the National Cancer Center and Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. He has also worked as a Laparoscopic Fellow (Post-CCT) in Upper GI and General Surgery at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, UK. Mr Agrawal trains other surgeons in the field of bariatric and laparoscopic surgery and has numerous presentations at national and international meetings as well as publications in peer reviewed journals.
		Ahmed Hamouda Consultant Surgeon Mr. Hamouda is a Consultant General and Upper GI Surgeon who has an NHS practice at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospitals. His main areas of expertise lie in keyhole surgery of the oesophagus, stomach and biliary tract treating Upper GI cancer, reflux disease and gall stone disease in a minimally invasive manner. Having worked at a Bariatic Centre of Excellence at Musgrove Park Hospital, he offers the full range of weight loss procedures including gastric balloon, gastric band, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass at the Nuffield Hospital, Royal Tunbridge Wells.
		Ahmed Ahmed Consultant Surgeon Mr Ahmed joined our team in 2009 and performs Bariatric surgery at the Cromwell Hospital in London. He also has a large NHS bariatric surgery practice in London and is accredited by the American Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery as meeting the criteria for a surgeon of a Centre of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery.