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Mr Periyathambi Jambulingam

Name:
Mr Periyathambi Jambulingam MBBS MS(General Surgery) FRCS Ed FRCS (Gen Surg)
Practising at:
Spire Harpenden Hospital and Spire Bushey Hospital
Specialties:
  • Weight loss surgery (Obesity)
    • General surgery
      • Minimal access surgery
      • Liver disease
      • Hernia repair surgery
      • Gastrointestinal surgery
      • Colonoscopy
      • Obesity
    Special clinical interests:
    Oesophago gastric cancers, benign GI disorders, weight loss surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, laparoscopic surgery. GI endoscopy, hiatus hernia and reflux disease, laparoscopic inguinal and incisional hernia repair, gallbladder and biliary surgery.
    Research interests:
    Barretts oesophagus and reflux disease, oesophago-gastric cancer
    Current NHS and /or university posts:

    Consultant Upper GI Surgeon, Luton and Dunstable Hospital
    Honorary Consultant Surgeon, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust
    Honorary Consultant Surgeon in GI cancers, West Herts NHS Trust

    Year of first medical qualification:
    1991
    Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
    Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
    Member of the Association of Upper GI Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (AUGIS)
    Member of the British Obesity & Metabolic Surgical Society (BOMSS)
    Member of International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO)
     
    Contact Details 
    Telephone number to make a private appointment:
    0800 585 112
    Private secretary:
    Marguerite Watkins
    Private secretary telephone number:
    01582 765015
    Private secretary fax:
    01582 765015
    Private secretary email address:
    Personal email address:
    Availability:
    Alternate Thursday afternoons, Friday evenings, Saturday mornings and Monday evenings
     
    Background Information 
    Professional profile:

    Mr Jambulingam completed his higher surgical training in the West Midlands, at University Hospitals in North Staffordshire, Coventry and Birmingham. He spent a year in the Liver Transplantation Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, where he passed the intercollegiate specialty examination in 2004 and obtained the CCST. He completed a year’s Post CCST fellowship in OesophagoGastric and advanced laparoscopic surgery at UHB.  He is trained in laparoscopic antireflux surgery, diaphragmatic hernia, inguinal and incisional hernia repair

    He has been working as a Consultant General Surgeon with a special interest in Upper GI/ laparoscopic and weight loss surgery at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust since July 2007. His NHS practice reflects his subspecialty training in minimally invasive surgery. His practice includes general surgery, benign and malignant GI surgery, advanced laparoscopic surgery, hepatobiliary and weight loss surgery. 

    His special interest is oesophago-gastric surgery which includes the management of acid reflux disease in the form of laparoscopic hiatus hernia repair, fundoplication, giant hiatus hernia repair and achalasia cardia. He has visited the Cancer Institute Hospital and the National Cancer centre in Tokyo.  He performs minimally invasive oesophagectomies (MIO) and gastrectomies for cancers and GIST tumors.

    He is a part of the specialist team offering weight loss surgery at the Centre of Obesity Research at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital for the East of England. He has attended bariatric training courses in Hull, Taunton, Bruges in Belgium and UPMC, Pittsburgh. He performs Laparoscopic gastric bands, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric roux en y bypass in a mutli-disciplinary team setting.

    He performs laparoscopic inguinal hernia repairs extra-peritoneally (TEPP) which facilitates treatment of all groin hernias and incisional hernias. He performs diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy including dilatations & insertion of stents and colonoscopy.

    Personal profile:

    He is married with two children and lives at St Albans.

    Apart from surgery he has an interest in medical education. He is involved in Royal College activities for the MRCS exams and is a course Instructor.

    He listens to music and plays cricket for the local club regulary. He is a trained walking leader and wishes to continue this in his leisure.

     

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    Mr Periyathambi Jambulingam

    Mr Periyathambi Jambulingam Weight loss surgery (Obesity) & General surgery Consultant, Harpenden, Herts, private hospital specialist.

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