• Professor Bilal Alkhaffaf

    Consultant General Surgeon
    MBChB, FRCS

    I am a Consultant Laparoscopic and Upper Gastrointestinal and General Surgeon. I specialise in the treatment of conditions affecting the upper gastrointestinal tract which includes oesophageal and gastric cancer, obesity, benign oesophageal and gastric disorde…


  • Mr Bart Decadt

    Consultant General Surgeon
    MD (Leuven), MD (Norwich), FRCSI, FRCS (Gen Surg)

    I completed my medical training in Belgium, before completing my surgical training in South Africa and Manchester. I also undertook the first MD degree at the University of East Anglia in evidence based laparoscopic surgery. I was appointed as a Consultant Sur…


  • Mrs Suzanne Egan

    Bariatric Specialist Nurse
    Registered General, Enrolled Nurse General

    I qualified as an enrolled nurse general in 1981 at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport and was employed on a general medical ward. I returned to study and proceeded to complete my registered general nurse qualification in 1983, before returning to a general med…


  • Professor John New

    Consultant Physician
    MB BS, FRCP

    I went to medical school in Newcastle upon Tyne and trained in Newcastle, Liverpool and Leeds before moving to Salford in 1996. Over the last 10 years I developed the Salford Weight Management Services, which provides a holistic, patient-centred, multidiscipli…