• Professor Bilal Alkhaffaf

    Consultant General Surgeon
    MBChB, FRCS

    I am a consultant surgeon at Salford Royal Hospital (Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust) where I specialise in the management of conditions which affect the upper gastrointestinal tract. These include obesity, oesophageal and gastric cancer, benign oe…


  • 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…