Our weight loss specialists

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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