Meet our general surgeons

Mr Richard Sainsbury

Breast Surgeon
MB BS, MD, FRCS

I qualified in 1976 and trained in Newcastle Upon Tyne. I became a Consultant in 1988. My first post was in the only district hospital which was site specialised and I developed the breast team there. I moved to University College London in 2000 and headed the…

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Mr Arjun S Takhar

Consultant General Surgeon
BMed Sci, BMBS, PhD, FRCSEd

I was appointed as a Consultant in Hepato-pancreatico-biliary (HPB) and General Surgery at University Hospitals Southampton NHS Trust in 2013. I graduated from the University of Nottingham Medical School with a BMed Sci in Biochemistry in addition to my medica…

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Mr Vas Trompetas

Consultant General Surgeon
MSc, FRCS

Mr Michael Van den Bossche

Consultant General Surgeon
MD, FRCS, FICS, FASMBS

I started doing obesity surgery in 1995 in Belgium and received my training from Dr Jacques Himpens who is currently the President of International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO). I am a member of IFSO, BOMSS and ASMBS. I moved to the Channel Isl…

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