Prof. Ameet Patel MS FRCS

Experience

• Consultant HPB surgeon at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since 1999
• Trained in Australia and USA, undertaking research in chronic pancreatitis
• Since 1999 undertaken more than 5000 operations, 90% of which are laparoscopic
• One of the few surgeons in the country to undertake Laparoscopic Liver resections (left and right livers), as well as laparoscopic pancreatic surgery.
• First surgeon to undertake Single Incision Liver Surgery in UK

Live Laparoscopic demonstrations

• Indian Digestive Diseases Week, September 2003, Bhopal India
  Laparoscopic HPB Case
• International Live Laparoscopic Liver Surgery Meeting, Dundee, May 2007
  Laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy, laparoscopic liver resection
• ALSGBI Annual Scientific Meeting, Newcastle 2007; Laparoscopic liver resection
• Indonesian Society of Endolaparoscopic Surgeons (ISES), April 2010, Jakarta Indonesia. Single Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
• Royal Jordanian International Medical Conference May 2010, Amman Jordan
  Laparoscopic Liver Resection (for giant Haemangioma)
• Tour of Vietnam, July 2010 – Ho Chi Minh City & Hanoi
  6 Single Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy performed

Selected HPB related publications

Patel AG, Murgatroyd B, Carswell K, Belgaumkar A.  Fundus-first Single Port Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: a feasibility study.  August 2010; epub ahead of print

Patel AG, Belgaumkar AP, James J, Singh U, Carswell K, Murgatroyd B
Single-incision laparoscopic left lateral segmentectomy of colorectal liver metastases.  Surgical Endoscopy, 22 July 2010; epub ahead of print

Sagias F, Mitry R, Hughes R, Lehec S, Patel AG, Rela M, Lieli-Vergani G, Heaton N, Dhawan A.  N-acetylcysteine Improves the Viability of Human Hepatocytes Isolated from Severely Steatotic Donor Liver Tissue. Cell Transplantation 29 June 2010; epub ahead of print

Belgaumkar A; Carswell K; Chang A; Patel AG. The Dangers of using stapling devices for cystic duct closure in laparoscopic cholecystectomy.  Surgical Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Percutaneous Techniques 2009; 19(5): e194-7

Hagen ME, Wagner OJ, Swain PC, Patel AG, Inan I, Pugin F, Fasel J, Morel P.  Transrectal  natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery for umbilical hernia repair in a human cadaver (with Video).  Gastrointest Endosc 2009; 69(6): e53-4. 

Lung D, Cresswell AB, Psaila J, Patel AG Novel deployment of an endoscopic duodenal stent in open surgery to facilitate closure of a malignant duodenal perforation.  World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009:27; 7:79

Carswell K, Sagias F, Murgatroyd B, Rela M, Heaton N, Patel AG.  Laparoscopic versus open left lateral segmentectomy. BMC Surgery 2009:9;14

Belgaumkar A, Carswell K, Patel AG.  Laparoscopic resection of ruptured liver tumours J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech. 2009; 19(5):641-5

Carswell KA, Belgaumkar A, Karani J, Patel AG. Regression of hepatic adenomata after cessation of selective oestrogen receptor modulator. Liver Int. 2009; 29(1):73

Al-Ghnaniem R, Camprodon RA, Kocher HM, Portmann B, Al-Nawab M, Shaikh H, Sohail M, Patel AG. Strategy to reduce the risk of positive pancreatic resection margin at pancreatico-      duodenectomy. ANZ J Surg. 2008; 78(4):237-9

Psaila J, Agrawal S, FountainU, Whitfield T, Murgatroyd B, Dunsire MF, Gonzalez JG, Patel AG Day Surgery Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Factors influencing same day discharge.  World Journal of Surgery World J Surg. 2008; 32(1):76-81

Kocher HM, Sohail M, Benjamin IS, Patel AG.  Technical limitations of lymph node mapping in pancreatic cancer. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2007; 33(7):887-91

Williams IL, Chowienczyk PJ, Wheatcroft SB, Patel AG, Sherwood RA, Shah AM, Kearney MT
Divergent effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition on blood pressure and endothelial function in obese humans. Diab Vasc Dis Res. 2006; 3 (1):34-8

Kocher HM,  Al-Ghnaniem R, Menezes N, Thaker K Patel AG.
Surgical dexterity after a night out on the town  ANZ J Surg 2006; 76 (3): 110-2

Kocher HM, Senkus R, Moorhead J, Al-Nawab M, Patel AG, Benjamin IS, Hendry BM.  Expression of Ras GTPase isoforms in normal and diseased pancreas   Pancreatology 2005; 5(2-3) 205-14

Kocher HM, Tekkis PP, Gopal P, Patel AG, Cottam S, Benjamin IS.  Risk-adjustment in hepatobiliary pancreatic surgery   World J Gastroenterology 2005; 11(16) 2450-5