Retiring from NHS but continuing private....
Professor Robin Phillips:
Director & Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
Areas of Expertise:
Colorectal Surgery
Anal fistula
Complex cases that have ‘gone wrong’ elsewhere
Ileoanal pouches
Polyposis syndromes
Special/Research Interests:
Anal Fistula
Inherited colorectal cancer syndromes (Familial adenomatous polyposis, juvenile polyposis, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome)
Current NHS and/or University post(s):
Consultant Surgeon, St Mark’s Hospital
Clinical Director, St Mark’s Hospital, Gastroenterology and Emergency Surgery
Professor of Colorectal Surgery, Imperial College
Professional and Personal profile:
Professor Phillips is a Colorectal Surgeon with a tertiary referral practice in inflammatory bowel disease, inherited cancer and anal fistula. He became Clinical Director of St Mark's in 2004.
Professor Phillips has a national and international reputation, between 2005-10 delivering many keynote lectures: Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Lecturer; Daher Cutait Lecturer, Brazilian Society of Coloproctology; Gold Medal, Danish Surgical Society; 19th Buie Visiting Professor, Mayo Clinic, USA; Ernestine Hambrick Lecturer, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons; David Jagelman Visiting Professor, Cleveland Clinic, USA.
Between 2003-2010 he (co-)supervised 7 MD/PhD theses awarded, 3 in preparation, 74 peer- reviewed articles (52 polyposis) some clinical, others basic science (25), 7 book chapters and co-edited 3 books.
He became Honorary Administrative Co-Director of Insight (the International Society for the Investigation of Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours) in 2003, jointly responsible for a worldwide patient register, membership, and with biennial international meetings (San Antonio, Texas, 2011).
Memberships:
Honorary Administrative Director of INSIGHT (International Society for the Investigation of Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours)
Past President of the Section of Coloproctology of the Royal Society of Medicine
