Professor Nariman Karanjia

Job title

Consultant Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgeon

Email address

hsomaiya@nhs.net

Service

GI Surgery

About

Qualifications: MS(Lond), FRCS(Gen), FRCS(Eng&Ed)

Medical secretary (NHS): Mrs Hershi Somaiya

Nariman qualified in Medicine from Guys Hospital Medical School in 1983, trained in General Surgery on the South West Thames surgical rotation and was appointed Consultant Surgeon in 1994 to the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford.

When Nariman started at the Royal Surrey the survival of patients with secondary liver cancer from bowel cancer was 1% at five years. His ambition was to make a difference to these patients and in 1996 he started the Hepatobiliary service as a single handed surgeon. In 1997, together with Margaret Taylor, Frank Taylor and Lorna Keat, he founded the Liver Cancer Surgery Appeal to fund the purchase of equipment for liver cancer surgery done at the Royal Surrey.

In 2004 together with colleagues Robin Lightwood, Neville Menezes and Graham Pinn, Nariman founded the Southern Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit. Today this regional unit has 5 consultant HPB surgeons, serves a catchment population of nearly three million patients and has outcomes that are second to none. Nearly 50% of patients with liver secondaries from bowel cancer are alive at five years and 30% are cured.

 

Special interests and treatments

HPB surgery, including gallstone disease, liver cancer, benign liver tumours, pancreatic cancer, benign pancreatic tumours, pancreatitis, ERCP and EUS

Practice Location

Royal Surrey County Hospital

GMC number

2843210

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