Mr Alastair Windsor

Qualifications: MD FRCS FRCS(Ed) FRCS(Glas).
Qualified: St Mary’s Hospital, London. Institution/Practice: University College Hospital, London.
Career: Alastair trained at St Mary’s Hospital in London. Having spent 3 years in research at the Medical College of Virginia, USA, he returned as Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Surgeon to the Academic Surgical Unit at St James’ University Hospital, Leeds. A research and clinical interest in sepsis and nutrition provided an opportunity to join the staff at St Mark’s Hospital in London as colorectal surgeon and surgeon to the intestinal failure unit. He has now moved to join the staff as Consultant Surgeon to University College Hospital London, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University College London. Since moving from St Mark’s he has retained an expertise and busy tertiary referral practice in intestinal failure, focused to a large extent on the management of abdominal catastrophe, which includes the management of enterocutaneous fistula and complex inflammatory bowel disease. He is a founder member of Surgical European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization and a committee member of the IBD section of British Society of Gastroenterology. Working with these organisations he has been a contributing author for ECCO and BSG guidelines on the management of IBD. In addition, joining the staff at UCH has allowed him to maintain an interest and clinical practice in the broader aspects of colorectal surgery including minimal access surgery, colorectal cancer and proctology. He has over 100 publications and book chapters and remains a committed surgical trainer and educator.
Interests: In addition to intestinal failure, his research now focuses on improved surgical outcomes and enhanced surgical recovery particularly in patients with colorectal cancer.