Dr. James Kinross

James Kinross is a consultant colorectal surgeon and senior lecturer at Imperial College London. He also consults at King Edward VII’s Hospital London. His clinical interests are in minimally invasive, laparoscopic and robotic surgery for the treatment of colorectal cancer and benign conditions of the colon and rectum such as diverticulosis and inflammatory bowel disease. A major theme in his research is the role of the gut microbiome (the hundreds of trillions of bacteria that reside within the colon) in the cause of colon cancer, crohn's disease and obesity. He is also developing intra-operative mass spectrometry techniques (known as the iKnife) for improving precision in the surgical treatment of colorectal cancer.

He was trained in Northwest London and at St. Mary’s Hospital and he was an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Surgery and an Ethicon Laparoscopic Fellow in Colorectal Surgery. He performed his PhD at Imperial College London in 2010, which studied how bacteria in the gut modify inflammation after surgery. He was awarded a Royal College of Surgeons of England training fellowship during his PhD and he was funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences as an early stage lecturer. He is a visiting Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland.

He is currently funded by the NIHR, Bowel and Cancer research and the Imperial BRC. You can follow him on Twitter at @bowelsurgeon. He has published over 60 peer reviewed papers and authored several book chapters on surgery.

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