Alastair Windsor MBBS, MD, FRCS

Alastair Windsor trained at St Mary’s Hospital in London. Having spent three 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 then joined UCLH as Consultant Surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University College London. Since moving from St Mark’s he has retained an expertise and significant 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 as well as managing complex abdominal wall hernias. He also maintains a busy clinical practice in the broader aspects of colorectal surgery including minimal access surgery, colorectal cancer and proctology. 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.