Kokila Lakhoo PhD, FRCS (Edin+Eng), FCS (SA), FCS (PAED), MRCPCH(UK), MBCHB

Miss Kokila Lakhoo is a consultant paediatric surgeon at the Children's Hospital in Oxford, clinical lead for paediatric surgery in Oxford and an honorary senior lecturer in paediatric surgery at the University of Oxford. She graduated from university in South Africa and completed a PhD in gastrointestinal diseases at the University of Witwatersrand. 

After training in adult general surgery and paediatrics, she underwent further trained in paediatric surgery at Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg (South Africa), Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town (South Africa) and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London (UK). She is the Chair of the International Forum for the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and is also personally developing paediatric surgery through a link in Tanzania.