Dr. Amjad Parvaiz is a visiting consultant surgeon at Poole NHS Foundation Trust in the UK and is Head of the Laparoscopic and Robotic Colorectal Unit at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a personal chair at the University of Portsmouth affiliated with the Faculty of Health Science in Portsmouth, UK. He is also Director and Founding Member of the European Academy of Robotic Colorectal Surgery (EARCS) since 2014.
Dr. Parvaiz has vast experience in laparoscopic and robotic colorectal surgery with interest in training in minimally invasive techniques worldwide. He was the leading consultant in the UK for delivering the National Training Programme (Lapco). He has performed and supervised more than 2000 laparoscopic and robotic colorectal resections with 90-day mortality of < 0.5 %.
He also has interests in research and teaching and published over 150 publications in international peer reviewed journals. He supervises research projects for MSc and MD degrees and has successfully established epicenters for minimally invasive surgery in the laparoscopic and robotic colorectal surgery at Portsmouth, Poole in UK and at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, which have national and international reputation for teaching and training.
Dr. Parvaiz also has a great interest in teaching and training of minimal access surgery, with a focus on rectal cancer resections. He developed and designed the robotic rectal resection training program for European colorectal surgeons and lead the creation of the European Academy of Robotic Colorectal Surgery (EARCS). He has also established international centers of excellence for laparoscopic and robotic colorectal surgery throughout Europe, Russia, East Africa, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and China.
In recognition of his work, Dr. Parvaiz was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Fellow of Portuguese Society of Surgery in Portugal and Honorary chair of professor of surgery at Belgrade University of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia. He also has won numerous awards and honors worldwide.
