Mr Shahnawaz Rasheed
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
About Shahnawaz Rasheed
Mr Shahnawaz Rasheed is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Welbeck Digestive Health and senior lecturer at Imperial College London, is widely published and delivers many lectures, nationally and internationally, on various aspects of colorectal cancer.
He is one of the very few surgeons in the UK who is using the da Vinci Xi surgical robot to perform colorectal cancer surgery.
He is dedicated to improving global health and holds various senior positions in this field, including medical director of the aid agency, Humanity First – which provides relief to victims of disasters across the world.
Mr Shahnawaz Rasheed BClinSci MBBS DIC PhD FRCS was awarded his medical degree by St Bartholomew’s and The London Hospitals’ Medical School, in 1997. Subsequently, he was admitted as a member and then a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was awarded a PhD by Imperial College London for research on colorectal cancer undertaken at St Mark’s Hospital, London, in conjunction with the Weatherall Institute, Oxford, and the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Hertfordshire.
He has an interest in global health and oversees development projects in low and middle income countries, as well as leading a global disaster response team and running courses on disaster response medicine.
He is the global medical director of the NGO Humanity First; permanent council member for the G4 Alliance which advocates for surgery, anaesthesia, obstetrics and trauma in low and middle income countries; and the lead for the Forum on International Crisis Management at the Institute for Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London.
Expertise
- Complex
- Locally Advanced Colorectal Cancer
- Bowel Cancer
- Advanced Rectal Cancer
- Anal Cancer
- HIV-related Anal Pathology
- Crohn’s Disease
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Diverticular Disease
- Fistula-in-ano
- Fissure-in-ano
- Haemorrhoids
- Rectal Bleeding and Anal Pain
Overview
- Age of patients seen
- 18+
- Qualifications
- Languages spoken
- English
- Research highlights
Mr Rasheed’s current research areas focus on:
Colorectal Cancer
Compassionate Clinical Care
Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer
Imaging in Colorectal Cancer
Improving Communication
Global Health
- Professional memberships
Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
Royal Society of Medicine sections of Surgery and Coloproctology
European Society of Coloproctology
St Mark’s Association
Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
Consultations and services
Insurers covered
- +4 more
- Allianz Partners
- Cigna International
- Healix
- Henner
Tests & treatments
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