Dr. Gourab Sen Consultant General Surgery, Specialized in Hepatobiliary and Abdominal Multi-Organ Transplant Surgery
Years of Experience : 25
Nationality : United Kingdom
Languages Known : English, Hindi, Bengali
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Dr. Gourab Sen is an experienced Consultant General and Hepatobiliary and abdominal Transplant Surgeon (Liver/Kidney/Pancreas) at Burjeel Medical City. He brings with him a vast experience from his training and consultant practice from India and the UK. He passed his MBBS from Calcutta, India, in 1993, followed by an MS in General Surgery in 1998 before moving to the UK for higher surgical training. He holds a research degree (MD) from UK. He completed higher surgical training in the North-East of England with an award of CCT from the Royal College of Surgeons. He trained as a post-CCT Fellow sponsored by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in multi-organ transplantation before becoming a Consultant Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgeon at a renowned hospital in UK. With over 14 years of experience as a Consultant, he has vast clinical experience of performing complex liver, biliary and pancreatic surgery for cancer, including major robotic surgery. He has conducted close to 400 liver transplants and has extensive expertise in kidney and pancreas transplantation. He held several leadership roles in his career including the lead clinician for liver and pancreatic cancer for the Nort-East of England, and clinical lead for his department in the UK. He has keen interest in teaching and training and has been a faculty and organiser of several courses for training in minimally invasive and robotic surgery. He has an active research interest and has numerous publications under his name. Apart from these, he is also a member of various international professional societies.
Awards & Achievements
- Diploma from the European Society of Organ Transplantation (HESPERIS)
- Post-Completion Fellowship in Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Surgery and Organ Transplantation (Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
- Clinical Lead for Liver and Biliary Cancer Services, Northeast Cancer Network, UK
- Head of the Department of Liver and Biliary Surgery, Freeman Hospital, UK
Research & Publications
- Racial disparities in outcomes after liver transplantation in the UK: registry analysis. British Journal of Surgery. 2024
- Risk factors for decompensation and death following umbilical hernia repair in patients with end-stage liver disease. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2022
- COVID-19 and liver cancer: lost patients and larger tumours. BMJ Open Gastroenterol. 2022
- Impact of prior biliary stenting on diagnostic performance of endoscopic ultrasound for mesenteric vascular staging in patients with head of pancreas and periampullary malignancy. BMJ Open Gastroenterol. 2022
- Comparative analysis of open, laparoscopic and robotic distal pancreatic resection: The United Kingdom's first single-centre experience. J Minim Access Surg. 2022
- Impact of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on pancreatic cancer services and treatment pathways: United Kingdom experience. HPB. 2021
- Comparing outcomes in right versus left kidney transplantation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Transplant. 2021
- Margin Accentuation Irreversible Electroporation in Stage III Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review. Cancers. 2021
- Risk factors and impact of early anastomotic biliary complications after liver transplantation: UK registry analysis. BJS Open. 2021
- Novel multidisciplinary hub-and-spoke tertiary service for the management of severe acute pancreatitis. BMJ Open Gastroenterol. 2021
- SARS-CoV-2 infection in acute pancreatitis increases disease severity and 30-day mortality: COVID PAN collaborative study. Gut. 2021
- Impact of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy on short- and long-term outcomes in advanced pancreatic cancer: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021
- Recipient outcomes in total laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy with multiple renal vessels. Urol Ann. 2020
- Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infections in Hepatic and Pancreatic Resection. World J Surg. 2020
- Haemostatic Efficacy of Topical Agents During Liver Resection: A Network Meta-Analysis of Randomised Trials. World J Surg. 2020 Oct
- Prospective assessment of resection margin status following pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma after standardisation of margin definitions. Pancreatology. 2020
- Critical appraisal of the techniques of pancreatic anastomosis following pancreaticoduodenectomy: A network meta-analysis. Int J Surg. 2020
- A systematic review and network meta-analysis of parenchymal transection techniques during hepatectomy: an appraisal of current randomised controlled trials. HPB. 2020
- The Cholecystectomy as A Day Case (CAAD) Score: A Validated Score of Preoperative Predictors of Successful Day-Case Cholecystectomy Using the CholeS Data Set. World J Surg. 2019
- Surgery for Hilar cholangiocarcinoma: The Newcastle upon Tyne Liver Unit experience. European Surgery. 2019
- Should an aggressive surgical approach be employed in patients with isolated pancreatic metastases from a renal cell carcinoma? European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2018
- What should be the extent of liver resection in pT1b & pT2 gallbladder cancer? Advanced Research in Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 2018
- Techniques of hepatic transection in robotic surgery – is there still scope for improvement? Advanced Research in Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 2018
Education & Training
- MBBS, Calcutta University, India
- MS in General Surgery, Calcutta University, India
- FRCSEd, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK
- MD, Newcastle University, UK
- FRCS (GenSurg), UK
- CCT, UK
Expertise
- Liver, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Surgery
- Liver, Biliary, and Pancreatic Cancer Resection
- Robotic Liver and Pancreatic Resection
- Complex Benign Biliary Surgery, including Gallbladder surgery
- General Surgery with special interest in laparoscopic/robotic surgery
Membership
- Association of Upper GI Surgeons (AUGIS), UK
- Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI), UK
- British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL)
- British Transplant Society (BTS)
- International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery Association (IHPBA)
- European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)
