NBSR

The National Bariatric Surgery Registry is the result of a collaboration between ALSGBI (Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland), AUGIS (Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery), BOMSS (British Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society) and Dendrite Clinical Systems. The key objective of the registry is to accumulate sufficient data to allow the publication of a comprehensive report on outcomes following bariatric surgery. This will include reportage on weight loss, co-morbidity and improvement of quality of life.

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NBSR Committee members

Peter Small

BOMSS Trustee, Council member, NBSR Chairman
Senior Consultant Surgeon
Sunderland Royal Hospital

Biography

Mr Peter Small is a senior consultant surgeon at Sunderland Royal Hospital with a specialist interest in bariatric and upper GI laparoscopic surgery. He was appointed in 1998 and established a North of England NHS Bariatric Surgery service which is one of the largest NHS units in the UK with 7 consultant Surgeons.

He has been an executive member of BOMSS Council since 2013 and is a founding Trustee of the new BOMSS Charity. The National Bariatric Surgery Registry has been an integral part of BOMSS since its inception in 2009. Peter Small has been a member of the Registry Committee since 2010, taking over as Chairman in 2017.

He is a keen promoter of data collection and analysis to identify good practice, helping to produce the 2^nd and 3^rd NBSR Reports in 2014 and 2020 respectively.

Professor Rachel Battherham

BOMSS Council member
Clinical Director and Centre for Obesity Research Lead/ Bariatric Centre for Weight Management & Metabolic Surgery Lead and Director
University College London/University College London Hospital

Biography

Professor Rachel Batterham is Professor of Obesity, Diabetes and Endocrinology at University College London (UCL). She leads the University College London Hospital (UCLH) Bariatric Centre for Weight Management & Metabolic Surgery and the UCL Centre for Obesity Research within the Department of Medicine. She is the Clinical Director for the Division of Medicine at UCL and the Director for the UCLH/UCL NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Obesity Research Theme. She is the Royal College of Physicians’ Special Advisor on Obesity.

She has received several national and international awards for her obesity including the Royal Society of Medicine’s Steven’s Lecture (2018), the Andre Mayer award from the World Obesity Federation (2016), and the Diabetes UK Rank Fund Nutrition Prize (2015).

Professor Batterham has made significant clinical contributions to defining the management of obese patients through her membership of the NICE Obesity Guideline Development Group. She is Scientific Chair for the International Federation for Surgery for Obesity and Metabolic Diseases (IFSO) European Chapter (since 2015), a Trustee for the Association for the Study of Obesity (since 2016) and Council Member for British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (since 2016). She is passionate about reducing the stigma that people with obesity experience and ensuring that the patient voice is heard and has established a charity for people affected by obesity, Obesity Empowerment Network UK.

Paul Chesworth

NSBR Council member
Bariatric Patient Advocate

Biography

Paul is a patient advocate who shares his experiences as a person living with Obesity and feels very passionate about having his patients voice heard.

As a Bariatric Patient Paul advocates for access to all treatments that will assist people living with obesity to live a healthier, happier life.

“We need to focus on health gains not just weight loss”

Paul’s goal is to change the narrative around Obesity by highlighting the complexities.

“We need to help society understand the proven scientific evidence regarding obesity.

We need to remove weight stigma and bias which creates barriers and challenges that a person living with obesity faces”

Paul believes Society, TV, Media, Governments and all healthcare professionals need to understand, to eat healthy and be active will help anybody live a healthier life.

However, if you’re a person living with Obesity you need help, support, treatments and most of all to be seen as a person first.

“Obesity is not a choice but a multifactorial, complex, chronic disease”

In 2014 Paul received a RNY Gastric Bypass, he is maintaining a 64Kg loss, his T2D and Hypertension are in full remission, with mobility significantly improved.

Pauls advocacy work has provided him a great learning experience and the opportunity to work with numerous well known organisations.

“Working together Patients, Healthcare Professionals, Governments, TV and Media we can educate each other and society to achieve a common goal, for all people to live their best life in a healthy body”. T2D

James Hopkins

BOMSS NBSR Council member
UGI & Bariatric Surgeon, Lead for Emergency & Trauma GI Surgery
North Bristol NHS Trust

Biography

Mr Hopkins is a specialist UGI & Bariatric Surgeon, and Lead for Emergency & Trauma GI Surgery at North Bristol NHS trust. He completed bariatric sub-specialist training in the Wessex Deanery and bariatric fellowship training in Taunton. He offers the full range of endoscopic and laparoscopic treatments for severe and complex obesity within the Weight Assessment and Management Service (WAMS) of NBT. His other specialist interests are in laparoscopic (keyhole) abdominal surgery, in particular the management of gallstone disease, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and all types of hernias, with a further specialist interest in Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction for complicated or recurrent hernias, including in patients with obesity.

Mr Hopkins has an interest in clinical outcomes research and has been the lead in the in the development of a Core-Outcome Set for Bariatric Surgery (the BARIACT Project) as part of the ByBandSleeve randomised controlled trial. Mr Hopkins is the NBT site Principle Investigator for the ByBandSleeve multicentre RCT and the Sunflower multicentre Gallstone RCT. He is a previous council member of BOMSS, a current member of the National Bariatric Surgery Registry data committee, contributing to the NBSR 3rd report, and was an advisor on the 2012 NCEPOD enquiry into bariatric surgery – Too lean a service?

Omar Khan

BOMSS Patient Safety Committee member

Biography

Kamal Mahawar

BOMSS Patient Safety Committee Chair, Council member, NBSR Council member
Consultant General/ Bariatric Surgeon & NatSSIP Lead
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHSFT

Biography

Kamal Mahawar is a Consultant General/ Bariatric Surgeon & NatSSIP Lead at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, and Visiting Professor at the University of Sunderland. Mr. Mahawar is a member of the BOMSS council and chairs its patient safety committee. He also sits on the scientific committee of IFSO and the National Bariatric Surgery Registry (NBSR) committee. He was one of the editors of the second and the third NBSR reports.

Kamal has authored over 175 peer-reviewed publications, multiple book chapters in prestigious titles, and two books widely appreciated in media ("The Ethical Doctor" published by Harper Collins and "Fight with Fat") He is the Co-Editor of “Journal of Bariatric Surgery” published by Wolters Kluwer and Associate Editor of “Obesity Surgery”, “Annals of Royal College of Surgeons England”, and “Clinical Obesity”. In addition, Kamal is on the editorial board of SOARD and other journals. The journal “Obesity Surgery” published his biography in 2018.

Kamal sits on the council of the ASGBI (and is its Associate Director for conferences). He is the Northern England representative on the council of the British Benign Upper Gastrointestinal Surgical Society (BBUGSS) and is the chief co-ordinator of The Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons (TUGS).

Chris Pring

BOMSS Patient Safety Committee member, NBSR Committee member
Bariatric surgeon
St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester

Biography

Bruno Sgromo

NBSR Committee member
Consultant Upper GI and Bariatric Surgeon

Biography

After graduating in Italy Bruno completed his training in the Netherlands, Scotland and in Oxford where he was then was appointed as Consultant Surgeon.

Over the last 14 years in Oxford Bruno has developed the Bariatric surgery service, the minimally invasive surgery program for cancers of the UpperGI tract (stomach and oesophagus) and more recently the Robotic surgery.

In Oxford, Bruno has performed over 1000 bariatric operations including primary intervention and revisional surgery.

Working in Oxford allowed Bruno to collaborate and lead several interesting research projects on obesity, non-alcoholic liver disease, diabetes and cancer of the stomach and oesophagus.

Alongside the innovation of surgical techniques, Bruno’s clinical interest is on enhanced recovery after surgery and the management of complications.

Since 2014 Bruno has been involved with BOMSS. First in the educational and research committee and more recently in the National bariatric surgery registry.

In 2021 Bruno was the local organizer of the BOMSS annual conference and lead of the training day.

Richard Welbourn

NBSR Committee member
Bariatric and upper GI Surgeon
Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton

Biography

Richard Welbourne is part of a 5-surgeon bariatric and upper GI team in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, after setting up the unit in the early 2000s. Musgrove became the SW Level 1 Commissioned bariatric surgery centre and the first International Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery of the US Surgical Review Corporation (2009). The unit was awarded an RCS Fellowship in upper GI and bariatric surgery and has trained fellows continuously as part of the National Surgical Fellowship Training Scheme (2009-).

He is lead surgeon on the NIHR-funded By-Band-Sleeve RCT, the largest RCT of different procedures, which is fully recruited (1,341patients) and expects to report in 2023. Previous roles include Past-President of the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (2013-15), member NICE GDG for Obesity (CG189) 2014, NICE Obesity QSAC (2015-16), member CRG for Specialized and Complex Obesity (2012-16). He led multi-collegiate RCS commissioning guidance for bariatric MDT clinics (2104, 2017). He founded the UK National Bariatric Surgery Registry (2009), Chair (2013-18), member IFSO Global Registry Committee (multiple reports 2014-2021). IFSO World Congress President (London, 2017). Recipient of IFSO Presidential Medal (2017) and Award of Appreciation (2018). Associate Editor Obes Surg (2019-), Section Editor Curr Obes Rep (2016-). TSC Chair SCOTS study (2011-).