Chris Sutton
Medical Devices
Surgical Innovations Group
Malaysia
Biography
Chris Sutton is a Consultant General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon at Spire Leicester Hospital. He specialises in weight loss surgery, upper gastrointestinal surgery and hernia repairs – both laparoscopic and open-end endoscopy, in addition to minor surgical procedures. Chris studied medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine and qualified in 1993. After undertaking his junior surgical training in South Wales, Chris moved to Leicester and completed both senior surgical training and a higher degree in cancer research. He has also spent a year gaining specialist experience in Upper Gastrointestinal and Obesity Surgery in the University Hospitals of Leeds under the supervision of international experts in these fields. He has been awarded the first British Obesity Surgical Society Bariatric Surgical Fellowship in the UK and holds a certificate in Laparoscopic Obesity Surgery from the European School of Laparoscopic Surgery in Brussels. Chris gained expertise in laparoscopic gastric cancer surgery during his time in Leeds and by visiting the Cancer Institute Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research in Tokyo. The Biomed Research Unit at University hospitals of Leicester, which Chris is a part of, has recently gained a grant worth 5 million pounds to investigate diabetes. Chris also lectures locally for University of Leicester MSc courses and nationally as part of the Pioneers in Diabetes program.
Research Interest
Medical Devices
