Prof Kumar, Trustee

Professor Devinder Kumar qualified from the University of Delhi in 1975, where, as a medical student he was awarded the certificate of merit by the Minister of Health for his work with the The World Health Organisation’s small pox eradication programme.

He completed his surgical training at Great Ormond Street Hospital, The Royal London Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham where he became a fellow of the royal college of surgeons in 1980. Devinder carried out extensive Research into Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) at the London Hospital and was the first to describe a motility disorder in  IBS.

He was awarded the degree of PhD by the University of London in 1987 and was then successful in obtaining a fellowship to go to the Mayo Clinic in the United States to finish his training.

In 1989 he was appointed as Senior Lecturer in surgery at the University of Birmingham where he remained until 1989 until he took up a position at St George’s Hospital, London as Consultant surgeon in 1994. He was made Professor of Gastrointestinal surgery in 2004. Professor Kumar has developed a special interest in the treatment of Crohn’s disease, Ulcerative colitis, advanced and recurrent bowel cancer, irritable bowel syndrome and faecal incontinence.

Throughout his research he has published more than one hundred original papers and reviews in national and international journals. He has written more than fifty book chapters and has authored/edited six books and gives regular guest and Keynote lectures at National and International meetings.