Alberic Fiennes
Specialist in General, Upper Digestive and Laparoscopic Surgery, Bariatric (Obesity) Surgery & Weight Management. Alberic Fiennes trained at St Bart’s Hospital London and qualified in 1976. After broad training in all aspects of Surgery, he became Senior Lecturer in Surgery then Consultant Surgeon at St George’s Hospital and Medical School from 1990 to 2007, where he founded the current bariatric service. He was Director of Bariatric Surgery at University College London Hospital from 2007-2009.
He is currently President of the British Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS) & Chairman of the Data Committee, National Bariatric Surgery Registry (NBSR). He represents BOMSS on the ESCO group (Experts In Severe & Complex Obesity). He has been active in Bariatric Surgery, both keyhole and open since 1995 when he took on the aftercare of patients who had undergone weight-loss surgery in the 1970s and 80s, working over the years with leading colleagues in this field. The team he now leads has fourteen years’ experience, during which time he has undertaken nearly a thousand procedures and has trained many fellow bariatric surgeons. The same experience has taught him not only to be a committed patient advocate, but to empathise with the needs, fears and hopes of patients seeking bariatric surgery. He is now privileged to lead a team of professionals with long NHS and independent sector experience who share one passion: to support patients in their recovery from the 21st century disease of severe overweight. “Patients suffering from severe overweight have a disease that may spoil every aspect of their lives. From us they need not only safe and correct professional care but understanding, kindness and support – to be helped, not judged. They should expect access to a multi-professional and holistic framework, committed with them to their long-term care and well-being. I am extremely fortunate to be able to place such a team at patients’ disposal”.
