Consultant Surgeon in Surgical Oncology, Upper GI, and General Surgery
MBChB, MRCS, DM, FRCS
Overview
Areas of expertise
Medico-Legal experience
Mr Almond is registered with APIL, the National Expert Witness Agency, the UK Register of Expert Witnesses, Premex, and Expert Court Reports Ltd. He is happy to represent both Claimant and Defendant law firms in both personal injury and clinical negligence actions. Mr Almond can usually turnaround reports within three weeks. He has written more than 400 medico-legal reports.
Clinical Practice & Experience
Mr Almond is a Consultant in General Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Surgery. His practice is based at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust where he is the Clinical Lead for General Surgery. Following his registrar training, Mr Almond gained further specialist experience through surgical Fellowships to the Istituto Dei Tumori, Milan, and the Royal Marsden Hospital, London. He developed specialist skills in therapeutic endoscopy through Fellowships to Harvard University, Boston; the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; and the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, US.
Mr Almond treats complex abdominal and retroperitoneal tumours which are referred to him from a wide geographical area stretching from Wales to King’s Lynn, including quaternary referrals from Cambridge and Nottingham. He treats a variety of rare pathologies including sarcomas, neuroendocrine tumours, gastrointestinal stromal tumours and adrenal tumours. His benign practice includes laparoscopic surgery for gallstones, hiatal hernias, acid reflux, abdominal wall and groin hernias. He undertakes major abdominal trauma surgery when on-call at University Hospital Birmingham which is a level 1 trauma centre. He also performs upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy and ERCP (endoscopic removal of gallstones).
Clinical Interests
Mr Almond has special interests in Abdominal Cancer Surgery, Abdominal Trauma, Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery including cholecystectomy, General Surgery and ERCP. He has worked on medicolegal cases involving abdominal trauma, work-related abdominal injury, emergency and elective general surgical negligence including mismanagement of hepatobiliary disease and abdominal cancer.
Research Interests
Mr Almond’s main research interests are in the fields of abdominal oncology and gastro-oesophageal reflux including Barrett’s oesophagus. He has received grants from the Royal College of Surgeons of England to support his work in these fields and has published more than 120 peer reviewed papers.
Management Experience
Mr Almond is the Clinical Lead for Upper GI and General Surgery at University Hospital Birmingham. He was previously the Clinical Governance Lead in Emergency General Surgery across three large acute Hospitals.
Summary of Publications
Mr Almond has published over 120 research articles and book chapters, including publications in Nature and the British Journal of Surgery. He has recently co-authored National and International guidelines on the management of GIST and Retroperitoneal Sarcoma.
Teaching & Training
Mr Almond is an honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and a surgical tutor on behalf of the European School of Soft Tissue Sarcoma Surgery. He also runs the Royal College of Surgeons Sarcoma Fellowship scheme.
Prizes and Awards
Royal College of Surgeons of England pump priming grant. November 2019.
Winner of best oral presentation at the British Sarcoma Group Conference 2018
BASO Travelling Fellowship to Instituto dei tumori, Milan, Italy. October – December 2017
Winner of 1st prize for best oral presentation. West Midlands Surgical Society meeting, May 2014.
Finalist at the BMJ Awards 2014 as a member of the “Three Counties Early Oesophageal Cancer Team”. Shortlisted for the National Cancer Care Team of the Year 2014.
Winner of BSG poster prize 2014 Barrett’s Oesophagus Screening: Infrared spectroscopy for cytological assessment (poster presented by O. Old).
Winner of the Kings Norton Medal for Cranfield University’s Outstanding Doctoral Student across all schools. June 2013.
Winner of the Angela Newing Award for Outstanding Research within Cranfield Health. June 2013.
Wesleyan Royal Society of Medicine Trainee of the Year Finalist. November 2012.
Winner of the RCS Needlemakers bursary award. September 2012.
British Society of Gastroenterology John Bennett Travelling Fellowship.
First prize for best presentation of original research at the International Laser Europe Conference, London, May 2012.
Almond LM et al. awarded the FACSS/SAS/Coblentz/ISA Award at ICORS, Bangalore. May 2012.
Winner of Translational Medicine Conference Oral Presentation Prize. Cranfield Health, Gloucester. March 2012.
Winner of the West Midlands Surgical Society prize for best oral presentation. Worcester, November 2011.
Winner of the best poster prize at the West Midlands Surgical Society. Worcester, November 2011.
Winner of the Royal Society of Medicine Prize (Surgery Section). London, September 2011.
Royal College of Surgeons Research Fellowship award. June 2011.
Winner of the Twort Prize for best oral presentation at the 5th International Barrett’s Symposium, London. April 2011.
Awarded the ‘Three Counties Surgical Research Fellowship’. October 2010
Highest interview score at ST2 level, Cambridge Deanery, 2007.
Postgraduate Award in Medical Education (Grade A). University of Warwick. October 2006
Research Award - Medtronic (US), 2003.
Memberships of Professional Bodies & Learned Societies
British Sarcoma Group (BSG)
Transatlantic Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group (TARPSWG)
The British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons through which he has contributed to the national/international clinical guidelines (BAETS)
Surgical tutor on behalf of the European School of Soft Tissue Sarcoma Surgery
Editor of the journal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours and a regular invited reviewer for multiple other international journals
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England)
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