Consultant Profile

Mr Ashish Kiran Shrestha MBBS, MSc (Imperial College London), FRCSEd

Self Pay Consultation Fee

Practising at: Ashford

Specialties: Colonoscopy, Coloproctology, Colorectal Surgery, General Surgery, Hernia Repair Surgery, Keyhole Surgery, Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery, Laparoscopic Hernia Surgery, Laparoscopic Surgery, Minimal Access Surgery, Gallbladder Removal, Endoscopy

Special clinical interests:
Benign Colorectal Disease (Piles, Anal Fissure, Perianal Fistula, Pilonidal sinus, etc.), Colorectal Cancer Surgery, Gallbladder Surgery, Hernia Surgery, Laparoscopic surgery, Lower GI endoscopic procedures (Colonoscopy)

Current NHS and /or university posts:
Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Year of first medical qualification and medical school attended: 2000 B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
General Medical Council
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Association of Coloproctology Great Britain and Ireland
Nepalese doctor’s Association, UK

Background Information

I qualified from B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal in 2000. I came to the UK in 2005 and completed my basic surgical training from Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, Dumfries, Scotland. I completed a Masters degree in Surgical Sciences with Merit from Imperial College London with a research project and dissertation on Liver Metastasis from Colorectal cancers. I am currently working as Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust since 2017.

I am the lead for the Emergency Surgery and Surgical Emergency Assessment Unit. I have also been appointed as Clinical teacher at Kent and Medway Medical College, Educational Supervisor for King's College London medical students and St George’s University, London. I enjoy teaching undergraduates, surgical trainees and have been faculty for numerous courses. I have been awarded several trust awards for my education role.

I have several presentations in national and international surgical meetings as well as having more than 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals.  I have  been successfully organising Annual East Kent Surgical Conference (rebranded from William Harvey Surgical Evening), a regional/ national meeting for general surgeons for last 5 years.

I am also a Joint Secretary for Nepalese Doctors’ Association UK. I am actively involved in the NDA UK Academic and Charity programme. I recently organised a very successful annual charity programme in the Leas Cliff Hall Folkestone, Kent, raising funds for autism in Nepal and Kent Autistic Trust, UK.

I qualified from B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal 2000. I came to the UK in 2005 and completed my Basic Surgical Training in Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, Dumfries, Scotland. In 2012, I did my MSc in Surgical Sciences with a Merit from Imperial College London. I am currently working as Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust based at William Harvey Hospital since 2017. I am the lead for the Emergency Surgery and Surgical Emergency Assessment Unit. I have been appointed as Clinical teacher and Supervisor for Kent and Medway Medical College, King's College London and St George’s University London. I have several trust awards for my undergraduate education role. I am the current Joint Secretary for Nepalese Doctors’ Association UK.