Mr David Stoker

I have been in private practice at BMI Cavell and Kings Oak Hospitals since 1995, running a busy mainly upper gastrointestinal, general and laparoscopic service. Since retiring from the NHS in May 2020, I limited this work to a busy intermediate general surgery and upper GI endoscopy practice. Since 2025, I continue with upper GI endoscopies performing 15-20 cases per month, and general surgery consultations only, in the private and NHS contracted sector. In 2022 I was promoted to UK Associate Dean for Clinical Studies at St Georges International University where I continue to work in a senior executive capacity. My main areas of expertise remain in the field of upper GI surgery and endoscopy, with a special interest in dyspepsia and abdominal hernia. I expect to remain in advisory clinical practice for many years to come. For 30 years I spent all day at BMI Cavell every Wednesday, operating and seeing patients in clinic. I also had a weekly gastroscopy list earlier in the week. I have a Secretary available every day to take calls and e-mails. I do not run an emergency surgery clinic. I qualified from Edinburgh University, and spent my training years in Edinburgh, and then London, initially at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in Hammersmith, then the West Middlesex University Hospital from where I passed my Fellowship exams in 1983. I was Senior Registrar on the Barts circuit. I spent a year as a locum upper GI consultant surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London in 1993/94, and was appointed to the North Middlesex University Hospital as Consultant General Surgeon with an interest in laparoscopic and upper GI surgery in 1995 and was also given an Honorary title of Senior Lecturer to University College London. I spent the first several years of my consultant practice pursuing my upper GI, laparoscopic and ERCP practice. During this time, I also undertook managerial responsibilities sequentially as Associate Medical Director, then Divisional Director. In 2003 NHS England moved all oesophago-gastric cancer work to Central London Teaching Hospitals, and I was fortunate to be able to found, and develop the Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Unit at University College London. Following 6 years of part-time central London NHS work, I returned full time to North Middlesex University Hospital as Undergraduate Sub-Dean, and Director of Medical Education.  In 2011 I was promoted to Professor of Surgery at St Georges International University, and took on the UK Associate Chair of Surgery position, overseeing all undergraduate surgical education at 14 hospitals in England, and I remain in this position today. In 2015 I took on the role of Cancer Lead for my Trust, and chaired our Cancer Board for 5 years prior to my retirement from the NHS.

Upper GI endoscopy. Upper GI and general Surgical consultations only