Mr Periyathambi Jambulingam

Mr Jambulingam is a Consultant Surgeon at the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Trust. He is the Clinical Director for Upper GI and Bariatric Surgery. He is the Lead clinician for Upper GI Cancers and Chair of the Upper GI Cancer MDT for the Trust. He completed his higher surgical training in the West Midlands, at University Hospitals in North Staffordshire, Coventry & Warwickshire and Birmingham. He spent a year in the Liver Transplantation Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, where he passed the intercollegiate specialty examination (FRCS) in 2004 and obtained the Certificate of completion of surgical training (CCST). He completed a year’s post CCST fellowship in OesophagoGastric and advanced laparoscopic surgery at University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust. He is trained in oesophago gastric cancer resections, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, antireflux surgery, diaphragmatic hernia, inguinal & incisional hernia repair, diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy. His NHS practice reflects his subspecialty training in laparoscopic surgery. His practice includes general surgery, weightloss surgery, benign and malignant GI surgery, advanced laparoscopic surgery and hepatobiliary surgery. He delivers bariatric surgical services at the Obesity Centre for research at the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital and enters his data regularly on the National Bariatric Surgery registry (NBSR). He attended bariatric training courses in Hull, Taunton, Bruges in Belgium, UPMC - Pittsburgh and Rotterdam. He is an experienced bariatric surgeon who performs insertion of intragastric balloons (Obera), Obalon, laparoscopic gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass and revisional bariatric surgery. He was an invited speaker for the Sleeve gastrectomy course at IFSO, Montreal 2014. His special interest is oesophago-gastric surgery which includes the management of acid reflux disease in the form of laparoscopic hiatus hernia repair, fundoplication, paraoesophageal hernia repair and achalasia cardia. He has visited the Cancer Institute Hospital and the National Cancer centre in Tokyo and the Division of Thoracic and Foregut surgery at UPMC Pittsburgh on an AUGIS travelling Fellowship. He performs minimally invasive oesophagectomies (MIO) and gastrectomies for cancers and for excision GIST tumors. He performs laparoscopic inguinal hernia repairs extra-peritoneally (TEPP) which facilitates treatment of all groin hernias (including Spigelian hernias) and incisional hernias. He performs diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy including dilatations & insertion of stents and colonoscopy.

Weight loss surgery - Intragastric balloons, Laparoscopic Gastric band, Sleeve gastrectomy, Single loop Bypass, Gastric bypass and revisional surgery. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gallstones =/- on table cholangiogram Laparoscopic para oesophageal hernia repairs, anti reflux surgery ( fundoplication) for acid reflux Laparoscopic repair of incisional hernia repairs, inguinal hernia repairs ( TEPP and TAPP) Laparoscopic Hellers cardiomyotomy for Achalasia cardia. Laparoscopic excision of GISTS Laparoscopic gastrectomy and oesophagectomy for cancers Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy - OGD's, Flexible sigmoidoscopes and colonoscopies. Insertion of PEG's and feeding jejunostomy tubes for Enteral feeding.