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*Please note Mr Ackroyd no longer sees private patients for bariatric surgery at Thornbury Hospital
Background
Mr Roger Ackroyd is a Consultant Surgeon at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and at Thornbury Hospital. He qualified in medicine from Sheffield University in 1989 and trained in surgery in Sheffield and Adelaide, Australia. He took up a consultant appointment in Sheffield in 2001 and specialises in general and upper GI surgery. His clinical interests include oesophago-gastric cancer surgery, laparoscopic surgery, gallstone surgery and hernia surgery.
Teaching and Training
He also has an active research programme. He has supervised 12 post-graduate students, all of whom have gained a higher degree (PhD, MD, etc). He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers and presented his work at scientific meetings all over the world.
Mr Ackroyd has been a member of the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS) since it was founded in 2001. During that time he has been on the Council of the Society for 15 years and has been held the positions of Treasurer, Secretary and President.
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