Personal Profile
Mr Alan Li was educated in Oxford and qualified as a doctor in 1990 after graduating from the University of Bristol Medical School. His early training took him to the University of Manchester as a Lecturer and to Leeds as the University Tutor in Surgery where he was a Research Fellow for the Medical Research Council and the Royal College of Surgeons. Having completed his training in Yorkshire and in Scotland, Alan obtained a travelling fellowship to the National Cancer Centre Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, to refine his surgical techniques in gastric cancer surgery.
This was followed by a prestigious one year position in 2006 as the Senior Clinical Fellow at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia where he developed his practice in pioneering thoracosopic and laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery for oesophageal and gastric cancer, reflux and hiatus hernia surgery, as well as for other surgical conditions. He has since trained other surgeons in Manchester and the North West in these techniques.
Alan gained an appointment as a Consultant Surgeon at Whiston and St Helen’s NHS Trust which he took upon his return to the UK in Feb 2007 with a specialist interest in keyhole surgery. He then joined the Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) as an Upper Gastro-Intestinal, Bariatric and Laparoscopic Surgeon later in 2007 whilst still holding an honorary contract in Merseyside.
In over a decade, he became the Senior and Lead of the Oesophago-Gastric (OG) Unit at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and oversaw a 10-fold increase in the number of stomach and oesopagus cancer operations, the development of a minimally invasive (keyhole) oesophago-gastric cancer surgery service and the delivery of a comprehensive NHS bariatric service.
After 33 years in the NHS and over 17 years of consultant experience, Alan recently retired from Salford Royal Hospital as a senior oesophago-gastric and bariatric surgeon but remains dedicated to NHS patients and continues to deliver expert surgery to the most challenging bariatric and weight loss patients in the North West. He retains honorary NHS contracts in the region and continues to operate by invitation in the most difficult cases. Having performed over 6000 bariatric procedures, he is undoubtedly the most experienced weight loss surgeon in Manchester.
Alan continues to provide training and mentorship to many other surgeons and senior clinical fellows and remains an invited guest lecturer around the world at many cross-specialty conferences including surgery, gastroenterology and radiology. He is also the Surgical Director of a medical innovation charitable foundation trust (Minnova).
His more recent innovations include minimal scar weight loss surgery and completing his robotic surgery training (Da Vinci) which will soon be available to bariatric and upper GI surgery patients at the Alexandra Hospital. Ultimately, Alan believes in an individualized, tailored and holistic approach to patient care and that trust, good communication, empathy, experience and expertise are the foundations to good outcomes.
This was followed by a prestigious one year position in 2006 as the Senior Clinical Fellow at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia where he developed his practice in pioneering thoracosopic and laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery for oesophageal and gastric cancer, reflux and hiatus hernia surgery, as well as for other surgical conditions. He has since trained other surgeons in Manchester and the North West in these techniques.
Alan gained an appointment as a Consultant Surgeon at Whiston and St Helen’s NHS Trust which he took upon his return to the UK in Feb 2007 with a specialist interest in keyhole surgery. He then joined the Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) as an Upper Gastro-Intestinal, Bariatric and Laparoscopic Surgeon later in 2007 whilst still holding an honorary contract in Merseyside.
In over a decade, he became the Senior and Lead of the Oesophago-Gastric (OG) Unit at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and oversaw a 10-fold increase in the number of stomach and oesopagus cancer operations, the development of a minimally invasive (keyhole) oesophago-gastric cancer surgery service and the delivery of a comprehensive NHS bariatric service.
After 33 years in the NHS and over 17 years of consultant experience, Alan recently retired from Salford Royal Hospital as a senior oesophago-gastric and bariatric surgeon but remains dedicated to NHS patients and continues to deliver expert surgery to the most challenging bariatric and weight loss patients in the North West. He retains honorary NHS contracts in the region and continues to operate by invitation in the most difficult cases. Having performed over 6000 bariatric procedures, he is undoubtedly the most experienced weight loss surgeon in Manchester.
Alan continues to provide training and mentorship to many other surgeons and senior clinical fellows and remains an invited guest lecturer around the world at many cross-specialty conferences including surgery, gastroenterology and radiology. He is also the Surgical Director of a medical innovation charitable foundation trust (Minnova).
His more recent innovations include minimal scar weight loss surgery and completing his robotic surgery training (Da Vinci) which will soon be available to bariatric and upper GI surgery patients at the Alexandra Hospital. Ultimately, Alan believes in an individualized, tailored and holistic approach to patient care and that trust, good communication, empathy, experience and expertise are the foundations to good outcomes.
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