Mr Alexis Schizas qualified from Guy’s and St Thoma’ Hospitals in 1999. His higher surgical training was undertaken in the South East London Region. His research was performed at St Thomas Hospital and was awarded his MD in 2011.

He was appointed as a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon to Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals in 2011.

His specialist interests are in Robotic Colorectal Surgery, advanced primary, recurrent colorectal cancer, anal cancer surgery, laparoscopic colorectal surgery and pelvic floor pathology (bowel incontinence, defaecatory difficulties and prolapse).

Areas include:

Pelvic floor conditions.
Faecal incontinence and urgency.
Defaecatory difficulties (obstructed defaecation, constipation related to pelvic floor dysfunction).
Rectal prolapse and rectocoele.
Pelvic floor imaging and physiology.
Rectopexy.
Ventral mesh rectopexy.

Colorectal cancer surgery.
Complex primary rectal and colonic cancers.
Locally advanced and recurrent disease requiring multidisciplinary management.
Faster diagnosis standard for colorectal cancer.
Anal cancer surgery.
AIN.

Robotic minimally invasive colorectal surgery.
Perianal and benign colorectal disease.
Diverticulosis.
Colovaginal fistula.
Colovesicle fistula.

Proctology.
Anal fistula.
Anal fissure.
Haemorrhoids (including surgical management).
Anal sepsis.