Prof. Simon Bach
Associate Professor and Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
United Kingdom
Areas of expertise
- Colorectal cancer
- Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours
- Colorectal resection
- Minimally invasive abdominal and pelvic surgery
- Transanal endoscopic microsurgery
- Gastrointestinal endoscopy
- Advanced endoscopic polypectomy
About the expert
Professor Bach is an associate Professor of colorectal surgery, section lead for surgery and clinical lead for the D3B [Drugs, Devices, Diagnostics & Biomarkers] clinical trials team at the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham. He is the chief investigator for MASTERY (a pan specialty robotics research network across the UK analysing robotic systems data from cancer surgeries). Prof. Bach has more than 60 published works in leading scientific journals and has received awards for his work in colorectal surgery.
Prof. Bach works at University Hospitals Birmingham. His clinical practice focuses upon minimally invasive treatment of colorectal cancer. He is an expert in a number of techniques that substantially reduce treatment-related toxicity. These include laparoscopic ‘keyhole’ surgery, transanal ‘scarless’ endoscopic microsurgery, and advanced therapeutic endoscopy. His experience extends to more than 30 years.
He was awarded a place on the Australian Colorectal Surgery Training Scheme in 2008 and spent 12 months working in Melbourne. At that time Australia was considered world-leading in minimally invasive abdominal and pelvic surgery and as a result, he was able to accrue extensive operative experience, performing in excess of 300 major colorectal procedures, a high proportion of which were minimally invasive.
In 2019 he was awarded national training centre status by the Royal College of Surgeons and ACPGBI for transanal endoscopic microsurgery and therapeutic colonoscopy. He is chief investigator of the Cancer Research UK TREC (national) and STAR-TREC (international) studies that evaluate novel organ preservation treatments for early-stage rectal cancer, as an alternative to standard radical surgery.
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Clinical Director
2016 - 2020Birmingham’s Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit
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Senior Lecturer in Surgery
2016 - 2020University of Birmingham
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Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
2008 - 2020Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
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FRCS (Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons)
General Surgery Intercollegiate Board, UK
2006
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University Teachers Course (UNICON)
Oxford University, UK
2003
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Doctor of Medicine: Antioxidants as modulators of 5-fluorouracil therapy in colorectal cancer
University of Manchester, UK
2003
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FRCS (Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons)
Royal College of Surgeons of England
1997
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MB BS (Medicinae Baccalaureus Baccalaureus Chirurgiae)
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
1992
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Chief investigator for Cancer Research UK STAR-TREC rectal cancer study
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Chair National Cancer Research Institute colorectal surgery subgroup
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Member of management team for major colorectal cancer research studies
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Royal College of Surgeons (Eng) National Lead for Robotics and Digital technology
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