Miss Ramya Kalaiselvan

Consultant in General Surgery

MBBS, M.Phil(thesis), FRCS (Eng)

Miss Kalaiselvan specialises in Minimal Access General and Colorectal Surgery and was appointed as Consultant Surgeon at St.Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust in June 2018. She has been trained at leading units in Liverpool and Manchester. She completed her Specialist training at the prestigious National Intestinal Failure Unit, Salford and was also a visiting fellow at Comprehensive Hernia Centre, Cleveland clinic, USA.

Clinical Interests

  • Hernias
  • Laparoscopic colorectal surgery (Benign and malignant disease)
  • Gallstones
  • Pilonidal disease
  • Proctology – Fissures, hemorrhoids
  • Fistula (anal/ colovaginal/ colovesical)
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Surgical Nutrition

Treatments

  • Open and Laparoscopic hernia repairs
  • Abdominal wall reconstruction
  • Endoscopy – Flexible sigmoidoscopy and Colonoscopy
  • Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • THD for Hemorrhoids
  • Botox injection and advancement flap for Anal Fissures
  • VAAFT and LIFT for fistulas
  • EPSiT (Minimally invasive treatment) for pilonidal disease
  • Laparoscopic Colorectal cancer surgery