Mr Samad graduated in 1996 from Trivandrum Medical College in India. He completed his basic surgical training in South Wales and research fellowship in Birmingham. Following this he joined the higher surgical training program in Liverpool with a special interest in Colorectal Surgery. After completing the specialist training, he spent 18 months as a laparoscopic (keyhole) fellow in Perth, Western Australia. On returning to the UK in 2010, he was appointed as a Consultant Colorectal and Laparoscopic Surgeon in St Helens & Knowsley NHS trusts.
Mr Samad has a special interest in bowel cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis. He also performs many gallbladder and hernia operations. Since his appointment as a consultant, he has performed more than 1,000 major bowel resections and provided both gastroscopy and colonoscopy services.
He currently performs more than 80 robotic/laparoscopic colorectal operations and over 100 laparoscopic cholecystectomy (removal of gallbladder) a year. He offers the latest treatments for piles, anal fistulae and pilonidal sinus i.e. Trans-anal Haemorrhoidal Dearterialisation (THD) the so called ‘painless piles operation’,
Mr Samad is the lead clinician for colorectal cancer services in Mersey & West Lancashire NHS Trust and he is the lead for the Robotic Surgery program for this trust. He has performed a high number of bowel cancer operations in Cheshire & Merseyside and the outcome for the cancer resections he has performed is published in the ACPGBI website.
Current NHS/University Posts
Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon, Mersey and West Lancashire NHS Trust
Clinical interests
Colorectal cancer
Inflammatory bowel disease surgery
Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery
Gallbladder Surgery
Hernia Surgery
Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
Haemorrhoid Surgery Including THD
AIN diagnosis and Treatment
Professional memberships
ACPGBI
BASO
Treatments offered
Bowel cancer
Bowel cancer surgery
Colonoscopy
Sigmoidoscopy
Upper GI endoscopy and dilatation
Abdominal wall reconstruction
Anal fistula surgery
Appendicectomy
Colorectal surgery Hartmann’s procedure
Colostomy, closure of loop
Epigastric hernia repair
Femoral hernia repair
Gallbladder removal
Haemorrhoidal artery ligation
Haemorrhoidectomy
Hernia repair paraumbilical and umbilica
Ileostomy closure surgery
Incisional hernia
Laparoscopic colectomy
Pilonidal sinus surgery
Sigmoid colectomy for diverticular disease
Skin lesions