Personal Profile
Mr Iftikhar Khan is an experienced General Surgeon. He qualified from Dow Medical College in Pakistan. He completed his surgical training in Pakistan. He then went on to complete specialist surgical training in the UK. This led to him working in major teaching hospitals in both Cambridge and London where he obtained his CCST in 1999.
Mr Khan has been working as a consultant in the NHS since 1999. He is currently a Consultant General Surgeon in Aintree University Hospital. He has extensive experience in the full range of elective and emergency GI surgery, with a special interest in laparoscopic surgery and endoscopy.
Mr Khan has presented and published nationally and internationally. He is keenly involved in teaching and is a member of regional surgical training committee. He is an accredited trainer for upper and lower GI endoscopy and has delivered both training and lectures to students, junior doctors, GP’s and nurses. He is also an accredited bowel cancer screening endoscopist.
Current NHS/University Posts
- Consultant General Surgeon, University Hospitals of Liverpool NHS Trust
Clinical interests
- Hernia surgery
- Upper and Lower Gastro-intestinal disease and surgery
- Upper and Lower GI endoscopy (Gastroscopy, Colonoscopy )
- Surgical treatment of reflux disease and Hiatus hernia (Fundoplication)
- Gall bladder Surgery
- Surgery for lumps and bumps
- Bowel cancer screening
Professional memberships
- Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons Physicians, Glasgow
- British Medical Association
- Association of Surgeons of Great Britian and Ireland
- Association of Upper GI Surgeons
- Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons
Treatments offered
- Colonoscopy
- Sigmoidoscopy
- Ulcerative colitis treatment
- Epigastric hernia repair
- Femoral hernia repair
- Gallbladder removal
- Hernia repair (paraumbilical and umbilical)
- Incisional hernia
- Skin lesion
- Sports hernia repair