Professor Simon Bach
Associate Professor and Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
United Kingdom
Areas of expertise
- General surgery
- Colorectal surgery
- Pelvic surgery
- Bowel cancer treatment
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 chief investigator for MASTERY (a pan specialty robotics research network across the UK analysing robotic systems data from cancer surgeries)
He has more than 60 published work 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 ‘scar less’ endoscopic microsurgery, and advanced therapeutic endoscopy. 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.
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.
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Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
2008 - 2020Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Surgery
2016 - 2020University of Birmingham
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Clinical Director
2016 - 2020Birmingham’s Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit
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Honorary specialist registrar and lecturer in surgery.
2002 - 2007John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford.
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Specialist registrar in general surgery.
2000 - 2002Oxford region
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Bachelor of Medical Sciences (Hons).
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
1989
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MB BS (Medicinae Baccalaureus Baccalaureus Chirurgiae)
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
1992
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FRCS (Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons)
Royal College of Surgeons of England
1997
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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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University Teachers Course (UNICON)
Oxford University, UK
2003
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FRCS (Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons)
General Surgery Intercollegiate Board, UK
2006
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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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