Our consultant surgeons

Basingstoke Colorectal is a Partnership of eight Colorectal Consultants and General Surgeons Mr Brendan Moran, Mr Tom Cecil, Mr Faheez Mohamed, Mr Steve Arnold, Mr Arcot Venkat, Mr Sanjeev Dayal, Mr Francesco Di Fabio and Mr Alexios Tzivanakis.  All eight work both in the NHS at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Foundation Trust and privately at the Hampshire Clinic. The Partnership is unique in that it covers all elements of colorectal complaints, investigations, treatments and surgery. Their primary concern is the patient and their primary aim is to provide a first class service with clarity, through consultation to any treatment which may be needed.

  • Mr Brendan Moran
    MCh, FRCS, FRCSI
    Mr Brendan Moran has been working at the Hampshire Clinic since 1995 as a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and General Surgeon. Mr Moran has been a Consultant Surgeon at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Foundation Trust since 1995 and is now National Lead Clinician for the Low Rectal Cancer National Development Pilot Programme. Until this latest appointment, he was the Director of the UK Pseudomyxoma Peritonei National Centre, having developed the centre into the largest peritoneal malignancy treatment centre in the world. Other principal appointments include Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Southampton, Cancer Sciences Division, Member of Council of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, Lead Surgeon of the National Multidisciplinary Team and the TME Development Programme. Mr Moran undertook his Registrar training in Hampshire and became a Fellow of the Royal College Of Surgeons of Ireland in 1984 and of England in 1997. Particular interests of Mr Moran include, rectal cancers, appendiceal tumours, Pseudomyxoma Peritonei.
  • Mr Tom Cecil
    DM FRCS
    Mr Tom Cecil has been working at the Hampshire Clinic since 2002 as a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and General Surgeon.  Mr Cecil has also been a Consultant Surgeon at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Foundation Trust since 2002 and is on the faculty for the National MultiDisciplinary Team and the TME Development Programme. Mr Cecil is the Director of the UK Pseudomyxoma Peritonei National Centre at Basingstoke. Other principal appointments include Course Convenor for “Le Peripherique” laparoscopic colorectal courses, Course Convenor for Elancourt TME Masterclass, faculty member of the European Laparoscopic Colorectal Masterclass and for the Danish National Colorectal Training Programme. Mr Cecil undertook his Registrar training in the Wessex region and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1994 and a Doctor Of Medicine in 2002 at Southampton University.
  • Mr Steven Arnold
    BSc, MBBS, MSc, FRCS
    Mr Steven Arnold became a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at Guy's and St. Thomas' in 1997. He obtained a Masters degree with Distinction at the Imperial College/Hammersmith Hospital, London, in September 2002 and was a Specialist Registrar in the Wessex Region between 2003 and 2008. Mr Arnold has extensive laparoscopic colorectal interests, having been awarded the Ethicon National Laparoscopic Colorectal Fellowship at Frimley Park in 2008, and was subsequently appointed Covidien Laparoscopic Colorectal Fellow at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Foundation Trust. He is also one of the National Trainers in Laparoscopic Surgery. Mr Arnold is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the  Basingstoke and North Hampshire Foundation Trust and forms one of the six Partners of Basingstoke Colorectal at the Hampshire Clinic.
  • Mr Faheez Mohamed
    MD, MBChB, FRCSEd
    Mr Faheez Mohamed became a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1996. He underwent Higher Surgical Training in the North East of England. He was awarded Doctor of Medicine at The University of Newcastle in 2005 based on his research into intraperitoneal chemotherapy for the treatment of intra-abdominal cancer. He was granted Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in September 2007. Mr Mohamed has been involved in extensive research on peritoneal surface malignancy under the supervision of Dr Paul Sugarbaker, Washington DC, USA and is currently Consultant Surgeon at the National Specialist Commissioning Group, Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Centre at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Foundation Trust. Mr Mohamed is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Foundation Trust and forms one of the six Partners of Basingstoke Colorectal at the Hampshire Clinic.
  • Mr Arcot Venkat
    MBBS, FRCSEd
    Mr Arcot Venkat became a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at the Tamil Nadu Medical University, India in June 1996. He underwent Higher Surgical Training in the North East of England and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in February 2008. Mr Venkat has been heavily involved in research for abdominal aortic aneurysms and has presented and published the results of this work internationally. Mr Venkat has extensive laparoscopic colorectal interests, having been appointed Covidien Laparoscopic Colorectal Fellow at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Foundation Trust and subsequently awarded the Ethicon National Laparoscopic Colorectal Fellowship at Frimley Park in 2008. He is also one of the National Trainers in Laparoscopic surgery. He has spent some time in the University Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark to augment his skills in managing pelvic floor conditions including faecal incontinence. Mr Venkat is now working as a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Foundation Trust and forms one of the six Partners of Basingstoke Colorectal at the Hampshire Clinic.
  • Mr Sanjeev Dayal
    MS(Gen Surg) FRCSGlas
    Mr Sanjeev Dayal became a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at the Christian Medical College at Ludhiana in India in 1992. He completed his Higher Surgical Training in General Surgery in 1998 from this Indian centre of excellence where he developed skills in managing a broad range of complex adult and paediatric surgical conditions.  He has trained in Scotland and Basingstoke where he was a Fellow in Laparoscopic Colorectal surgery, and Peritoneal Malignancy. He has published and presented widely in the field of Peritoneal Malignancy and Colorectal surgery. He was appointed as a Consultant Colorectal and General surgeon at Basingstoke with an interest in Peritoneal Malignancy and is one of the Partners of Basingstoke Colorectal. 
  • Francesco Di Fabio
    FRCS (Gen Surg), FEBC, PhD
    Mr Di Fabio became a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Brescia (Italy) in 1998. He underwent Higher Surgical Training at the University Hospital Southampton and Basingstoke North Hampshire Hospital.  He was awarded a PhD and Doctor Europeaus in Translational Biomedical Sciences, University of Verona, Italy, in 2015. He became a Fellow of the European Board of Coloproctology in 2014 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in April 2016.    Mr Di Fabio has extensive interest in laparoscopic colorectal surgery and peritoneal malignancy. He has been a Senior Laparoscopic and Peritoneal Malignancy Fellow at Basingstoke North Hampshire Hospital. Mr Di Fabio has been involved in extensive research in colorectal cancer, peritoneal malignancy, enhanced recovery after surgery and patient-reported outcome measures (quality of life and bowel function after colorectal surgery). He has been a research fellow at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2006-2007) and a clinical fellow at the Philipps University Hospital, Marburg, Germany (2002 and 2004).   Mr Di Fabio is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Basingstoke North Hampshire Hospital – Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is one of the Basingstoke Colorectal Partners at The Hampshire Clinic.  
  • Mr Alexios Tzivanakis
    MBBS, BSc, MD, FRCS Gen Surg
    I became a bachelor of medicine and surgery at Imperial College London in 2005. I also completed a BSc in Immunology also from Imperial College London in 2003. I did my higher surgical training in Wessex deanery focusing in general, laparoscopic and open colorectal surgery and became a fellow of the royal college of surgeons in 2016. I was a research fellow in Oxford Hospitals and I was awarded a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Cardiff University in 2014 for my research in early detection of colorectal cancer.    I have published and presented widely in the field of Peritoneal Malignancy and Colorectal surgery. I was appointment as Consultant Surgeon in Peritoneal Malignancy Institute in Basingstoke Hospital in 2019 and my main interests are peritoneal malignancy and colorectal surgery. I am one of the partners in Basingstoke Colorectal Partners. 

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