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Meet Professor Qureshi

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Professor Qureshi’s expertise was recognised in 2011 when he was selected by the Department of Health to become a National Trainer in Laparoscopic Surgery (LAPCO). This role required him to teach and assess other Consultant Surgeons around the UK, to ensure they were safe to perform laparoscopic surgery.

Recently, Professor Qureshi was asked to form part of a faculty which trains Consultant Surgeons in other countries. The aim is to disseminate safe laparoscopic techniques so these surgeons can set up training programmes in their own countries. He also offers an international Laparoscopic Fellowship in Poole.

Professor Qureshi has strong links with Bournemouth University where he is clinical supervisor at the National Centre for Computer Animation at the university. The aim of this project is to develop a laparoscopic simulator which would help train surgeons in advanced laparoscopic techniques.

Professor Qureshi then followed up with bringing Robotic Surgery to Poole All this thanks to the generosity and foresight of Robert Braithwaite Founder of Sunseeker International, Poole is now at the cutting edge of 21st Century Medicine and being talked about internationally. It is important to note that Robert's gift of 3.5million pounds came from Robert personally.  A truly wonder gesture made where Robert sees the value and potential of the da Vinci Robot Xi for the future.

 

Professor Tahseen Qureshi MBBS FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Gen Surg), is a Consultant General Surgeon based at Poole Hospital and a national and international trainer in laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery.

Professor Qureshi underwent undergraduate training at King’s College Hospital in London. His ‘House Jobs’ were on Professorial Units, as House Physician to Professors McGregor and Swift at King’s College Hospital and House Surgeon to Professors Bailey and Marks at The Royal Surrey County Hospital. He spent a year at the busy Accident & Emergency Department at King’s College Hospital, London. Following his Basic Surgical Training in West Sussex, he was appointed to Higher Surgical Training in the Wessex region, finishing his surgical apprenticeship with a Laparoscopic Fellowship in Portsmouth with Professor Parvaiz.

Professor Qureshi was appointed as a Consultant Laparoscopic Surgeon at Poole NHS Foundation Trust and was asked to introduce the latest laparoscopic techniques for bowel cancer surgery.

He was also tasked with establishing an ‘Enhanced Recovery Programme’, the success of which was recognised when the programme he set up was short-listed for the National Patient Safety Awards in 2011. Since his appointment, Professor Qureshi has been the Lead Laparoscopic Surgeon and Enhanced Recovery Lead. Soon after his arrival, he was invited to form part of the nationally accredited Dorset Endometriosis Centre and is the Lead General Surgeon for this.

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