Professor Shaun Preston
Consultant Surgeon
BSc(Hons) MB ChB MD FRCS(Eng) FRCS(Gen)
Languages spoken: English
Professor Shaun Preston
Consultant Surgeon
BSc(Hons) MB ChB MD FRCS(Eng) FRCS(Gen)
Languages spoken: English
Appointments available at:
Cromwell HospitalPatient Age Group
AdultsYear qualified
1990Gender
MaleSpecialty
General surgerySubspecialties
Upper GI surgery, Robotic surgery, Oesophago-gastric surgery, EndoscopyClinical Interests
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS), Standardised Clinical Pathways, and Prehabilitation ahead of surgery (Prehab).
About Professor Shaun Preston
Professor Shaun Preston is a distinguished General Surgeon and Director of the specialist Oesophago-Gastric Unit at The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust Hospital. This is a tertiary/quaternary unit specialising in the management of benign oesophago-gastric disorders and is a dedicated oesophago-gastric cancer unit.
Professor Preston has an international reputation in the field of oesophago-gastric cancer and complex hiatal surgery (anti-reflux surgery, revisional anti-reflux surgery, giant paraoesophageal hernias and Heller's cardiomyotomy for achalasia). He is invited to lecture and chair sessions at international conferences, teaches senior trainees and more junior consultants on training programmes, and demonstrates surgical technique 'live' and by video at specialist symposia.
He has a wealth of expertise in robotic, laparoscopic (keyhole) and open surgery, and in endoscopic techniques including interventional endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasound. He is very well respected for his specialist skills in the management of reflux, Barrett's oesophagus, oesophageal and gastric cancer, achalasia, abdominal and inguinal hernia repair and gallstones.
Professor Preston earned his medical degree from the University of Leeds. He also has a Doctorate and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In the Intercollegiate Fellowship in General Surgery in 2000, Professor Preston was awarded the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI) Gold Medal & Prize for the best results across the UK.
He later earned the esteemed Japanese Foundation for the Promotion of Cancer Research/British Council Fellowship at the National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, where he worked in the Gastric, Oesophageal, and Endoscopic Divisions.
From 2001-2006 Professor Preston was a consultant oesophago-gastric surgeon on the Northern-Oesophago-Gastric Unit, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, working with Professor Michael Griffin OBE, which was then the highest volume OG Unit in the UK.
Professor Preston previously spent time with Professor James Luketich at the Division of Foregut Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (2006), where he learnt thoracoscopic oesophagectomy. He, and his team, also visited and worked with Dr Low and his team at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle (2011) to develop the first UK Standardised Enhanced Recovery (ERAS) Pathway for Oesophagectomy.
He is well-known on the international stage and is invited to lecture widely, as well as to demonstrate surgical techniques around the world. In 2015, he was the Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting.
He is Honorary Professor of Oesophago-Gastric & Robotic Surgery at the University of Surrey, and the Visiting Professor at Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Hospital in Kuwait.
His research interests are in the evaluation and optimal management of patients with oesophageal and gastric cancer. He was the National Chief Investigator for the international and NCRI portfolio study (NeoAEGIS), and was Principal Investigator on another NCRI portfolio study (OCCAMS).
Professor Preston has an international reputation in the field of oesophago-gastric cancer and complex hiatal surgery (anti-reflux surgery, revisional anti-reflux surgery, giant paraoesophageal hernias and Heller's cardiomyotomy for achalasia). He is invited to lecture and chair sessions at international conferences, teaches senior trainees and more junior consultants on training programmes, and demonstrates surgical technique 'live' and by video at specialist symposia.
He has a wealth of expertise in robotic, laparoscopic (keyhole) and open surgery, and in endoscopic techniques including interventional endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasound. He is very well respected for his specialist skills in the management of reflux, Barrett's oesophagus, oesophageal and gastric cancer, achalasia, abdominal and inguinal hernia repair and gallstones.
Professor Preston earned his medical degree from the University of Leeds. He also has a Doctorate and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In the Intercollegiate Fellowship in General Surgery in 2000, Professor Preston was awarded the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI) Gold Medal & Prize for the best results across the UK.
He later earned the esteemed Japanese Foundation for the Promotion of Cancer Research/British Council Fellowship at the National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, where he worked in the Gastric, Oesophageal, and Endoscopic Divisions.
From 2001-2006 Professor Preston was a consultant oesophago-gastric surgeon on the Northern-Oesophago-Gastric Unit, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, working with Professor Michael Griffin OBE, which was then the highest volume OG Unit in the UK.
Professor Preston previously spent time with Professor James Luketich at the Division of Foregut Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (2006), where he learnt thoracoscopic oesophagectomy. He, and his team, also visited and worked with Dr Low and his team at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle (2011) to develop the first UK Standardised Enhanced Recovery (ERAS) Pathway for Oesophagectomy.
He is well-known on the international stage and is invited to lecture widely, as well as to demonstrate surgical techniques around the world. In 2015, he was the Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting.
He is Honorary Professor of Oesophago-Gastric & Robotic Surgery at the University of Surrey, and the Visiting Professor at Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Hospital in Kuwait.
His research interests are in the evaluation and optimal management of patients with oesophageal and gastric cancer. He was the National Chief Investigator for the international and NCRI portfolio study (NeoAEGIS), and was Principal Investigator on another NCRI portfolio study (OCCAMS).
NHS Base (trust)
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Professional memberships
General Medical Council (GMC), British Medical Association (BMA), Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (AUGIS), Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons (ALSGBI)
