Mr Satheesh Iype

Mr Satheesh Iype is an experienced consultant surgeon in HPB surgery (surgery of the liver and the pancreas) and liver transplantation based at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London. Mr Iype has over 15 years’ experience in this speciality, dealing with both cancer and non-cancerous conditions affecting the gallbladder, liver, bile duct and pancreas. He routinely performs complex surgical procedures for liver and pancreatic cancer. General surgical procedures for groin hernia, incisional hernia and abdominal wall swellings are also part of his routine practice.

Mr Iype qualified in 1997 at Mahatma Gandhi University, India. After obtaining his postgraduate training in surgery in India, he did specialist surgical training in the East of England region, mainly based at Cambridge. He was awarded M Phil from University of Cambridge in transplant surgery and has also been awarded the European fellowship in transplant surgery. He pursued further training by completing fellowships in HPB and liver transplant surgery in various prestigious units such as Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge; Heidelberg, Germany and Asan Medical Centre, Seoul. He also underwent training and practised live donor liver transplant in India.

Mr Iype’s expertise includes laparoscopic surgery of the gall bladder, liver and pancreas. He regularly treats patients with benign conditions affecting the pancreas such as acute pancreatitis, chronic calcific pancreatitis and pancreatic cysts. An active researcher in the liver transplantation field, he has published extensively in peer reviewed journals and contributed to book chapters. His area of special interest in research and development is live donor transplantation and machine perfusion to improve the quality of liver transplantation.

He is currently involved in several research projects involving machine perfusion in liver transplantation. He is on the faculty of the University College of London for undergraduate medical education.