Mr Stephanos Pericleous
MBBS (London), MDRes (London) FRCSEd
Consultant General, HPB and Liver Transplant Surgeon
Mr Stephanos Pericleous is currently a consultant surgeon and a member of the hepato-pancreato-biliary (HBP) surgery and liver transplantation team at the Royal Free Hospital. His expertise lies in managing a range of general surgical conditions, as well as diseases affecting the liver and pancreas. This includes abdominal wall hernias, gallstone disease, primary and secondary cancers of the liver and biliary tree, gallbladder and pancreatic cancer, and retroperitoneal sarcomas.
Mr Pericleous graduated from University College London Medical School and completed his surgical training mainly in hospitals across London. Mr Pericleous post-specialty fellowships were undertaken at the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital. He completed his research at Barts and The London Medical School and Imperial College London on the proteomic analysis of cholangiocarcinoma, leading to a research Doctorate in Medicine awarded by the University of London.
Mr Pericleous also has performed hundreds of hernia repairs and gallbladder operations, as well as more complex abdominal, sarcoma-related, and hepatopancreaticobiliary surgical procedures. As part of the Royal Free Hospital HPB unit (one of the largest such departments in the UK), he frequently manages complex liver, gallbladder, pancreas and sarcoma cases that are referred to this unit from surrounding hospitals in London, the rest of the UK, and from abroad.
Hospital Locations
Royal Free Hospital
Year qualified
1999
Country of qualification
UK
Languages spoken
English, Greek
Specialities
- General Surgery
- HPB Surgery
- Liver Surgery
Memberships
- RCS Edinburgh
Registration and licensing
GMC:4628028
Procedures offered
- Appendicectomy (appendix removal)
- Bile duct surgery including biliary reconstruction
- Gallbladder cancer surgery
- Hernia repair including complex abdominal wall reconstruction
- Laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy
- Liver surgery
- Liver transplantation
- Pancreatic surgery
- Sarcoma surgery
- Splenectomy
Clinical interests
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Colorectal liver metastases
- Complex abdominal wall hernias
- Gall bladder disease
- Hydatid disease of liver
- Liver transplantation
- Pancreatic cancer
Research interests
Over the past few years, Mr Pericleous has been involved in several multicentre international and collaborative studies and clinical trials, leading to several high-profile publications. In some of these clinical trials (e.g., the ROSSINI 2 trial), he has served as the Principal Investigator for the Royal Free London.