Mr Satya Bhattacharya

Mr Bhattacharya has over twenty five years' experience as a consultant surgeon, particularly surgery (open and keyhole) for gallstones, hernias, liver disease and pancreatic disease.
Bio
Satya Bhattacharya has 25 years’ experience as a Consultant Surgeon with a specialist interest in HPB Surgery (surgery of the liver, gall bladder and the pancreas).
He qualified as a doctor in 1985 and was appointed Consultant Surgeon at the Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals (Barts Health NHS Trust) in 1999. He held that position up to 2020. He set up a specialist HPB referral service for North East London and South Essex and served as Clinical Lead for that service for 17 years.
Mr Bhattacharya now practises primarily at The London Clinic, and also has practising privileges at King Edward VII’s Hospital. He currently chairs the HPB MDT (multi-disciplinary tumour group) at The London Clinic.
He served as The Surgeon to the Royal Household from 2006 to 2016 and as The Serjeant Surgeon to The Queen from 2016 to 2023. Mr Bhattacharya was the Medical Director of The London Clinic for 5 years (2017-2022) including the time of the Covid 19 pandemic.
He is an active researcher in the fields of pancreatic and liver cancer, and was Honorary Reader at the Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London (2016-2023). He has over 75 research papers, book chapters and reviews to his name. He was an examiner for the FRCS examination.
More information
5 Devonshire Place
London W1G 6HL
Mr Satya Bhattacharya is available through The London Clinic's Connect service for video consultations.
- Consultant Surgeon
The London Clinic - Consultant Surgeon
King Edward VII's Hospital
- Gall bladder and bile duct stones
- Neuro-endocrine tumours
- Repair of bile duct injuries
- Laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery
- Pancreatic cancer
- Liver cancer
- Year qualified 1985
- Grant Medical College, Mumbai MBBS 1979-85 and MS 1986-88
- Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine MPhil 1992-95
Obscure diagnosis – Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction
Pulse Today
26/01/2016
Most clinicians at some point encounter a patient who has had a cholecystectomy, but has continued to suffer from biliary type pain, or a patient who keeps suffering from bouts of pancreatic inflammation.
Publications
- Predicting complications in hepatic resection for colorectal liver metastasis: the lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio. McCluney SJ, Giakoustidis AA, Segler A, Bissel J, Miller RL, Valente R, Hutchins RR, Abraham A, Bhattacharya S, Kocher HM. ANZ J SURG. 2018 Jul 16. doi: 10.1111/ans.14725. [Epub ahead of print]
- Inflammatory and Immune Responses to Surgery and their Clinical Impact. Alazawi W, Pirmadjid N, Lahiri R, Bhattacharya S. ANN SURG 2016 Jul;264(1):73-80.
- Health informatics: Virtual online consultations: advantages and limitations (VOCAL) study. Greenhalgh T, Vijayaraghavan S, Wherton J, Shaw S, Byrne E, Campbell-Richards D, Bhattacharya S, Hanson P, Ramoutar S. Gutteridge C, Hodkinson I, Collard A, Morris J. BMJ Open 2016;6:e009388 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009388
- Systemic inflammatory response (SIRS) after major abdominal surgery is predicted by early upregulation of TLR4 and TLR5. Lahiri R, Derwa Y, Bashir Z, Giles E, Torrance HD, Owen HC, O'Dwyer MJ, O'Brien A, Stagg AJ, Bhattacharya S, Foster GR, Alazawi W. ANN SURG 2016 May;263(5):1028-37