Ms El Kafsi is a Consultant Upper GI Bariatric Surgeon at registered with BUPA, and is available to see patients with a variety of conditions including obesity, gallstones, acid reflux, and hernias.
Ms El Kafsi undertook her surgical training in Oxford, having qualified from Cambridge University and UCL. She completed two post-CCT fellowships in Upper GI and weight loss surgery at UCLH and New Zealand.
Ms El Kafsi has a specialist interest in weight loss surgery and has performed over 300 gastric bypasses and sleeve gastrectomies since CCT (currently NHS only). She became a consultant in bariatric surgery at Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust in 2020.
Ms El Kafsi also has a specialist interest in hiatal hernia surgery, reflux surgery including LINX reflux Management System and achalasia surgery. She was appointed to Frimley Health NHS FT in 2019 and has since set up a GI Physiology service in Heatherwood Hospital (Ascot) to investigate reflux and oesophageal motility conditions. She also performs the Bravo procedure.
She sits on various Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh committees, as well as Upper GI associations (AUGIS/BBUGSS) Councils with an interest in education. She has organised, directed and delivered webinars, courses, conferences and talks on UGI and weight loss surgery nationally.
Special interests:
Reflux surgery, bariatric surgery, gallbladder surgery, oesophageal motility
Languages spoken:
Arabic, French, English
Oesophageal physiology, bravo, endoscopy, reflux, hiatus hernia, achalasia, gallstone disease, weight loss
My priority is to provide clear communication, expert treatment, and support throughout every stage of your care.
Li N, Njoku P, Mandal AKJ, El Kafsi J, Hosack T, Stockdale T, Dassanayake S, Van den Abbeele K, Democratis J, Missouris CG. Upper Limb Deep Venous Thrombosis Associated With Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters in Hospitalised Surgical Patients. Cureus. 2024 Dec 8;16(12):e75325. doi: 10.7759/cureus.75325.
Javanmard-Emamghissi H; ASGBI EGS Collaborative. Safe emergency general surgery-ASGBI statement. Br J Surg. 2024 Nov 27;111(12):znae303. doi: 10.1093/bjs/znae303.
Knoph CS, Lucocq J, Kamarajah SK, Olesen SS, Jones M, Samanta J, Talukdar R, Capurso G, de-Madaria E, Yadav D, Siriwardena AK, Windsor J, Drewes AM, Nayar M; PAINAP Collaborative; Pandanaboyana S. Global trends in opioid use for pain management in acute pancreatitis: A multicentre prospective observational study. United European Gastroenterol J. 2024 Oct;12(8):1114-1127. doi: 10.1002/ueg2.12641.
NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery; STARSurg Collaborative. A prognostic model for use before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (GSU-Pulmonary Score): a development and validation study in three international cohorts. Lancet Digit Health. 2024 Jul;6(7):e507-e519. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(24)00065-7. PMID: 38906616.
Griffiths EA; Oesophago-Gastric Anastomotic Audit (OGAA) Collaborative; Writing Committee; Data Predictors of anastomotic leak and conduit necrosis after oesophagectomy: Results from the oesophago-gastric anastomosis audit (OGAA).
Eur J Surg Oncol. 2024 Mar 7;50(6):107983.
Pucher PH, Maynard N, Body S, Bowling K, Chaudry MA, Forshaw M, Hornby S, Markar SR, Mercer SJ, Preston SR, Sgromo B, van Boxel GI, Gossage JA. Association of Upper GI Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland (AUGIS) Delphi consensus recommendations on the adoption of robotic upper GI surgery. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2024 (collab)
Hughes DL, Elmasry M, Wilson I, El Kafsi J. Evaluating the evidence for a liver shrinkage diet for obese patients prior to laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Minim Access Surg. 2024 Jan 1;20(1):1-6. doi: 10.4103/jmas.jmas_142_23. Epub 2024 Jan 13.
Hussain RN, Mandal AKJ, Li N, Kafsi JE, Sioftanos A, Missouris CG.Right heart thrombus in transit and peripherally inserted central catheters. Thromb J. 2023 Jun 22;21(1):68. doi: 10.1186/s12959-023-00513-3.
Maroof H, Van Chi Mai D, El-Kafsi J, De’Ath HD. The Impact of Depression in Patients Undergoing Emergency Abdominal Surgery: An Exploratory Study.
World J Surg. 2023 Apr;47(4):835-842.
Bhagat S, El-Kafsi J, Samraj K, Mastoridis S. Prophylactic administration of alpha-blockers for the prevention of post-operative urinary retention following inguinal hernia repair: A meta-analysis of randomized control trials.Surgeon 2022 Sep 30:S1479-666X(22)00112-3.
OGAA Collaborative. The influence of anastomotic techniques on postoperative anastomotic complications: Results of the Oesophago-Gastric Anastomosis Audit.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2022 Sep;164(3):674-684.e5
Nayar M, (…) El Kafsi J, Pandanaboyana S et al; COVIDPAN Collborative Group; COVID Pain Collborative Group. SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with an increased risk of idiopathic acute pancreatitis but not pancreatic exocrine insufficiency or diabetes: long-term results of the COVIDPAN study. Gut. 2022 Jul;71(7):1444-1447.
OGAA Collaborative.Textbook outcomes following oesophagectomy for cancer: international cohort study. Br J Surg. 2022 Apr;109(5):439-449.
OGAA Collaborative. Postoperative outcomes in oesophagectomy with trainee involvement. BJS Open. 2021 Nov 9;5(6):zrab132.
OGAA Collaborative. Rates of Anastomotic complications and their managemenrt following oesophagectomy: Results of the OGAA. Ann Surg. 2022 Feb 1;275(2):e382-e391
COVIDSurg Collaborative. SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia.
Jan 2022;77(1):28-39.
Pandayaboyana S, (…), El Kafsi J, (…), Nayar M et al. SARS-CoV-2 infection in acute pancreatitis increases disease severity and 30-day mortality: COVID PAN collaborative study. GUT 2021;0:1-9
COVIDSurg Collaborative; GlobalSurg Collaborative. Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2021 Nov;76(11):1454-1464.
COVIDSurg Collaborative. Machine learning risk prediction of mortality for patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2: the COVIDSurg mortality score. Br J Surg. 2021 Nov 11;108(11):1274-1292.
COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative.SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study. Br J Surg. 2021 Sep 27;108(9):1056-1063.
COVIDSurg Collaborative; GlobalSurg Collaborative. Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2021 Jun;76(6):748-758.
Oesophago-Gastric Anastomosis Study Group. Mortality from esophagectomy for esophageal cancer across low, middle and high-income countries: An international cohort study. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2021
Findlay JM, Antonowicz S, Segaran A, El Kafsi J, Zhang A, Bradley KM, Gillies RS, Maynard ND, Middleton MR. Routinely staging gastric cancer with 18F-FDG PET-CT detects additional metastases and predicts early recurrence and death after surgery. Eur Radiol. 2019 May;29(5):2490-2498.
Oesophago-Gastric Anastomosis Study Group. International variation in Surgical Practices in Units Performing Oesophagectomy for Oesophageal Cancer: A Unit Survey from Oesophago-Gastric Anastomosis Audit (OGAA). World J Surg. 2019 Nov;43(11):2874-2884.
El Kafsi J, Fakih N. (2019) ‘Chapter 17 Bariatric Surgery’ in Fernandes R FRCS General Surgery Section 1 Practice Questions. Oxfordshire: Libri Publishing, pp.298-302.
Dunphy L, Penna M, El Kafsi J. Somatic symptom disorder: a diagnostic dilemma. BMJ case Rep. 2019 Nov 25;12(11)
Dunphy L, Penna M, Tam E, El Kafsi J. Left renal vein entrapment syndrome: nutcracker syndrome! BMJ Case rep. 2019 Sep 4;12(9)
Findlay JM, El Kafsi J, Hammer C, Gilmour J, Gillies RS, Maynard ND. Nonoperative Management of Appendicitis: The Need for Comparison with Laparoscopy, Plus Longer-Term Outcomes: In Reply to Talan and colleagues. J Am Coll Surg. 2017 May;224(5):994-995.
Walker N, Booth T, Adamo M, El Kafsi J. Strangulated transmesenteric small bowel internal hernia. Radiopaedia case report. https://radiopaedia.org/cases/strangulated-transmesenteric-small-bowel-internal-hernia. 2017
UK National Surgical Research Collaborative. Multicentre observational study of adherence to Sepsis Six guidelines in emergency general surgery. Br J Surg. 2017 Jan;104(2):e165-e171.
El Kafsi J, Foliaki A, Dehn TC, Maynard ND. Management of achalasia in the UK, do we need new guidelines? Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2016 Nov 1;12:32-36.
Findlay JM, Kafsi JE, Hammer C, Gilmour J, Gillies RS, Maynard ND. Nonoperative Management of Appendicitis in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. J Am Coll Surg. 2016 Dec;223(6):814-824.
El Kafsi J, Kraus R, Guy R. Rectal disruption from abdominal seatbelt injury – description of cases and discussion of injury mechanism. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons. Accepted July 2015.
El Kafsi J, Sullivan M, Jones A. A retrospective multi-centre study on the outcome of laparoscopic simple nephrectomies. British Journal of Medical and Surgical Urology July 2012, 5: 174-178.
El Kafsi J, Wake J, Northeast A, Lintott P, McLaren A. Three year audit and cost assessment of open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in a district general hospital. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2009 Nov, 91(8): 645–648.
Darwish AH, Al Sindi KA, El Kafsi J. Pattern of Thyroid diseases – A Histopathological study, Bahrain Medical Bulletin Dec 2006, 28(4): 1-6.
El Kafsi J, Raven P. Bad Medicine, StudentBMJ Feb 2006, 14: 45-88.