MBBS, MS, MA (Medical Ethics & Law), FRCS, FRCS (General Surgery) was born in Kumasi, Ghana, schooled in Manchester, and trained as a general surgeon in Pune (BJMC ‘83 Batch, General Surgery Residency Sassoon Hospitals ‘89-91), India.
He returned to the UK in 1993 and trained in hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery and liver transplantation in London, at the Royal Free Hospital and Royal London Hospital.
He has been Consultant HPB & Trauma Surgeon at Barts Health since 2005, and is Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University, London. His specialist surgical interests include diseases of the liver, bile duct and pancreas, related laparoscopic & robotic surgery, trauma, and emergency surgery; and he also has a Masters in Medical Ethics & Law.
His other areas of interest are clinical leadership, quality improvement and patient safety and he was Health Foundation QI Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and at Harvard 2011-12.
He was Associate Medical Director for Improvement, Innovation & Safety at Barts Health, 2013-14 and Executive Group Director for the Surgery & Cancer Clinical Academic Group, 2014-2016.
Ajit was appointed Barts Health Deputy Chief Medical Officer in July 2016 with responsibility for embedding quality improvement and patient safety across the Barts Health system, and balanced a busy surgical workload with the additional leadership responsibility of Chair of the Barts Health Surgery Board, helping shape the future surgical strategy for East London.
He is also the Principal of ‘The Staff College’ for ‘Leadership in Healthcare’.
Ajit is currently Senior Consultant in HPB, General and Trauma Surgery at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore on an 18 month surgical sabbatical.
He has a long standing practice of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Vipassana meditation.