Andrew Davies is a Consultant Upper GI Surgeon at St Thomas’ hospital and Professor of Upper Gastro-intestinal Surgery at King’s College London. He is a clinical and academic surgeon with an interest in benign and cancer surgery and minimally invasive techniques.

His research interests include prehabilitation, response to neo-adjuvant therapy, surgical strategy and survivorship (symptom management after major cancer surgery). He is the Chief investigator or site Principal investigator of a number of important studies in the field including PRE-EMPT [prehabilitation trial], RESTORE & EURSOTAR [UK and European survivorship guidance papers] and Sunflower [use of MRI before cholecystectomy]. Andrew has led the maintenance of the unit database for over 20 years. This is one of the largest UGI cancer databases in the world from which the department regularly publishes and contributes data to important international collaborations (ECCG, ESOdata, WECC - TNM8 staging system). He has published widely in high impact factor journals and is a regular invited speaker at national and international meetings. He sits on the editorial board for the British Journal of Surgery and holds committee positions within both the ISDE (guidelines) and ESDE (education).

Andrew collaborates widely within the university at both a clinical and basic science level. He has supervised over 10 MD & PhD students as well as 20 undergraduate students on a range of projects. He is part of the teaching faculty for the MSc in Translational cancer medicine.