GMC number: 4641582

Professional profile

Mr Jeffrey Lordan is a consultant upper GI, hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) and general surgeon at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

He has a special interest in sarcoma, complex benign liver and pancreas disease, and the use of minimally-invasive and robotic techniques for HPB surgery, and is the Tumour Site Specific Group Lead for Upper GI and HPB cancer for the Kent and Medway Cancer Collaborative.

Mr Lordan completed his undergraduate training at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' medical schools in London before training as a surgeon in the South West Thames London Deanery. He went on to undertake specialist fellowships at the liver and transplant unit in Birmingham and the Royal Marden NHS Foundation Trust in London.

Between 2015-2020 he was based at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust as a consultant HPB, sarcoma and multi-organ retrieval for transplantation surgeon. 

Between 2014 and 2015 Mr Lordan was a locum consultant HPB and and multi-organ retrieval surgeon at the Birmingham Liver Transplant Unit. He also did a sarcoma oncology fellowship at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Mr Lordan is involved in medical education as a Royal College of Surgeons tutor, and has achieved several awards for his teaching including the 2017 Award for Outstanding Teaching and 2017 Top Teachers Award from University College London and the Trust Award for Excellence in Medical Teaching from Frimley Park Hospital.

He also has an interest in research and completed a PhD focusing on the biology of hepato-pancreato-biliary cancer.

He has had several research articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals and has presented his work nationally and internationally at over 75 conferences.

Mr Lordan launched the START course at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust for resident (formerly known as foundation) doctors and has also developed a bespoke surgical curriculum for resident doctors at the Trust.

Clinical interests

  • General surgery
  • Gallstone surgery
  • Gastrointestinal surgery
  • Hernia repair surgery
  • Laparoscopic surgery
  • Liver disease
  • Minimal access surgery
  • Pancreatology.

His special clinical interests include: general and upper GI surgery; HPB (liver and pancreas), gallbladder / bile duct surgery; minimal access surgery; hernia surgery; acute and elective general surgery.

Treatment information

Some of the principal treatments carried out by Mr Jeffrey Lordan include:

  • Hernia surgery
  • Gallbladder/gallstone removal (cholecystectomy)

Other treatments

  • Hernia surgery including: inguinal, femoral, abdominal wall, umbilical, Spigelian, and epigastric hernias.
  • Laparoscopic cholecystectomy including complex cholecystectomy and bile duct exploration
  • Minimally invasive surgery.

Qualifications and professional memberships

Professional memberships

  • Royal College of Surgeons of England
  • Medical Defence Union
  • British Medical Association

 

Research and publications

Mr Jeffrey Lordan has a special interest in translational research involving the genomics and proteomics of metastatic colorectal cancer in the liver, with continuing work at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and the University of Kent.

While at the Royal Free London and University College London he was appointed as Principal Investigator for the STRASS Trial, a phase III randomised study of preoperative radiotherapy plus surgery versus surgery alone for patients with retroperitoneal sarcomas (EORTC). In 2019, he joined the CholeQuIC-ER National Quality Improvement Project in association with the Royal College of Surgeons of England, with selected trusts within the UK.

 

Current NHS posts

  • Consultant Upper Gastrointestinal, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and General Surgeon, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
  • Honorary Consultant Surgeon, Kings College London NHS Foundation Trust.