Mr Savvas Papagrigoriadis

Mr Savvas Papagrigoriadis holds a Degree in Medicine from the University of Athens, a Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a Masters of Research Methods in Health Sciences of the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. He is in the Specialist Register of the General Medical Council since 1995.

He has been a UK Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon since 1998. The Lead of Colorectal Surgery at King’s College Hospital, London, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Surgery at King’s College London, between 2001 and 2018. Between 2004 and 2018 he was the Chairman of the Colorectal Cancer MDT and also Chairman of the Pelvic Floor MDT, Chair of the regional South East Early Rectal Cancer MDT, and Head of Clinical Governance for surgery. He has been on call general surgeon consultant in a centre of major trauma for 25 years and has extensive experience in emergency general surgery. Also served as a trainer of the national training program in laparoscopic colorectal surgery (LapCo) 2008-2012. 

His clinical and research interests have been colorectal cancer, emergency general surgery, diverticular disease and pelvic floor disorders. An academic supervisor of several postgraduate MD(Res) and PhD thesis degrees, as well as an examiner at the University of London.  Mr Papagrigoriadis retired from the NHS in 2018 and since then has been working in private practice and medicolegal work. 

Mr Papagrigoriadis published more than one hundred and fifty peer-reviewed research articles on intestinal disorders with more than 2,700 citations. He has written several book chapters and one monograph textbook “The Surgical Treatment of Diverticular Disease”.

Mr Papagrigoriadis is an Expert Witness for the courts with 25 years’ experience, including as appointed Joint Expert by the courts. He is an accredited Mediator. His medicolegal expertise includes diverticular disease, pelvic mesh complications, bowel impact of cauda equina syndrome and all aspects of colorectal surgery and emergency surgery. 

Member of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain, member of the British Society of Gastroenterology, member of the European Society of Coloproctology and of United European Gastroenterology, founding member of the International Diverticular Association, and of the International Society of Pelvic Surgery as well as a Deputy Council Member of the Greek Society of Coloproctology, member of the Expert Witness Institute.