Consultant General Surgeon
Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton
Karen is a consultant general surgeon with an interest in colorectal surgery. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Southampton having been appointed full time in 1999, she has been part-time for the last two years.
She trained at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital taking her finals in 1987. After obtaining her FRCS in 1991 she went to St. Mark’s Hospital to undertake research and a Masters in Surgery in familial adenomatous polyposis.
Her higher surgical training was completed in the Wessex region (Basingstoke and Southampton) as well as a 6 month period at Hopital St. Antoine, Paris.
As a consultant her main clinical interests are in anal neoplasia and pelvic floor surgery; having set up a regional pelvic floor service and multidisciplinary team with full diagnostic facilities.
As an educator she has undertaken a Masters in Education and was both Head of School of surgery for Wessex for 5 years then Head of Clinical Academic Training until 2023.
Her previous national roles include President of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, President of the Pelvic Obstetric Gynaecology Physiotherapists and President of the Coloproctology section of the Royal Society of Medicine. She sits on the NICE Interventional Advisory Committee
On a personal note, she is married to a consultant anaesthetist and has 4 children.