Subspecialist interests: • Surgical management of pancreatic, liver, gallbladder & biliary tree disease • Emergency general surgery • Daycase surgery • Procedures: • Laparoscopic & open liver, pancreatic & biliary surgery (benign & malignant disease) • Laparoscopic & open cholecystectomy, bile duct exploration, management of bile duct injuries, splenectomy, hernia surgery, minor operations, e.g. skin lesions • Trained in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)

Professor Augustine has experience in thyroid and parathyroid surgery, and laparoscopic adrenalectomy. He also has extensive experience in kidney and pancreas transplantation, including living donor transplantation and laparoscopic donor nephrectomy and organ retrieval.

Medico-legal work for plaintiff & defendant (and also independent reports for NHS Trust & Coroners) in the areas of: • Gastroenterology • Gastrointestinal endoscopy • Inflammatory bowel disease • Ulcerative colitis • Crohn's disease • Clinical nutrition All correspondence to: London Independent Hospital, Beaumont Square, London, E1 4NL.

I am an experienced general/gastrointestinal surgeon. I have completed 40 years on the emergency rota and can provide opinions in any area relating to emergency general surgery. I am a specialist upper GI surgeon and my particular interest is surgery of the stomach, oesophagus and gall bladder, including malignant disease. I am an experienced endoscopist including a very large practice in therapeutic upper GI endoscopy (stenting, dilatation, ablation, endoscopic mucosal resection). I have provided over 300...