Contact details

Name: Bilal Alkhaffaf 

Job title: Upper Gastrointestinal and General surgeon

Location: Salford Royal Hospital, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Email: bilal.alkhaffaf@nca.nhs.uk 

Specialities and research

Speciality

• General surgery 

Sub-speciality

• Oesophago–gastric and bariatric surgery  

Research interests

• Oesophageal and gastric cancer  
• Obesity and metabolic surgery  
• Anti-reflux surgery  
• Hiatus and para-esophageal hernia  
• Achalasia 

Type of research

• Audit 
• Clinical trials  

Clinical trial experience

Chief investigator 

• The GASTROS Study: An international collaboration to standardise the reporting of critically important outcomes in surgical trials for gastric cancer. Leading a network of international patient groups and professional bodies across 6 continents in 55 countries. The second of 3 stages has now been completed with 7 publications.   

Principal investigator

• LASORS: LAsting Symptoms after Oesophageal Resectional Surgery. Validation of a quality-of-life tool for oesophageal cancer surgery. 
• Oesophageal Anastomosis Study: International prospective study examining the incidence of anastomotic leak following oesophagectomy. 
• KEYNOTE-585: RCT study of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) plus chemotherapy versus placebo plus chemotherapy in participants with gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) Adenocarcinoma (MK-3475-585/KEYNOTE-585). 
• TENTACLE: Prospective cohort study examining factors related to anastomotic leak following oesophago-gastric cancer surgery. 
• PHARP-2: Prevention of post-operative complications by using HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor in patients undergoing oesophagectomy – A multicentre, randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial. 
• OCCAMS: Oesophageal cancer clinical and molecular stratification. 
• ADD-ASPIRIN: RCT examining whether regular aspirin use after treatment for an early-stage cancer can prevent the cancer from coming back and preventing deaths. 
• ROMIO: Multi-centre RCT – minimally invasive versus open oesophagectomy. 
• Global outcomes of bariatric surgEry iN thE coVid-19 erA (GENEVA)  
• Outcomes of bariatric surgery iN patients With Advanced oRgan Disease (ONWARD)  
• StEP-COMPAC: Collaborator with the StEP-COMPAC (Standardized Endpoints in Perioperative Medicine) group. Reviews and consensus processes to standardise the clinical reporting of peri-operative outcomes across a number of clinical specialties. 

Postgraduate supervision

Bilal currently supervises PhD/MD students. 

More information

• Consultant profile 
• Research profile 

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