Zahir Soonawalla
Zahir Soonawalla is a Consultant HPB Surgeon at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He chairs both the HPB and Neuroendocrine MDTs at Oxford and is presently running a project to reform MDT function. In addition to advanced laparoscopic HPB surgery, Zahir has been instrumental in developing surgery for neuroendocrine tumours; he has a special interest in surgery in MEN1 and mesenteric carcinoids. Zahir has led the clinical service with several innovations leading to awards, including a peri-operative infection-control checklist that halved the incidence of surgical-site infections, and a one-stop liver surgery/oncology/radiology clinic.