Professor Tan Arulampalam is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Colchester Hospital (UK) with a passion for healthcare transformation through research and education. He helped establish The ICENI Centre, a centre of excellence for training and research. Tan was formerly a Clinical Director and Lead in Process Re-engineering at Colchester Hospital, UK. He has extensive international experience in translational medical research, health system analysis, audit and higher educational supervision. His own research on PET imaging has translated into mainstream practice enabling earlier cancer detection and improved treatment outcomes.
Tan is on the faculty of the European Surgical Institute and Honorary Treasurer of the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. His training experience spans many countries beyond Europe and North America, including Brazil, India, Sri Lanka and China. His major commitments include being a full board member of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons and chair of the Research Committee.
He has published more than 50 peer reviewed papers and is joint editor of the textbook Essential Surgery published by Elsevier. He was part of the ACPGBI group that published guidelines on Prevention, Detection and Management of Anastomotic Leak. Tan also took part in the consensus group of the EAES publishing comprehensive guidelines on the management of diverticular disease (2018).
He is on the Medical Board of the charity Bowel Cancer UK and is focused on facilitating collaboration between surgical societies across the world, promoting sustainable surgery, surgeon wellbeing and adoption of novel medtech.
