Mr Harry Ward

Job Title:

Consultant in Paediatric Surgery

Telephone:

020 7377 7799

Biography:

Trained at St Mary’s Hospital, London and qualified in 1975.

Gained fellowship of the English College in 1979 and remained in adult surgical specialities with research into surgical metabolism, resulting in publications in the British Journal of Surgery and The Annals of Surgery, and the degree of Master of Surgery, at St Mary’s before going into Paediatric Surgery in 1987.

Paediatric surgical training at the Hospitals for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hackney Road, London, with training in neonatal, gastroenterological, oncological and genitourinary surgery. Publications produced in all these fields of practice. Awarded Certificate of Completion of Training in Paediatric Surgery in 1992.

Appointed Consultant Paediatric Surgeon to Guy’s and Lewisham NHS Trust with sessions at St Thomas’ Hospital in 1992, where Mr Ward worked with Dr Graham Clayden in the field of colorectal dysfunction in children.

Became convenor of the College course for General Paediatric Surgery in 1998, which runs to date, and has been on the faculty for The Alder Hay Surgical Skills Course in Paediatric Surgery on two occasions. Mr Ward was first author of the first edition of the Step Course in Paediatric Surgery for the MRCS.

In 2003, appointed at Barts and the London NHS Trust as Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer affiliated to the Academic Department of Surgery at the Royal London Hospital.

Areas of work:

Paediatric Surgery

Research programmes:

In collaboration with other specialists at Queen Mary University, Mr Ward plans studies on intestinal defence mechanisms in Hirschsprung disease and histopathological studies relating to colorectal dysfunction in anorectal malformations and idiopathic constipation.

Special interests:

Current practice includes neonatal surgery, specialised paediatric gastroenterological surgery and day case surgery. Mr Ward manages an acute general take.

Subspeciality interest is colorectal surgery. Major interest within this field is anorectal malformation and the pathophysiology of morbidity relating to this. Mr Ward has studied Hirschsprung Disease and Idiopathic Constipation, with publications in paediatric surgical journals in all these subjects. Supervising a PhD student who is studying the continuing morbidity of anorectal malformations in adults and adolescents.