His area of clinical interest is colorectal surgery – in particular the surgical management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and colorectal cancer. He trained in general and colorectal Surgery within London and the South East of England and undertook specialist colorectal fellowships at St Mark’s Hospital and Valencia University Hospital prior to taking up a substantive consultant post. Mr Faiz has wide research interests and he supervises a number of PhD and MD research fellows at Imperial College. His principal research interests include colorectal surgical epidemiology, health services research and surgical outcome research. He has authored over seventy papers published in peer-reviewed journals. In addition he has authored eleven book chapters and three anatomy text books.