Simon Bach Email & Phone Number

Simon is Professor of colorectal surgery, section lead for surgery and clinical lead for the D3B [Drugs, Devices, Diagnostics & Biomarkers] clinical trials team at the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham.Simon trained in Newcastle, Christie Hospital Manchester, John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford before joining the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand training program at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne developing expertise in minimally invasive colorectal cancer treatment. Simon is Director for the Royal College of Surgeons of England RADAR initiative [Robotic and digital surgery]. RADAR provides a focal point for exchange between surgical innovators and key stakeholders including global industry.Simon has previously led colorectal surgery at RCS (Eng) (2013-19) and chaired the National Cancer Research Institute Colorectal Cancer surgical group (2011-2018). Simon has been continually funded by CRUK since 2008. He is chief investigator for CRUK TREC [Lancet G&H 2020, Lancet HL 2022], STAR-TREC phase II [ASCO 2022] and STAR-TREC phase III [UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium & Sweden] studies developing state-of-the-art organ saving outpatient treatment for rectal cancer instead of major surgery and a stoma.He is chief investigator for MASTERY; a pan specialty robotics research network across the UK analysing robotic systems data from cancer surgeries using machine learning to develop actionable task based performance metrics with potential to improve the surgical training and help eradicate technical failure.https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/cancer-genomic/bach-simon.aspx