Bart Decadt: Consultant General and Bariatric Surgeon, Stockport and Manchester

Consultant general and bariatric surgeon specialising in laparoscopic surgery for obesity, weight loss, cancers of the stomach, oesophagus and Barrett's oesophagus.

Mr Decadt completed his medical training in Belgium, and took up surgical training in South Africa and Manchester.  Mr Decadt also undertook the first MD degree at the University of East Anglia in laparoscopic surgery.  

He was appointed as a consultant surgeon in 2005 at Stepping Hill Hospital.  He has pioneered laparoscopic assisted cancer surgery for the stomach and oesophagus in the North West.  

Mr Decadt's main clinical interest is bariatric surgery and he was involved with the first laparoscopic gastric banding in the UK in 1997.

Clinical interests

• Obesity surgery
• Diabetes
• Gastrointestinal surgery
• Laparoscopic surgery
• Obesity
• Weight loss surgery
• Surgery for cancers of the stomach and oesophagus
• Surgery for Barrett's oesophagus

Research interests

• Laparoscopic surgery

• Bariatric surgery

Qualifications

• MD (Leuven)
• MD (Norwich)
• FRCSI
• FRCS (Gen Surg)

Membership of professional organisations

• Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
• Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons
• British Obesity Surgical Society
• European Association of Endoscopic Surgery

Treatments offered

• Laparoscopic surgery
• Bariactric surgery
• Anti-reflux surgery
• Bile duct exploration
• Cholecystectomy
• Gastric bypass for obesity and/or diabetes
• Lapband for obesity
• Laproscopic gastric bypass (for obesity and/or diabetes)
• Laproscopic gastrectomy
• Laparoscopic oesaphagectomy
• Repair of groin hernias
• Splenectomy 

Where can I get treatment?

Contact details

Stepping Hill Hospital

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