About
Ms Kat Baker
Consultant Colorectal and Robotic Surgeon
MBChB MD FRCS
Ms Kat Baker is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and Nuffield Health The Manor Hospital, Oxford. She has a clinical interest in minimally invasive and robotic-assisted colorectal surgery, particularly for colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease.
Ms Baker completed an MD in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Bristol, with a Royal College of Surgeons Research Fellowship. Her research investigated Aspirin’s potential role as an adjunct to radiotherapy in Colorectal Cancer. For this, she led an NIHR portfolio adopted study and was awarded the Royal Society of Medicine John of Arderne Medal and the Royal College of Surgeons Rosetrees’ Prize.
Having completed her MD, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in New York, for which she conducted research at Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital, investigating colorectal cancer outcomes. During this time, Ms Baker also completed a Value Based Healthcare course at Harvard.
Podcast
- Special interests:
- Minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgery
- Colorectal cancer
- Crohn's Disease
- Ulcerative Colitis - including robotic subtotal colectomy, proctectomy and ileo-anal pouch surgery
- Diverticular Disease
- General proctology - anal fissure (botulinum toxin), fistula (including LIFT procedure), haemorrhoids (including HALO-RAR)
- Pilonidal sinus surgery
- Colonoscopy