Mr Jayachandra Menon

Profile

Mr Jay Menon is a Consultant General Surgeon at Nuffield Health Brentwood Hospital. Mr Menon trained in India as a general surgeon and came to the UK in 1991. After obtaining Fellowship in General Surgery, he trained as Registrar in North Thames Surgical Rotation under Profs Irwin Taylor and Mike Baum at the University College Hospital and later as Senior Registrar to Prof George Hamilton at the Royal free Hospital.

As Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon at Basildon Hospital, Mr Menon was the first to perform carotid surgery under local anaesthesia. He also set up the successful endovascular stenting programme for aortic aneurysms and was the first in Basildon to start endovenous laser treatment for varicose veins

Mr Menon has a passion for training junior surgeons and medical students and he was nominated as Top Teacher for UCL by Medical students. He is a Faculty Member for Basic Surgical Skills, Laparoscopic advanced skills and Advanced Trauma Life Support Courses

He is also Chair of the Hospital Thrombosis Committee and he ensures that they are compliant with national Targets on Patient Safety in Venous Thrombo-embolism.