I am a Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon. I am employed as a full time NHS Consultant at Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust. I do private consultations on Monday mornings and Thursday evenings at the Oaks Hospital, Colchester.

Career Profile

I qualified as a doctor in 1992. I was lucky enough to have received training in a number of different centres which has given me a wide breadth of experience. I did my training in London where I did my house jobs, Leicester and East Anglia where I did my Senior House Officer and Junior Registrar training. I completed my vascular training in Sheffield where I did a research degree at the Sheffield Vascular Institute, one of the foremost vascular centres in the UK.

What do I do?

I am a vascular surgeon and specialise in disorders affecting the arteries and veins all over the body outside the heart which includes varicose veins.

A bulk of my other work includes treating patients with PAD (peripheral arterial disease) in whom the arteries are narrowed. This condition usually affects the leg circulation and can cause symptoms ranging from mild pain when walking to severe pain at rest. I also specialise in repair of aneurysms (ballooning or swelling of an artery usually the aorta) using a technique called EVAR (Endovascular Aneurysm Repair) which is an alternative to open operation. Another area that I specialise in is the formation of haemodialysis fistulas for patients requiring dialysis in those in whom the kidneys have failed.

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coronary-subclavian steal syndrome treated with carotid to axillary artery

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Pockley AG. Effect of upper- and lower-limb exercise training on circulating

soluble adhesion molecules, hs-CRP and stress proteins in patients with

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human chronic critical limb ischaemia. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2004

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Huntingdon district: a 10-year experience. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1999

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10: Ahmed M, Choksy S, Chilton CP, Munson KW, Williams JH. High dose intravenous

oestrogen (fosfestrol) in the treatment of symptomatic, metastatic,

hormone-refractory carcinoma of the prostate. Int Urol Nephrol.

1998;30(2):159-64. PubMed PMID: 9607886.

11: Selvadurai D, Wildin C, Treharne G, Choksy SA, Heywood MM, Nicholson ML.

Randomised trial of subcuticular suture versus metal clips for wound closure

after thyroid and parathyroid surgery. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1997

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12: Choksy SA, Nicholson ML. Prevention of voice change in singers undergoing

thyroidectomy by using a nerve stimulator to identify the external laryngeal

nerve. Br J Surg. 1996 Aug;83(8):1131-2. PubMed PMID: 8869325.

13: Chosky SA, Modha D, Taylor GJ. Optimisation of ultraclean air. The role of

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