Mr Keith Roberts

Mr Keith Roberts is a highly experienced liver and pancreas surgeon. He works in the highest volume specialist centre in the UK where he performs liver transplantation, liver and pancreas cancer and benign surgery. Mr Roberts performs gallbladder surgery and with his colleagues runs a service to manage complex gallstone problems from across the region.

He has completed a PhD in cancer biology, conducted national studies and an author on over 150 publications. Mr Roberts supervises PhD students and teaches at the University of Birmingham.

Mr Keith Roberts is the current lead for pancreatic surgery, at the Royal College of Surgeons and the honorary Treasurer to the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

He is leading studies to investigate and improve nutrition in pancreatic cancer and improving outcomes after pancreatic surgery. He has led the most comprehensive national audit of pancreatic cancer in the UK.

By improving the patient pathway, he aims to ensure that every possible benefit can be realised for patients with cancer. Successful surgical outcomes are achieved when every part of a pathway is optimised. He offers a second opinion service for patients with pancreatic cancer to ensure that all options for treatment and best practice have been explored. He operates on patients with borderline resectable and locally advanced pancreatic cancer who need complex vascular surgery as well as pancreatic cancer surgery.

He has wide experience in treating liver disease with liver surgery and liver transplantation.

• Surgical Speciality Lead for pancreatic cancer at the Royal College of Surgeons
• Treasurer to the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Committee Member of the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons
• Member of the International HepatoPancreatoBiliary Association
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh