Kufeji, Dorothy

Consultant children's surgeon and clinical lead for children's surgery

Dorothy Kufeji - consultant neonatal and children's surgeon

Area of expertise: neonatal and children's gastrointestinal surgery.

Biography

Dorothy Kufeji trained in children's surgery and children's urology after initially training as a general surgeon.

She joined Evelina London in 2004, and has continued to develop an interest in general surgery of childhood, neonatal surgery and minimal access surgery.

Dorothy performed the first laparoscopic antegrade colonic enema (ACE) stoma at Evelina London eight years ago. She has been educational lead for many years and is currently chairman of the Pan London consortium for Paediatric Surgery Training and a member of the board of the London Postgraduate School of Surgery.

Further information

Handbook of Paediatric Surgery 2010 edited by Chandrasen K. Sinhha, Mark Davenport
Intestinal Atresia :Chandrasen K. Sinha, Erica Makin and Dorothy Iwagba Kufeji 3.6 p94- 101
Surgical management of severe chronic constipation: S Clayden, T Adeyinka, D Kufeji, A S Keshtgar Arch Dis Child 2010;95:859-860;G

A new ultrasound scoring system for assessing the severity of constipation in children: Lakshminarayan B, Kufeji D, Clayden G Pediatr Surg Int 2008 Dec;24(12):1379-84

Out with the old and in with the new: a comparison of rectal suction biopsies with traditional and modern biopsy forceps: Hall NJ, Kufeji D, Keshtgar A.J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Feb;44(2):395-8.

Familial bilateral congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Kufeji DI, Crabbe DC. Pediatr Surg Int. 1999;15(1):58-60. Review.