With an undergraduate at Queen’s College, Cambridge and the Royal Free Hospital, London followed by an MD in oesophageal cancer at the University of Birmingham and Fellowships across Europe, Mr Desai was appointed as the Consultant Surgeon at the Midlands Abdominal and Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Unit in 2011.

Anant is on the editorial advisory board for the European Journal of Surgical Oncology, the Chair of the West Midlands Sarcoma Advisory Group and leader of the regional soft tissue sarcoma multi-disciplinary team. He has extensive experience of research and contributes to a number of Journals as a reviewer. He is an active member of the NCRI Sarcoma Research Group

Consultant General Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham