About Us

The Kingston Healthy Weight Centre (KHWC) is a multidisciplinary team that aims to provide comprehensive support to achieve weight loss, improve overall health and reduce obesity-related complications.

The service currently offers weight loss surgery (also known as ‘bariatric’ or ‘metabolic’ surgery), which is only recommend for people who are significantly overweight and have been unable to lose weight or maintain weight loss with other weight loss interventions.

To be seen by the KHWC, patients must be referred by a GP or other hospital doctor.

  • Patients with a BMI of 40Kg/m2 or over OR with a BMI of 35-40 kg/m2 with one or more related conditions.
  • Patients with a BMI over 30 kg/m2 with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus of less than 10 years can be referred to the service.
  • Patients with a South Asian, Chinese, other Asian, Middle Eastern, Black African, or African-Caribbean family background have a lower BMI threshold by 2.5kg/m2.

  • Patients < 18 years old
  • Patients planning a pregnancy in the next 2 years, currently pregnant or breastfeeding.
  • Patients with a severe and / or enduring mental health difficulty that are not assessed or adequately managed (including self-harm or suicide in the past 12 months).
  • Patients with an eating difficulty to the degree of an eating disorder.
  • Patients diagnosed with a malignancy <24 months prior or receiving treatment for a malignancy.
  • Patients receiving palliative or end of life care.
  • Patients unfit for General Anaesthesia. 

  • Ema Leyton Reyes – Metabolic CNS
  • Zoey Barlow – Metabolic Dietitian
  • Ms.Vasha Kaur (Lead) –  Surgical Consultant
  • Mr. Francesco Villa – Surgical Consultant
  • Mr. Ioannis Gerogiannis  –  Surgical Consultant
  • Dr. Sharief Sharaf (Lead) – Anaesthetic Consultants
  • Dr. Ram Kumar – Anaesthetic Consultants
  • Dr. Henry Lewith – Anaesthetic Consultants
  • Dr. Ye Kyaw (Lead) – Physicians
  • Dr. Muralidhara Koteshwara – Physicians
  • Amber Carroll – Administrator