Greg Wynn is a consultant general surgeon with a specialist interests colorectal surgery. Based at Colchester University Hospital Foundation Trust, he is heavily involved in all aspects of minimal access surgery including TEMS and other forms of natural orifice surgery.

He graduated from the University College London Medical School in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and has a Doctorate of Medicine from UCL after research into mechanosensory transduction in the colon, work that has increased our understanding of how pain is transmitted from the bowel. He has undertaken fellowships in rectal cancer in Sao Paulo, advanced minimal access surgery in Hong Kong and in natural orifice surgery in Rio de Janeiro. He has been fully trained in TEMS at the Wolf Education Centre in Knittlingen, Germany and has worked as a consultant surgeon in Colchester since 2009.

He is a specialist in laparoscopic general and colorectal surgery and a trainer on the national laparoscopic training program (LAPCO) and also a member of faculty for the LAPCO Train The Trainer courses (http://www.lapco.nhs.uk/video/train-the-trainer/index.php). He works alongside his colleague, Mathew Tutton to provide a regional TEMS service for the Essex Cancer Network for the treatment of large rectal polyps and early cancers. He is currently pushing the boundaries of minimal access surgery by performing natural orifice specimen extraction for left sided colorectal resections (http://www.colchesterhospital.nhs.uk/press_release_pages/pr_060712.shtml).

His main academic interests are training, rectal cancer and natural orifice surgery. He is currently leading the world’s first virtual reality laparoscopic colorectal training curriculum where trainees can develop their technical skills to defined benchmarks by performing on Simbionix LAP Mentor simulators (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rjJCNGwrK0). He is also a member of faculty for one of the world’s leading rectal cancer meetings (FICARE) which is held in Brazil every two years.