Name of consultant
Mr Farhad Alexander-Sefre
MB ChB, FRCS(Ed), MRCOG, MD
Consultant gynaecologist
Year qualified: 1992
Contact details
Tel: 01604 544221
Specialties: cancer care, gynaecology, women's health
Professional profile
Mr Alexander-Sefre MB ChB, FRCS(Ed), MRCOG, MD is a fully accredited registered gynaecologist and specialist in gynaecological cancers. He qualified from the University of Leeds in 1992, after which he trained in general surgery, gynaecology and cancer in London and the South East. Following this, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London.
Mr Alexander-Sefre continued his higher surgical training with particular emphasis on keyhole (laparosopic) surgical techniques of managing complex benign and cancer cases. He also acquired accreditation in management of smear abnormalities by the British Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology. Since 2004 he has been a consultant on the sub-specialist register of gynaecological cancer.
He has contributed significantly to improving service quality to patients with suspected gynaecological cancers; and established complex advanced cancer surgery at South East Midland Oncology Centre. Many recent contributions to provide a greater understanding of gynaecological cancers, surgical techniques, screening strategies and endometriosis can be attributed to his work.
Mr Alexander-Sefre is the currently research and development lead at Northampton General Hospital. His academic work can be viewed through the PubMed academic search engine.