Mr Arcot Venkat became a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at the Tamil Nadu Medical University, India in June 1996. He underwent Higher Surgical Training in the North East of England and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in February 2008. Mr Venkat has been heavily involved in research for abdominal aortic aneurysms and has presented and published the results of this work internationally. Mr Venkat specialises in Laparoscopic surgery for colon and rectal cancer. He is the Trust lead for laparoscopic incisional hernia at North Hampshire foundation Hospitals. He is the lead for pelvic floor surgery and works with Mr Goumalatsos in Laparoscopic management of complex endometriosis. He has expertise in proctology including management of complex fistula and Haemorrhoids.