Professor Ammori qualified from the University of Baghdad in 1986 and subsequently completed his surgical training in the UK. He was appointed Consultant Surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester in 2002.
In March 2009 he moved to Salford Royal Hospital in Manchester as a Laparoscopic Surgeon with special interest in Bariatric Surgery and to North Manchester General Hospital as a Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Laparoscopic Surgeon (carrying out a 50:50 split job between the two sites).
His special interests include advanced laparoscopic surgery including laparoscopic bariatric surgery and hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. To date, he has successfully performed over 1000 laparoscopic bariatric procedures including gastric banding (over 350 procedures) and gastric bypass including sleeve gastrectomy (over 850 procedures). He has an active research programme, was granted a Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2000, and has published over one hundred papers in peer-reviewed medical journals.
