Mr John Rogers was trained in medicine at King's College Hospital Medical School, London and qualified in 1979. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1985. His specialist training was in Oesophagogastric, Colorectal and Laparoscopic surgery. He undertook a period of original research resulting in a large number of publications in scientific journals and gained his M.D. in 1991. He was given the medal of Arris and Gale Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons of England 1991/1992. He has written a number of chapters in surgical textbooks and continues to be involved in research. His last paper was published on the subject of laparoscopic Lap-Band antiobesity surgery in the American Journal of Surgery in August 2002. In September 2005, Mr Rogers performed five laparoscopic implantable gastric stimulator procedures (Transneuronix), the first of their kind in the U.K.
Although now in private practice he was Senior Lecturer and Hon. Consultant Surgeon at St Bart's and the Royal London Hospital between 1993 and 2002. During this post he was Director of The Royal London Hospital Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit which was a clinical partner of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit and he regularly performed live surgical demonstrations of complex laparoscopic procedures over a direct video link to the Royal College of Surgeons. He continues to be involved in the training of surgeons in new laparoscopic surgical techniques.
