Michael Power

Michael Powar is a Consultant Colorectal and Robotic Surgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals, and led the introduction of robotic colorectal surgery in Cambridge. He sits on the Trust's robotic surgery steering group, is Colorectal Teaching Lead at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine and is President of the Royal Society of Medicine Coloproctology Section. With HPB colleagues, he performed Cambridge’s first combined robotic colorectal and liver resection with the patient being discharged from hospital within 72 hours. He was the first clinician to introduce sacral neuromodulation for faecal incontinence in the East of England, and now leads one of the highest-volume sacral neuromodulation implanting centres for faecal incontinence globally. He served on the founding medical advisory board of CMR Surgical and advises medical technology and robotics companies across Europe, the United States and Asia. He has recently spent time in robotic and digital health innovati