Mr Shahnawaz Rasheed is a Consultant Surgeon at The Royal Marsden and a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. He was awarded a PhD by Imperial College London for research on colorectal cancer undertaken at St Mark’s Hospital, London in conjunction with the Weatherall Institute, Oxford and the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Hertfordshire. Mr Rasheed is one of the only surgeons in the UK who is using the Da Vinci Xi surgical robot to perform colorectal cancer surgery. He has published widely and delivered many lectures in the UK and internationally on various aspects of colorectal cancer.