Honorary Secretary
Mr Anant Desai completed undergraduate education at Queens'
College Cambridge and the Royal Free Hospital, London.
Following this, he gained an MD investigating angiogenesis in
oesophageal cancer at the University of Birmingham before
completing Fellowships in Paris and Milan. He was appointed as
Consultant Surgeon to the Midlands Abdominal and Retroperitoneal
Sarcoma Unit in 2012.
Mr Desai undertakes all aspects of abdominal sarcoma surgery as
well as complex surgical oncology and surgery for advanced pelvic
malignancy.
Research interests include whole genomic sequencing in sarcoma
and pre-operative psychological intervention in patients undergoing
major surgery. Publications range from International Consensus
statements for the treatment of sarcoma to multi-centre studies of
rare tumours.
Mr Desai is a member of the Sarcoma UK Research Advisory
Committee, is an editor of the European Journal of Surgical
Oncology, is Chair of the UK Expert Advisory Groups for sarcoma and
leads the regional soft tissue sarcoma, multi-disciplinary
team.
Mr Desai joined BASO Council in 2020 and is duley appointed as
the BASO Hon. Secretary in Nov 2021.