Prof. P.N. Haray

Professor P.N. Haray is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon based at Prince Charles Hospital, in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, where he has established a comprehensive colorectal service. He brings years of experience to his private colorectal consultant practice at Vale Healthcare, south Wales' leading private hospital and private clinics in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

Professor Haray is also an External Professor of Coloproctology, at the School of Care Sciences in the University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd since 2000.

Before locating in South Wales, Professor Haray completed his medical education and achieved a Master’s in Surgery in Bombay, India prior to coming to the UK in 1991. He then completed Higher Training in Surgery through various hospitals in Wales, specialising in Colorectal, Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery. He also undertook a visiting fellowship with the colorectal unit at the Cleveland Clinic in the USA prior to his appointment as a Consultant Surgeon in 1996

His particular areas of expertise include:

• Laparoscopic (key-hole) colorectal surgery, and is the most experienced laparoscopic colorectal surgeon in Wales providing this technique in over 90% of bowel operations.
• Early diagnosis and surgical treatment of bowel cancer. 
• A specialist approach to all colorectal diseases including benign conditions such as diverticular disease, Crohn’s disease, Ulcerative colitis etc.
• Functional bowel disorders like Faecal Incontinence, Obstructed Defecation/ Rectocoele, Rectal Prolapse, Irritable Bowel Syndrome etc.
• Day Case/Outpatient treatment for a variety of conditions including early haemorrhoids.
• Endoscopic procedures.

Haray has also won several awards including the Winner of the Best Hospital Doctor (Surgery) in the UK, and Best Surgical Trainer in Wales etc. 

He has an active interest in surgical research and teaching with over a hundred publications/ presentations and is a regular invited speaker at local and international conferences. Over the past 2 years, he has been actively training established consultant colorectal surgeons in various hospitals across Wales in the techniques of laparoscopic colorectal surgery.

You can find out more about Professor Haray's Colorectal practice via his website: http://www.profharay.com