Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham

The Right Honourable
The Lord Darzi of Denham
OM KBE PC FRS FMedSci HonFREng
Official portrait, 2019
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
In office
29 June 2007 – 21 July 2009
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byThe Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Succeeded byThe Baroness Thornton
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 July 2007
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Ara Warkes Darzi

(1960-05-07) 7 May 1960 (age 64)[1]
Baghdad, Iraq
Political partyNone (non-affiliated)
Other political
affiliations		Labour (until 2019)
Alma materRoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Trinity College, Dublin
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Ara Warkes Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham (Armenian: Արա Վարդգես Դարզի; born 7 May 1960) is an Armenian-British surgeon, academic, and politician.

Lord Darzi is an academic surgeon and holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London, specialising in the field of minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery, having pioneered many new techniques and technologies. He is co-director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation and the NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre at Imperial College London.[9] He has tried to reform the National Health Service (NHS)[7][8] in England and is recognised internationally as an advocate for applying innovative reforms to health systems globally.[6][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]

Until resigning the whip in July 2019, Darzi sat as a Labour member of the House of Lords, but now sits as an independent peer because of his perception that Jeremy Corbyn failed to control antisemitism within Labour.[18]

  1. ^ "DARZI OF DENHAM". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. ^ "Honours and Memberships". Imperial College London. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  3. ^ Davies, P. (2010). "Darzi centres: An expensive luxury the UK can no longer afford?". BMJ. 341: c6287. doi:10.1136/bmj.c6287. PMID 21059729. S2CID 35512708.
  4. ^ Nduka, C. C.; Monson, J. R. T.; Menzies-Gow, N.; Darzi, A. (1994). "Abdominal wall metastases following laparoscopy". British Journal of Surgery. 81 (5): 648–652. doi:10.1002/bjs.1800810506. PMID 8044537. S2CID 1118718.
  5. ^ Taffinder, N. J.; McManus, I. C.; Gul, Y.; Russell, R. C. G.; Darzi, A. (1998). "Effect of sleep deprivation on surgeons' dexterity on laparoscopy simulator". The Lancet. 352 (9135): 1191. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(98)00034-8. PMID 9777838. S2CID 690832.
  6. ^ a b Aziz, O.; Constantinides, V.; Tekkis, P. P.; Athanasiou, T.; Purkayastha, S.; Paraskeva, P.; Darzi, A. W.; Heriot, A. G. (2006). "Laparoscopic Versus Open Surgery for Rectal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis". Annals of Surgical Oncology. 13 (3): 413–424. doi:10.1245/ASO.2006.05.045. PMID 16450220. S2CID 28743077.
  7. ^ a b High Quality Care for All: Nhs Next Stage Review Final Report by Lord Darzi: Command Paper 7432 (Cm.). Stationery Office Books (TSO). 2008. ISBN 978-0-10-174322-8.
  8. ^ a b Boseley, S. (2009). "Ara Darzi: An innovative surgeon who led reforms of UK's NHS". The Lancet. 374 (9695): 1057. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61691-3. PMID 19782859. S2CID 3181645.
  9. ^ "Our people | Faculty of Medicine | Imperial College London". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  10. ^ Moorthy, K.; Munz, Y.; Sarker, S. K.; Darzi, A. (2003). "Objective assessment of technical skills in surgery". BMJ. 327 (7422): 1032–1037. doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7422.1032. PMC 261663. PMID 14593041.
  11. ^ Alfred Cuschieri; Grace Pierce; Ara Darzi; Borley, Neil R.; Rowley, David T. (2003). Clinical surgery. Oxford: Blackwell Science. ISBN 0-632-06394-7.
  12. ^ Ara Darzi; Thanos Athanasiou; Debas, Haile T. (2010). Key Topics in Surgical Research and Methodology. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-71914-4.
  13. ^ Thanos Athanasiou; Ara Darzi (2011). Evidence Synthesis in Healthcare: A Practical Handbook for Clinicians. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-0-85729-175-2.
  14. ^ Ara Darzi (1996). Retroperitoneoscopy. Informa Healthcare. ISBN 1-899066-29-2.
  15. ^ Nduka, Charles; Ara Darzi; Talamini, Mark A.; Dunn, David (1997). Atlas of laparoscopic surgical technique. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders. ISBN 0-7020-2011-7.
  16. ^ Interview with Lord Ara Darzi by the British Medical Journal on YouTube
  17. ^ Hawkes, N. (2009). "Ara Darzi resigns as health minister but remains government adviser". BMJ. 339: b2898. doi:10.1136/bmj.b2898. S2CID 71583038.
  18. ^ "Two Labour peers resign whip over 'anti-Semitism'". BBC News. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019.