Consultant Paediatric / Children's Surgeon London

Mr Misra, Paediatric Urologist Surgeon, London, UK
Mr Misra, Paediatric Urologist Surgeon, London, UK

Special Interest in Children's health - Paediatric Gastroenterology & ​Paediatric Urology

Mr Devesh Misra FRCS 

Consultant Paediatric Surgeon​, London

​Mr. D. Misra trained in Paediatric Surgery at Nottingham and the prestigious Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. His research thesis on “DNA  ploidy in Wilms’ tumour” remains the largest study published on the subject till date. 
In l995, at the age of 33, he was appointed to the Royal London Hospital as a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, the youngest ever in his speciality.  

He has special interest in Neonatal Surgery, GI surgery and Paediatric Urology.

​Over the last 10 years, he has developed an interest in laparoscopic surgery or key hole surgery for operations like pull through surgery for Hirschsprung’s disease, ano-rectal malformations, nephrectomies and hemi- nephrectomies etc ​
He has described his own special technique of Surface Umbilical Pyloromyotomy, which is published in Eur J Paed-Surgery, over 800 cases have been performed till date.

He is on the national panel of the Royal College of Surgeons and  appoints surgical Consultants all over UK- a position of great responsibilty and prestige.
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In all, he has worked in Paed-Surgery for over 28 years. He is board certified in UK and his name is on the Specialists Register for Paediatric Surgery.
Mr Misra prides himself on keeping abreast of the latest advances in his field. He is active in clinical research and has published and presented well over 100 chapters, scientific publications, editorials and oral presentations  in international journals or conferences.

At his level of seniority, he now concentrates on giving state of the art lectures, conducts Live surgical workshops or chairs sessions around the world.

Life beyond medicine​
Mr Devesh  is a RYA qualified sailing Skipper and also an Advanced PADI scuba diver- he sails and/or dive 3 to 4 times a year. He recently enjoyed the night sail from Morocco to Spain. He has dived with sharks and has also done wreck diving, night diving and tunnel diving.

​He loves to windsurf and taught his children this sport when they were 9 years old. They are, however, more likely to be found nowadays surfing the net. He plays golf twice a week and as the years advance, He is getting pretty addicted to it. Please cast an eye on the various photos sprinkled throughout this website.

​Accreditations
  1. On the GMC “Specialist Register” for Paediatric Surgery.
  2. FRCS,  MCh in Paediatric Surgery.
  3. Holds post of Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Consultant Paediatric Urologist in NHS as well as in private practice.
  4. Fully qualified member of ESPU, BAPS and BAPU.

Surgical skills & experience
Mr Misra prides himself on keeping abreast on the latest advances in his field. He is active in clinical research and has published and presented well over 100 chapters, scientific publications, editorials and oral presentations  in international journals or conferences.

At his level of seniority he now concentrates on giving state of the art lectures, conducts Live Surgical Workshops or chairs sessions around the world. The 20 most important of these are enumerated below.

Publications​:
  1. ​Inguinal hernias in premature babies : wait or operate. Editorial,  Acta  Paed 90: 1-3, 2001.2. 
  2. The incontinent child- Editorial. D Misra, published in Capital Doctor  2002.
  3. Chapter- UTI in children, D Misra, C Sinha. Textbook  of Paediatric Surgery, publishers- Verlag Inc, 2010, pages 271-287.
  4. Challenges in managing proximal hypospadias: A 17-year single-center experience. Misra D, et al. J Pediatr Surg. 2019 30. pii: S0022-3468(19)30318-5.
  5. Jejunal atresia in an infant with triple X syndrome. M Trautner, D Misra. J Maternal-fetal and Neonat Med 16:198-200, 2004.
  6. MCUGs are not necessary for all cases of antenatally diagnosed hydronephrosis.  A Mears,  D.Misra.  J Paed Urol, 2007, 3: 264-7.
  7. Conservative management of major abdominal wound dehiscence in premature babies - a seven-year experience. Burki T, Misra D. Eur J Paed Surg, 19: 232-5, 2009.
  8. Neonatal functional intestinal obstruction and the presence of severely immature ganglion cells on rectal biopsy: 6 year experience. T Burki, D Misra. Ped Surg Internat: 27, Issue 5 (2011), Page 487.
  9. Surgical management of urethral prolapse in girls: 13 years’ experience: C Holbrook, D Misra. Brit J Urol Internat , 110,  132–134,  2012.
  10. Meckel's Scan in Children: A review of 183 cases referred to two Paediatric surgery specialist centres over 18 years. Pediatr Surg Int. 2013 May;29(5):511-7. doi: 10.1007/s00383-013-3270-3. Epub 2013 Feb  C Sinha, D Misra
  11. Review article. "Postnatal management of ambigous genitalia ."  S.Watkin, D.Misra. Curr. Obs. Gynecol. 1993, 3: 48-53.
  12. 'Management of the low undescended testes by scrotal fixation'. D.Misra,  L.Kapila.  Urol, 49:762-5, 1997.
  13. Severe jejunoileitis after placement of a feeding jejunostomy: a series of four cases and a review of the literature. R Garrett-Cox, D Misra  J Pediatr Surg. 2003;38(7):1090-3.
  14. Ectopic scrotum: Single stage rotational flap reconstruction with Orchidopexy. R. Singh, D Misra, et al. J Ped Surg Case Reports, 2020, 58 :101469, 8-12.
  15. Treatment of megarectum in Anorectal Malformation with emphasis on preventive aspects– 17 years experience. Yew-Wei Tan, Devesh Misra, et al. Published in Paed Surg Internat, 2020. DOI 10.1007/s00383-020-04687-z​

​Thesis:
  1. M.S.    thesis     titled  "Evaluation     of     adrenalectomy     in     Cushing's disease with    particular    reference    to    the pituitary adrenal axis" presented at World Congress of surgery in Sydney 1997.
  2.  M.Ch. thesis    titled    " Flow    cytometric    analysis of DNA content in Wilms tumors" presented at the World Congress of Surgery in Sweden in 1991.