Ms Asha Senapati is a colorectal surgeon who joined St Mark’s Consultant Staff in October 2018. She has a wide breath of experience and her specific remit at St Mark’s was to establish the Pilonidal Disease Centre.

Ms Senapati did her undergraduate training at Christian Medical College, Vellore, South India and her surgical training at St Thomas’s Hospital and St Mark’s Hospital at City Road.

She was also a consultant at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, from 1994 to 2024 and has performed over seventeen hundred pilonidal disease operations on patients from around the country and from abroad. She has written book chapters and lectured nationally and internationally on the subject. She has been involved with training and demonstrating in pilonidal surgery in addition to other aspects of colorectal surgery.

She ran a Basic Coloproctology course (M27 Course) for 18 years. She gave an Arris and Gale lecture on wound healing and was awarded Hospital Doctor of the Year in Portsmouth in 2013. She has published widely in peer review journals and has over 250 presentations, publications and invited lectures.

She was President of the Clinical Section and of the Section of Surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine. She has had several roles in the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland and was President in 2014.

Ms Senapati was a Trustee of the Wessex Cancer Trust for many years. She is Chairman of Bowel Research UK and is on the Executive of the International Pilonidal Society.