Harley Street Clinic Barbados

Dr. Charles Akle is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and was awarded the prestigious Hallett Prize, in addition to a number of awards and prizes in his undergraduate career. He trained in Medicine at Guy’s Hospital in London and researched into transplantation and immunology early in his career, obtaining his Master of Surgery degree. This set the scene for his return to active medical research after retirement.

He was a prominent London-based surgeon and a pioneer in the development of laparoscopic surgery, helping to train many of today’s excellent surgeons in Europe. He was also active in establishing and promoting a better relationship between the private and public health sectors in the UK, building on the fact that many new developments in medicine, such as in vitro fertilization and laparoscopic surgery, began in the private sector.

After retiring from clinical practice in 2007, he established and was the founder of a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel immunotherapeutic products. His clinical experience in oncology and the relationship with immunity has laid the foundations for his current interests which relate to chronic inflammation as related to cancer and to stress, the microbiome, the gut/brain axis, and the environment.

Dr Akle is now active in consultancy work specializing in immunotherapy in the biotechnology arena, but also in the fields of wellbeing and the prevention of stress. He is a Global Ambassador for the University of Boulder, Colorado, and is involved in immunological research projects there and elsewhere.

Dr Akle believes strongly in excellence, legacy, charity, and service to one’s fellow man. He dislikes overburdensome bureaucracy and loves to challenge scientific dogma!