Dr Alice Murray

Ms Murray is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at University College London Hospitals (UCLH). She studied medicine at the University of Oxford, where she was awarded an academic scholarship, before completing her clinical training at The Royal Free and UCL. She undertook all her general and specialist surgical training in London and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2022. 

Her specialist training includes a Pelvic Floor Fellowship at St Mark’s Hospital, advanced laparoscopic surgery, and further expertise in inflammatory bowel disease, complex proctology, intestinal failure and colorectal cancer. She also completed a Colorectal Research Fellowship at Columbia University in New York and was awarded a prestigious Harkness Fellowship, spending a year at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her PhD at Imperial College London, supervised by Sir Ara Darzi, examined international surgical quality and performance. 

At UCLH, Ms Murray specialises in colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, complex benign conditions and pelvic floor surgery. She is also Clinical Lead for the Surgical Assessment and Acute Surgical Units and patient flow.