Dr Lorraine Albon

Consultant in Acute, General and Bariatric Medicine University Hospitals Sussex, St Richards Hospital

Dr Lorraine Albon, MB.MS, MSc, FRCP
Lorraine is a Consultant Physician, at University Hospitals Sussex Hospitals Foundation Trust. Having initially read Human Sciences, she went on to study Medicine as a mature student and qualified from the University of London in 1992. She trained in Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine in London and Birmingham.
During her training she developed an interest in Bariatric medicine, working as a clinical lecturer at the Royal London Hospital. Lorraine was appointed as a Consultant in 2004, as an Acute Physician and Diabetologist/Endocrinologist at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth.
In 2006 she returned to the field of Bariatric medicine, and has been involved in the commissioning, initiation and running of Tier 3 services across 4 different providers, both in the community and in secondary care. Since 2007 she has been part of the highly regarded Bariatric Surgery Service at St Richards Hospital Chichester, and in 2017 became their lead Physician.
She has a wide-ranging role including assessment and management of patients, design of care pathways, teaching, training. She supports research undertaken in the Bariatric Unit associated with the universities of both Surrey and Chichester, where she has recently been appointed Visiting Professor.