Mr Menon qualified in medicine (MBBS) and completed general surgical training in India before relocating to the UK. He entered the specialist colorectal and general surgery training programme in the West Midlands and completed a Laparoscopic Colorectal Fellowship in Bristol in 2006. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon in 2007. Over the course of his career, he has performed thousands of colonoscopies and hundreds of colorectal cancer operations, and he holds extensive experience in minimally invasive surgical techniques.