Dr. Sahle Griffith

Dr Sahle Griffith is a General, Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgeon trained at the Centre for the Advancement of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Alberta, the University of the West Indies, and Imperial College London.

He received his basic medical education at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona campus between 1995 and 2000. Dr Griffith pursued his internship at Cornwall Regional Hospital in Jamaica from 2000 to 2002 and then began training in Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery. Subsequently, he then entered the General Surgical Program in 2004 which he completed in 2009.

During this time, he took an interest in laparoscopic surgery and did an elective as an Honorary Clinic Fellow at Imperial College in London from 2007 at which point he was based at the St Mary’s Hospital in Praed Street, Paddington and Ealing Hospital in South Hall, London. While on fellowship in the United Kingdom, Dr. Griffith did a Diploma in Laparoscopic Surgery at the University of Strasbourg in 2008. He also spent a period of his elective training in Spain under the tutelage of renowned laparoscopic surgeons at Hospital de San Pau in Barcelona, University of Navarra in Pamplona and the Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal in Madrid. Prior to that, in 2005 he became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Upon finishing his general surgical training, he was based at the Cornwall Regional Hospital from 2009 and in July 2010 he went on to do a Clinical Fellowship in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery at the Centre for the Advancement of Minimally Invasive Surgery of the University of Alberta which he completed on June 2011.

His fellowship was accredited by the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in May 2012 following review of the fellowship year. Since September 2011, Dr Griffith has been practicing in Barbados, performing Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgeries and has been the Medical Director at Surgical Solutions Inc. from that time. He later took a job as a Consultant Minimal Invasive Surgeon at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital from January 2014 and has been appointed an Associate Lecturer at the University of The West Indies Cave Hill Campus in General Surgery.

As of August 2020, Dr. Griffith was appointed as the Head of the Department of Surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and still holds his post. In 2021, he became Director of the Caribbean Colon Cancer Initiative, which is a research-led, non-profit organization, focusing on colorectal cancer in persons of African-descent. He has used his platform to aid surgical trainees in various research missions and the advancement of their surgical skills.