Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham

The Right Honourable
The Lord Darzi of Denham
OM KBE PC FRS FMedSci HonFREng
The Right Honourable The Lord Darzi of Denham OM KBE PC FRS FMedSci HonFREng
	Official portrait, 2019
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
	In office; 29 June 2007 – 21 July 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	The Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Succeeded by	The Baroness Thornton
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Life peerage ; 12 July 2007
Personal details
Born	Ara Warkes Darzi; 7 May 1960; Baghdad, Iraq
Party	None (non-affiliated)
Other political; affiliations	Labour (until 2019)
Alma mater	Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland ; Trinity College Dublin
Scientific career
Known for	Darzi Centres; Pioneering keyhole surgery; National Health Service Reform & London Health Commission (2008);
Awards	Sash of Independence, Qatar; Fellow of the Royal Society (2013); Fellow of the Institute of Medicine (2013); Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Privy Counsellor; FMedSci (2003);
Fields	Global health; Laparoscopic surgery;
Institutions	Institute of Global Health Innovation; Imperial College London; Royal Marsden Hospital; Trinity College, Dublin; Institute of Cancer Research;

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Ara Warkes Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham (Armenian: Արա Վարդգես Դարզի; born 7 May 1960) is an Armenian-British surgeon, academic, and politician.

Lord Darzi is an academic surgeon and holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London, specialising in the field of minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery, having pioneered many new techniques and technologies. He is co-director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation and the NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre at Imperial College London. He has tried to reform the National Health Service (NHS) in England and is recognised internationally as an advocate for applying innovative reforms to health systems globally.

Until resigning the whip in July 2019, Darzi sat as a Labour member of the House of Lords, but now sits as an independent peer because of his perception that Jeremy Corbyn failed to control antisemitism within Labour.