- Bupa Platinum consultant
- Fee assured
- Verified account
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Hepatobiliary
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Professional profile
Dr Mathis Heydtmann is a liver consultant. *He sees patients with liver problems only*. When contacting the Glasgow Liver Clinic for a new appointment provide as much information and reports as you have to prioritise your request. If necessary, he can usually see you (or arrange for a telephone consultation) within a week.
He works in Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary, BMI Ross Hall Hospital Glasgow and the Nuffield Health Hospital Glasgow. Mathis specializes in the assessment and management of all liver conditions including jaundice and abnormal liver tests. He can assess and look after patients with impaired liver function, acute liver problems as well as chronic liver disease including assessment of severity of fibrosis with scoring systems and liver stiffness measurement (transient elastography / FibroScan) and patients with liver decompensation or liver failure. He will assess and discuss all your risk factors for liver disease including fatty liver from alcohol, metabolic dysfunction (issues with blood sugar / diabetes mellitus, dyslipidaemia, blood pressure, and weight), genetic risk factors as well as autoimmune liver diseases (where the immune system plays up and fights against your liver).
After qualifying from D�sseldorf University and passing the German and US medical licensing exam (USMLE) he worked in Switzerland, Manchester and Birmingham and undertook a research attachment in Boston before coming to Glasgow. He obtained an MD in molecular genetics from Düsseldorf University and a PhD in Liver immunology from Birmingham University where he trained in the Liver Transplant Unit and worked as a Clinical Lecturer.
He has good links with other specialists who might need to be involved in patients' care including Surgeons, Dieticians and Addiction Specialists.
Mathis' maintains a keen interest in academic medicine through advancing medical knowledge in his field, through quality improvement (he has formal qualitiy improvement training (SQSF fellow cohort 9) and teaching. His Research interest is in epidemiology and health inequality and alcoholic liver disease. He is a strong advocate for patients with liver disease. Since 2024 Mathis is a member of the Policy, Public Health and Advocacy Committee of the European Association in the Study of the Liver.
Mathis is a Scottish Quality Improvement Fellow (cohort 9) and aims to improve in particular liver services in Scotland. He is a specialist advisor to the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) and specialty advisor to the Scottish Chief Medical Officer (liver). In addition Mathis is a trained mediator and negotiator and is currently the chair of the local BMA negotiation committee supporting his colleagues in the health board and he is appraiser and appraiser trainer for NHS Education Scotland.
Areas of interest
Assessing and caring for patients with all aspects of liver disease considering all their risk factors. He has a special interest in early detection of advanced liver disease and in public health as well improving the health of the nation by developing and implementing evidence based policies (preventative policies are more potent than pills).