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About me

I am a senior consultant surgeon in post 20 years, and specialise in surgery of the liver, pancreas, gall bladder, and bile ducts.

One of my areas of expertise is surgery to remove the gall bladder using keyhole techniques (laparoscopic cholecystectomy). As a specialist in this area, I am accustomed to dealing with the full range of complexity of such cases, and provide region-wide advice, guidance, and help in this specialist area.

My work also includes complex surgery of the liver, pancreas, and bile ducts, often for cancers of those organs.

At the Cambridge Spire Lea, I carry out laparoscopic cholecystectomy operations (keyhole removal of the gall bladder), usually for gall stones. As a cancer specialist, I also provide consultations in relation to the treatment of liver, bile duct, and pancreas tumours, although for infrastructure and logistic reasons, those operations are carried out at Addenbrookes Hospital.

I qualified in Bristol, and after completing junior doctor posts at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, worked at Bristol University as an anatomy demonstrator to undergraduate medical students. I subsequently did a PhD in cancer molecular biology at Oxford University in the laboratories of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital. I undertook my initial surgical training in Oxford, and then moved to Cambridge for senior surgical training. I completed my specialty Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and liver transplant training by carrying out a fellowship at the Centre Hepatobiliaire at Paul Brousse Hospital in Paris.

I am a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a member of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association.

At Addenbrookes Hospital I am the lead for the liver tumours MDT, and lead a laboratory research project in liver regeneration.

Outside of work, I am learning to play the cello, and love being in the outdoors, either hiking or on a bicycle.

Areas of interest

Gall bladder surgery; laparoscopic cholecystectomy; surgery for tumours of the liver, bile ducts and pancreas

Medical secretaries

• Kirsty Ashman
• Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital 30 New Road Impington CAMBRIDGE CB24 9EL
• 01223 266934
• mmp1@themedman.co.uk