Matthew Bowles - Surgeon
Matthew Bowles - Surgeon
Welcome to this small website! I hope that the information is helpful.
I am a hepato-pancreato-biliary surgeon; this means that I am a surgeon specialising in diseases of the liver, pancreas and bile ducts. Many of the patients I meet have cancer of one of these organs, which hopefully can be treated with surgery, and I also treat many patients with gallstones and hernias.
I work in a close team of four surgeons. Our website can be found here:
I graduated as a doctor from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London in 1986 and then undertook surgical training in London and South East England. I became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) and was then awarded a Master of Surgery (MS) degree from London University in 1999 for my research into small bowel transplantation.
Having trained in general surgery (= abdominal surgery), hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery and liver transplantation, in 2001 I was appointed as consultant liver transplant surgeon at King’s College Hospital, London, one of seven liver transplant units in the UK.
During my eight years at King’s, as well as carrying out many transplants and other operations, I took on the following training and management roles: Surgical Tutor, Foundation Training Programme Director and then Clinical Director for Surgery.
In 2009 my family and I moved to Devon and I was appointed as a consultant HPB/general surgeon at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth. I switched my focus from transplantation to cancer surgery and also started to treat many more ‘general surgical’ patients with gallstones and hernias, both as emergencies and non-emergencies.
Since 2014 I have been the Director of Medical Education at Derriford. I have been an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons for many years, recently being appointed as an assessor for examinations.