Clinical Advisory Board

Marco is a Consultant Surgeon and Bariatric Surgery Lead at the prestigious University College London Hospital (UCLH) where he has worked since 2007. He graduated in 1995 with full marks and honours in Palermo, Italy, and also completed his training in general surgery at the same university.

He has been living in the United Kingdom since 2000, dedicating his activity to advanced laparoscopic surgery and laparoscopic bariatric (obesity) surgery. He was awarded an MD by the University of Leeds for his research on appetite hormones and bariatric surgery.

He is a pioneer of single incision bariatric surgery having performed the first single incision laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in the UK and often runs advanced training courses for UK and European surgeons in laparoscopic bariatric surgery and laparoscopic hernia surgery.

Peter qualified from Leeds Medical School in 1983 with honours after initially gaining a first class honours degree in Pathology in 1980. After basic surgical training at The General Infirmary in Leeds and becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, he went on to complete a Doctorate in Medicine with research into new techniques in the surgery for inflammatory bowel disease. This work was awarded the prestigious Patey Prize by the Surgical Research Society in 1990.

His research interests continued as a Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Liverpool before working as a Chief Resident at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

In 1996, he was appointed to the staff at the Leeds General Infirmary and has gone on to develop a national referral practice for the management of recurrent pelvic malignancy. He has been involved in the laparoscopic management of colon and rectal disease since its inception and currently runs an active training and research fellowship. He has lectured throughout the world and has published over 160 papers.

Alfred, consultant at University College Hospital, London, achieved a distinction in obstetrics and gynaecology in 1985 and went on to obtain his Doctorate in Medicine from the University of London in 1993.

Alfred gained his Part II to become a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1993, having obtained Part I in 1987.

He has written a book entitled “Basic Urogynaecology”(1993) and has also contributed to many others, including “The Investigation and Management of Urinary Incontinence in Women” (1995) and a more recent chapter in R Kearney, A Cutner “Laparoscopic Colposuspension and Paravaginal Repair”. Alfred hasbeen a member of several committees and currently holds the position of President of the BSGE.

Sion Glyn-Jones works as a Consultant Hip Surgeon in the Adult Hip and Knee Reconstruction Service at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. He undertakes all aspects of adult hip surgery and has a specialist interest in the treatment of hip arthritis in the young patient and revision hip arthroplasty.

Sion studied medicine at Cambridge and later conducted clinical attachment in London. Thereafter, he went on to complete his surgical and orthopaedic training in Oxford, where he gained a DPhil degree.

In conjunction with his colleagues at the OOEC, Sion is currently investigating the role of mechanics in the initiation of hip osteoarthritis and improving design and outcomes of total hip arthroplasty.