Professor Giles Toogood

Professor Giles Toogood
Surgery
Leeds

Professor Giles Toogood

Surgeon in Leeds

BM BCh MA DM FRCS (Gen)

Professor Giles Toogood areas of expertise:

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Professor Giles Toogood is a highly experienced consultant hepatobiliary surgeon and general surgeon with private clinics at Spire Leeds Hospital, Spire Methley Park Hospital and Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital. His areas of expertise include gallbladder surgery, gallstones, laparoscopic surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, liver surgery, liver tumours and hernia.

Professor Toogood graduated from Oxford University and subsequently trained in Oxford, Cambridge and Australia. Alongside his private practice, Professor Toogood is a consultant hepatobiliary surgeon based at St James's University Hospital. St James's Hospital Hepatobiliary Unit is one of the busiest in Europe, performing liver transplants, liver resections and laparoscopic surgery.

Professor Toogood has a special interest in daycare laparoscopic cholecystectomy, performing more than 250 laparoscopic cholecystectomies and 100 major liver operations every year, including laparoscopic liver resections and liver transplants. He is currently Chief Investigator for a large multi-centre NIHR study (Sunflower Study) focusing on the management of patients with gallstones. The study is likely to help with the treatment of patients needing laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and comes with an NHS grant worth £4.5m

He is also professor of hepatobiliary surgery at Leeds University. He is also an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons and external examiner for Edinburgh, Oxford, and Singapore Universities. Over the past twelve years, he has co-supervised 15 postgraduate fellows working towards PhDs and MDs. He is very much involved in research, some of his publications can be found on ResearchGate and he features in The Daily Mail's Good Doctors Guide.

He is president of the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and also the founder of the Great Britain and Ireland Hepatopancreatobiliary Association.

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