The MATTU Team

Professor Michael Bailey FRCS

Professor of Surgery, Creator and Director of MATTU, Consultant Laparoscopic Surgeon

Internationally renowned Laparoscopic Surgeon, creator and Director of the Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit

Vice President and founder member of European Association of Transluminal Surgery (EATS)

Member of Executive Board of European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) and Director of the Publications Committee of EAES

Past President of the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland and former Tutor in Minimal Access Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Member of the Teaching Faculty of the European Institute of Telesurgery, Strasbourg, France for Advanced Course in Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES), and Director of Advanced Course in Laparoscopic Digestive Surgery

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Professor Timothy Rockall MB BS FRCS MD

Consultant Colo-rectal Surgeon, Director

Professor Rockall is a Consultant Surgeon at The Royal Surrey County Hospital Guildford and Professor of colo-rectal surgery at Surrey University.

He specialises in laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery and has a particular interest and expertise in laparoscopic colorectal surgery.

He was previously Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London in the department of Surgical Technology and Oncology and Honorary Consultant at St. Mary's Hospital London, where he directed the clinical robotic programme with the Da Vinci surgical robotic system.

He has held the position of Director of the MATTU since 2003.

Mr Andrew SH Kent MD MRCOG TD

Consultant Gynaecologist, Director of Gynaecological Surgery

Mr Andrew Kent joined the Consultant team at Guildford in 2001 having previously worked as Senior Registrar at Guildford and Chichester. He is Director of all the gynaecology courses run at the MATTU in Guildford and is on the regular faculty of the MATTU Royal College of Surgeons in London and the European Surgical Institute in Hamburg. He is also on the Board of the British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE)

His special skills and interests include advanced laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery, particularly with relation to endometriosis and fibroids, and outpatient gynaecology including colposcopy, outpatient hysteroscopy and abnormal uterine bleeding. Research interests currently include the surgical management of endometriosis and fibroids, and the development of laparoscopic approaches to hysterectomy.

Alison Snook

Unit Manager

Alison has coordinated Mattu since its inception in 1995. Prior to this she was a theatre sister of many years experience, and originally trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Mr Shaun R Preston

Deputy Director of Upper GI Courses

Consultant Surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital Guildford and Deputy Director of Upper GI courses at the MATTU.

Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Surrey.

Previously Consultant Surgeon on The Northern Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Unit at The Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne.

British Council and Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research Fellow at National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo.

Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland Prize and Gold Medal winner in the Intercollegiate examination in surgery.

Member of Teaching Faculty upon regional and national oesophago-gastric, endoscopic and laparoscopic masterclasses.

Founding Member and Upper GI Lead for the Newcastle Minimal Access Therapy and Intervention Centre (NewMATIC), Newacstle upon Tyne.

Specialist in oesophago-gastric cancer surgery and laparoscopic surgery with a particular interest and expertise in laparoscopic upper gastrointestinal surgery.

Mr Christopher Eden

Consultant Urologist at the Royal Surrey County Hospital and The North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, with a major interest and international reputation in advanced laparoscopic surgery.

A pioneer of laparoscopic Urology who performed the first laparoscopic pyeloplasty in the UK in 1994, the first laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in the UK in 2000 and the first laparoscopic radical cystectomy in the UK in 2001.

Mr Tim Worthington

Consultant Surgeon at The Royal Surrey County Hospital with a special interest in hepato-biliary surgery.

Awarded the Simpson- Smith Research Fellowship by The Royal College of Surgeons of England investigating the molecular biology of pancreatic cancer.

Fellow at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia.

Current research interests include the development of laparoscopic techniques in hepatobiliary surgery.

Mr Iain Jourdan

Consultant Surgeon at Frimley Park Hospital and Tutor at the MATTU and Senior Lecturer at Surrey University.

Master of Surgery from the University of Cambridge and first recipient of the Distinction Prize.

Teaching faculty of the European Institute of Telesurgery and expert author of Websurg. Faculty of the Laparoscopic Surgical Centre, Elancourt, France.

Specialist interest in laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery and GI physiology with research interests in surgical sensory technologies.

Mr Andrea Costanzi

Laparoscopic Research Fellow

Andrea Costanzi is a laparoscopic fellow investigating the new perspectives of Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) in cooperation with his centre of origin, Niguarda Hospital in Milano, Italy, and IRCAD in Strasbourg.

Mr Bruce Levy

Laparoscopic Research Fellow

Bruce Levy trained in South Africa before becoming a registrar on the South West Thames registrar training programme. He has now taken up a two year post as the laparoscopic research fellow.

He is currently investigating the "Peri-operative Optimisation of Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Colectomy" by looking at target driven fluid replacement and post-operative analgesia.

Mr Peter Barton-Smith MRCOG

Laparoscopic Gynaecological Fellow

Peter Barton-Smith completed specialist training in Gynaecology in 2005 and since then has been a Fellow at the MATTU. His research interest is in the surgical treatment of endometriosis.

Kate Dunn

MATTU Liason Officer

Kate Dunn joined MATTU in June 2007. Having trained as an ODP at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, Kate spent 13 years working in theatres, the last seven in the laparoscopic theatre, in both surgery and anaesthetics.

Kate has recently qualified as a Surgical Assistant and completed the extended role, through the University of Greenwich.

Agnieszka Solska

Administrative Assistant

Agnieszka Soslka comes from Warsaw, Poland. She has worked in various administrative roles in Poland before coming to Great Britain, where she has been a part of the MATTU team since September 2006.