Professor Michael Bailey

As Professor of Surgery and head of MATTU, the UK's largest and most advanced international centre of excellence for laparoscopic surgery, Michael Bailey is at the forefront of modern abdominal surgery.

A pioneer of laparoscopic surgery and its safe training, Professor Bailey performed one of the first laparoscopic gallbladder removal operations in the UK in 1990 and has since become internationally recognised for his technical and teaching expertise. He has evolved laparoscopic techniques for operating on many other conditions, including inguinal hernia repair and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.

In Guildford he established and is Director of the Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit (MATTU), which teaches and researches keyhole surgery, and is an Honorary Consultant Surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital. He is a founder member and Vice President of the European Association for Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (EATS).

Professor Bailey is a member of the Executive Board of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery and Chairman of their Publication Committee. He is also past President of the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and, until recently, Minimal Invasive Tutor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Apart from laparoscopic surgery, Professor Bailey's main clinical interests are in oseophago-gastric cancer, gallstones and hernia surgery.

Professor Bailey's Private Practice is based at 78 Harley Street in London and at the Guildford Nuffield Hospital, Surrey.