Mr David McArthur, Consultant Colorectal, General, and Laparoscopic Surgeon
Mr David McArthur
Consultant Colorectal, General, and Laparoscopic Surgeon
Mr David McArthur FRCSEd(Gen Surg) MD MBChB
Consultant Colorectal, General, and Laparoscopic Surgeon
Mr David McArthur
Consultant Colorectal, General, and Laparoscopic Surgeon FRCSEd(Gen Surg) MD MBChB
Mr McArthur is a Consultant Colorectal, General, and Laparoscopic Surgeon
Areas of expertise
- Colonoscopy
- Hernia repair (keyhole)
- Haemorrhoidal artery ligation operation (HALO)
- Open hernia repair
- Transanal haemorrhoid dearterialisation (THD)
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Address
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The Harborne Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare UK
Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, B15 2FQ
Heart Of England NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 5ST
About Mr David McArthur
GMC number: 4502757
Year qualified: 1998
Place of primary qualification: University of Birmingham
David McArthur is a Consultant General Surgeon at The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. He qualified in 1998 at Birmingham University with Honours in Surgery. In between junior and senior house-jobs in the Midlands, he lectured in anatomy at Birmingham University. He subsequently undertook a period of research into the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer and submitted a thesis for which he was awarded an MD by Warwick University.
After registrar training in the West Midlands, he secured an Association of Coloproctology of GB&I Fellowship in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery at Leeds, working with Peter Sagar, gaining considerable experience of advanced laparoscopic techniques, including ileo-anal pouches.
On completion of training, David McArthur took up post as Consultant Surgeon in July 2011. He has had a key role in advancing laparoscopic colorectal surgery at Heartlands Hospital and setting up a service for patients with locally advanced and recurrent rectal cancer. He is on the teaching faculty of a number of postgraduate courses and has a continuing interest in clinical research.
Areas of expertise
- Abdominal (ventral) hernia
- Abdominal wall defects
- Abdominal wall reconstruction
- Abdominoperineal resection
- Abscess incision and drainage
- Adhesiolysis
- Adhesions
- Altered bowel habits
- Anal cancer
- Anal fissure
- Anal fistula
- Anal prolapse
- Anorectal conditions
- Appendicectomy
- Appendicitis
- Banding of haemorrhoids
- Botox injections for anal fissure
- Bowel cancer
- Bowel diversion surgery
- Bowel obstruction
- Bowel resection
- Bowel surgery (colectomy)
- Colitis (ulcerative colitis)
- Colon cancer
- Colonoscopy
- Coloproctology
- Colorectal cancer
- Colorectal surgery
- Constipation
- Crohn's disease
- Diagnostic laparoscopy
- Diarrhoea
- Diverticulitis
- Excision of benign lesions
- Excision of lymph nodes
- Excision of sebaceous cysts
- Faecal incontinence
- Femoral hernia
- Fistulectomy and seton insertion
- General surgery
- Haemorrhoidal artery ligation operation (HALO)
- Haemorrhoids
- Hemorrhoidectomy
- Hernia
- Hernia repair (keyhole)
- Ileostomy surgery
- Incisional hernia repair
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- Inguinal hernia
- Inguinal hernia repair
- Inguinal node dissection
- Laparoscopic (key-hole) surgery
- Laparoscopic bilateral hernia surgery
- Laparoscopy
- Lipoma
- Lipoma removal
- Lumps and bumps removal
- Malignant bowel obstruction
- Open hernia repair
- Perianal abscess
- Pilonidal sinus disorders
- Pilonidal sinus excision
- Rectal biopsy
- Rectal bleeding
- Rectal cancer
- Removal of rectum and colon (proctocolectomy)
- Sigmoidoscopy
- Skin lesion removal (warts, moles and skin tags)
- Skin lesion treatments
- Small bowel cancer
- Spigelian hernia
- Stoma reversal
- Stoma surgery
- Stricture treatment
- Surgical oncology
- Transanal haemorrhoid dearterialisation (THD)
- Umbilical (belly-button) hernia
- Umbilical hernia repair
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