NUGITS - Key Persons
Hospitals where he runs clinics: North Tyneside
Hospitals where he operates: North Tyneside, Hexham
Qualification: MSc MFSTEd FRCS
Hospitals where he runs clinics: North Tyneside
Hospitals where he operates: North Tyneside
Qualification: MD FRCS MBBS
Job Titles:
- Surgeon
- President of the British Hernia Society
Liam Horgan is a laparoscopic upper gastro-intestinal surgeon working in Northumbria Healthcare NHSFT with a special interest in day case hernia and gallbladder surgery. Liam qualified from University College, Cork in 1985. He moved to NE Thames for his higher surgical training and was a research fellow at the Royal Free Hospital. London. He joined Northumbria Healthcare NHSFT as their first dedicated Laparoscopic Surgeon in 1999. He formed the NUGITS training group in 2000 and is its Director. The NUGITS group is one of the leading teams of laparoscopic surgeons in the UK and is recognised as a centre of excellence in Teaching and Training.
Liam was a council member of the British Association of Day Surgery and is a Clinical Lecturer in Surgery for the Medical School, Newcastle.
He was the first national tutor in patient safety for theatre teams at the Royal College of Surgeons in England. His main interests include all forms of hernia, simple to complex recurrent incisional hernias, laparoscopic gallbladder and bile duct surgery, laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery, emergency laparoscopic surgery, laparoscopic training and proctoring, human factors and patient safety and operating theatre efficiency. He has spoken at meetings nationally and internationally and published on these areas.
Liam became President of the British Hernia Society in Nov 2018, having been on the council for 4 years and organised the 2016 Newcastle Hernia Conference.
He also leads a long term voluntary commitment to support general surgery and hernia surgery and has established a laparoscopic training program and service provision in Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania since 2003. Liam and his team won the prestigious BMJ Surgical Team of the Year 2014 for this work.
Contact Details: 0344 8118111 ext 35343 (Paula Corbett, Secretary: paula.corbett@nhct.nhs.uk )