Mr Andrew de Beaux

Mr Andrew de Beaux graduated in medicine with Honours from Aberdeen University. His surgical training was mainly in Scotland, with his final year in Adelaide, South Australia. He was appointed Consultant General and Upper GI Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 2001. Mr Andrew de Beaux had broad training in General Surgery although his interest focussed on upper gastro-intestinal surgery, in particular diseases of the oesophagus and stomach along with gallstone disease. Much of this surgery is performed by keyhole or laparoscopic surgery.

He has an international hernia surgery reputation and receive referrals, in particular patients with complex incision hernia problems, from all over the UK and, more recently, from Europe. While he is not a plastic surgeon, many of his larger hernia cases involve repair of not only the abdominal muscles, but revision of the scar and the excision of excess skin tissue, similar to an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck).

Mr Andrew de Beaux is the President of the British Hernia Society (since October 2016, having been Education Secretary prior to this). The remit of this society is to promote best practice in hernia surgery in the UK. He lectures regularly on hernia surgery at National and International Meetings. He is a Board member of the European Hernia Society (with a responsibility for Social Media). He was co- president of the 36th European Hernia Society Annual General Meeting which was held in Edinburgh in 2014 (http://www.ehs2014edinburgh.org - a 1000 international delegate conference). Mr Andrew de Beaux is a current member of the EHS Annual Conference International Scientific Committee.

He is the UK representative on a number of European Hernia Society Working Groups. He is a member of HerniaSurge (www.herniasurge.com) writing the First World Inguinal Hernia Guidelines due for publication in February 2017. Mr Andrew de Beaux co-organise a number of hernia and other surgical training courses (such as laparoscopic bile duct exploration for gallstones, surgery for reflux disease and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy) each year at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

He also has an interest in weight loss surgery. He began his training in laparoscopic Bariatric or weight loss surgery in 2005 and was one of two surgeons (along with his colleague Mr Bruce Tulloh) who established a Bariatric Surgery Service in Edinburgh for both the NHS and private sector. A third surgeon, Mr Peter Lamb has joined their surgical team. They operated on their first patient in 2007. The weight loss surgery program has always had two main aims, to be SAFE and SUCCESSFUL for patients. He has served on a number of government committees advising the national planning forum on weight loss management planning. He also represents the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network) Council and he is also a member of the SIGN Strategy Group. He has been on the Editorial Group for a number of recent guidelines including Guideline 115, The Management of Obesity (http://www.sign.ac.uk/pdf/sign115.pdf). He reviews papers submitted for publication to the Journal, Obesity Surgery and Hernia. In addition, he is a member of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Surgery and the World Journal of Surgery.