Clinical expertise
All of the surgeons at the Centre are senior
specialists based in London’s teaching hospitals. They have a broad
range of expertise which allows all aspects of endocrine surgical
disease to be diagnosed and managed.
Left to right:
Mr Alberto Isla
Mr John Lynn
Mr Bill Fleming
The Bupa Cromwell Endocrine Surgery Centre is headed by the
internationally-renowned endocrine surgeon, Mr John Lynn.
For the past 20 years Mr Lynn has provided a comprehensive service
for Bupa Cromwell Hospital in the surgical management of thyroid,
parathyroid, adrenal and pancreatic endocrine disease. For 27 years
he was also the Head of Endocrine Surgery at the Royal Postgraduate
Medical School, now the Imperial College of Science, Technology and
Medicine, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust in London.
Mr Lynn was a founder member of the British Endocrine Society, now
the British Association of Endocrine Surgeons. He has led the
development of minimally invasive techniques in endocrine surgery,
and pioneered the use of intraoperative parathyroid hormone assay
and protection of the voice by the use of intraoperative nerve
stimulation.
Mr Lynn works with two other surgeons with international training
and experience:
Mr Alberto
Isla was born in North Spain and undertook surgical training in
Madrid. He spent 6 years as a general surgeon in Vigo, before
commencing advanced training in hepatic, biliary and pancreatic
surgery at the Hammersmith Hospital in 1996. He was appointed to
the staff of the Ealing Hospital and more recently the Charing
Cross Hospital. Mr Isla is a highly experienced laparoscopic
surgeon with great experience in laparoscopic adrenelectomy. He has
been in the forefront of the successful development of the
laparoscopic removal of pancreatic endocrine tumours.
Mr Bill
Fleming, originally from Melbourne, Australia, received his
training in endocrine surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and
at the Hammersmith Hospital in London with Mr Lynn. He returned to
Australia in 1995 to establish the Endocrine Service of the Austin
Hospital in Melbourne, and was also appointed to the post of
Director of General Surgery in 2002. He returned to London in
September 2004, to join the consultant staff of the Hammersmith
& Charing Cross Hospitals as an endocrine and general surgeon.
Mr Fleming's interests are surgery of the thyroid and parathyroid
with a special interest in the management of parathyroid disease in
renal failure. He is a highly experienced laparoscopic surgeon with
a special interest in laparoscopic adrenelectomy.