Mr James Smellie has since 2001, been the Endocrine and Thyroid surgeon at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, a central London hospital founded in 1719. The endocrine department includes 5 adult and 2 paediatric endocrinologists and one surgeon, treating a wide variety of conditions of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal. He qualified as a doctor in Cambridge and passed my USA medical exams at the same time, he has worked in Oxford, France and the USA in addition to the extensive training in London.

Mr Smellie sat and passed the first specialist exit exam in Endocrine Surgery in the UK and have been dedicated to the speciality since. He did a research period at the Institute of Cancer Research/Royal Marsden Hospital related to antibody directed treatment of cancer which lead to the awarding of a doctorate of medicine in Cambridge in 1999. He is interested in minimal access surgery and the cosmetic implications of surgery.