Mike McMahon (professor)
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Professor Michael J. McMahon is a surgeon specialising in
Professor McMahon was a lecturer and senior registrar and subsequently a senior lecturer, reader and professor of surgery before becoming a consultant surgeon. He currently holds positions as a Consultant General and
Education
He qualified from
Career
In the 1980s, McMahon carried out laparoscopy for diagnosis under local anaesthesia, realising that
McMahon visited one of the pioneers of laparoscopy, Dr Joe Petelin, in Kansas City, USA, in spring 1990. Together, they organised the UK's first teaching course on laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery in Leeds in June 1990. There, Petelin demonstrated the operation of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (removal of the gallbladder). Since then, Leeds has become a major centre for advanced laparoscopic surgery.
In 1999, McMahon started to undertake laparoscopic surgery for obesity, calling upon the experience of his colleagues who were performing the operations by traditional surgery; helping him to carry them out laparoscopically.
Alongside Professor David Johnston, McMahon performed the first laparoscopic M&M operation and this evolved into
Training of the new techniques for
Professor McMahon's philosophy for 'keyhole' surgery was "to carry out the operation using all the safeguards that had been built up over the generations of 'open' surgery, rather than by cutting corners to make things easier when employing laparoscopic techniques".
Alongside Peter Moran (an engineer), Professor McMahon designed and built specialist instruments for laparoscopy surgery as the existing instruments made the job a challenge. They found it difficult to stimulate interest from established manufacturers so they founded Surgical Innovations PLC, which now has over 100 employees designing and building a large range of laparoscopical surgical instruments as well as inspection equipment for the airline industry.
McMahon was also involved in the design of the
Achievements
McMahon is a past president of both the Pancreatic Society of the UK and Ireland, and the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. He is the founder member of the society of Minimally Invasive General Surgeons, and was Chairman of the Education Committee of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery. He also established the Leeds Institute for Minimally Invasive Therapy (LIMIT).[2]
In the past he was Education Officer and subsequently President of the Association of Endoscopic Surgeons of the UK and Ireland, and a Royal College of Surgeons tutor in Minimally Invasive Surgery. McMahon was the first surgeon in the UK to perform laparoscopic (minimally invasive) gastric bypass, duodenal switch, and sleeve gastrectomy.
McMahon is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Szeged in Hungary. He is Clinical Director of Surgical Innovations PLC and is still actively involved in the design of new surgical instruments.
References
- ^ "Consultants – M". Nuffield Health. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Surgical Innovations Group, Plc. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.