Mr Etienne Moore

Mr Etienne Moore is a consultant general surgeon at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the largest teaching hospitals in the UK. He manages both in-patients and out-patients and partakes in the emergency surgical rota for Brighton and the surrounding Sussex areas. His particular interests are in keyhole or laparoscopic surgery and bowel or colorectal surgery. He was born and bred in England but owes his French first name to his mother, who is originally from the French-speaking part of Belgium. Mr Moore undertook his preclinical studies at Cambridge University and graduated with a double first class BA honours degree in Medical and Natural Sciences. He then moved to Oxford University to study clinical medicine and graduated with the BM and BChir degrees. He has also been awarded MA degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. His surgical training has taken him to a variety of hospitals in the UK including those in Oxford, High Wycombe, Derby, Nottingham, Worthing, Torquay, Swindon, Salisbury, Southampton, Basingstoke, Winchester and Portsmouth. He has also undertaken a 13 month laparoscopic colorectal fellowship in Australia to gain expertise and independent operating skills in this exciting technique. On the completion of his specialist general and colorectal surgery training he was awarded the FRCS (Gen Surg) of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He divides his time between the Royal Sussex County Hospital, the Princess Royal Hospital, the Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital in Woodingdean and the Spire Montefiore Hospital in Hove. In addition he conducts medical student teaching and examining at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. When he is not working he enjoys Sussex walks, travel, sport and socialising with friends and family.

My main professional interests are in keyhole laparoscopic surgery (hernias, gallbladders, bowel resections, adhesions), general surgery, skin surgery, colorectal (bowel and anus) surgery and endoscopy (colonoscopy and gastroscopy). I commonly investigate and treat people with skin lumps and bumps, rectal bleeding, hernias, gallstones, haemorrhoids, pilonidal disease, anal problems, bowel cancer, bowel polyps, abdominal pain and change in bowel habit. I consult and operate regularly at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust (the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath), the Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital in Woodingdean, North Brighton, East Sussex and the Spire Montefiore Hospital in Hove, East Sussex. I also enjoy teaching and training doctors and allied health professionals and I participate in the education of medical students at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. I am the anal and bowel cancer (also called colorectal cancer) multi-disciplinary team lead for Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals. I am the anal cancer surgery lead for East and West Sussex. I also provide a tertiary referral service for the highly specialist and complex keyhole laparoscopic operations of TEMS (transanal endoscopic microsurgery), ELAPE (extralevator abdominoperineal excision) and TATME (transanal total mesorectal excision). I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a member of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland and the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons. I am fully qualified in general surgery and have been a practising consultant surgeon in England continuously since 2005. I regularly look after emergency and elective general surgery patients. I am able to offer a first class level of highly experienced service in my private surgical practice that other healthcare sectors may find difficult to match.