Professor Douglas McWhinnie

Professor McWhinnie is a Consultant Vascular, General and Laparoscopic Surgeon at Milton Keynes University Hospital, from 1993 t0 2020. He trained in Medicine and Surgery at Glasgow University and continued in Oxford, where he was also a senior lecturer. He is a past president of the British Association of Day Surgery and currently President of the International Association for Ambulatory Surgery and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ambulatory Surgery. Professor McWhinnie is Head of School, Postgraduate Medicine, at the University of Buckingham. He has over 100 publications on patient safety, ambulatory surgery and the treatment of varicose veins. He has authored and contributed to over 25 chapters in surgical textbooks including Bailey and Love’s Short Practice of Surgery, Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Surgery and The Oxford Textbook of Surgery. In 2012 He co-edited the popular specialist handbook ‘Day Case Surgery’ for Oxford University Press. Professor McWhinnie is a senior examiner of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for the MRCS national and international examinations and is an Intercollegiate examiner for the FRCS final examinations. As a surgeon with over 40 years of surgical practice, his areas of clinical expertise include general abdominal surgery, all types of hernia repair, both laparoscopic and open, laparoscopic gallbladder procedures, varicose vein surgery, minor surgery and removal of lumps and bumps. Professor McWhinnie is currently Clinical Chair  at The Saxon Clinic, Milton Keynes.

Gallbladder operations (open and laparoscopic) Hernia procedures (open and laparoscopic) Varicose vein treatment Excision of lumps and bumps