Peter Barton Smith MBBS, MD, MRCOG

Dr Barton-Smith’s speciality is complex robotic and minimally invasive and surgery for benign gynaecological conditions. He completed a four-year fellowship at the MATTU, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford from 2004-2008. He was then appointed there as a Consultant in minimally invasive and robotic surgery from 2009-2012. Dr Barton-Smith’s particular interest is endometriosis and pelvic pain in which he has a Doctorate degree from the University of Surrey in the UK. Dr Barton-Smith trained in the use of the da Vinci™ robotic surgical system as a Visiting Consultant at the North Texas Hospital in Dallas in 2008. He then established the first UK robotic gynaecological surgery programme at the Royal Surrey before moving to Singapore General Hospital from 2013-2016 as a Senior Consultant to establish an MIS and robotic surgery programme.

Dr Barton-Smith was a founding member and is currently President of BIARGS (British and Irish Association of Robotic Gynaecological Surgeons) and was Vice President of SERGS from 2013-2015. He organized the first UK gynaecological robotic meeting at the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG) in 2010 and was a co-organiser for the SERGS Meeting in London in 2013. He was a founder member of the Asian Society of Gynaecological Robotic Surgery in 2015, co-organiser of the RCOG UK national theory course for laparoscopic surgery, a faculty member of the European Surgical Institute, and has taught and been an invited speaker on robotics and laparoscopic surgery in many countries around the world.