Peter Small RD, MD, FRCSEd, FRCS(Gen)

Mr. Peter Small is a senior consultant surgeon at Sunderland Royal Hospital with a specialist interest in bariatric and upper GI laparoscopic surgery. He is trained in general surgery in Scotland spending his final years in Dundee. Dundee was a founding center of laparoscopic surgery where he learned laparoscopic skills under the guidance of Prof Cuschieri, a UK pioneer of laparoscopic surgery. He was appointed to Sunderland Royal Hospital in 1998 where he introduced laparoscopic surgery for reflux disease and obesity surgery. He is a Chairman of the National Bariatric Surgery Register committee and is a keen promoter of data collection and analysis to identify good practices. The database now contains data from over 80,000 UK procedures.