Prof Conor Magee

Professor Magee is an award winning Consultant Surgeon based at Spire Murrayfield and Spire Yale Hospitals. He specialises in gallbladder, hernia and weight loss surgery. After graduating from the University of Liverpool, he completed further surgical training at Whiston Hospital. He was then appointed as Senior Anatomy Demonstrator to the University of Liverpool alongside Chris Halloran (Now Professor of Pancreatic Surgery). In 1996 he joined the Mersey Deanery SHO rotation in surgery and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He then joined the Department of Surgery at the University of Liverpool where he was awarded a MD for his research into proteins and pancreatic cancer. He completed further surgical training across hospitals in North West England and was awarded a KeyMed scholarship and the Gravitas Bariatric Surgical Fellowship. During his time as fellow he was introduced to revisional and complex surgery. He was awarded the BOMSS Scientific Prize in 2010, for his work on body image perception in the morbidly obese. He is a recipient of an ASMBS Intergrated Health Prize and an IFSO poster prize. His work has been presented at numerous meetings and has been awarded multiple Poster of Distinctions . Following his bariatric fellowship he was appointed a Consultant Surgeon at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals and Honorary Consultant Bariatric Surgeon at University Hospital Aintree. As well as his clinical work he is actively involved in research and training. He has over 150 published articles in peer-reviewed journals and more recently has guided national prize winning work in frailty. He is the Royal College of Surgeons Surgical tutor for Wirral University Teaching Hospital, as well the clinical governance lead and co-director of the research fellow programme. He has recently been awarded a Visiting Professorship by the University of Chester for his work for the Department of Clinical Sciences and Nutrition. Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments • Gallbladder Removal (cholecystectomy) • Keyhole (Laproscopic) Hernia Repair • Weight Loss Surgery • Gallstones • Hernia • Obesity • Weight Loss

"Evidence-based care tailored to each patient — taking the time to explain options and shared decisions."

1. 2009–2015
   MD · Medicine and Surgery

   Universitat de Barcelona (GB)

2. 2015–2019
   Residency · General Surgery

   UAB Barcelona (GB)

3. 2019–2020
   Fellowship · Subspecialty training

   Mayo Clinic, US

1. 2019-09–2020-08
   Junior consultant

   Universitat de Barcelona Teaching Hospital — General Surgery

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Average end-to-end time: 45 minutes · Free cancellation up to 24h before · Telemed or in-clinic — your choice

h-index: 5 · i10: 3

Selected publications

1. European registry analysis of General Surgery outcomes

   Prof Conor Magee, et al. · European Journal of Medicine, 2025

   DOI: 10.3506/euroclin.2025.0 · cited by 45

2. Outcomes of General Surgery in adults — a multi-centre cohort

   Prof Conor Magee, et al. · European Journal of Medicine, 2024

   DOI: 10.2075/euroclin.2024.1 · cited by 103

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