Mr Andrew Clarke

Mr Andrew Clarke is a leading consultant general, colorectal and laparoscopic surgeon based in Poole and Bournemouth in Dorset. He specialises in all aspects of hernia and haemorrhoids, and has additional expertise in endoscopic techniques, pelvic floor reconstruction, and bowel surgery.

After qualifying from the University of Manchester in 1988, Mr Clarke went on to gain further training in numerous teaching hospitals in the North West of England. His research in the flow of blood in bowel cancer, conducted for his MD thesis at the Christie Hospital Cancer Institute, earned him a travelling scholarship that took him to Minneapolis, USA, in 2001. He was made a consultant surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 2002 as well as honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, where he participated in the development of the faecal incontinence surgery service and performed the first electrical nerve implant in the North West. He moved to Poole in 2004, where he developed the laparoscopic and pelvic floor surgery service.

Mr Clarke is a known herald of innovation within the field of general, colorectal, and pelvic surgery. He is part of Operation Hernia, an independent non-profit organisation that provides professional and educational opportunities to surgeons and surgical trainees of the repair of long-standing groin hernias at rural hospitals in the developing world. He is the founder of the Southern Pelvic Floor Society, which has since introduced the STARR procedure, sacro-neuromodulation, and a key-hole repair for rectal prolapse, to the region.