Mr Christian Macutkiewicz

Professional statement

Mr Christian Macutkiewicz is a highly respected and experienced consultant general, HPB, and laparoscopic surgeon who specialises in gallbladder removal surgery, gallstones, hernias, hernia surgery, inguinal hernias, laparoscopic surgery, as well as abdominal pain, and pancreatitis. He is currently practising at the Spire Manchester Hospital, the Spire Cheshire Hospital, and the Kenmore Medical Centre in Cheshire.

Mr Macutkiewicz completed a first class BSc in biochemistry at the University of Birmingham and then went on to gain honours in his MBChB medicine degree at the University of Manchester. For his research into sepsis, he received an MD doctorate of medicine from the University of Manchester, and then undertook his higher surgical training in the North West Deanery followed by a specialist HPB and Liver Transplant Fellowship in Leeds.

He started his consultant career in Nottingham before taking up a post as a specialist pancreatico-biliary and laparoscopic surgeon at the prestigious St James’s University Hospital in Leeds where he spent five years treating pancreatic, duodenal, and bile duct cancers as well as emergency general surgery. He finally moved back to Manchester in 2018 to lead the general surgical service and is the director of The Gallstone Clinic and Manchester Hernia, which is based at Spire Manchester Hospital.

Mr Macutkiewicz is the president-elect of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and a member of specialist associations in the UK and internationally. He is invited to give lectures around the world on the difficult gallbladder and gallbladder surgery and is an expert reviewer for BUPA and the BMJ. He was awarded a Clinical Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Leeds in 2017 and has received the Certificate of Excellence for delivering outstanding patient care, awarded by iwantgreatcare.org in 2021 and 2022.