Stuart Andrews works as a Consultant Upper GI and General Surgeon within the South Devon Upper GI unit of Torbay District General Hospital, Devon, UK and also at the Mount Stuart Hospital, Torquay, Devon, UK, part of Ramsay Health Care International.
Stuart Andrews specialises in laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery related to Bariatrics (weight loss surgery), gallstones, hiatal disease (including acid reflux, para-oesophageal herniation and achalasia). He also specialises in open and laparoscopic abdominal wall hernias. Stuart Andrews was appointed as a Consultant Surgeon in Torbay Hospital in 2013. He graduated from St Andrew’s University, Scotland in 1997 with a Degree in Medical Sciences and completed his clinical studies at Bristol University Medical School, graduating with MB ChB degree in 2000. Following completion of his basic surgical training in the UK, he was awarded member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2003. After, he joined the Peninsula higher surgical training program in general surgery in South West England. Between 2007 and 2012, he undertook a period of part-time research at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Professor Paul Martin, investigating the molecular biology of intra-abdominal scarring after surgery. In 2012 he was awarded Doctor of Medline (MD) by the University of Bristol in recognition of his original research on the parthenogenesis of peritoneal adhesions. The final years of his training led to the award of fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, specialising in Upper Gastrointestinal and Bariatric Surgery. He has worked in the South West Regional Oesophagogastric and Hepatobiliary cancer unit in Plymouth and the nationally renowned Taunton Bariatric Unit.
