Internationally Renowned Surgeon
Qualifications: MB ChB FRCS MD FEBS
Year of First Medical Qualification: 1983
Professor Lodge was awarded his Chair in Surgery in 2004 in recognition of his significant contributions to advances in surgical technique. Professor Lodge performed both traditional open and modern laparoscopic techniques to achieve the best possible outcomes for the patients he cares for. He had an extensive surgical practice involving liver and pancreas surgery, as well as upper gastrointestinal surgery and all aspects of elective and emergency general surgery.
Peter also championed transplantation, establishing Leeds as a major centre for multi organ transplantation. He has expensive experience in liver and kidney transplantation and also helped to establish pancreas and intestinal transplantation for the United Kingdom.
Peter has published more than 300 papers and 30 book chapters on surgery and science (including “Liver” in Gray’s Anatomy in 2015), and he has raised more than £30m in funding to support more than 30 young surgeons for higher degrees (MD and PhD). His current h-index is 62.
In April 2023, Peter received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Great Britain and Ireland Hepato-pancreato-biliary Association (GBIHPBA) for his contributions to UK HPB surgery.
In May 2024, Peter was named as President of the European Surgical Association from 2025.
Internationally Recognised
Professor Lodge is recognised internationally as one of the world’s most experienced liver surgeons. He created a major hepatobiliary service, taking referrals from all around the UK and from abroad, including other major hepatobiliary centres. He provided a service for difficult liver tumours, often taking on cases considered to be inoperable elsewhere, and also dealt with complex biliary strictures and injuries to the liver and bile ducts, often laparoscopically. He collaborated with surgeons abroad to bring the best techniques for patients having surgery in Leeds, not only for liver surgery. Following intensive training in Copenhagen, Peter introduced modern Scandinavian techniques for improved weight loss surgery, with an emphasis on rapid recovery.
Private Practice 1992-2023 (now closed)
Professor Lodge’s NHS and private patient programme has grown from six hepatic resections and two bile duct cases in 1992 to 350 major resections and up to 80 complex bile duct operations each year by 2010. He is frequently asked to lecture abroad, particularly about his work on liver cancer and liver transplantation.
In private practice until July 2023, as a biliary and upper gastrointestinal specialist Professor Peter Lodge welcomed routine gallstone and hernia cases and also weight loss surgery patients. In addition to a busy clinical programme he runs a laboratory, actively researching to improve results in modern surgical techniques.
Current Memberships
• Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI)
• Association of Upper GI Surgeons (AUGIS)
• British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS)
• International Hepato-Pancreato Bilary Association (IHPBA)
• European and African Hepato-Pancreato Bilary Association (E-AHPBA)
• Great Britain and Ireland Hepato-Pancreato Bilary Association (GBIHPBA)
• European Surgical Association (ESA)
• Transplantation Society
• British Transplantation Society
Research
Professor Peter Lodge is the co-inventor of Organ Preservation Solutions to improve transplantation. Three decades of dedicated research at Europe's largest teaching hospital has resulted in the development of a greatly improved standard in organ preservation, aimed at extending the window for organ transplants to improve patient survival and quality of life.