Consultants & Staff - Tom Bourne
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Tom Bourne MB.BS, Ph.D, FRCOG

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Tom Bourne is a consultant gynaecologist at St George’s Teaching Hospital in South London. He is a reader in acute gynaecology and gynaecological ultrasound at St George's University of London and Visiting Professor at the Katholieke University Leuven. He runs both the diagnostic and surgical aspects of the early pregnancy assessment unit and the acute gynaecology service. He is also responsible for a number of “one stop” problem orientated clinics, including specific clinics for women with menorrhagia, bleeding ater the menopause, pelvic pain and possible ovarian cysts.

Over 20,000 women are seen in these clinics each year. He has a special interest in the use of ultrasound in the assessment of gynaecological disorders and minimal access surgery. He is an RCOG preceptor in laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery as well as the use of ultrasound in the management of gynaecological pathology.

He trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at St Mary’s Manchester and Gloucester. He also worked on the neonatal unit in Oxford before working as a research fellow to Professor Stuart Campbell and finally lecturer and senior registrar at Kings College Hospital, London. At Kings he set up many aspects of and ran for five years the gynaecological ultrasound and ovarian cancer screening service. In 1994 he moved to Sahlgrenska Hospital at the University of Göteborg in Sweden. In Sweden he initiated research into ovarian function and extended his experience of gynaecological ultrasound with Seth Granberg. However the main purpose of this move was to train in laparoscopic and hysteroscopic (keyhole) surgery. He wrote his Ph.D on aspects of early detection of ovarian and endometrial carcinoma. Following this he furthered his surgical training working with Olav Istre in Norway and Jan Deprest in Belgium before returning to the UK.

He was appointed as a consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at St George's in 1996. He obtained the MRCOG in 1990 and was made FRCOG in 2003. He was awarded a readership in acute gynaecology and gynaecological ultrasonography at St George's University of London in 2005. He was appointed as visiting Professor, at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 2007.

He has edited four books, published over 100 papers in international journals and been invited to speak and chair at numerous international meetings on subjects relating to the use of ultrasound in gynaecology. He is on the scientific committee and has been elected onto the Board of the international society for ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology (ISUOG), and is a medical advisor to the ectopic pregnancy trust. He is a Board member of the association of early pregnancy units (AEPU). He is a member of the medical research council (MRC) panel of experts. His current research interests relate to the management of early pregnancy complications, pelvic pain, the characterisation of ovarian cysts and polycystic ovarian syndrome.