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Tom Bourne MB.BS, Ph.D, FRCOG

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Tom Bourne consultant gynaecologist at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea Hospital in London and visiting Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Up to September 2008 he was Consultant Gynaecologist at St George’s Hospital, in South London, and Reader in acute gynaecology and gynaecological ultrasound at St George's University of London. At St Georges for many years he ran both the diagnostic and surgical aspects of the early pregnancy assessment unit and the acute gynaecology service. He was also responsible for a number of “one stop” problem orientated clinics, including specific clinics for women with menorrhagia, bleeding after the menopause, pelvic pain and possible ovarian cysts.

Over 20,000 women were 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 and finally lecturer and senior registrar at Kings College Hospital, London. At Kings he set up many aspects of and for five years ran the gynaecological ultrasound and ovarian cancer screening service where he introduced the used of vaginal ultrasonography and colour Doppler into the clinic. In 1994 he moved to Sahlgrenska Hospital at the University of Göteborg in Sweden on a Swedish Medical Research Council visiting scientist fellowship. 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 the 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 conferred the title of Reader 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. In September 2008 he left St Georges in order to continue to pursue his clinical and research interests with the University Hospital of Leuven whilst taking up other opportunities within the NHS in London and elsewhere. In December 2008 he was appointed to the staff of Imperial College NHS trust based at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea Hospital.

He has edited six books, published over 150 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. He is on the steering committee of the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) and the International Pregnancy of Unknown Location Analysis (IPULA) trials. His current research interests relate to the management of early pregnancy complications, early pregnancy embryonic growth, the diagnosis of ovarian cancer and the characterization of ovarian pathology.

Tom Bourne has a clinic at the Womens Ultrasound Centre in Harley Street central London all day every Tuesday. He consults at Parkside Hospital in Wimbledon (South-West London) each Monday afternoon as well as every Monday and Wednesday evenings. He carries out gynaecological scans at the Portland Hospital on a Monday morning.