Tom Routledge
Thoracic surgery consultant
Biography
Tom Routledge is consultant thoracic surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and honorary lecturer at King's College London.
He joined Guy's and St Thomas' in 2007. Before this he was a senior fellow in thoracic surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York.
Education and training
- Cardiothoracic surgery Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons
- Registrar training scheme in cardiothoracic surgery, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 2006
- Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons
- Senior house officer surgical rotation training scheme, London, 2001
- Clinical medicine (BM BCh), University of Oxford, 1997
- MA in medical sciences, University of Cambridge, 1994
Research interests
- Clinical innovation in minimally invasive surgery
- Surgical training
- Sentinel node technology in lung cancer surgery
Awards
- Local clinical excellence award level 5
- Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons gold medal, 2007
- Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons gold medal, 2001
- University of Cambridge scholarship
Contact
Specialist interests
- Minimally invasive cancer surgery
- Rib fracture fixation for trauma
- Surgical training
- Robotic surgery
- Radical surgery for mesothelioma
Last updated: August 2024