About Mr James Smellie MD(Cambridge) FRCS. Specialist endocrine; thyroid and hernia Surgeon
In 1988, Mr Smellie trained at St Thomas’s Hospital London, St Georges Hospital London, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School Hammersmith and the Royal Marsden Hospital London after receiving his degree with honours in Medicine from the University of Cambridge and completed his USA foreign medical examinations at the same time.
In 1988, Mr Smellie trained at St Thomas’s Hospital London, St Georges Hospital London, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School Hammersmith and the Royal Marsden Hospital London after receiving his degree with honours in Medicine from the University of Cambridge and completed his USA foreign medical examinations at the same time.
In 1992, Mr Smellie became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), and undertook further training and medical research at the Medical College of Virginia USA, The Mayo Clinic, USA and the Institute of Cancer Research at the Royal Marsden Hospital London.
Mr Smellie has been a consultant surgeon at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital since 2001 and now performs around 150 endocrine and 200 hernia surgery operations each year. His hospital stays for thyroid surgery are equal with the shortest in the country.
Mr Smellie is fee assured and therefore charges all BUPA and AXA PPP-insured patients (and most other insurers apart from Vitality) within the maxima; and ensures that any anaesthetist that he uses does the same; so that patient will not have to pay additional fees (apart from excesses written in to their own contracts). Payment goes direct from insurer to Mr Smellie, the anaesthetist and the Hospital. Fixed fee packages are available for UK resident patients who wish to fund their own treatment and avoid the risk of open ended charges. Please contact us for more details and any cost queries.
Research Fellow, Royal Marsden Hospital 1992-1994
MD (Cambridge) Thesis 1999
Consultant Surgeon, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital London SW3
Consultant Surgeon Royal Marsden Hospital London SW3
St George’s Hospital Department of ENT surgery
Other Hospital Appointments
Lister Hospital London SW1
Cromwell Hospital London SW5
Undergraduate Medicine
Downing College Cambridge 1982-1985 (entrance exhibitioner)
Medical ethics and law module 1985
Graduate Medicine
St Thomas’ Hospital 1985-1988 (distinction in surgery)
House officer
St Thomas’ and St Peter’s Hospital
SHOs
Medical College of Virginia, USA; Oxford, Royal Marsden, Hammersmith and St Helier Hospitals
CCST
General Surgery 1999 in general surgery with a declared interest in endocrine surgery
Undergraduate Degrees
BA 1985
MB BChir 1998
Postgraduate Degrees
FRCS(Eng) 1992
FRCS(gen) 1999
MD (Cambridge) 1999
Other medical Accreditation
ECFMG (USA) 1989 as a foreign trainee formerly licensed to practice medicine in the state of Virginia USA
Endocrine Surgery including thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal surgery.
Hernia surgery including inguinal hernia, umbilical hernia and incisional hernias. Recurrent hernia surgery.
SW Thames 1994-1999. St Peter’s Chertsey; St Thomas’ St George’s, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Charing Cross and Royal Marsden Hospitals.
Royal College of Surgeons of England.
British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgery
British Hernia Society
Meet The Team
Mr Smellie and his experienced team understand that being a patient and undergoing surgery, can be an enormously stressful time. Alongside the surgery itself, one of the team’s top priorities is ensuring the whole process is as stress-free as possible for both patient, family and friends.
Mr Smellie and Dr Cox have worked together for over 15 years and have a very close professional relationship and personal friendship. This allows them to create a relaxed atmosphere for the patient and help lighten the mood, there can often be humour and laughter during what may otherwise be a stressful time.
Dr Mark Cox MB BS BSc FRCA, Consultant Anaesthetist
Justin Weir, FRCP, Consultant Histopathologist
Dr Cox leads an expert team of anaesthetists. He is a specialist head and neck and obstetric anaesthetist at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust, where he has been since 2001, and is accustomed to helping Mr Smellie monitor the nerves during neck surgery. He was trained at the Imperial School of Anaesthesia, and spent a year as a senior fellow in Melbourne.
Mr Smellie and Dr Cox have worked together for over 15 years and have a very close professional relationship and personal friendship. Dr Cox supervises painkiller prescriptions for all patients after surgery.
The Administrative Team
Mr Smellie’s office is run by an experienced team at the Lister Hospital, and can expertly deal with any queries concerning the booking process, consultations, and operating times. Questions can be answered about billing, costs and insurers. In addition, they are happy to deal with any other queries surrounding an operation such as providing more details on the pre and post operative process. Should you require more specific advice, Mr Smellie can be reached by telephone by appointment, view our contact details here.
We understand that it can be a stressful time organising appointments and hospital admissions. The administrative team are both willing and experienced to deal with any issue, however complicated or small.
Publications
Publications in peer-reviewed learned journals.
Endocrine publications.
Ablation with low-dose radioiodine and thyrotropin alfa in thyroid cancer.
Mallick U, Harmer C, Yap B, Wadsley J, Clarke S, Moss L, Nicol A, Clark PM, Farnell K, McCready R, Smellie J, Franklyn JA, John R, Nutting CM, Newbold K, Lemon C, Gerrard G, Abdel-Hamid A, Hardman J, Macias E, Roques T, Whitaker S, Vijayan R, Alvarez P, Beare S, Forsyth S, Kadalayil L, Hackshaw A.
N Engl J Med. 2012 May 3;366(18):1674-85. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1109589.
Familial nonmedullary thyroid cancer: a review of the genetics.
Khan A, Smellie J, Nutting C, Harrington K, Newbold K.
Thyroid. 2010 Jul;20(7):795-801. doi: 10.1089/thy.2009.0216. Review.
Hürthle cell carcinoma of the thyroid: Retrospective review of 62 patients treated at the Royal Marsden Hospital between 1946 and 2003.
Mills SC, Haq M, Smellie WJ, Harmer C.
Eur J Surg Oncol. 2009 Mar;35(3):230-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2008.06.007. Epub 2008 Aug 21.
One stage treatment of parathyroid cancer.
Kirkby-Bott J, Lewis P, Harmer CL, Smellie WJ.
Eur J Surg Oncol. 2005 Feb;31(1):78-83.
[11C]Methionine positron emission tomography for patients with persistent or recurrent hyperparathyroidism after surgery.
Cook GJ, Wong JC, Smellie WJ, Young AE, Maisey MN, Fogelman I.
Eur J Endocrinol. 1998 Aug;139(2):195-7.
Bariatric surgery publications:
Management of Slipped Gastric Bands via Creation of a De Novo Tunnel and Band Replacement: a Single-Centre Experience.
Patel RV, Woodburn P, Skipworth JRA, Smellie WJB.
Obes Surg. 2017 Dec 13. doi: 10.1007/s11695-017-3032-8. [Epub ahead of print]
Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band Slippage Rates Following Laparoscopic Gastric Band Insertion: a Single Centre Experience.
Skipworth JR, Fanshawe AE, Hewitt M, Raptis DA, Efthimiou E, Smellie WJ.
Obes Surg. 2016 Jul;26(7):1511-6. doi: 10.1007/s11695-015-1962-6
The safety and efficacy of bariatric surgery for obese, wheelchair bound patients.
Williams GJ, Georgiou PA, Cocker DM, Bonanomi G, Smellie J, Efthimiou E.
Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2014 Jul;96(5):373-6. doi: 10.1308/003588414X13946184901083.
Comparison of weight loss achieved after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding between Afro-Caribbean, Caucasian and South Asian adult female patients in a London bariatric centre.
Phoenix GK, Penney N, Cocker DM, Davies A, Smellie J, Bonanomi G, Thompson J, Efthimiou E.
Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2013 Jul;95(5):335-40. doi: 10.1308/003588413X13629960045995.
General surgery publications.
Radioimmunotherapy of breast cancer xenografts with monoclonal antibody ICR12 against c-erbB2 p185: comparison of iodogen and N-succinimidyl 4-methyl-3-(tri-n-butylstannyl)benzoate radioiodination methods.
Smellie WJ, Dean CJ, Sacks NP, Zalutsky MR, Garg PK, Carnochan P, Eccles SA.
Cancer Res. 1995 Dec 1;55(23 Suppl):5842s-5846s.
A single axillary crease incision for wide local excision and axillary clearance in breast cancer.
Nash AG, Smellie WJ.
Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1995 Jan;77(1):72. No abstract available.
A single axillary crease incision for wide local excision and axillary clearance in breast cancer.
Smellie WJ, Yeatman M, Nash AG.
Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1994 May;76(3):197-9.
Recent advances in the treatment of breast cancer.
Smellie WJ, Sacks NP.
Postgrad Med J. 1994 Apr;70(822):243-6. Review. No abstract available.
Hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer.
Smellie WJ, Thomas JM.
Br J Obstet Gynaecol. 1993 May;100(5):404-7. No abstract available.
Idiopathic infarction of the psoas with lumbar plexus involvement.
Smellie WJ, Nelson IW, Eckersley JR, Bulstrode CJ.
J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1992 May;74(3):468-9. No abstract available.
A new instrument: the toothed cutting forceps.
Smellie WJ.
Br J Surg. 1991 Aug;78(8):1014. No abstract available.
Junior medical staff and the assessment of trauma.
Smellie WJ.
Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1991 May;73(3):198. No abstract available