The Difficult Gallbladder

Dr. Christian Macutkiewicz is a Consultant General and HPB Surgeon at Manchester University Foundation Trust and Director of The Gallstone Clinic and Manchester Hernia at Spire Manchester Hospital. He is the President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI), the largest Surgical Association in the UK and Ireland, representing all General Surgical Specialties. He was previously the Director of the Scientific Program of ASGBI and has a passion for Education, Training and wellbeing.

Dr. Macutkiewicz completed a first-class BSc in Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham and then went on to gain honours in his MBChB Medicine Degree at the University of Manchester. For his research into sepsis, he received an MD Doctor of Medicine from the University of Manchester, and then undertook his higher surgical training in the North West Deanery followed by a specialist HPB and Liver Transplant Fellowship in Leeds.

He started his consultant career in Nottingham before taking up a post as a specialist pancreatico-biliary and laparoscopic surgeon at the prestigious St James’s University Hospital in Leeds where he spent five years treating pancreatic, duodenal, and bile duct cancers as well as emergency general surgery. He finally moved back to Manchester in 2018 to lead the general surgical service and set up The Gallstone Clinic and Manchester Hernia at Spire Manchester Hospital.

His main interests are in the management of complex gallstone disease and hernia surgery, where he provides advanced laparoscopic techniques and robotic surgery. He is invited to give lectures around the world on the difficult gallbladder and gallbladder surgery, laparoscopic inguinal hernia surgery, training and service development.

Dr. Macutkiewicz is an expert reviewer for BUPA and the BMJ and has published widely in HPB and Emergency General Surgery, and written book chapters on Pancreatic Cancer, Duodenal Surgery and Gallbladder Surgery.  He has led National Service Development projects on the management of acute gallbladder surgery and improved the lives of patients with symptomatic gallstones in the UK.

Out of the workplace he enjoys cooking, travel, fine wine and golf. He has a Bulldog called Rupert who regularly joins him in meetings and can be seen at the ASGBI congress in 2025!