Mr Tom Kurzawinski

Mr Kurzawinski a Consultant Endocrine & General Surgeon with a unique expertise in treating children and adults with endocrine conditions affecting thyroid, parathyroids and adrenals glands. As an experienced surgeon, Mr Kurzawinski is highly-regarded by patients and colleagues for his exemplary care and commitment to the wellbeing of his patients.

He is also dedicated to teaching and developing patient guidelines. He is a Head of Endocrine Surgery at the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Consultant Surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospitals for Sick Children and Honorary Associated Professor at University College in London, UK.

Mr Kurzawinski is an author of many articles in peer reviewed medical journals and book chapters and has recently been involved in writing NICE guidelines for patients with alcohol-related pancreatitis, and his advice is also regularly sought by various other medical societies. Mr Kurzawinski was also named by Tatler magazine as one of Britain’s 250 best private doctors.

Mr Kurzawinski graduated from medical school in Poland, where he also trained in general surgery. After obtaining his PhD in 1989, with his thesis: Diagnostic and prognostic significance of selected immunological parameters of acute phase response in diffuse peritonitis, he continued his specialist training and research in liver, pancreas and endocrine surgery in the UK.

After gaining his FRCS in 1997, he was appointed as consultant surgeon at The Middlesex Hospital, in 1998. This has remained his NHS base ever since. Around the same time, he was also awarded a visiting surgical fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and Harvard Medical School.

Tom is an internationally renowned expert in Endocrine Surgery and a Director of Ultrafast Hormones, an organisation committed to providing excellent clinical care including face to face as well as virtual on-line consultations with patients anywhere in the world.

Mr Kurzawinski has written NICE guidelines for patients with alcohol-related pancreatitis, guidelines for the Management of Hereditary Endocrine Cancer Syndromes for the Clinical Committee of the Society for Endocrinology and Paediatric Endocrine Tumours Consensus for the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes and the UK Children’s Cancer Study Group. He has also authored many articles in highly-respected medical journals and contributed numerous book chapters.