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Miss Melanie Field

Consultant Renal Transplant and Parathyroid Surgeon

MBChB 2002 (Distinction in Medicine), MRCS 2005, MedEd 2011, FRCS 2014, MD 2015

Practises at: The Priory Hospital

Melanie Field

Personal Profile

Miss Field qualified from Birmingham University in 2002 with Distinction in Medicine. She undertook both her junior and higher surgical training within the hospitals of the West Midlands. She developed a keen interest in Medical Education and cemented this by gaining a Masters degree in Medical Education. 

She has undertaken a variety of education based roles including the role of Royal College of Surgeons Tutor for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and she is currently Foundation Program Training Director for the Queen Elizabeth hospital. 

During higher surgical training she undertook a research MD in Biomarkers of Acute Kidney Injury as applied to Renal transplantation. It was whilst undertaking higher surgical training Miss Field developed her interest and chose to specialise in renal transplantation and the surgery of renal failure. 

As part of this portfolio she developed her interest in parathyroid surgery and now chairs the Parathyroid MDT meeting within the Queen Elizabeth, this has allowed significant evolution and development of the service.

Clinical Interests

Miss Field’s clinical interests include Parathyroid surgery and Renal Transplantation.

Within the field of Parathyroid Surgery Miss Field has an interest in parathyroidectomy for:

  • Primary Hyperparathyroidism
  • Normocalacemic Hyperparathyroid disease
  • Parathyroidectomy for MEN
  • Renal-derived parathyroid disease. 

Professional Memberships

  • British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons
  • British Transplant Society
  • Vascular Access Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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