Expert Witness – Professor Peter Lodge
Hepatobiliary pancreatic (HPB) Surgeon & Associate Clinical Director for Cancer

Professor Lodge has been a medical legal expert for fifteen years. He is happy to be instructed by both Claimant and Defendant law firms in personal injury and clinical negligence cases. Primarily, Professor Lodge will take on cases pertaining to HPB surgery (including bile duct injury at lapaprocopic cholecystectomy), bariatric surgery, appropriate aspects of general and laparoscopic surgery and abdominal organ transplantation, in keeping with his clinical expertise.

Professor Lodge achieved his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 1983 from the University of Leeds. Since then, he has gained vast experience, obtaining his Doctor of Medicine title and training in surgery across Yorkshire and at Harvard Medical School. Since 1992, Professor Lodge has held the role of Consultant Surgeon at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Alongside this, he is a Honorary Professor of Surgery at the University of Leeds, the Lead Cancer Clinician and Associate Clinical Director for Leeds Cancer Services, and Honorary Consultant Surgeon in Bradford. In 2023, Professor Lodge received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Great Britain and Ireland Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (GBIHPBA) for his contributions to UK HPB surgery.

Professor Lodge is considered one of the most experienced liver surgeons in the world. He has created a major hepatobiliary service, taking referrals from all around the UK and abroad. He provides a service for difficult liver tumours, often taking on cases considered to be inoperable, and deals with complex biliary strictures and injuries to the liver and bile ducts. In addition, Professor Lodge has been an active member of the Leeds transplant programme which has a volume of up to 240 kidney and 180 liver transplants annually. He has carried out more than 900 renal transplants, 1000 liver transplants, 3000 liver resections and 4000 laparoscopic cholecystectomies.

His main interests relate to the development of innovative surgical strategies for patients with complex problems, for example, multi-stage surgery for patients with classically inoperable cancers and auxiliary liver transplantation for patients with acute liver failure. In 2007, he initiated the UK’s largest live donor liver transplant programme.

Between 2002 and 2009, Professor Lodge was the Lead Clinician and Clinical Director (Divisional Chief) for general surgery, with changing responsibilities for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust across the St James’s and Leeds General Infirmary sites. In his role as Clinical Director, he was responsible for the organisation, development, and clinical governance strategies for surgical services at St James’s, with specific responsibilities for Upper GI, HPB, transplantation and acute general surgery as well as medical hepatology.

Professor Lodges collaborates with scientists to run a research laboratory team with active work currently pursuing improvements in organ preservation for transplantation, as well as cancer immunology and inflammation. Recently, he has initiated new projects looking at cognitive psychology in relation to surgical training and also the use of nanotechnology in cancer therapy.

As well as many published abstracts from regular national and international presentations, he has more than 300 full papers in peer reviewed journals on topics related to hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery and transplantation surgery and science. In addition, he has contributed 30 book chapters relating to complex liver surgery and transplantation and notably, “Liver” in the 41st edition of Gray’s Anatomy, published in October 2015.

Professor Lodge is experienced at undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. In particular, since 2002, he has taken regular international fellows in HPB surgery on institutional and national scholarships. These have been primarily from the USA and Japan, but he also involved in collaborative international training programmes for trainees from Australia and several less advantaged countries. He is currently an Honorary Professor of Surgery at the University of Leeds.