Before your journey begins

Weight loss surgery is a life changing event.  Before you choose a surgeon, you need your full team behind you  - here’s how to assemble your support crew...     more>

Up’s and down’s

Anyone who thinks it’s an ‘easy way out’ is a fool, or mean, or both.  The good news is many have gone before and are willing to share their stories... more>

Get in touch

We want this web site to be packed full of useful information.  But nothing compares with a face to face chat... more>

InfoBank

This is where we post our thoughts, experience and useful links ... more>

Reaping the rewards

Living life to the full after weight loss surgery.... more>

Welcome to the web site of Rob and Esther Macadam -  as far as we know, the only husband and wife team specialising in weight loss surgery.  Unless of course you know different....?

Rob is a consultant surgeon, who specialises in keyhole weight loss, or bariatric, surgery, and Esther is a nurse specialist in the same discipline.  We work together in the North West of England, where we live with our three children.   We look after people having weight loss surgery from all over the region, working from hospitals in Blackpool, Preston, Southport and the Wirral.

We don’t do anything else. Weight loss surgery is what we do and we are passionate about getting the right results for our clients.

We both trained in general surgery in Leeds in the 1990’s, Esther graduating and Rob completing his surgical fellowship in 1994.   A move back home to the North West  followed in 2005, when Rob took up a consultants post at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, joining the busiest keyhole weight loss surgery practice in the UK.  

A move into full time weight loss surgery practice was inevitable and from November 2009, Rob is a laparoscopic bariatric surgeon full time, rejoining old colleagues ...... More, including full CV>

> Etiquette - rediscovered

> Conference success

in Paris 2009

> Fern - most famous for her weight loss?

> Training the next generation of bariatric surgeons

> Fylde Coast  - open for business

> Royal College President visits NW, hears about training bariatric surgeons

> Gastric neuromodulation - what happened to that?

> Metabolic surgery - the new frontier?

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