A surgeon at Redhill’s East Surrey Hospital has been made an OBE for services to laparoscopic surgery.
Professor Abhay Rane performed the first keyhole surgery through the belly button in Europe when he pioneered the procedure on a patient at East Surrey Hospital in 2007. He is praised for both the innovation and the dissemination of the practice. He has mentored other consultants, written more than 100 publications and given many presentations at medical seminars internationally. As a result of his efforts more than a dozen hospitals in the UK now have a local laparoscopic urology programme.
