Mr Tyrone Carpenter MB BS BSc  FRCOG MD

Mr Carpenter is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and the Clinical Director of Maternity Services at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He is also on the Board of the British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE), an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer to Southampton University and an Associate Professor to St Georges Medical School, Grenada. As well as undertaking all routine gynaecological procedures he has special expertise in Minimal Access Surgery (Keyhole surgery). He is the lead gynaecologist for minimal access surgery in Poole as well as running the Dorset Endometriosis Centre.

Mr Carpenter undertakes all advanced laparoscopic gynaecological procedures currently available including total laparoscopic hysterectomy, laparoscopic myomectomy, laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy, laparoscopic adhesiolysis as well as laparoscopic treatment of all stages of endometriosis to treat period problems, pelvic pain, pain with intercourse, prolapse and  ovarian cysts amongst other things. Currently over 90% of his surgery is performed laparoscopically or hysteroscopically (excluding uterine evacuations). He undertook the first day case laparoscopic hysterectomy in Dorset (and one of the first in the uk) and performs over 80% of hysterectomies laparoscopically with a median post operative length of stay in 2010 of 23.5hrs.

Prior to his appointment Mr Carpenter was the Clinical Fellow in Advanced Minimal Access Surgery at the Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit (MATTU), Guildford, which is one of the leading centres for laparoscopic surgery both in the UK and worldwide. Whilst there, in addition to training in advance laparoscopic techniques, he completed a research thesis (medical doctorate) into endometriosis. This investigated various aspects of the disease including its natural history and the efficacy of drugs in causing disease regression by altering blood supply and local hormones. It also described a new technique for quantifying endometriosis. In addition he initiated a clinical trial comparing ablation of endometriosis using the carbon dioxide laser with excision of endometriosis using the harmonic scalpel. This trial has recently finished and results will be published soon.

Mr Carpenter qualified from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School in 1994 during which time he also obtained a BSc (1st class) in Nutrition. His training included posts in London, Exeter, Bath, Southampton, Portsmouth and Guildford as well as a year in Sydney, Australia.