sub-specialities
- Endometriosis stage 1- 4 pelvic pain
- Â Fibroids – any location
- Complex pelvic endometriosis involving bowel, bladder, ovaries and ureters, adenomyosis requiring advanced gynaecological endoscopy
- Fibroid removal/Myomectomy
- Endometriosis-outside the pelvis eg. thorax, diaphragm, abdomen
- Laparoscopic Excision of rectovaginal/bladder/ureteric endometriosis with extensive adhesiolysis
- Menstrual, premenstrual, menopausal disorders
- Â Hysterectomy Open/Vaginal/Laparoscopic
- Ovarian cysts
- Fertility/tubal surgery
- Laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy/oophorectomy
- Operative Hysteroscopy/biopsy/polypectomy
- Mirena/coil insertions/removal
- Endometrial ablations/resections
- Cervical smear
- Gynaecological biopsies
- Ovarian screening
- Management of miscarriage
Training & Background
| Qualifications: | MSc MRCOG |
| Year first qualified: | 2014 |
| GMC number: | 6083459 |
| Clinic times: | By appointment |
Mr Kirana Arambage is an internationally recognised Consultant Gynaecologist specialising in Advanced Minimal Access Gynaecological Endoscopic Surgery (advanced key hole surgery), severe endometriosis and complex benign gynaecological disease. He is a high volume surgeon in his field of expertise.
He works at the BSGE accredited Endometriosis Care and Research Centre (which is one of the busiest endometriosis centres in the UK) in Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2012. He treats his private patients at endometriosis and gynaecology clinics at the Manor Hospital, Oxford, The New Foscote Hospital in Banbury and The Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital in Aylesbury. He is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford. He is the immediate past Honorary Secretary of the British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy.
He has completed RCOG accredited, specialist training in Advanced Laparoscopic/Hysteroscopic (key-hole surgery) Surgery at John Radcliffe Hospital following his postgraduate medical training in the London and Eastern deaneries. He has also completed an MSc in Advanced Gynaecological Endoscopy, with a Merit, based at the University of Surrey.
He provides pelvic ultrasound scans clinics which allow him to offer ONE-STOP clinics and virtual consultation clinics for most gynaecological conditions for patients outside the UK and for international patients.
These activities help him achieve his goal of driving innovation and providing the safest, evidenced-based care in the field of benign gynaecology.
Research and Teaching
He has been the preceptor for advanced laparoscopic postgraduate training programme in Oxford for years and successfully trained senior registrars to become consultants and specialist in endometriosis centres globally over the last decade.
Mr Arambage is a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology which has a readership globally. He is a co-author for a Cochrane review of the surgical treatment of endometriosis. He is also co-authored European guidelines on the management of distension media in operative hysteroscopy and the RCOG consent guideline for laparoscopic surgery. He has written book chapters.
He has chaired and presented in many national and international conferences.
Professional Memberships
- British Medical Association (BMA)
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
- British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE)
- European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopic Society (ESGE)
- American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists (AAGL)