Mr Colman K. Byrnes

Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon

GCM/NMC No: 4025292

Professional background:
Mr Colman Byrnes is a substantive General and Colorectal Surgeon, based in Antrim Area Hospital. He was appointed as a full-time consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon in Antrim Area Hospital some 16 years ago, in July 2007. Mr Byrnes maintains interests in Colonoscopy (including Bowel Screening), Surgical management of Colorectal Disease, including Cancer and Inflammatory Bowel disease, Gallbladder surgery, Hernias, and Day surgery.

Education Background:
Mr Byrnes’ undergraduate medical training was in Queen’s University Belfast where he obtained his Primary Medical Degree in 1993 in addition to a BSc in Physiology. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1997.
Postgraduate surgical training was undertaken primarily throughout Northern Ireland, with an additional fellowship in laparoscopic (Keyhole) surgery in Dublin.
A period of surgical research in the Johns Hopkins University Baltimore USA, led to an MD qualification by Thesis and a significant Prize from the Wound Healing Society.

NHS Post:
Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon, Northern Trust.

Colorectal Surgery

  • Investigation of abdominal pain
  • Change in Bowel habit
  • Unintentional weight loss
  • Rectal Bleeding, haemorrhoids, fistulae
  • Pilonidal sinus
  • Colonoscopy
  • Family History

General Surgery

  • Hernias
  • Gallstones
  • Gastrointestinal endoscopy
  • Laparoscopic Gallbladder surgery
  • Skin & Subcutaneous Lesions
  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Skin and subcutaneous lesions

 

BSc (Hons.) Physiology (Q.U.B) – July 1990
MB BCh BAO (Q.U.B) – July 1993
F.R.C.S.I. – July 1997
Research Fellowship (Johns Hopkins; USA) – June 2002
Doctor of Medicine (Q.U.B) – June 2003
Intercollegiate Specialty Examination
General Surgery – Colorectal (FRCSI) – July 2006

Mr Colman K. Byrnes

Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon

GCM/NMC No: 4025292

Professional background:
Mr Colman Byrnes is a substantive General and Colorectal Surgeon, based in Antrim Area Hospital. He was appointed as a full-time consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon in Antrim Area Hospital some 16 years ago, in July 2007. Mr Byrnes maintains interests in Colonoscopy (including Bowel Screening), Surgical management of Colorectal Disease, including Cancer and Inflammatory Bowel disease, Gallbladder surgery, Hernias, and Day surgery.

Education Background:
Mr Byrnes’ undergraduate medical training was in Queen’s University Belfast where he obtained his Primary Medical Degree in 1993 in addition to a BSc in Physiology. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1997.
Postgraduate surgical training was undertaken primarily throughout Northern Ireland, with an additional fellowship in laparoscopic (Keyhole) surgery in Dublin.
A period of surgical research in the Johns Hopkins University Baltimore USA, led to an MD qualification by Thesis and a significant Prize from the Wound Healing Society.

NHS Post:
Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon, Northern Trust.

Colorectal Surgery

  • Investigation of abdominal pain
  • Change in Bowel habit
  • Unintentional weight loss
  • Rectal Bleeding, haemorrhoids, fistulae
  • Pilonidal sinus
  • Colonoscopy
  • Family History

General Surgery

  • Hernias
  • Gallstones
  • Gastrointestinal endoscopy
  • Laparoscopic Gallbladder surgery
  • Skin & Subcutaneous Lesions
  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Skin and subcutaneous lesions

 

BSc (Hons.) Physiology (Q.U.B) – July 1990
MB BCh BAO (Q.U.B) – July 1993
F.R.C.S.I. – July 1997
Research Fellowship (Johns Hopkins; USA) – June 2002
Doctor of Medicine (Q.U.B) – June 2003
Intercollegiate Specialty Examination
General Surgery – Colorectal (FRCSI) – July 2006

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