Mark Whiteley

Mark Whiteley
Professor Mark Whiteley May 2013
Born	1962 Bristol, England
Nationality	British
Education	King Edward's School, Bath
Occupation	Vascular surgeon; Visiting Professor University of Surrey
Years active	1992 to present
Known for	Founding The Whiteley Clinic; Inventing the TRLOP surgical technique; Describing PAVA; Founding the College of Phlebology; Founding the Leg Ulcer Charity
Website	The Whiteley Clinic; College of Phlebology; The Leg Ulcer Charity

Mark Whiteley is a British vascular surgeon. In 1995 he became a lecturer at Oxford University. Whiteley was the first surgeon in the UK to perform keyhole surgery on patients for the treatment of varicose veins. In 2001 became the founder of The Whiteley Clinic is located in Guildford, Surrey. In 2011 he founded The College of Phlebology and in 2013 he founded the Leg Ulcer Charity. In 2012 he was invited on to the Council of The Venous Forum at The Royal Society of Medicine and 2014 he became a director of the venous course at The Charing Cross Symposium.

Whiteley qualified as a doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital London in 1986. Following his training as a surgeon, in 1992 he began specializing in vascular surgery. In 1994 he completed work for a Masters in Surgery, and became a lecturer at Oxford University in 1995. In 1998 he was appointed a consultant vascular surgeon in Guildford. In March 1999 he performed the first UK keyhole surgery to eliminate varicose veins. In 2000 he, alongside Judy Holdstock, then invented the TRLOP to treat perforating veins using a more advanced keyhole technique. In 2013 Whiteley was named a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey.

In July 2001 Whiteley founded The Whiteley Clinic where he continued his surgical career. Founded on the Surrey Research Park in Guildford, in 2014 the clinic expanded into London and Bristol.

In 2000 The Daily Telegraph wrote of Whiteley's keyhole techniques that, "Most patients still need a general anaesthetic and a night in hospital. Some may have tiny cuts where surface veins are removed, but the risk of post-operative infection is reduced because there is no wound. Mr Whiteley said the procedure had been 100 per cent successful in 130 patients so far treated. Between three and 26 per cent of patients who had traditional surgery suffered a recurrence." The surgical technique also drastically reduced recovery time, from a few weeks to a few days. In 2004 Whiteley was the first UK physician to describe the endovenous heat induced thrombosis for the treatment of varicose veins. In 2010 he called for the end of varicose vein stripping in the national media, pointing out the advantages of endovenous laser or "endovenous themoablation" which 3 and a half years later became the Clinical Guidance from NICE (National Institute of Health and Clinical Evidence) CG 168. In 2012 Whiteley began using a new method of treating varicose veins using a kind of medical superglue called VenaSeal, which reduced the procedure time to approximately half an hour and removed the need for a general anaesthetic.