Mr Kevin Conway

MBBCh. MD. FRCS (Gen Surg)
Consultant Vascular Surgeon

Kevin Conway is a general surgeon, specialising in vascular and endovascular surgery, which includes the treatment of Varicose Veins, at Vale Healthcare, near Cardiff - South Wales' leading private clinic and hospital for the private treatment of varicose veins.

After graduating from Cardiff University in 1997, he completed his basic and higher surgical training in Wales and was awarded CCT in general and vascular surgery. In 2007 he obtained an MD after a period of research in the Department of Surgery and Wound Healing Research Unit, Cardiff University into the control mechanisms of new blood vessel formation (angiogenesis).

Following completion of his surgical training he was appointed as a vascular surgeon in the Royal Glamorgan hospital and has honorary contracts to perform emergency vascular surgery at hospitals in Cardiff and Vale and Aneurin Bevan local health board areas.

Due to the rapidly changing nature of vascular surgery he tailored his surgical training to encompass minimally invasive endotherapies as well as open approaches to vascular disease. He treats varicose veins with Endovenous Laser Ablation (EVLA), Endovenous Radiofrequency Ablation (VNUS ClosureFast) and Ultrasound Guided Foam Sclerothaerpy. As these new techniques require good ultrasound scanning skills he has also completed a Post-Graduate Certificate in Vascular Ultrasound. He also performs injection microsclerotherapy for thread veins and manages arterial disease with both open and minimally invasive techniques.

Kevin grew up and went to school in Belfast before moving to Wales to study medicine. He has published a number of original research papers, two surgical text-books and a number of chapters in other surgical textbooks. He is the surgical editor for the British Medical Journal’s On Examination resource and is a co-founder of Doctors Academy a not for profit group which runs courses for both under and post-graduate surgeons, with the profits going to fund scholarships and fellowships for underprivileged students and doctors from developing countries.

Kevin runs regular clinics at the Vale Hospital, near Cardiff, South Wales, where patients can be seen and treated for vascular conditions including rapid access private treatment for Varicose Veins.

Mr Mike Rocker

MBBS FRCS
Consultant Vascular & Endovascular Surgeon
 

Mike Rocker is a Consultant Vascular & Endovascular Surgeon at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, South Wales, and a private consultant at Vale Healthcare treating all kinds of vascular conditions including Varicose Veins. He was born in Cardiff and grew up in Newport. Having initially trained as a dentist in London he then changed tack and completed his undergraduate medical training at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guys and St. Thomas’s Hospitals. He came back to Wales for his higher surgical training before returning to Guys and St. Thomas’s for a fellowship in vascular and endovascular surgery.

He was appointed as a vascular surgeon at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in 2007. Here he has introduced endovascular aneurysm repair and helped to develop vascular services across the newly formed Cwm Taf LHB incorporating the Royal Glamorgan and Prince Charles’ Hospitals.

Mike is keen to reduce the impact and the time of hospital treatment on patients and has recently been involved in the setting up of a ‘scan and plan’ varicose vein clinic to reduce the number of hospital visits before treatment for varicose veins. He is committed to being able to offer the latest minimally invasive vein treatments allowing patients to return to normal activities much more quickly after treatment.

As well as specialising in a range of arterial and venous problems he still provides emergency general surgery cover. He is an honorary vascular consultant to Cardiff and Vale and Aneurin Bevan LHBs in order to partake in the South East Wales Vascular Network rota providing emergency vascular cover across the whole of South East Wales.

His professional memberships include: the Vascular Society, the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, the British Society of Endovascular Therapy and the European Society of Vascular Surgery.

Mike runs regular clinics at the Vale Hospital where patients can be seen and treated for vascular conditions including Varicose Veins.