Mr Mike Rocker

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.